Are they French or Belgian?
Are they French or Belgian?
Matthew Evans
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Jacob Garcia
Belgian.
Samuel Collins
Belgian, but as american are too dumb and don't know Belgium is a country, they call it french.
Jackson Wright
desu Belgium is rightfull French clay.
We just don't want it because of the people inside.
Isaac Robinson
Belgium is a meme country comprised of Dutch people pretending to be French so our name still stands
Adam Hall
Belgian
Logan King
They’re Freedom
MAGA
Jacob Collins
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When will you apologize ? The frenchs never forget this.
Grayson Hill
It is equally likely that they were created in Northeastern France as in Belgium, but Belgians are more adamant about it so everyone, including us, accepted their claim.
That's an urban myth.
Belgium is Dutch clay first and foremost. France comes as a distant second.
Jason Brown
French, it cannot nor will it ever change here regardless of it's actual orgin
Nathaniel Cruz
>don't know Belgium is a country
Because it isn't. Its just a failed abortion projected by the UK
Asher Rogers
For a moment I thought that you could call them "Belg Fries", but then it hit me that it sounds a bit like "Belch Fries", which isn't very appetising and would ruin sales.
Juan Parker
Those are Freedom-Fries™
Levi Carter
>they call it french.
do you know why?
Benjamin Robinson
Pomfrit
Hudson Lee
France is Belgian though?
Chase Campbell
Belgium is a region of France though, just like Texas and California are States of Mexico or Ukraine an oblast of Russia.
Nolan Hughes
This
Brandon Sullivan
>he really thinks that tintinstan isnt real country
Angel Evans
Charlemagne was Belgian
Josiah Carter
Well you're not wrong about Americans but Belgium is rightful French clay, at least half of it
James Campbell
>Are they French or Belgian?
Potato.
Jaxson White
I'll have you know they're actually called freedom fries here.
Adrian Martin
A Finnish man called Runkka Kukkalainen invented fries. We learn it in school.
Jackson Cook
There are French. There's an urban legend that that Flemish fishermen in the 18th century cut potatoes into the shape of fish before frying them, but...
1. This myth is presented by a single Flemish nationalist journalist, who cites no contemporary sources
2. Even if this story was true, fish-shaped potatoes aren't what we call French fries today
3. It's impossible for the story to be true. Not only were potatoes not introduced in Belgium in the 18th century, but poor fishermen wouldn't be able to afford enough oil to fry them
4. This would strictly speaking make them Austrian fries, not Flemish fries
5. This story supposedly took place near Namur, a Walloon city
Even by the most generous interpretations, Flemish Fries are not Flemish.
en.wikipedia.org
The French hypothesis is that it happened on the eave of the revolution, near Pont Neuf (hence the culinary name pommes de terre Pont Neuf). This hypothesis is actually supported by a twofold set of facts:
1. Parmentier introduced potatoes to France about a decade prior to the French Revolution and made efforts to normalize them in both high and low society.
2. There's a manuscript from the early 1800s where Jefferson requests his French chef (in French no less) for a dish that suspiciously sounds like French fries.
The myth most likely gained so much traction in Belgium because it, devoid of any identity of their own, was desperate to latch on to anything resembling an identity. This is also why they claim Ambiorix as a national hero even though he wasn't born in an area corresponding to modern Belgium, take great pride in Caesar calling the Belgae the bravest of the Gauls even though more of their territory is in Northern France rather than modern day Belgium et cetera. Belgium is a pitiful country, dissolving it would at this point be a mercy kill.
John Peterson
Belgians are French