Super Fry: The Fight for the Golden Frite (encore)

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Shoestring, waffle, curly, or thick-cut: however you slice it, nearly everyone loves a deep-fried, golden brown piece of potato. But that's where the agreement ends and the battles begin. While Americans call their fries "French," Belgians claim that they, not the French, invented the perfect fry. Who's right? This episode, we take you right into the heart of the battle that continues to be waged over who owns the fry—who invented it, who perfected it, who loves it the most? And then we take you behind the scenes into another epic fight: the struggle for the perfect fry. Can food scientists create a fry with the ultimate crispy shell and soft inside, one that can stay that way while your delivery driver is stuck in traffic? Plus, the condiment wars: does mayo really have the edge over ketchup? Listen in now to find out! (Encore episode) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guess what? It's a leap year, which means you get an extra day this week and so you
0:07.7	deserve an extra episode of Gastropod. In this case it's also an extra French fry.
0:13.1	Who doesn't want an extra fry?
0:14.4	I certainly do.
0:15.6	And this uncor episode is all thanks to our friends
0:18.0	at American Express.
0:19.1	Thanks for the fries, folks.
0:20.8	But if there's one thing we've learned about French fries, which actually we've learned a lot,
0:25.0	but is that you should never wait before eating them,
0:28.0	or listening to this episode.
0:30.0	Get in there.
0:31.0	The beautiful golden color.
0:34.0	They are very pretty.
0:35.0	They look like what I expect them to look like they smell delicious.
0:38.0	I can't keep on doing this. I'm eating.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:41.0	Mayonnaise first.
0:42.0	Oh, yeah. That's a really good French fry.
0:44.0	Cynthia, here we are having fries in Belgium and you're calling them French.
0:48.0	I'm sorry, it's a habit.
0:50.0	This was a challenge. I kept wanting to call them French fries.
0:54.0	But we were in Belgium, in Bruges to be precise.
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