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Larry  <pltrgyst@hotpop.com> wrote:
>wood@itd.nrl.navy.mil (J. B. Wood) wrote:
>>Hello, and it seems fries are becoming an afterthought at many restaurants
>>these days.  
>
>It's not just American fast food joints -- it's everywhere. We were in
>France from Christmas day until 18 January, and good French fries are
>becoming almost extinct. Especially in the southern half of France,
>the dominant fries are what we would call ranch fries -- although over
>there, they're often called "American fries" on the menus.

Pommes frites are actually Belgian.  As such, I'd be surprised that you'd
find them in southern France at all, except in American-style restaurants.

>It wasn't until we returned to Paris that we were able to find
>excellent French fries.

Try Pommes de Terre Lyonnaise instead.  Very nice, and much more typically
French.  Or visit Belgium.

Most of the French jokes about Belgians center around deep-frying things.
Like the one about the Belgian soldiers on the ramparts saying that they 
can't drop the boiling oil on the invaders, because the potatoes aren't 
finished.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."