Re: phonology of borrowed words

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?

Christophe.

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