Some friends invited us over for Sunday lunch last week so we could try some authentic Dutch food.
It turns out, French Fries are originally Dutch!
These friends have this Dutch “snack” food for lunch every Sunday. They have their own electric oil fryer for fries and such. They say a lot of Dutch families have them.
They also make their own fries. They get the potatoes from their mom/grandma’s garden. Then they cut and bake them on Saturday (you have to pre-bake the potatoes to get moisture out or they won’t fry). Then they fry them on Sunday.
The Dutch like their fries with mayo, but this family brought out some ketchup for us Americans.
They also had something called “American Sauce” that I had never heard of before. It wasn’t fry sauce. It was more like mayo with some mustard and maybe pickle juice or something like that. This American was not a fan.
But I loved the fries and the frikandel (sort of like a fancy hot dog, not in a bun).
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