Home fries v. sautéed potatoes

[TastyReuben]

Ok, here’s a good pic of what “home fries” are:

Thinly sliced, notice the crunchy exterior, but with the softer “boiled potato” interior.

 

[medtran49]

My home fries can be like that, but also separate slices or chunks, and sometimes with thinly sliced onions.

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

We've been to Gettysburg many, many, many times.
My DH's youngest sister doesn't live very far from there, and DH is a crazy American History buff.
And neither of us care for Scrapple. If you even whisper that word anywhere near DH, he turns green.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Can be, mostly though just cooked from raw or parcooked just to get things started. I've been known to cook up a baked potato half I couldn't eat for breakfast next a.m. I've also been known to stick a potato in the oven while cooking dinner for use the next morning.

Sauté potatoes made from sliced jacket potatoes are the bees knees. Always tasty and very crunchy. Love them.

 

[Barriehie]

Bees knees!!!

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Bees knees!!!

That’s a phrase you like?

 

[Barriehie]

Didn't know it existed across the pond! Next year or two I'll have bee hives so yes, likes bees.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Didn't know it existed across the pond! Next year or two I'll have bee hives so yes, likes bees.

Yes it’s a thing here meaning very good, it’s from somewhere around the 1600’s I think

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Barriehie I just got caught out using precisely that phrase.
I accidentally ended up on a motorcycle programme and was asked to comment on the bike I’d ridden there (Indian Scout, amazing bike) so I reluctantly said “It’s the bee’s knee’s”
That airing was enough to alert every motorbike enthusiast I didn’t want to ever know that I got near a camera and it was time for them to take the mick

So yer BEES KNEES

 

[Morning Glory]

Seems to me that sautéed potatoes and home fries aren't the same thing at all. Although I'm sure both are delicious in their own way.

 

[CookieMonster]

sauted potatoes . . . round semi-french fries . . . this dish is a regular demand from DW . .

 

[JAS_OH1]

Can be, mostly though just cooked from raw or parcooked just to get things started. I've been known to cook up a baked potato half I couldn't eat for breakfast next a.m. I've also been known to stick a potato in the oven while cooking dinner for use the next morning.

Yes, and I have microwaved a potato before chopping it up and getting a sear on it (my DH likes them crispy) to speed things along.

 

[Morning Glory]

Seems to me that sautéed potatoes and home fries aren't the same thing at all. Although I'm sure both are delicious in their own way.

Having said this (I was going by the photos of home fries posted in this thread), if I google image of home fries they look like sautéed potatoes in the UK. The photo above looks exactly how I expect them to look in the UK, although they can be cut in different shapes.

 

[JAS_OH1]

My home fries can be like that, but also separate slices or chunks, and sometimes with thinly sliced onions.

And or peppers.

 

[JAS_OH1]

That’s a phrase you like? Yes it’s a thing here meaning very good, it’s from somewhere around the 1600’s I think

It's very old school over here though (not from the 1600s that I knew of, wow), something that was a popular phrase in the 1950s, maybe early 1960s. I was born in 1962 but I have 5 older siblings, one of whom was born in 1946, so I heard all kinds of popular culture words and phrases from those decades.