French fries, pomme frites, potato sticks. Let's argue!

In reply to Knurled. :

Gravy on fries is seldom eaten at a proud moment, but life isn't all sunshine and rainbows.  Sometimes the best way to close out a E36 M3show is with some grease and salt. 

In reply to Wally :

Understandable.  Been there, done that, wiped my hands off on my pants.

Wally said:

I thought fries with gravy were a normal thing until I started traveling around. It's depressing what much of the country considers a diner.

Seriously. Living the heart of diner country, it's easy to be spoiled. Go anywhere past PA or NJ and things go downhill fast, and even those states are iffy - every diner in PA serves scrapple, which is the wrongest food ever invented, and Jersey is, well, Jersey....

Sorry for the diversion - please return to your exchange of mostly incorrect ideas about French fries.

Toyman01 said:

Streetwiseguy said:

This seems like an obvious time to offend southern Americans by reminding them that white library paste is not the gravy we North Canuckistanians are speaking of.

 

We Southeners know that the cold blooded northerners wouldn't know good gravy if they were drowning in it and accept that their shallow pride will never let their minds be open to the true flavors that are possible with sausage gravy.

Runny brown water does not a gravy make. 

I'm not even a Southern southern American, and I agree with Toyman. 

RevRico said:

In reply to Knurled. :

I would invite you over for gravy, especially the sausage gravy I made for dinner tonight, but Cleveland is closer to you. Go there, to the Greenhouse Tavern, and order the gravy frites or the no name frites. If you still think gravy is gross, I'll PayPal you a refund. 

I thought I'd had good brown gravy before, but no, what they serve at Greenhouse, I could drink by the pint.

I might do that.  But even if I don't like it, I wouldn't dare take a refund, because the worst food is better than no food, and I have a policy of tryin' anything once.  (With the Lewis Grizzard caveat:  I don't need to try to eat aluminum siding to know that it's not good)

Sausage gravy belongs on biscuits.

Poutine sauce (brown gravy) goes on fries.

Bunch of savages on here.....

02Pilot said:

Wally said:

I thought fries with gravy were a normal thing until I started traveling around. It's depressing what much of the country considers a diner.

Seriously. Living the heart of diner country, it's easy to be spoiled. Go anywhere past PA or NJ and things go downhill fast, and even those states are iffy - every diner in PA serves scrapple, which is the wrongest food ever invented, and Jersey is, well, Jersey....

Sorry for the diversion - please return to your exchange of mostly incorrect ideas about French fries.

The nice thing about being wrong about food is that you can still be happy with your wrongness, and nobody else's opinion can take that away from you.

I could describe the chili that I'm about to eat, but chili is a bit like pizza, in that the only thing everybody can agree on is that nobody agrees on it.  So I'm not going to describe it!

The one thing about gravy is that, if it has any lumps, yeah that's gross. I once had lumps in my gravy during a school lunch and I couldn't eat that E36 M3 again for several years. Eventually I realized it wasn't boogers, it was just gravy lumps, and was finally able to eat turkey and biscuits (a school lunch delicacy) again, but I was still wary.

In Burlington, Vermont, at Nectar's-the guy on the cover of that Phish Album- you could walk up to a window on the street side, ask for gravy fries, and warm your hands as you carried that styrofoam container of heavenly pile of potatoes and brown sauce home following a night of drinking. Was a great way to end the evening at 1 or 2 AM when the bars all closed.

Nectar used to live up behind the garage I worked at. Would pump his gas from time to time. Nice guy.

Back on topic.

Mmmmm...fries!

Mndsm said:

Local gyro joints ALWAYS have awesome fries. I don't know what it is. They're just frozen steak fries or whatever, but goddamn.  

Want good fries? Cook actual frozen potatoes in hot, clean oil until they are crisp. That is literally all it takes.

Freezing the fries helps get them crisp, too.

Brett_Murphy said:

Mix a bit of salt in with the shredded potatoes and let them sit for 10 minutes. It'll draw moisture out. You should pat dry or spin after salting, then fry them.

Pre-salting eggplant before frying gets it crispy, too. 

Y

See that random Y down there? That was supposed to be a sentence about how freezing potatoes before frying helps get them crispy, too.

Toyman01 said:

Runny brown water does not a gravy make. 

It does if it has onions and a good beef flavor in it and you put it on French Fries.

Anybody who puts beef gravy on biscuits needs an ass whoopin', though.

vwcorvette said:

 end the evening at 1 or 2 AM when the bars all closed.

Bars closing at 1 or 2 AM? This is the worst idea I've read in this entire thread.

Ever had a Cuban Frita?  Seasoned burger with cheese and shoestring potatoes.

I had Five Guys last night and did not regret my cajun fries. Will do again.

z31maniac said:

AngryCorvair said:

In reply to slowbird :

Get thee to Detroit, specifically the Lafayette Coney Island, and feast upon the chili cheese fries.  It’s worth the trip.  And the lava poop you’ll suffer afterwards.

That looks like canned Wolf chili or something. It's making me sick to my stomach just looking at it!

Not chili, it's coney sauce.  I didn't know there was a difference until I moved to this part of Michigan.

In reply to paranoid_android :

hey android, you got some splainin' to do!

Brett_Murphy said:

vwcorvette said:

 end the evening at 1 or 2 AM when the bars all closed.

Bars closing at 1 or 2 AM? This is the worst idea I've read in this entire thread.

Burlington, Vermont. Last call 1 pm weekdays and 2 PM weekends if I remember correctly. Haven't experienced either in a LONG time.