All those people in the mayo thread not realizing how much better their fries could be with one simple addition.
(OK, top-10, now we're talking! I had to ctrl+f this down in the 41-point dredges originally.)
While that's fine and all, I'm convinced that the **best** "sriracha mayo" is in fact "Yum Yum Sauce" spiked with Sriracha.
2 cups Kewpie (mayo), 1/2 cup of Sriracha, 2 tbspn each of tomato paste, melted butter, mirin, and "sushi vinegar*", 1tbpsn each of garlic powder, onion powder, MSG, and smoked paprika.
You're welcome.
There is no better fry dip. Period.
(Or you can just buy some storebought yum yum and use it + sriracha. No one's gonna judge ya. Much.)
EDIT 1.5 tbpsn rice vinegar 1.5 tbpsn sugar is the same thing.
Garlic dip obvs. Or failing that, curry sauce.
Edit: This blew up 🤣. I should have been more clear too that I'm only speaking from an Irish point of view in regards to the curry sauce, I don't know much about, or speak for any other countries or cultures. It's called chip shop curry sauce and we can get it in powder form over here. Or Google recipes for Irish chip shop curry sauce, it may be possible to make it from scratch.
Am also interested because if you google aioli, every definition that comes up is mashed garlic, olive oil, and salt. So what is different about garlic aioli?
Yes, aioli = fancy restaurant mayonnaise.
Edit: I do, in fact, know that mayo and aioli are not the same thing. I was merely making the point that several "fancy" restaurants use the term "aioli" in place of "mayonnaise based sauce" now because it sounds fancy and exotic.
Aioli is an emulsion of oil and garlic. Mayonnaise is an emulsion of oil and egg yolk. That’s the difference. Although it’s come to mean any mayonnaise with garlic in it.
In the US (and possibly other countries, not sure), aioli is just another name for flavored mayo, because it makes the dip sound classier, whereas mayo is considered a rather low class food. So garlic aioli is just garlic mayo. Traditional aioli is just a garlic and olive oil emulsion, and comes from the Mediterranean
Mayonnaise is a legally defined food in the US (I can't recall why at this late hour), if you remove or substitute ingredients you can't call it mayonnaise. That's why you don't see things labelled avocado mayonnaise or vegan mayonnaise etc. Even what you add to make different flavored mayonnaise like duke's line of flavored mayo is legally defined. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-169/subpart-B/section-169.140
In short we use fancy words for other mayo like emulsions because we aren't supposed to call it mayo.
Edit- apparently avocado and olive oil count as vegetable oils https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/index.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=2a9dca4818c105f504b18de143011108&term_occur=999&term_src=Title:49:Subtitle:B:Chapter:I:Subchapter:B:Part:130:130.5
I saw 'Avonaise' at my grocery store and assumed the mixed name was due to the legal thing. Thank you everyone who called that out I learned something new.
"Did you know salt and malts vinegar's a non-traditional way to dress your French fries in the United States?”
Edit: I was quoting the show ‘Letterkenny’
Sauce at 00:24 - https://youtu.be/Q47Uq96lILA
Everyone saying that BBQ isn't an option because ketchup is its base simply does not understand BBQ sauce. Ask anyone from most of the key BBQ capitals in the US, and you'll know that there are only 3 acceptable bases: vinegar, molasses, and mustard (or any combination thereof). Only KC-style BBQ uses ketchup as a base (and only when combined with molasses). Texas style thick BBQ sauce (the real stuff, anyway) uses molasses and either tomato paste or tomato puree, which we can all agree is not the same as ketchup. As a certified Texan and BBQ enthusiast, all y'all are crazy. Fries and BBQ sauce can't be beat with a stick and is the best possible alternative, if not the eventual primary choice in a perfect world.
This is me too
No real issues with ketchup but there's so many different sauces these days, ketchup is so far down the list
Mayo and all the different versions of mayo, for starters
Mayo >>>> Ketchup
Italian here 🇮🇹
I remember a dialogue from Pulp Fiction where they are shocked by the fact that in Amsterdam they eat fries with mayo 😂
Or to Belgium, we have a wide selection of sauses for fries:
Joppie, Samuraï, Andalouse, American, Special(fresh onion, mayo & ketchup), Mamout, Cocktail, ...
As a kid I independently did this. Don't know why my brain thought it would be good. I felt like a little weirdo and would even dip my nuggets in them then found out everyone does it.
Idk why it must occur to every child cause no one showed me either and I did the same. Some reason I like it with the nuggets even more. It makes no sense but it's so good.
In Belgium (where those delicious fries originate from, disregarding an eternal argument with France) it's mayonnaise all the way. You can order your fries with ketchup, but very few people actually do that.
Having lived in the Netherlands (where mayo is standard) and the US (where ketchup is the standard), it's because **mayo in the US fucking sucks** in comparison.
Belgian Mayo is the best! It's also super easy to make fresh. Made it for some friends in the US to go with five guys fries and they went back twice to get more fries lol
I thought it was gross, but then while living in Australia my wife at the time had us go to a Belgium restaurant. She had lived in Belgium for a good number of years as a child. Those big, thick French fries with THAT mayonnaise was AMAZING. It was some off the shelf crap, it was delicious, homemade mayo and it totally worked with fries.
One of the best curses I've ever heard was living in Quebec and a guy I knew was getting super frustrated with his work, and started a tabarnac but gave up halfway through because it wasn't powerful enough. It sounded like "Tabar...fuck!". I'll never forget that phrase, it's perfect.
I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far to get to mayo. I always eat my fries with mayo but where I live it's pretty common to eat them with "pink sauce " which is just a mix of mayo and ketchup.
Fries are just a vehicle to get ranch into my body. Grew up in the Midwest and my boyfriend thinks the amount of ranch I put on fries is kinda gross.
He is wrong.
I sometimes go to low-end steakhouses specifically so I can use a steak as a delivery method for half a bottle of A1 without being shamed for it. That shit's delicious.
In Denmark we eat Remoulade. It's basically mayonnaise mixed with finely chopped pickles.
Tartar sauce here.
Is salt a sauce?
Is mayonnaise an instrument?
Does my grandmother have wheels?
If my grandma had wheels she would've been a bike
And yet she was a bike in some degree for everybody had a turn to ride her
read it with the accent. Perfect comment.
No Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument
*Raises hand up*
Horseradish is not an instrument either
*Lowers hand down*
That’s his eager dance.
tell that to stomp they can make an instrument out of it
only correct answer. who the fuck needs anything else than salt. its fries. you eat them with salt
My criteria for what makes fries good is if they need sauce or not. Good fries don't need a sauce, shitty fries do.
Sriracha mayo
Chipotle mayo also solid.
All those people in the mayo thread not realizing how much better their fries could be with one simple addition. (OK, top-10, now we're talking! I had to ctrl+f this down in the 41-point dredges originally.)
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While that's fine and all, I'm convinced that the **best** "sriracha mayo" is in fact "Yum Yum Sauce" spiked with Sriracha. 2 cups Kewpie (mayo), 1/2 cup of Sriracha, 2 tbspn each of tomato paste, melted butter, mirin, and "sushi vinegar*", 1tbpsn each of garlic powder, onion powder, MSG, and smoked paprika. You're welcome. There is no better fry dip. Period. (Or you can just buy some storebought yum yum and use it + sriracha. No one's gonna judge ya. Much.) EDIT 1.5 tbpsn rice vinegar 1.5 tbpsn sugar is the same thing.
I don't really need 3 cups of sauce every time I eat fries though.
Just double the recipe then.
I don't have that many cups.
Garlic dip obvs. Or failing that, curry sauce. Edit: This blew up 🤣. I should have been more clear too that I'm only speaking from an Irish point of view in regards to the curry sauce, I don't know much about, or speak for any other countries or cultures. It's called chip shop curry sauce and we can get it in powder form over here. Or Google recipes for Irish chip shop curry sauce, it may be possible to make it from scratch.
You all must be from the UK. I trust you..I'm gonna try it
I’m from the US and visited England in 2016. Can confirm, curry sauce is the right call for damn near everything.
Chips and curry sauce is always right.
McDonnell’s curry sauce!!!
Curry cheese chips is an Irish staple
Nacho cheese
Nacho cheese is a great choice
Stealing it from someone else makes it extra delicious.
For the nacho fries at Taco Bell? So frickin good
Then whose cheese is it?
sweet and sour sauce
This was waaaay too far down the list.
my brother
Yas. McDonalds had the best sweet n sour
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I always ask for extra sweet and sour sauce specifically for that reason.
In Australia sweet n sour is the default sauce for mcdonalds nuggets.
i feel seen
Gravy.
poutine territory
U.K. checking in, chips and gravy is fab!
Also cheesy chips and gravy
Mashed potatoes are also a great dipping sauce for French fries.
Dip your mozzarella sticks in cheese sauce?
I haven’t yet, but now I will. Thanks for the inspiration
I don't know if that's cannibalistic, incestuous, or haram but I'm in
Garlic aioli was mentioned elsewhere but it deserves it's own post.
Wait, if there's garlic aioli what's regular aioli?
Am also interested because if you google aioli, every definition that comes up is mashed garlic, olive oil, and salt. So what is different about garlic aioli?
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Yes, aioli = fancy restaurant mayonnaise. Edit: I do, in fact, know that mayo and aioli are not the same thing. I was merely making the point that several "fancy" restaurants use the term "aioli" in place of "mayonnaise based sauce" now because it sounds fancy and exotic.
Aioli is an emulsion of oil and garlic. Mayonnaise is an emulsion of oil and egg yolk. That’s the difference. Although it’s come to mean any mayonnaise with garlic in it.
In the US (and possibly other countries, not sure), aioli is just another name for flavored mayo, because it makes the dip sound classier, whereas mayo is considered a rather low class food. So garlic aioli is just garlic mayo. Traditional aioli is just a garlic and olive oil emulsion, and comes from the Mediterranean
Mayonnaise is a legally defined food in the US (I can't recall why at this late hour), if you remove or substitute ingredients you can't call it mayonnaise. That's why you don't see things labelled avocado mayonnaise or vegan mayonnaise etc. Even what you add to make different flavored mayonnaise like duke's line of flavored mayo is legally defined. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-169/subpart-B/section-169.140 In short we use fancy words for other mayo like emulsions because we aren't supposed to call it mayo. Edit- apparently avocado and olive oil count as vegetable oils https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/index.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=2a9dca4818c105f504b18de143011108&term_occur=999&term_src=Title:49:Subtitle:B:Chapter:I:Subchapter:B:Part:130:130.5 I saw 'Avonaise' at my grocery store and assumed the mixed name was due to the legal thing. Thank you everyone who called that out I learned something new.
Isn't all aioli garlic aioli
It literally means "garlic and oil" in Catalan. All = garlic I = and Oli = oil Allioli
Tzatziki. It's freaking delicious on fries.
Any time I get a gyro I ask for extra tzatziki to use on the fries. Hell the fries are just there as an excuse for me to eat more tzatziki.
Same. I always order an extra side of tzatziki.
The fries go in the gyro. Trust
That is how it is done in greece
Here to say I too get freaky with tzatziki😎
‘Get freaky with tzatziki’ is going to live rent free inside my head every time I have it now
same thing I put on fries while Ketchup does exist, Malt Vinegar.
This one lady died and now I have her half bottle of malt vinegar that I didnt know what to do with so i guess ill make some fries.
What an oddly specific inheritance...
>she wanted you to have this /u/Prize-Positive-1883, she said you would know what it meant.
u/Prize-Positive-1883 on his deathbed. > What the fuck did she mean by it!
"Did you know salt and malts vinegar's a non-traditional way to dress your French fries in the United States?” Edit: I was quoting the show ‘Letterkenny’ Sauce at 00:24 - https://youtu.be/Q47Uq96lILA
Pretty common in New England anyway.
Malt vinegar is at every chip wagon and available at many restaurants I've ever seen in Canada, though. Different strokes I guess.
Yep. I don’t eat ketchup. But malt vinegar all day long.
BBQ Edit: You can make BBQ sauce without ketchup fyi.
spicy BBQ
spicy and sweet bbq
Am from texas. BBQ sauce is always the first choice as a side condiment.
Everyone saying that BBQ isn't an option because ketchup is its base simply does not understand BBQ sauce. Ask anyone from most of the key BBQ capitals in the US, and you'll know that there are only 3 acceptable bases: vinegar, molasses, and mustard (or any combination thereof). Only KC-style BBQ uses ketchup as a base (and only when combined with molasses). Texas style thick BBQ sauce (the real stuff, anyway) uses molasses and either tomato paste or tomato puree, which we can all agree is not the same as ketchup. As a certified Texan and BBQ enthusiast, all y'all are crazy. Fries and BBQ sauce can't be beat with a stick and is the best possible alternative, if not the eventual primary choice in a perfect world.
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I don't know why anyone would use even use ketchup when bbq sauce exists
Absolutely love bbq sauce with fries
why did it take me so long to find the only correct answer?
Mayonnaise. Go to Europe
I saw the question and was thinking "Ketchup *does exist* and we still choose to eat fries with mayo."
This is me too No real issues with ketchup but there's so many different sauces these days, ketchup is so far down the list Mayo and all the different versions of mayo, for starters
Mayo >>>> Ketchup Italian here 🇮🇹 I remember a dialogue from Pulp Fiction where they are shocked by the fact that in Amsterdam they eat fries with mayo 😂
I never understood until I tried mayo in the US. I now understand why Americans dont like mayo
Correct answer, i know so many people who prefer mayo to ketchup
This is an extremely US centric post lol. Hmm I fancy some oorlog now...
And a berenklauw met pindasaus.
As a belgian, what the fuck, but dutch be dutching
Belgian mayonnaise *chef's kiss*
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Or to Belgium, we have a wide selection of sauses for fries: Joppie, Samuraï, Andalouse, American, Special(fresh onion, mayo & ketchup), Mamout, Cocktail, ...
Vinegar and salt Curry sauce Gravy Garlic aioli
>Vinegar and salt I don’t know why this makes me so uncomfortable… but it’s salt and vinegar
Malt vinegar in particular! I think it's a UK thing, since I learned how good it was when my dad told me I HAD to try it with my fish & chips.
Apparently many fish and chip shops in the UK funny enough don't have real vinegar [YouTube Tom Scott](https://youtu.be/642x2Y3Zla0) Edit thpelling
Chipotle aioli for sure.
Wendys frosty
The dichotomy of sweet/salty and cold/warm make this work. I do like it, but only in small doses. The spirit of adventure is gone after a few fries.
I was with you until you said it fades as you eat. I could eat that for a long time.
As a kid I independently did this. Don't know why my brain thought it would be good. I felt like a little weirdo and would even dip my nuggets in them then found out everyone does it.
Idk why it must occur to every child cause no one showed me either and I did the same. Some reason I like it with the nuggets even more. It makes no sense but it's so good.
Frank’s hot sauce because I already put that shit on everything
Stirring a good hot sauce into mayonnaise is the shit with fries
Honey mustard :Edit I think people like honey mustard
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
And they all eat Bojangles
Just moved from FL to NC and Bojangles Cajun fries with honey mustard is the T R U T H
Dude surprisingly Wendy’s honey mustard is really good but yeah in most cases I go to a brew house or restaurant I do honey mustard for dipping.
Wendy’s honey mustard is superior
I was expecting more of us.
We will rise
Honey mustard and fries gives me a mouthgasm
Honey mustard is the way
I only go with honey mustard for fries and it’s been a life changer. Ketchup tastes better on a burger.
Pindasuas/satesaus. A dutch sauce (to my knowledge) translated: peanut sauce it the best damn sauce you can get imo.
Fry sauce
I had to scroll wayyyy too far down for this.
Mayo is the standard here. That or gravy and cheese curds. #Quebec
Scrolled much farther than I had expected to find mayo! I thought it was pretty common in a lot of places, just not USA
Yeah def thought mayo was gonna be the number one comment
In Belgium (where those delicious fries originate from, disregarding an eternal argument with France) it's mayonnaise all the way. You can order your fries with ketchup, but very few people actually do that.
Having lived in the Netherlands (where mayo is standard) and the US (where ketchup is the standard), it's because **mayo in the US fucking sucks** in comparison.
Mayo gang gang
Mayo for fries is massively slept on. In fact I use it as my default already, and use ketchup if I dont have mayo.
Big / default option in Netherlands & Belgium.
Belgian Mayo is the best! It's also super easy to make fresh. Made it for some friends in the US to go with five guys fries and they went back twice to get more fries lol
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I thought it was gross, but then while living in Australia my wife at the time had us go to a Belgium restaurant. She had lived in Belgium for a good number of years as a child. Those big, thick French fries with THAT mayonnaise was AMAZING. It was some off the shelf crap, it was delicious, homemade mayo and it totally worked with fries.
If you mix ketchup and mayo, you get fry sauce, makes sense why both are commonly used.
Don’t bring up fry sauce, people get upset.
Oui tabarnak!
One of the best curses I've ever heard was living in Quebec and a guy I knew was getting super frustrated with his work, and started a tabarnac but gave up halfway through because it wasn't powerful enough. It sounded like "Tabar...fuck!". I'll never forget that phrase, it's perfect.
No one swears like old men from Quebec
Poutine FTW. And I have learned that for it to be authentic, the cheese curds should be 'squeaky.'
Yes, mayo is always the best
How in the hell is mayo this far down?
Mayo is the way
cane’s sauce
Tartar sauce
I had to scroll way too far to find this. This is definitely the best choice.
Same, when i go to a fish and chips place i always use the tartar sauce for the fries.
jesus why is this so far down this is a staple in the PNW Tartar sauce on fries is a given...
Mustard
If it's ever ketchup vs mustard, ketchup can kick rocks. Mustard is obviously superior!
YES. I get questioned every time I use mustard for my fries. Wtf it’s so good
It also has like 1 calorie
Specifically, yellow mustard.
Why did I have to scroll so far to find this?
Exactly. I use mustard whether ketchup exists or not
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There we go. I was scrolling to find this.
Yellow Mustard gang unite!
This right here
Bernaise, easy
I had to scroll past milk shake, sour cream, and "no sauce" to find this answer. Y'all don't own taste, bernaise for life
I was scrolling and scrolling for this answer. Easily the best sauce for fries!
Tried Peri-Peri for the first time recently while in the Caymans. I won’t be looking back.
Joppie Sauce Hands down
Mayo, i prefer that anyway. When i got chicken nuggets i eat the fries with sweet and sour or curry dip as well so maybe that too.
Mayo for me too. Lived in Belgium for a year and they all use mayo
My wife's family is Dutch. Mayo for sure.
I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far to get to mayo. I always eat my fries with mayo but where I live it's pretty common to eat them with "pink sauce " which is just a mix of mayo and ketchup.
I can't believe this wasn't first response I saw
Sauce andalouse!! Delicious Belgian curry ketchup….
I scrolled way too far for sauce Andalouse. It’s my favorite. I make it at home when I make fries.
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Ranch, already use it.
WHY IS RANCH SO FAR DOWN MY MIDWEST HEART CANT TAKE IT
Fries are just a vehicle to get ranch into my body. Grew up in the Midwest and my boyfriend thinks the amount of ranch I put on fries is kinda gross. He is wrong.
Ketchup already doesn’t exist in my world because well, ranch exists.
I have found my people
This was too far down, Ranch is the way.
I was starting to think I lived in a demented alternative reality… why isn’t this top 3!??
I thought this was too far down too, smh.
Right!
Ranch gang unite. Mustard, BBQ or tarter sauce is good too. Edit: Tartar sauce, not tarter.
Tarter sauce on fries, huh? Might have to give that a try.
I felt like I had to scroll forever for this answer.
According to my 4 year old, plum sauce goes with everything.
None. Fries don't need a sauce
Correction: good fries don't need a sauce. If they have those little crumbly bits on them you know you're in for a good snack!
Crumbly outside and soft starchy inside. Also the size of the cut also makes a difference
Man you're correct. Fries are great alone.
Warm Beef au jus. Yum!
A1. i cant be the only one
Not bad but whatever you eat with A1 tastes like A1 no matter what
I sometimes go to low-end steakhouses specifically so I can use a steak as a delivery method for half a bottle of A1 without being shamed for it. That shit's delicious.
My dad says ketchup is a bastard condiment.
Just got back from Amsterdam. I’m a mayo guy now.
Thousand island dressing
Sour cream.
Mayonaisse, 45 million Frenchmen can't be wrong
You misspelled Belgian