Re: phonology of borrowed words

On Friday 22 November 2002 09:54 pm, you 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,
Crude?  Diesel?  :)  (Sorry, but with the tanker sinking off the
Portugal/Galicia coast It was irresistable ;)

Wesley Parish

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.
>
> http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
>
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