Re: phonology of borrowed words

 --- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote: > En réponse à
Jan van Steenbergen
> <ijzeren_jan@...>:
>
> >
> > Don't forget that not all frites are automatically
> French fries.
> > Belgian
> > frites, the way I know them, are long, thick,
> greasy, and yummy. French
> > fries
> > are much smaller and usually not-so-well-done. I
> know them basically
> > from
> > McDonald's and they taste exactly the way you
> could expect from
> > McDonald's:
> > little taste at all, and you can eat tons of them
> and still be hungry.
>
> Hey! You're making a cardinal sin here ;))) : to
> consider that because Mc
> Donald's calls their fries "French fries", they have
> anything to do with the
> real French fries! True French fries (i.e. fries
> made in France) are identical
> in shape and size with Belgian fries. The only
> difference is that they are
> fried in oil rather than in fat, which results in a
> quite different way of
> frying and a different taste altogether. Mc Donald's
> fries can only be found in
> Mc Donald's and other fast-food lines, even in
> France (last time we ate at Mc
> Donald's was in France, and there we were even
> wondering where Mc Donald's
> actually got their fries, because they cannot be
> found anywhere in shops).
>
> > Dutch fries are somewhere in the middle between
> those two (both in size
> > and in
> > taste). I don't care much for them, but they are
> not bad.
> >
>
> Do you fry them in fat or oil normally?
>
what fat are you talking about ? british chips are
traditionally fried in beef dripping, which is meant
to make them particularly delicious, but IMO makes
them particularly greasy

follow that with a nice suet pudding if you will . . .

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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