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Europa 14/08/2018

Francia : France and Belgium lock horns over who invented French fries

Proud Belgians have hit back after a leading French newspaper claimed that frites – the world-famous chips served with Belgium’s national dish of mussels – were invented in France.

Le Figaro printed the story under the headline “No, French fries are not Belgian” on Wednesday, which was particularly provocative because August 1 is also the International Day of the Belgian Frites.

Historian Pierre Leclercq insisted that modern day frites was first served on the streets of Paris to theatre-goers in the revolutionary era. Cookbooks date the recipe to 1855, he said.

Frites are though to have been fried in Belgium since the 17th Century. Legend has it that American soldiers serving in World War One incorrectly named Belgian frites “French fries” and the name stuck.

Mr Leclerq said, “However the Belgians do not like it, the fries of today are fundamentally Parisian.”

Frites are taken extremely seriously in Belgium, where long queues regularly snake from the 4,500 fry shops or frietkoten that dot the country’s squares and cobbled streets.

Bernard Lefèvre is the president of Navefri-Unafri, the national association for frietkoten.

“We are used to the French looking down on us,” he told The Telegraph, “Belgium is always considered the little brother. They mock us but they do it with sympathy.”

“I think it is not an attack. It is more a feeling of embarrassment that one exceptional thing was not invented in France,” he said.

“If frites would have been French, which they are not, there would be an international museum of frites in Paris, which there is not.”

There are important differences in the preparation of Belgian frites and their French cousins. Traditional frites were historically made with a potato that grew best in Flanders, South Germany and parts of the Netherlands but not Paris. The handcut batons are fried twice, as opposed to just once, in beef fat rather than oil.

 The famous Belgian frite.

The famous Belgian frite. CREDIT: TOM WILLIAMS

“As far as we’re concerned, "fries" are undeniably Belgian!,” said Andrew Daines of  Belgian tourist group VisitFlanders.

He said, "Members of the Spanish Netherlands community, living in Belgium near to the River Meuse in the 17th century, fried strips of potatoes when they couldn’t find fish to fry.”

“Antwerp’s famous Fritkot Max, located in the city’s Groenplaats, has been in business since 1842,” he said, “irrrespective of their origin, ‘Belgian’ fries are definitely the best”.

Mr Lefèvre conceded that it was difficult to prove who first fried potatoes.

He said, “Eve must have first fried frites for Adam because it is natural but that would not have been in Belgium. Unless Belgium is the Paradise. I don’t think it was but I know that paradise is not in France."

He said, “Nobody invented water but someone invented the spa. Potatoes do not come from France or Belgium, they came from Peru. But Belgium made frites an art and a perfect product.”

Belgian frites culture was added to the UNESCO list of cultural treasures last year. But, especially after World Cup champions France knocked Belgium out of the semi-final, the controversy has left many patriotic Belgians with a chip on their shoulder.

Fuente: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/02/france-belgium-lock-horns-invented-french-fries/


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