Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread

[Aberlour10]

Not bad, Scorsese talks with De Niro about Taxi Driver 2! They should talk with Joe Pesci about another mobster movie too! :)

[Winstonm]

Not bad, Scorsese talks with De Niro about Taxi Driver 2! They should talk with Joe Pesci about another mobster movie too! :rolleyes:

They should talk to Joe Pesci about a comedy - he's a funny guy - he amuses me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ff46b58Hk

[gwnn]

Dirty Harry 2 with Clint Eastwood please.

[Al_U_Card]

Mozart II : The resurrection

[Al_U_Card]

Titanic II: The resurfacing

:rolleyes:

[Aberlour10]

Not bad, Scorsese talks with De Niro about Taxi Driver 2! They should talk with Joe Pesci about another mobster movie too! :)

They should talk to Joe Pesci about a comedy - he's a funny guy - he amuses me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ff46b58Hk

And how patient this guy is! If he ever ask you "Is this your pen?" say better "Yes, thank you very much" within 0,5634 seconds :)

[Aberlour10]

Steve Davis at the Crucible Theatre Vol. 30! Awesome.

[jjbrr]

i like mine with lettuce and tomato

heinz 57 and french fried potatoes

[Aberlour10]

i like mine with lettuce and tomato

heinz 57 and french fried potatoes

french fried? I thought there are only freedom fried potatoes in the USA. Oh..wait a minute, J. Chirac is not more president :blink:

[jjbrr]

only to the stupid americans.

 

the smart ones realize french is a style of preparing food in which it is cut into thin strips and doesnt refer to the country.

[Hanoi5]

and doesnt refer to the country.

 

What's the source for this comment? I read it got that name for that was what American soldiers ate in France during WWI.

[gwnn]

i think the source was low-quality humour, even for jjbrr

[jjbrr]

and doesnt refer to the country.

 

What's the source for this comment? I read it got that name for that was what American soldiers ate in France during WWI.

The verb "to french", though not attested until after "French fried potatoes" had appeared, can refer to "julienning" of vegetables as is acknowledged by some dictionaries,[11] while others only refer to trimming the meat off the shanks of chops.[12] In the UK, "Frenched" lamb chops (particularly for serving as a "rack of lamb") have the majority of the fat removed together with a small piece of fatty meat from between the ends of the chop bones, leaving mainly only the meat forming the "eye" of the chop attached.

[jdonn]

So it's settled, they should be called frenched fries.

[Al_U_Card]

Potentially new (and bizarre) sense to the term French-kiss. :lol:

[jjbrr]

and if you're talking about french fries specifically and not the technique of julienning the potatoes:

 

Culinary origin

[edit] Belgium

Belgian historian Jo Gerard recounts that potatoes were fried in 1680 in the Spanish Netherlands, in the area of "the Meuse valley between Dinant and Liège, Belgium. The poor inhabitants of this region allegedly had the custom of accompanying their meals with small fried fish, but when the river was frozen and they were unable to fish, they cut potatoes lengthwise and fried them in oil to accompany their meals."[13][14][15][16]

 

N.B. According to the first cited reference, the potatoes were cut into 'a fish-shape' and fried.

 

Most Belgians know that the term "French" was introduced when British or American soldiers arrived in Belgium during World War I, and consequently tasted Belgian fries. They supposedly called them "French", as it was the official language of the Belgian Army at that time.[16]

 

So you get partial credit, Hanoi. They should be Belgian fries, or perhaps Spanish Dutch.

[Winstonm]

only to the stupid americans.

 

the smart ones realize french is a style of preparing food

 

And that style is to pour a 50-years-of-normal-cholesterol-intake-incorporated-into-a-single-serving-sauce over EVERYTHING.

[cherdanno]

only to the stupid americans.

 

the smart ones realize french is a style of preparing food

 

And that style is to pour a 50-years-of-normal-cholesterol-intake-incorporated-into-a-single-serving-sauce over EVERYTHING.

What an idiotic post.

[Winstonm]

only to the stupid americans.

 

the smart ones realize french is a style of preparing food

 

And that style is to pour a 50-years-of-normal-cholesterol-intake-incorporated-into-a-single-serving-sauce over EVERYTHING.

What an idiotic post.

Wrong thread. You want abuse. :)

[bid_em_up]

Oh please. Everyone knows McDonald's invented French Fries.

[Aberlour10]

Oh please. Everyone knows McDonald's invented French Fries.

No way. :angry:

 

The first written mention about fries has been found in Iceland in the epic saga "Franskar kartöflur"!

[Aberlour10]

Same with it:

 

There are claims that Bergen Raises is an american invention. Any child in Europe learns and knows that this convention has been developed by Viking Eric The Player during rubber bridge session in a low pub in the harbour of Bergen at the beginning of the XI century. The rumors,he was able to drink 3 gallons of mead per session are not confirmed through serious sources.

[jjbrr]

I wish I had been born a Viking. There is a distinct lack of pillaging in my life.

[matmat]

I wish I had been born a Viking. There is a distinct lack of pillaging in my life.

you could make up for this by becoming a pirate.

[jjbrr]

I wish I had been born a Viking. There is a distinct lack of pillaging in my life.

you could make up for this by becoming a pirate.

Pirates are too barbaric with their swashbuckling and yo ho ho'ing.