• Enoril@jlai.lu
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      3 days ago

      Why we would boycott our fries? (or more precisely, our Belgian fries?)

      We have nothing to loose by boycotting USA food anyway.

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        3 days ago

        Quite funny, in the Netherlands they are also known as „Vlaamse friet”, so Flemish. If I remember correctly they were taken to the Netherlands by Belgian refugees in the First World War, so that explains why they’re called that.

        They’re now generally seen as Dutch here, though. And you only really see „Vlaamse friet” in advertising, because it sounds a bit more interesting. The common names are friet(jes) and patat (there’s a war going on between these two).