For real maple syrup, you can't go to Denny's. You'll need one of the better restaurants -- mainly because the real stuff is so damn expensive! My parents were maple syrup purists; Mrs. Butterworth was not invited to the table. THey also used to send it back to their German friends in exchange for big packages of lebkuchen; apparently it was pretty unknown and/or exorbitantly priced in Germany in the 70's and 80's.
Poutine -- heard of it, never seen it. In real life, anyway.
Vinegar on fries ... I don't know about that. I'm not even that thrilled with it on potato chips (although I like chile limon and regular limon, which is just as sour -- go figure). Of course, ketchup is simply vinegar + tomato sauce....
Fries with ranch dressing are really good.
I thought you just had the two seasons: snow removal and road repair. _________________ An apple a day....
I thought you just had the two seasons: snow removal and road repair.
It feels like that sometimes. My house is almost surrounded by construction right now, and a big section of the downtown is too. _________________ L'homme est comme Dieu l'a fait et un peu pire/ L'homme est le seul animal qui détruit pour le plaisir
Nope, never had fish and chips. But when they serve it at the lunch line inthe cafeteria at work, no vinegar is ever involved -- it's all tartar sauce and ketchup. I usually abstain -- not a big fan of processed fish. _________________ An apple a day....
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:17 am Post subject:
Uriel wrote:
I usually abstain -- not a big fan of processed fish.
What, you mean fish sticks, or something like that?? I'm talking about what I had in England, namely, big pieces of fresh cod or haddock, dipped in a thin batter and deep-fried, with chips that are even chunkier than steak fries, all sprinkled with salt and malt vinegar. I admit that when I first heard of vinegar on fried potatoes I recoiled a bit, but it turned out that I loved the stuff.
I usually abstain -- not a big fan of processed fish.
What, you mean fish sticks, or something like that?? I'm talking about what I had in England, namely, big pieces of fresh cod or haddock, dipped in a thin batter and deep-fried, with chips that are even chunkier than steak fries, all sprinkled with salt and malt vinegar. I admit that when I first heard of vinegar on fried potatoes I recoiled a bit, but it turned out that I loved the stuff.
Incidentally, I usually eat fish and chips with either mayonnaise or curry sauce.
Incidentally, I usually eat fish and chips with either mayonnaise or curry sauce.
You would be a nonconformist! (Or is that what people usually eat nowadays?)
Curry sauce is very popular, but I'd say that salt and vinegar is still the most popular. Mayonnaise on chips is really more of a Dutch/Belgian thing, but people eat them like that here as well.
However, in Edinburgh, fish and chips are generally eaten with a kind of sauce that's like a mixture of brown sauce and spirit vinegar.
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At least around here, the traditional thing is to eat potato pancakes with fish, not french fries (even though you can probably find french fries at some less traditional fish fries here). And on those potato pancakes it is traditional to put applesauce of all things. Of course, you'll probably have coleslaw on the side and tartar sauce to put on the fish, and at more traditional fish fries, will also have caraway rye bread on the side. However, all of this has little to do with the British sort of fish and chips, and is more of a secularized German Catholic thing that happened to become popular with the population in general here.
Me too! But they come from the Jewish side of my family, and we know them as latkes.
Here they're apparently just German in general rather than being tied to any more specific group; it is really the fish part and the eating of said fish on Friday part which is at all tied to religion, the idea of such having been originally tied to Catholicism before it got secularized here.
Me too! But they come from the Jewish side of my family, and we know them as latkes.
Actually, I know them as latkes, too. So much of what we in the US know as "Jewish" cooking has German or East European roots.
That is one thing that always sticks out to me - that much of what is called "Jewish" (i.e. Ashkenazi) in the US which is not actually religious in nature seems to me to be simply German or Eastern European underneath it all and not really specifically Jewish per se.
Those don't look like any potato pancakes I've seen; all the ones I've seen either look like very finely cut hash browns compressed together tightly into a flat, round patty shape and then cooked as a whole or simply somewhat compressed (but much looser and more coarsely cut) hash browns.
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