Chips, French Fries, Wedges and Any Other Hot Stick Shaped Potatoes

TastyReuben said:
Waffle fries are perfect for that - like potato nachos.
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Yum I’ve never thought of that.
Waffle fries with that tamarind cheese mix melted on top.
🤤 Thats going on the menu immediately!

Edit: Ordered.
 
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UH UH!!! Tater Tots! Forgot those ... and melted cheese all over, Disco Tots are a thing here.
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and SatNavSaysStraightOn Chips/French Fry Nachos are known as Irish Nachos, really good!
AND I like some Chili Con Carne atop my Potatoes of any style!
 
I'm going to create a new CB record: number of posts posted by the same poster in less than 5 minutes.:laugh:
I will eat fried potatoes, chips, wedges - whatever you want to call them - at any time, in any place, under any circumstances, in any conditions.
the very best fried potatoes are good old British chips. Thick chunks of sliced potato, perfectly fried, crispy on the outside, soft on the inside.Just like these:
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French fries? Yep, I'll snaffle them down too, but they lack the soft potato goodness that chips give you, because they're too damn thin.
Tater tots? First time I ever ate them was last year in Cincinnati, slathered in bacon bits, jalapeños, melted cheese, and so on. Not very impressed, because they were frozen (and probably processed) not fresh. Hashbrowns? Those amorphous squares of minced potato which, again, are processed - yep, gimme, gimme, gimme for breakfast - but they taste of fried, not of potatoes.
YMCA potatoes; now these are special,although I rarely eat them. My old man used to take Sunday Roast potatoes, the few left over on a Monday morning, slice them up and fry them for breakfast, with sausage and eggs. They were awesome.
French fries with truffle oil? Ok, ok, tres chic, but nothing to write home about. I'll still eat them!
 
karadekoolaid said:
I'm going to create a new CB record: number of posts posted by the same poster in less than 5 minutes.:laugh:
I will eat fried potatoes, chips, wedges - whatever you want to call them - at any time, in any place, under any circumstances, in any conditions.
the very best fried potatoes are good old British chips. Thick chunks of sliced potato, perfectly fried, crispy on the outside, soft on the inside.Just like these:
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French fries? Yep, I'll snaffle them down too, but they lack the soft potato goodness that chips give you, because they're too damn thin.
Tater tots? First time I ever ate them was last year in Cincinnati, slathered in bacon bits, jalapeños, melted cheese, and so on. Not very impressed, because they were frozen (and probably processed) not fresh. Hashbrowns? Those amorphous squares of minced potato which, again, are processed - yep, gimme, gimme, gimme for breakfast - but they taste of fried, not of potatoes.
YMCA potatoes; now these are special,although I rarely eat them. My old man used to take Sunday Roast potatoes, the few left over on a Monday morning, slice them up and fry them for breakfast, with sausage and eggs. They were awesome.
French fries with truffle oil? Ok, ok, tres chic, but nothing to write home about. I'll still eat them!
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I second this post.

The classic British Chip is the winner for me. Even an average one is better than a French Fry because they've got a bit of body. I've been in quite a few online disputes about the difference between a fry and a chip (usually about what is being passed off as 'fish and chips' in various places).

Having said that, I'll also eat virtually any fried potato item put in front of me, but KFC Fries are very, very good (at least they are round here).

I've NEVER been impressed by 'steak cut' chips which are those large flat rectangular things. Maybe I've just been unlucky, but while I'll still eat them, I've always been served some mealy tasteless specimens whenever I ordered them.
 
vernplum said:
I second this post.

The classic British Chip is the winner for me. Even an average one is better than a French Fry because they've got a bit of body. I've been in quite a few online disputes about the difference between a fry and a chip (usually about what is being passed off as 'fish and chips' in various places).

Having said that, I'll also eat virtually any fried potato item put in front of me, but KFC Fries are very, very good (at least they are round here).

I've NEVER been impressed by 'steak cut' chips which are those large flat rectangular things. Maybe I've just been unlucky, but while I'll still eat them, I've always been served some mealy tasteless specimens whenever I ordered them.
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If you find yourself back in the uk you should try the ‘Gastro’ frozen chips (I prefer the M&S ones) and oven them on a very high temp like a roast potato.
They are coated in beef dripping and you’ll get the super crispy on the outside fluffy on the inside experience.

Don’t make the mistake I once did though, they do not work at all in a perforated dish like an air fryer, they need the hot fat on them while they cook. That was a disappointing chip day 😂
 
I don’t think of hash browns or tater tots (hash brown bites in the uk) and chips at all. They’re in my mind much closer to croquettes or other grated mashed potatoes or hash. They also usually contain onion which IMO isn’t chips.

I like them though. Crumbled as a pie topping I think they’re good.
 
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