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I don't wanna get off on a rant here, but....

Triskelion

Triskelion

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Douchey music in device commercials: the plucking strings and prancing pianos and overuse of the color white. It's as if they are pretending you'll get a schoolgirl crush with your tablet and not just the sleaze-mongering porn parade you might actually get.

Hero Syndrome: To a hammer, everything is a nail. To a self-proclaimed hero, everyone else is a potential villain. Well a "french fry" is not a racial slur. Nobody needs your paranoid fantasy nor your harangue on civil liberty at the McDonald's register. You know, just in case we all missed that day in eighth grade civics class and might not realize that every time someone lights a match the world needs to be warned about the possibility of wildfires sweeping the nation in your personal hell of worst case scenarios. You know, sometimes the stranger at the door is just the mailman. Put your shotgun back in the umbrella stand, hero.

By the way, in China they are called "US fries." I know, right?

That is all.

:scream: :rommie:
 
^ A lot of things made more sense in 2001. Like Erik Estrada on Sealab, speaking of chips.

"US fries" do make more sense. Also in China, people say "Let's go out for Chinese."

Ha ha, not really.
 
I don't understand what this is about.. But french fries are actually a french "invention" so.. Yeah.. ANYWHOO We call them Pommes frittes over here.. Or Pomfri. Which is probably french for fried potatoes.
 
That's what I read as well, but lets be clear the term 'French Fries' refers to the thinly cut style of chips you get in places like McDonalds. As opposed to chips which are more thickly cut and around, the even more thickly cut steak-cut chips and of course with the skin left on they are more commonly called potato wedges. Of course they can come also come in crinkle cut similiar cut to chips, curly fries.
 
As opposed to chips which are more thickly cut and around, the even more thickly cut steak-cut chips and of course with the skin left on they are more commonly called potato wedges.
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The thick ones are either called steak fries or home fries, at least where I grew up. And a wedge is a type of sandwich analogous to a sub.
 
In all the times I've ordered them, they are always called french fries regardless of shape. May be a regional thing.

The only difference was when I was in high school and Burger King was selling these mutant contraptions called "American Fries" which were waffle-shaped.
 
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