Super Fry: The Fight for the Golden Frite

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Arts, History, Food

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 41 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First, sweet tarts dare to combine sweet and tart, but they didn't stop there.
0:06.0	Now they've combined soft and bouncy to bring you new sweet tarts, gummy fruity splits.
0:12.0	A uniquely delicious dual-sided gummy with one side that's sweet, and the other side that's tart.
0:19.0	But entirely smooth and squishy.
0:22.0	A powerfully perfect combo.
0:24.0	Sweet tarts dare to combine.
0:28.0	Live-yoo-jewel golden color.
0:30.0	They are very pretty.
0:31.0	They look like what I expect them to look like with their smell delicious.
0:33.0	Amazing.
0:34.0	I can't keep on doing this. I'm eating.
0:36.0	Yeah.
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	Oh yeah.
0:39.0	That's a really good french fry.
0:40.0	Cynthia, here we are having fries and Belgium in your calling them french fries.
0:44.0	I'm sorry, it's a habit.
0:47.0	This was a challenge. I kept wanting to call them french fries.
0:50.0	But we were in Belgium.
0:51.0	In brews to be precise.
0:53.0	And the issue, Cynthia, is that fries are not actually french.
0:57.0	Or at least, that's what the Belgians say.
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