• Wiz
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    1 month ago

    How to the French tell the difference between fried apples and fried potatoes?

    Maybe context.

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      1 month ago

      Fried apples? Maybe that’s a Texas thing, or Scottish, but it wouldn’t be a source of confusion in France because they’d take your passport away if you tried frying an apple.

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        French people do eat apple beignets, which are basically fried apples.

        If you’ve never had one before, apple beignets are easy to make and delicious, plenty of recipes around.

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          That’s right I guess, but at least in a beignet there’s a bit of preparation involved, I was picturing just whole fried apples or maybe like french fries but made of apple, but you’re right I guess beignet counts.

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        Fried apples are sliced into small pieces and cooked with butter, cinnamon, and stuff. They’re quite good. It’s not a battered and deep fried thing. Frying covers a large range of cooking styles.

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        But only an apple they’d picked themselves or received from a trusted supplier with legible labeling, since it otherwise might be a potato.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍OP
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      Hey, that’s a good point. Fried apples might me sweeter than fried potatoes, but they’d be much more similar than in other forms. Frying tends to bring out the sweetness in carbs.