My partner in fry-crime and author of many books on fry history, Paul Ilegems, recently did some spring cleaning and found the very last items of his books. They have been out of …
Read the full story »Belgian Fries and fry shops around the world: an overview of what is happening with Belgian Fries on our planet.
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Every day more disappear from the Belgian landscape: the “frietkot” or “fritkot”. Information and lots of pictures of the typical fry shacks.
My aim is to make this website the most complete resource on (Belgian) Fries … but I need your help for more information and pictures! So if you have any news, please let me know.
About me travelling the world as the Missionary of the Belgian Fry.
I’m still compiling this page and need your help: let me know how you call Fries in your language, if possible with the phonetic transcription. My email address: webmaster@belgianfries.com.
Soundsamples (WAV or other formats) are welcome too!!
Although it is just a hour journey from my home town, I did not manage until recently to visit the city which is home to many “Vlaamse Frites” shops. “Vlaamse Frites” translates into Flemish Fries, …
I’m still compiling this page and need your help: let me know how you call Fries in your language, if possible with the phonetic transcription. My email address: webmaster@belgianfries.com.
Soundsamples (WAV or other formats) are welcome …
My partner in fry-crime and author of many books on fry history, Paul Ilegems, recently did some spring cleaning and found the very last items of his books. They have been out of …
U bent veertien dagen op reis geweest naar den vreemde. U landt op Zaventem, neemt de trein naar Gent-Sint-Pieters en u stapt de koude Belgische lucht weer in. Wat is het eerste dat u doet? …
Here in Israel they are called ציפס or “Chips” but it is pronounced “cheeps”!
In Lebanon it’s called batata and in some village it’s called os
Hi, in Czech Republic is a “hranolky” [hranolky].
good luck!
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In Russian: “картофель фри” (”kartòfel fri”).
in taiwan it is called, phonetically, ” su tiar ”
” su ” from “fan su”, potato
” tiar ” from “strip”
Here in Ireland we call them “Chips”, and there are take away restaurants usually run by Italians called “Chippers” or Chip Shops. Usually eaten alongside fish dipped in batter. They are normally quite chunky and the traditional method was to sell them wrapped in a newspaper. Wrapping them in newspaper I’ve heard can be traced back to Roman times, in a comment by Cicero, who describes somebodys “paper” as so useless he would not even wrap his fish in it. So even the ancient Romans were at it!
In CHINOOK, the Native American lingua franca of the Pacific Northwest Coast and Columbia plateau, they’re called “fly wapato” (fry potato) or “waum gleese wapato” (hot grease potato).
In Finland we call them “ranskalaiset perunat”, french potatos.
We Cubans call them papas fritas.
In Sweden they are called “Pommes frites”, we don’t have any swedish name for it. Sometimes only the word “Pommes” is used. But most often we use Pommes Strips, a thinner potato, and that is shortened “Strips”.
-En korv med pommes, tack!
-A Hot dog with Pommes Frites, please!
I own a chip wagon in Canada and they are known as fries, chips and french fries.
I own a chip wagon in Canada, they are known as fries,chips,french fries.
In Denmark the most common name is “Fritter” - obviously derived from the Pommes Frites.
In India.. we usually call them “finger chips”
I’m a Belgian expat in Crete, Greece. Here we call them πατάτες τηγανιτές (patátes tiganités), i.e. fried potatoes. They are nothing like Belgian fries because they don’t know how to fry them properly, but they are still reasonably popular. As a snack they are served in a sliced pita bread, with either kebab or shoarma meat, and with Greek (sour) yoghurt on top (instead of mayonnaise). In a paper cone!
In Japan we call them フライド・ポテトphonetically FURAIDO POTETO
,literally meaning Fried Potatoes.
In China, it is called 炸薯条. Chinese phonetic symbol is [Zha Shu Tiao]. The pronunciation is like [dra:][ʃu:][tjau].
Hi;
Potato Fries is called ‘cips’ in my country, Turkey. Also, ‘Patates kızartması’ name is used by public as traditionaly.
In Germany they’re usually simply called “Pommes”, which is short for “Pommes Frites” (from the French “Pommes de terres frites”).
in hungary it is called “sült krumpli”
Hi, In Malta we cal them Patata chips or patata moqlija
Hey nice site!:)
I’m Italian (living in Brussels), in Italian we say “patatine fritte”.
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In Poland we call fires frytki. Hmmm
In Israel we know them as Chips - צ’יפס (or צִ’יפְס if you write the vowels). This is the word used in Hebrew, although the “dictionary word” is tuganim (with the last syllable stressed) - טוגנים (or טֻגָּנִים with vowels). In Israel the fries are often too thin and oily, so I was really delighted when I visited the Netherlands last week and tried some real Belgian fries. So I decided to look for a recipe and found this great website
I’m from Bolivia but dated a Belgise meisje from Kortrijk for 2 years went to visit and as a life long FAN of fries became automatically in love with the FRIETJES met mayo, curry ketchup, samoerai, mamoet and all those amazing sauces ( RECIPES??? PLEASE).
In Bolivia we speak spanish and we call them PAPAS FRITAS (pah-pahs, free-tahs) BUT since I brought my own friteur (FRITEL) I make my own and I call them FRIETJES, friends and family know that if I call them like that, I’m making them with the BELGIAN recipe, and I correct people speaking in english when they say french fries, they are belgian!!!
By the way I love bolekes, bitte bollen, mexican (don’t know if I’m spelling correctly sorry) and lots of other things that I tried in the frietkots. One day hopefully I will open my own here in Cochabamba, Bolivia!!!
I’m Australian, but I have worked in Belgium, and love a good authentic friet.
Here in Oz they are traditionally called “hot chips”. This avoids confusion with packeted potato crisps, which are normally known as “chips” here. Of course in Maccas they are called “fries”. Sadly some people eat that rubbish, even grown adults who do so willingly, and that insidious Americanism is creeping in more and more.
HI THERE IN MY COUNTRY,BRASIL IT IS CALLED BATATA FRITA OR BATATINHA FRITA ,WICH MEANS LITTLE FRIED POTATOS
Spanish (Español all kinds): Papas Fritas, Patatas Fritas, Papas a la Francesa (Belgas).
we know in french frites, arabic ptata, nederland fritches in czech frechtes, russian fritchas, ukranian fouzitches, turkish frith, portuguese fritchya spanish fritta by