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What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« on: October 04, 2007, 10:39:57 am »
Also from the comfort foods thread. What condiments do you like with your french fries? I am mostly a ketchup girl myself, and I like them really salty. I'll have Old Bay Seasoning, on occasion...that's a Maryland tradition.

Others?

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2007, 10:49:10 am »
I chose everything I have tried...will probably add the others once I try the them

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2007, 10:50:35 am »
I chose Mayo!!
I like a lot of the other things but Mayo is my fav!
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2007, 10:55:22 am »
Ketchup. Or gravy. Or cheese.

Ketchup when consumed as a side to a burger.

Gravy when consumed as a side to a hot roast beef sandwich.

Cheese when consumed alone after a night of hard drinkin'.  ;D
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2007, 11:17:06 am »
I chose Mayo!!
I like a lot of the other things but Mayo is my fav!

You sound like my daughter with the mayo!  She puts mayo on everything, or so it seems.

If you haven't already, you should try your fries with mustard.

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2007, 11:19:54 am »
Ketchup. Or gravy. Or cheese.

Ketchup when consumed as a side to a burger.

Gravy when consumed as a side to a hot roast beef sandwich.

Cheese when consumed alone after a night of hard drinkin'.  ;D

Now you sound like a french fry gourmand! LOL
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2007, 11:21:19 am »
You sound like my daughter with the mayo!  She puts mayo on everything, or so it seems.

If you haven't already, you should try your fries with mustard.

Any particular brand you care to recommend? Grey Poupon, Gulden's Spicy Brown, French's Yellow Mustard or something else? (LOL, I feel like I am on the ABCs food court game with that list!)

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2007, 11:27:06 am »
Now you sound like a french fry gourmand! LOL

No, just a picky eater!  ;D
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2007, 11:27:49 am »
I definitely like some salt on my fries, but not too salty. And I almost always welcome ketchup as a condiment for this food. I'm not sure if I've actually had cheese on fries, but I know I would like that. So these are the three condiments I chose.

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2007, 11:32:15 am »
Well, I would say, you can't go wrong with salt, ketchup, gravy, gravy with mushrooms, curry sauce, chili sauce, chili con carne or chinese sweet and sour sauce on your fries. Not everything at once, though...   ;D
I don't know what Old Bay Seasoning tastes like, but it sounds good, too!   :)


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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2007, 11:33:10 am »
Well if there made from really good potatoes, I usually don't like to use condiments.  I usually sprinkle salt and some Cajun seasoning (Cayenne pepper).

Of course, I use ketchup at a fast food place. That's about it. Not very edgy huh. I'd tried vinegar with french fries. Maybe they do that in England. I found them soggy.

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2007, 11:33:27 am »
Gee, not that I'm going to change my choices, but I just noticed that salt, salt, and more salt was on the list. Didn't even occur to me to think of salt as a condiment. I just sort of took it for granted that there was salt on the fries before anything else.  :-\
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2007, 11:36:38 am »
Well if there made from really good potatoes, I usually don't like to use condiments.  I usually sprinkle salt and some Cajun seasoning (Cayenne pepper).

Of course, I use ketchup at a fast food place. That's about it. Not very edgy huh. I'd tried vinegar with french fries. Maybe they do that in England. I found them soggy.
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I didn't think of it but I love it on my fries! Sometimes I just mix it with the mayo!!
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2007, 11:44:16 am »
Well, I would say, you can't go wrong with salt, ketchup, gravy, gravy with mushrooms, curry sauce, chili sauce, chili con carne or chinese sweet and sour sauce on your fries. Not everything a once, though...   ;D
I don't know what Old Bay Seasoning tastes like, but it sounds good, too!   :)



Obviously, it's your German heritage coming through, Anke! From the Old Bay website:

Old Bay Story
The secret’s out. Once a staple enjoyed only by a lucky few along the Chesapeake Bay, Old Bay Seasoning is now available across the country to anyone who wishes to experience a distinctive big, bold taste. Best known as the definitive seasoning for crab, shrimp, and other seafood dishes, today Old Bay seasoning is earning its stripes as the “secret” ingredient for great hamburgers, chicken, and vegetable dishes. It’s easy to add the romance and flavor of the Chesapeake Bay to your meals every night of the week with this versatile seasoning.

Old Bay Seasoning was founded more than 60 years ago: a man named Gustav Brunn arrived in the United States from Germany with a hand-held spice grinder and a dream of starting a spice business. In 1939, Brunn settled in Baltimore and developed his secret recipe, which would later become Old Bay Seasoning. This unique blend of more than a dozen herbs and spices was created for a population passionate about steamed crabs, and has since become synonymous with the Chesapeake Bay and its locals.


Celery, bay leaves, and mustard combine with the heat of red pepper and ginger to tempt palates from grilled fish and steamed shrimp to fried chicken, potato salad, and vegetable dips. This unique spice blend evokes images of seaside dining, salty sea breezes, and sandy beaches. Yet this fantastic blend is also at home adding flavor to bounty that’s fresh from the farm as well as the sea.



Hm, they never mention french fries! LOL. I had Old Bay on fries in a crab house in Newark, Delaware. Since my husband is from Baltimore, Old Bay is a staple in our spice cabinet.
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2007, 11:53:44 am »
Haha. Cool! I gotta try it one day!  :)

And guess what! I just found out that there really is (or rather was) such a thing as catsup! This is from www.heinzketchup.de:D


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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2007, 12:15:12 pm »
In 1939, Brunn settled in Baltimore and developed his secret recipe, which would later become Old Bay Seasoning.

How 'bout that? So Old Bay isn't that old after all.  :-\
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2007, 12:25:32 pm »
I found this on World Wide Words:

[Q]“Why is ketchup also called catsup?”

[A] Ketchup was one of the earliest names given to this condiment, so spelled in Charles Lockyer’s book of 1711, An Account of the Trade in India: “Soy comes in Tubbs from Jappan, and the best Ketchup from Tonquin; yet good of both sorts are made and sold very cheap in China”. Nobody seems quite sure where it comes from, and I won’t bore you with a long disquisition concerning the scholarly debate on the matter, which is reflected in the varied origins given in major dictionaries. It’s likely to be from a Chinese dialect, imported into English through Malay. The original was a kind of fish sauce, though the modern Malay and Indonesian version, with the closely related name kecap, is a sweet soy sauce.

Like their Eastern forerunners, Western ketchups were dipping sauces. I’m told the first ketchup recipe appeared in Elizabeth Smith’s book The Compleat Housewife of 1727 and that it included anchovies, shallots, vinegar, white wine, sweet spices (cloves, ginger, mace, nutmeg), pepper and lemon peel. Not a tomato in sight, you will note — tomato ketchup was not introduced until about a century later, in the US, and caught on only slowly. It was more usual to base the condiment on mushrooms, or sometimes walnuts.

The confusion about names started even before Charles Lockyer wrote about it, since there is an entry dated 1690 in the Dictionary of the Canting Crew which gives it as catchup, which is another Anglicisation of the original Eastern term. Catchup was used much more in North America than in Britain: it was still common in the middle years of the nineteenth century, as in a story in Scribner’s Magazine in 1859: “I do not object to take a few slices of cold boiled ham ... with a little mushroom catchup, some Worcester sauce, and a pickle or so”. Indeed, catchup continued to appear in American works for some decades and is still to be found on occasion.

There were lots of other spellings, too, of which catsup is the best known, a modification of catchup. You can blame Jonathan Swift for it if you like, since he used it first in 1730: “And, for our home-bred British cheer, Botargo, catsup, and caveer”. [Caveer is caviar; botargo is a fish-based relish made of the roe of the mullet or tunny.] That form was also once common in the US but is much less so these days, at least on bottle labels: all the big US manufacturers now call their product ketchup.

Simple question: complicated answer!

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ket2.htm
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2007, 12:27:38 pm »
I like Ketchup and lots of salt, sometime I will use Lawry Seasoned Salt or Popcorn Salt.  Cheese and Emerils Essence is good too, especially when your having them while watching a movie instead of popcorn... And sometimes I just love old fashioned buttermilk ranch dressing for dipping them.  Never tried Old Bay on my fries, love it on seafood tho. 
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2007, 12:30:40 pm »
Not a tomato in sight, you will note — tomato ketchup was not introduced until about a century later, in the US, and caught on only slowly.

Maybe because in 1727 tomatoes were still believed to be poisonous?
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2007, 12:43:42 pm »
My fav is ketchup, but I also like mayo. And sometimes both, ketchup and mayo on one portion. And sometimes I like gravy with my fries, but not too often.

Mustard on fries sounds like a sacrilege to me  ::) (Hi L  :laugh:)
The thought of vinegar on fries makes me squirm, lol  :laugh:
But cheese on fries makes me curious. I don't know how to picture it. Melted cheese? Or cheese from a tube? (I've seen cheese from a tube in American series  :-X)

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2007, 12:52:09 pm »
You should try:



I didn't think of it but I love it on my fries! Sometimes I just mix it with the mayo!!

Yep, that's the Cajun Seasoning I was referring to.  I used Tony Chachere on everything.

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #21 on: October 04, 2007, 12:54:39 pm »
I like Ketchup and lots of salt, sometime I will use Lawry Seasoned Salt or Popcorn Salt.  Cheese and Emerils Essence is good too, especially when your having them while watching a movie instead of popcorn... And sometimes I just love old fashioned buttermilk ranch dressing for dipping them.  Never tried Old Bay on my fries, love it on seafood tho. 
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I am just thinking about mixing a little Old Bay into mayo...now there's an intriguing idea...


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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #22 on: October 04, 2007, 12:58:17 pm »
My fav is ketchup, but I also like mayo. And sometimes both, ketchup and mayo on one portion. And sometimes I like gravy with my fries, but not too often.

Mustard on fries sounds like a sacrilege to me  ::) (Hi L  :laugh:)

What do you do with mustard, anyway? You had it in your refrigerator but nixed it on pretzels, nixed it on sandwiches, and now, nixed for french fries! Is that jar just for decoration? I thought Germans LOVED mustard! LOL

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The thought of vinegar on fries makes me squirm, lol  :laugh:

Eh, you should try it. It is very popular in Quebec, so all the french fry places around here usually have vinegar handy. They even have it at McDonald's! My daughter is a french fries with vinegar person. She doesn't like ketchup at all.

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But cheese on fries makes me curious. I don't know how to picture it. Melted cheese? Or cheese from a tube? (I've seen cheese from a tube in American series  :-X)


Here's a picture, from the New York Times. Cheese fries are a regional thing. I doubt you could buy them here in Maine, and you could never find them with gravy.

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #23 on: October 04, 2007, 01:01:08 pm »
I eat my fries, or chips as us Brits call them, with salt, vinegar and HP sauce. Yum. :)

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #24 on: October 04, 2007, 02:41:54 pm »
Malt vinegar is very traditional with fries/chips especially when eaten with fried fish, clams or oysters.  You just sprinkle on a bit so they don't get soggy.  The vinegar cuts any greasy taste very well. 

I'm sure a lot of our preferences are regional.  I personally can't imagine fries with mayo.  You're very unlikely to see that in New England.  Ketchup all the way. 

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« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2007, 03:04:26 pm »
I personally can't imagine fries with mayo. 

Me either.  :P (Of course, I'm not too fond of mayo to begin with.)

Fries with gravy, or fries with melted cheese, are very much a "diner" thing, I guess.
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« Reply #26 on: October 04, 2007, 03:14:11 pm »
Me either.  :P (Of course, I'm not too fond of mayo to begin with.)

Fries with gravy, or fries with melted cheese, are very much a "diner" thing, I guess.
I loooove mayo!
I can eat it on most anything! LOL
I like chicken nuggets and mayo and mayon on my hot dogs.
A sammitch aint a sammitch without mayo!
Except of course salami, then I have to have mustard!  ;D
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2007, 03:32:48 pm »
Any particular brand you care to recommend? Grey Poupon, Gulden's Spicy Brown, French's Yellow Mustard or something else? (LOL, I feel like I am on the ABCs food court game with that list!)

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Any brand of yellow mustard will do.  (I just found a "Y" word for the game.)  :)

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« Reply #28 on: October 04, 2007, 03:55:32 pm »
What do you do with mustard, anyway? You had it in your refrigerator but nixed it on pretzels, nixed it on sandwiches, and now, nixed for french fries! Is that jar just for decoration? I thought Germans LOVED mustard! LOL

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Mustard is for Wurst. And since we Germans have a huge variety of Wurst and eat it often, we eat mustard often.
From left to right: Bierschinken, Lyoner, geräucherte Rohwurst, Weißwurst, Bratwurst and Wienerle.



The last kind, Wienerle, is used for hot-dogs. And mustard, mayo and ketchup all belong on a hot-dog.
I also use mustard as a spice for a vinaigrette and I spread it thinly on roulades before I fill them.
So, it's not only for decoration  ;D


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Here's a picture, from the New York Times. Cheese fries are a regional thing. I doubt you could buy them here in Maine, and you could never find them with gravy.



Doesn't look too inviting .... but I'd try it anyway (as long as it's not cheese from a tube)

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #29 on: October 04, 2007, 04:04:31 pm »
My favorites:

Mayo and apple sauce

Mayo and Indonesian peanut sauce!

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« Reply #30 on: October 04, 2007, 04:06:05 pm »
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Mayo and Indonesian peanut sauce!


Oooooh, I bet that is good!!
There is this Asian hot sauce/Chili sauce that comes in a bottle with a rooster on the front.
I love to mix that stuff with mayo!
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #31 on: October 04, 2007, 04:23:29 pm »
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Mustard is for Wurst. And since we Germans have a huge variety of Wurst and eat it often, we eat mustard often.
From left to right: Bierschinken, Lyoner, geräucherte Rohwurst, Weißwurst, Bratwurst and Wienerle.



The last kind, Wienerle, is used for hot-dogs. And mustard, mayo and ketchup all belong on a hot-dog.
I also use mustard as a spice for a vinaigrette and I spread it thinly on roulades before I fill them.
So, it's not only for decoration  ;D


Mmmm. That Bierschinken looks good! So does the Bratwurst mit Sauerkraut!  :D
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #32 on: October 05, 2007, 10:12:46 am »
Me Too!  Mayonnaise with EVERYTHING ... and it's got to be Hellmans ... best there is!!

Hey Lee, have you tried Mustard Mayonnaise ... yummy!

I voted for nearly all of them ... I just love chips!!

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I sure have!
Love it! We have a product here called Dijonaise. It's Dijon mustard and Mayonaise mixed!
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #33 on: October 05, 2007, 10:19:38 am »
Me Too!  Mayonnaise with EVERYTHING ... and it's got to be Hellmans ... best there is!!


Yes, only Hellman's. Unless I make my own homemade.

And don't get me started on Miracle Whip! YUCK!

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #34 on: October 05, 2007, 10:39:08 am »
Yes, only Hellman's. Unless I make my own homemade.

And don't get me started on Miracle Whip! YUCK!

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Amen sister!
Some folks actually think miracle whip and mayo are interchangeable! Bleeeech!!
And the fat free or lite mayo? No freakin way!
That stuff looks and tastes like something left over from a science experiment!
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« Reply #35 on: October 05, 2007, 10:47:01 am »
Amen sister!
Some folks actually think miracle whip and mayo are interchangeable! Bleeeech!!
And the fat free or lite mayo? No freakin way!
That stuff looks and tastes like something left over from a science experiment!

I absolutely detest Miracle Whip. It makes my stomach turn. I can't even smell the stuff.

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« Reply #36 on: October 05, 2007, 11:18:13 am »
Yes, only Hellman's. Unless I make my own homemade.

And don't get me started on Miracle Whip! YUCK!

L

You make your own mayo?  :o

I tried fat-free mayo once. Just awful. If possible, even worse than fat-free peanut butter.  :P  :-X
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #37 on: October 05, 2007, 11:19:56 am »
You make your own mayo?  :o

I tried fat-free mayo once. Just awful. If possible, even worse than fat-free peanut butter.  :P  :-X

It's easy if you have a food processor. Whip up some eggs, add a little bit of lemon juice or vinegar and pour the oil in slowly, til it all emulsifies. It's really good and would be delicious on french fries!

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #38 on: October 05, 2007, 11:20:50 am »
I've NEVER heard of Miracle Whip ... is it like Mayonaise flavoured marshmallow fluff or something?

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No, It's like a mayo with sugar and some other crap added. It's really awful. :P
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #39 on: October 05, 2007, 11:23:32 am »
I've NEVER heard of Miracle Whip ... is it like Mayonaise flavoured marshmallow fluff or something?

Susie


They don't have Miracle Whip in England? Count your blessings! LOL

Seriously, it is called a salad dressing (not mayonnaise) but it looks just like mayo and lots of people use it instead of mayo. But it's really sweet and disgusting tasting. My mother-in-law used to use it and gave me a tuna sandwich made with Miracle Whip. I thought I would barf right there at the table.

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #40 on: October 05, 2007, 11:25:00 am »
Blaaaaah!  Perhaps you could use it to scour the bath tub!!

Susie  

Tahts about all it's good for in my book!  ;D
Some people do love it though.
My Gran would mix it with Ketchup and relis to make a homeade thousand Island dressing.
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #41 on: October 05, 2007, 11:27:48 am »





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That made me laugh outloud!
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #42 on: October 05, 2007, 11:28:23 am »
Tahts about all it's good for in my book!  ;D
Some people do love it though.
My Gran would mix it with Ketchup and relis to make a homeade thousand Island dressing.
 :P

Yes, it seems that people either love or hate Miracle Whip. You can tell which camp I am in! LOL

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #43 on: October 05, 2007, 11:32:27 am »
It's easy if you have a food processor. Whip up some eggs, add a little bit of lemon juice or vinegar and pour the oil in slowly, til it all emulsifies. It's really good and would be delicious on french fries!

L

Sounds like a good basis for a homemade salad dressing, but I think I'll skip it on fries.
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #44 on: October 07, 2007, 04:02:40 pm »
Yes, it seems that people either love or hate Miracle Whip. You can tell which camp I am in! LOL

L

I LOVE Miracle Whip!! Yummy. It has a sweet flavor, like you said. But it also has a tangy flavor too. I guess you could call it a sweet and sour taste, but it's really more tangy tasting than sour, don't you think?  :D
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #45 on: October 07, 2007, 04:04:52 pm »
I love to put some Miracle Whip in a small bowl and dip pretzels in it!  :)
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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #46 on: October 07, 2007, 06:38:47 pm »
I love to put some Miracle Whip in a small bowl and dip pretzels in it!  :)

Sorry, David, you can never persuade me that Miracle Whip tastes good on anything....ever!

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #47 on: October 07, 2007, 06:49:24 pm »
Sorry, David, you can never persuade me that Miracle Whip tastes good on anything....ever!

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #48 on: October 08, 2007, 12:30:03 pm »
Although I voted for Ketchup and Salt most, I do like Ranch Dressing on 'em too. ;D

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Re: What's your favorite french fry condiment?
« Reply #49 on: October 08, 2007, 01:40:28 pm »
Ah! More fries talk! I love it.

I voted mayonaise and salt of course. Very traditional.

It's easy if you have a food processor. Whip up some eggs, add a little bit of lemon juice or vinegar and pour the oil in slowly, til it all emulsifies. It's really good and would be delicious on french fries!

L

You should add a little mustard and salt and pepper. Home made mayo is the best.


Miracle Whip?! That sounds as bad as it apparently is.

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