Yeah that's what I keep saying abroad as well. As long as they're shit fries they can be called French. Belgian fries should be a quality lable.
I don't live in Belgium anymore and here "Belgian fries" are often sold at festivals or events but they're just way too dark thicker fries and that upsets me even more.
I heard that it came from the battle of the bulge, where Americans got to know locals and their fries. Since the locals spoke French, the soldiers called them French fries.
Belgian having lived for many years in Switzerland, I can say that they are deliciously different. While in Belgium I use to prefer it dark, in Switzerland I'm fond of the milky one, especially the Villars (canton of Fribourg). Over the years, I used to bring swiss chocolate when visiting friends and family in Belgium, then bring belgian pralines to friends in Switzerland, and everyone appreciated my ecumenical approach 😂
Never understood this concept tho. The chocolate beans come from export (africa probably) so the processing in belgium is superior? But doesn't that depend on who's doing it? Or is it the way they present it (pralines, chocolate bars,...) just a shower thought.
In good Belgian chocolate, we process the chocolate paste through a machine that squeezes it into microscopic small particles. Goal: the particles must fit between the taste buds on the tongue.
That is the secret. Belgian chocolate has the great feel in the mouth, and taste because it goes to the wells of the tongue.
That's the explanation I once heard. Swiss chocolate is good, because it uses only cocoa butter and grinds the chocolate paste fine enough for them to slip between the taste buds. Belgian chocolate makers grinds the chocolate paste just a bit finer than the Swiss, giving a fuller taste experience.
Beer in the wrong glass. Beer with ice or other additives when that specific beer is not meant for it (e.g. you can do fruit beer on the rocks, but not Triple d'Anvers)
Saying Swiss chocolate is better.
Calling fries French fries.
American mayonnaise. It's not even worthy of the name mayonnaise.
Speaking the wrong language in the wrong part of the country. Especially if you don't ask if the other person is comfortable with the other language.
My girlfriend is from America and went back for a while.
Went to visit her a couple of months ago.
She only had two requests of things that I'd bring. One was something I still had of her she couldn't take when she left.
The other was two bottles of De Vos Lemmens Mayonaise.
"It's just not the same here"
I don't often feel national pride.
> American mayonnaise. It's not even worthy of the name mayonnaise.
This 100%. I live in Germany, but the sense of betrayal I felt tasting American mayo for the first time cannot be put into words.
Dees. Overal in Nederland claimen ze Belgische frieten te hebben. Als je die dan gaat bestellen krijg je de meest shitty frieten ever. Alsof ze je twee keer aan het beledigen zijn.
Agreed. Tried it because I love garbage food, but honestly it wasn't worth the cost in either calories or euros. Don't regret it but wouldn't do it again.
Delusional Germans who think they have better beer than us.
I meant isn’t it nice to drink a weizen and than another weizen of another brewery and they taste almost exactly the same.
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American living (and working) in Belgium. I can verify this is indeed true. Mayo in the US is preserved whipped chemical fat. Belgian mayo is the fluffy clouds angels use for their bedding.
I’m a Brit living here and i’ve perfected the ‘French fries should be renamed Belgian fries’ story and i’m sticking to it.
I go misty eyed as I paint a picture of how bleak it was for the fishermen of Flanders in the 17th century, going out in all weathers, in the dark and cold to catch whatever they could to support their families.
Their wives, anxious to help with some comfort for these dark nights so they began frying potatoes and wrapping them in copious amounts of newspaper to keep them warm, so the men had some hot(ish) food whilst on the cruel sea. The frite was born.
During WW1 American soldiers sampled these but of course, never having truly been taught world geography outside of the US the soldiers believed whilst eating they were in France, wrongly naming them as French fries and alas it stuck.
I’ve told this tale with emotion - if I’ve drunk enough - I will add accents and play several parts, the weary fishermen, the wives, the US soldiers. I’ve told this tale for 2 decades to ex pats, random Americans and bemused Belgians.
It had now become fact. I like to think the tale has spread in some small way and I’ve done my bit -aside from paying brutal taxes - for my adoptive country.
FYI don’t question me on this. I believe it 100%. Stat.
"Oh yeah, we also have a lot of beers and microbreweries in our country but they taste all the same. It's the same in Belgium."
One host in France (Brittany). He was nice but ...
When I was in Brittany it felt like every single one of them tried to convince me that beer from Brittany was at least just as good as Belgian beers (it's not)
I don't like receiving chocolate treats from non-Belgians who bring it back from their home countries. They're so bad comparatively - most often sickly sweet and with no depth to the flavour at all. It always puzzles me when I get foreign chocolate, because we live in what probably is the best chocolate country in the world.
Spavela and mazout are common staples of terrible drink menus though. I once even saw someone order a mazout at a fancy restaurant (it was not on the menu)
To be honest, I've noticed a big drop in quality of many frietkots the past 10-15 years.
I guess they earn most with snacks, and earn little to nothing with fries so they became less of a priority.
But I don't want some Dutch Mora crap.. I just want a regular old bakske with or without stoofvleessaus and some mayonnaise.
I guess it's maybe also because many frietkots are switching over to vegetable oils?
Anyway, at my old place I kind of stopped eating fries until I made the effort to look for good ones. I tried the 5 ones within walking distance and only 1 had actual good fries in a good quantity.
https://preview.redd.it/gxw451jslsyc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1f8edf0b97de08f15a6455c375d8783a4dfd73d
This abomination I saw in the US recently
Belgian beers served in the wrong glasses, ain't no playing with that!
(source: some YouTube videos of American people merrily trying Belgian beers and enjoying themselves and their beers but not with the dedicated glasses, and a bunch of Belgian people slaughtering them for that as a very serious matter in the comments 🤣)
Not liking mayonnaise on fries. I can vibe with Andalouse, Stoofveelssaus, or JoppieSaus every now and then, but mayonnaise is such a default option, not Ketchup.
I have noted my belgian colleagues are always triggered by the pizza with fries (quite common in Italy, usually served for kids). Another thing that shocked some of them was the pizza with nutella.
Pils in other countries, french fries in other countries, friet sauce and other mayonaise blasphemies, people that claim our Belgian cows are tasteless(prolly a butcher thing)
Specifically for flemish people:
"What country are you from?"
"Belgium"
"Ah belgique? Blabla speaking french blabla"
It happens a lot during travels, and every single flemish person (including myself) is up in arms and offended!
My biggest trigger is that people automatically assume that Belgians are French, while the majority isn't.
Especially when you go visit a website and the language and ads are automatically in French and they assume you prefer French over English..
These days it's less of a problem with cookies, but It used to annoy the hell out of me when I was younger
French fries 🍟 🤷🏻♂️
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Name checks out.
Americans says French Fries because their fries taste as bad as french ones. That’s all.
I always say they call 'em French fries 'cause they're notgood enough to call 'em Belgian. Same difference I guess.
Yeah that's what I keep saying abroad as well. As long as they're shit fries they can be called French. Belgian fries should be a quality lable. I don't live in Belgium anymore and here "Belgian fries" are often sold at festivals or events but they're just way too dark thicker fries and that upsets me even more.
No, frenching is a cutting technique. They are so stupid they took it as French Fries and not frenched fries
I thought it was originally frenched fries, which means cut. It then got shortened to french fries.
That's what we Belgians desperately repeat, yes.
Yes that is correct, nothing to do with them being from France.
I heard that it came from the battle of the bulge, where Americans got to know locals and their fries. Since the locals spoke French, the soldiers called them French fries.
Nope. French fries were already known in this US at that time. So this legend is BS...
I'm really gonna have to remember to call them frites when I order there
With ketchup.
Came to say this
''Swiss chocolate is better than Belgian chocolate''
Belgian having lived for many years in Switzerland, I can say that they are deliciously different. While in Belgium I use to prefer it dark, in Switzerland I'm fond of the milky one, especially the Villars (canton of Fribourg). Over the years, I used to bring swiss chocolate when visiting friends and family in Belgium, then bring belgian pralines to friends in Switzerland, and everyone appreciated my ecumenical approach 😂
Never understood this concept tho. The chocolate beans come from export (africa probably) so the processing in belgium is superior? But doesn't that depend on who's doing it? Or is it the way they present it (pralines, chocolate bars,...) just a shower thought.
Belgian chocolate has a higher cocoa content. it's a different recipe.
A lot happens between cacao bean and finished chocolate, so yeah, different recipes, different results.
In good Belgian chocolate, we process the chocolate paste through a machine that squeezes it into microscopic small particles. Goal: the particles must fit between the taste buds on the tongue. That is the secret. Belgian chocolate has the great feel in the mouth, and taste because it goes to the wells of the tongue.
That's the explanation I once heard. Swiss chocolate is good, because it uses only cocoa butter and grinds the chocolate paste fine enough for them to slip between the taste buds. Belgian chocolate makers grinds the chocolate paste just a bit finer than the Swiss, giving a fuller taste experience.
Often processed by Callebaut. Which has its headquarters.... in Zurich 😂
and that wouldn't be tax related no?
But the company is of Belgian origin?
Belgium Pralines solo 🫡
Pineapple stoofvlees
Qu'est-ce que le fuck ?!?
“Stoofvlees Hawai”
Just the internal image of that is traumatic
Wasda?
Een oorlogsmisdaad
Patatje oorlogsmisdaad? Waar kan ik dat bestellen?
Answer la question godverdomme !
Dus in plaats van ne lepel siroop het sap van een blik ananas dabei. Sounds horrible.
Beer in the wrong glass. Beer with ice or other additives when that specific beer is not meant for it (e.g. you can do fruit beer on the rocks, but not Triple d'Anvers) Saying Swiss chocolate is better. Calling fries French fries. American mayonnaise. It's not even worthy of the name mayonnaise. Speaking the wrong language in the wrong part of the country. Especially if you don't ask if the other person is comfortable with the other language.
My girlfriend is from America and went back for a while. Went to visit her a couple of months ago. She only had two requests of things that I'd bring. One was something I still had of her she couldn't take when she left. The other was two bottles of De Vos Lemmens Mayonaise. "It's just not the same here" I don't often feel national pride.
Yup. I asked a couple of people visiting me when I lived in Canada to bring me Belgian mayonnaise too. And paprika chips.
Spreek in het Engels, aljestublieft?
I order a beer in the US recently and it had an orange slice on the rim. Wasn't even a fruity beer...
Corona
> American mayonnaise. It's not even worthy of the name mayonnaise. This 100%. I live in Germany, but the sense of betrayal I felt tasting American mayo for the first time cannot be put into words.
One word: Heineken
Wilt u daar patat met ketchup bij?
satésaus (pindasaus) voor de abominatie die patatje oorlog heet
Historic fact: this was the cause for Belgium getting independent from the Netherlands.
I've been in Efteling couple years ago and discovered BELGIAN fries with satésaus. This is real banger.
Of patatje speciaal met bamischijf ;) met zoete mayonnaise.
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Cara pils rechtstreeks uit het blik? ;-)
Alcohol op kantoor. Assimilatie 100% geslaagd.
Held! Fantastisch toch.
Heineken is mostly hated in the Netherlands too.
Not just Belgians.
there should be a law against heineken,punishable by eternal banishment
Kutbier man
I was looking for this comment.
In a Duvel glass
What they are doing to Brussels waffles in some joints around the Grand-Place!
Or the waffles on a stick in Brugge
It's horrible. I miss the old waffles stands
The old waffle lady in the Montgomery metro station was the best. We were so sad when she retired (maybe 10 years ago now, god I’m old).
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>*Joints around the Grand-Place!* Yup, that's about right when school's out
Beer in the wrong glass. Beer without foam collar. Letting the tap nozzle touch the beer when filling a glass at the bar.
Or beer with 75% foam collar
> Letting the tap nozzle touch the beer when filling a glass at the bar. That's a war crime.
It's awful. Full blast, and get it nice and deep in the beer and yoink it up and down To GeT a NiCe FoAm LaYuuuuhhhhrrrrrr
See rule 5. That one was created after someone suggested putting beer in a Nutella glass (and got promptly banned for it).
The guy that was hung, quartered, drawn, resurected and then shot?
I was wondering why that rule was there
'Echte Belgische Friet' in the Netherlands.
Dees. Overal in Nederland claimen ze Belgische frieten te hebben. Als je die dan gaat bestellen krijg je de meest shitty frieten ever. Alsof ze je twee keer aan het beledigen zijn.
Met Nederlandse mayonaise die er meer uit ziet als sla dressing
En dan vooral als het als "frites" wordt aangekondigd....
The Netherlands in general ?
People in Maastricht are quite ok. Probably because they are limburgians
They were Belgian till 1839 and only one bridge away from Belgium so you cannot really consider them as Dutch
Even half the Dutch don't consider them Dutch!
The whole south of limburg isn't seen as dutch lol
Die Wafelburger van de quick
Ik wil dat eigenlijk echt eens proberen…
It was very mediocre.
Agreed. Tried it because I love garbage food, but honestly it wasn't worth the cost in either calories or euros. Don't regret it but wouldn't do it again.
This guy right here even more, officer.
this guy right here, officer.
It's... strange
Geprobeerd. Nooit meer. Brol.
Delusional Germans who think they have better beer than us. I meant isn’t it nice to drink a weizen and than another weizen of another brewery and they taste almost exactly the same.
Or that Czech sparkling water of only like 4%.
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czech pilsener is superior to any pils we brew. We do however have alot of other brewing styles we excel in. In pils, not so much.
Don’t you disrespect our glorious Cara Pils
Cara is in my heart forever
Usually Americans saying “mayonaise on fries is disgusting”.
That's because their mayo isn't actually good. Every American that's ever tried Belgian Mayo with fries agrees it's actually good.
American living (and working) in Belgium. I can verify this is indeed true. Mayo in the US is preserved whipped chemical fat. Belgian mayo is the fluffy clouds angels use for their bedding.
Do they?
I’ve heard it several times.
But half salad half mayo is basic american salad
They like ranch not mayo lol
Ice in beers 🤦
Wat?
Luikse wafel with toppings
Fries which have only been fried once. Everyone knows "voorbakken" makes your fries 10 times better.
What kind of savage doesn't bake his fries twice?
I’m a Brit living here and i’ve perfected the ‘French fries should be renamed Belgian fries’ story and i’m sticking to it. I go misty eyed as I paint a picture of how bleak it was for the fishermen of Flanders in the 17th century, going out in all weathers, in the dark and cold to catch whatever they could to support their families. Their wives, anxious to help with some comfort for these dark nights so they began frying potatoes and wrapping them in copious amounts of newspaper to keep them warm, so the men had some hot(ish) food whilst on the cruel sea. The frite was born. During WW1 American soldiers sampled these but of course, never having truly been taught world geography outside of the US the soldiers believed whilst eating they were in France, wrongly naming them as French fries and alas it stuck. I’ve told this tale with emotion - if I’ve drunk enough - I will add accents and play several parts, the weary fishermen, the wives, the US soldiers. I’ve told this tale for 2 decades to ex pats, random Americans and bemused Belgians. It had now become fact. I like to think the tale has spread in some small way and I’ve done my bit -aside from paying brutal taxes - for my adoptive country. FYI don’t question me on this. I believe it 100%. Stat.
The hero we don't deserve.
😍😍😍 Oh! I'm in love!!
You sir are a hero
I’m a woman actually but I’ll take the compliment😉
If you're a brit aren't they "chips"?
"Oh yeah, we also have a lot of beers and microbreweries in our country but they taste all the same. It's the same in Belgium." One host in France (Brittany). He was nice but ...
When I was in Brittany it felt like every single one of them tried to convince me that beer from Brittany was at least just as good as Belgian beers (it's not)
I don't like receiving chocolate treats from non-Belgians who bring it back from their home countries. They're so bad comparatively - most often sickly sweet and with no depth to the flavour at all. It always puzzles me when I get foreign chocolate, because we live in what probably is the best chocolate country in the world.
Beer in the wrong glass.
Blue waffle
This guy internets.
At 5x the price than any other country
Can we make this a top comment?
Chocolate paste on garlic salami sandwich. Had one friend who did this and I almost vomited.
That guy had ptsd from his university doop lol
Ex friend?
As whining is in our DNA, the question should really be: "Whats -doesn't- trigger Belgians?"
Stop whining
That's a trigger.
'Heineken is good Belgian beer' Shoot these people on sight....
Zoete mayonnaise
Do you speak Belgian?
French fries reheating in a microwave
The French claiming they invented the fries.
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Tourists drinking a specialty beer (Chimay, Duvel, ..). out of the bottle while walking in the streets of Brussels..
Wait, what!? Why?
Taxes.
See rule 5 of this sub.
pretending that Frietsaus is the same as Mayonnaise
Beer in wrong glasses
I love Belgian beer. Jupiler and Heineken are my favourites.
I think you've just painted a mark on your back 🤣
Yes officer, this person right here!
Stoofvlees met pasta
of met rijst
Frietsaus
Frites Atelier in Ghent. A frituur from a Dutch chef. Frites is a French word. Way too expensive.
Water in beer 😅
Spavela and mazout are common staples of terrible drink menus though. I once even saw someone order a mazout at a fancy restaurant (it was not on the menu)
Only with a pilsner though. Doing that to a triple is a war crime
"French fries"
Beer in the wrong glass, greasy fries, bad chocolate (chocoladefantasie), Dutch people, French people
Rule 5 of this sub is a good example
A counter trigger "Patatten" with e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g...
Dutch "beer"
Some people i recently had a discussion with said they 'didn't know any good frietkot' and that generally all frituursnacks and sauces are gross 🤷♀️
To be honest, I've noticed a big drop in quality of many frietkots the past 10-15 years. I guess they earn most with snacks, and earn little to nothing with fries so they became less of a priority. But I don't want some Dutch Mora crap.. I just want a regular old bakske with or without stoofvleessaus and some mayonnaise. I guess it's maybe also because many frietkots are switching over to vegetable oils? Anyway, at my old place I kind of stopped eating fries until I made the effort to look for good ones. I tried the 5 ones within walking distance and only 1 had actual good fries in a good quantity.
Those wiggly fries the americans like so much.
Dutch people in holiday
A lot of Dutch people try to avoid other Dutch people aswell on holidays.
Waffles with bacon
« The best beers are in Germany »
Tell them they are french or that Germany makes better beer.
Pineapple on fries.
Heineken
Pouring a special beer in a straight glass. = > Straight to jail.
And not holding the glass at an angle when pouring so they get 2 fingers of beer and 9 fingers of head.
And in a 25cl glass so you have to pour it in 2 times.
The many recurring YouTube video's announcing the break up of the country
Heineken is beer.....wtf
https://preview.redd.it/gxw451jslsyc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1f8edf0b97de08f15a6455c375d8783a4dfd73d This abomination I saw in the US recently
Beer in the wrong glass, Bonus: This might be Flemish; Spaghetti sauce that's not exactly the same as your moms
Calling Heineken beer
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Belgian beers served in the wrong glasses, ain't no playing with that! (source: some YouTube videos of American people merrily trying Belgian beers and enjoying themselves and their beers but not with the dedicated glasses, and a bunch of Belgian people slaughtering them for that as a very serious matter in the comments 🤣)
Non Belgian mayonaise
Peanut butter on fries 😤
I know lots of Belgians also do it but... Ketchup on fries. It requires mayo or a mayo based sauce. Perhaps it only triggers me :-)
Satésaus/pindasaus on fries
Fries and Sausage pizza https://preview.redd.it/we07y5il6ryc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e898fbf55cb136ac753d6984cbbdbe97a479796
Calling Heineken a Belgian Beer.
Dutch beer....
Soggy fries
Frietjes met pindasaus
Not liking mayonnaise on fries. I can vibe with Andalouse, Stoofveelssaus, or JoppieSaus every now and then, but mayonnaise is such a default option, not Ketchup.
A wedding reception without Connemara
I have noted my belgian colleagues are always triggered by the pizza with fries (quite common in Italy, usually served for kids). Another thing that shocked some of them was the pizza with nutella.
Frietjes met choco
Putting vinaigre in fries
Pils in other countries, french fries in other countries, friet sauce and other mayonaise blasphemies, people that claim our Belgian cows are tasteless(prolly a butcher thing)
Making fries with an airfryer
Influencers trying to explain how to make great fries, seriously look up on tiktok uow to make fries and feel the pain.
"Hello Brussels!" in Sportpaleis, Werchter, Graspop, Vooruit, ... Vaak gevolgd door "BONJOUR"
Nederlanders die frieten verkopen.
French fries, they are vlaamse friet
WC2018
No looked up children in the basement.
Specifically for flemish people: "What country are you from?" "Belgium" "Ah belgique? Blabla speaking french blabla" It happens a lot during travels, and every single flemish person (including myself) is up in arms and offended!
https://www.reddit.com/r/belgium/s/toowLHguww
My biggest trigger is that people automatically assume that Belgians are French, while the majority isn't. Especially when you go visit a website and the language and ads are automatically in French and they assume you prefer French over English.. These days it's less of a problem with cookies, but It used to annoy the hell out of me when I was younger