Posted on 07/14/2023 12:48:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
(Last Updated On: July 10, 2023)
NATIONAL FRENCH FRY DAY | Second Friday in July On the second Friday in July, we recognizes an American favorite known as the French fry on National French Fry Day.
#NationalFrenchFryDay
French fries, also known as chips, fries, finger chips, or French-fried potatoes, are batons of deep-fried potatoes. No matter what we call them, they’re common fixtures at fast-food restaurants and are loved by all ages!
What are the best dipping sauces for French fries? Dipping sauces are a condiment choice based on personal preference. Though most people eat their fries with ketchup, some people like to step outside the tomato and choose something different. You can try anything you like, but we recommend:
Ranch dressing
Vinegar
Mayonnaise
Honey mustard
Cheese
Beyond the condiments, chefs and home cooks sprinkle seasonings to add flavor and spice to their fries. Whether you add a little garlic and onion powder or spice it up Cajun style, a potato crisped just right will satisfy a combination of tastes. You can top them with chili or nacho cheese and jalapeños, too. Depending on the type of fries, we might top them with even more ingredients and call them all sorts of things.
Delicious Alternatives
French fries are not only for potatoes. In fact, there are healthier alternatives that make a delicious alternative to traditional French fries.
Sweet potatoes
Jicama Fries
Parsnips sliver fries
Baked carrot fries
Parmesan-Crusted Asparagus fries
A Mission To Petition
In 2022, Checkers and Rally’s fast food restaurants went on a mission to petition National Day Calendar to change the date of National French Fry Day. Their goal was to change the July 13 date to the second Friday in July. Under advisement of Cal our Calendar Mascot, National Day Calendar changed the date. National French Fry Day would be celebrated each year on a Friday!
efforts.
HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL FRENCH FRY DAY
Bake your fries instead of frying.
Make homemade fries.
Create a new dish using French fries.
Try some Checkers and Rally fries.
Create a seasoning to top your fries.
Order French fries with your dinner when you are at a restaurant.
Tag and post on social media using #NationalFrenchFryDay.
NATIONAL FRENCH FRY DAY HISTORY
We were unable to find the creator or origin of National French Fry Day, but we found some great history regarding French Fries. For instance, the expression “French Fried Potatoes” first occurs in print in English in the 1856 work Cookery for Maids of All Work by E. Warren.
It is believed by some that the term “French” was introduced to the potatoes when the American soldiers arrived in Belgium during World War I and consequently tasted Belgian fries. Since French was the official language of the Belgian Army at that time, it is possible the American soldiers began calling the fried potatoes “French” fries.
I’ve been making wedges...with cornstarch...soooooo creamy...
Oops. “Fry”, not Flag ;-P
Love them - but they have to be right out of the fryer.
They don’t keep well.
Never order them when we order food delivered b/c they are soggy by the time they get to the door.
Happy Bastille Day
No fast food restaurant (in FL anyway) makes good fries anymore. Even my last try at Culvers, I came away disappointed.
I think fast food fries peaked before McDonalds switched oil/fat/tallow.
I have a decent deep fryer and make my own occasionally (and onion rings), but while they taste ok it’s just not the same. And it makes a mess.
I like my fries with mayonnaise them’s called Belgian Frites. And it was what the Doughboys brought back from WWI, they weren’t “french fries.”
Another fake day... right up there with the tooth fairy, kwanzaa and Juneteenth.
Mayo or tartar sauce.
Bastille Day-— the day the French FRIED the Bastille- how appropriate.
Pomme frites— of course, French. But lots of peeps have fried po-tate-OHS!
Actually, they're Belgian. WWI American GIs mostly first had them when in France. And Panama hats are made in Ecuador.
All could think of was Hercule Poirot!! “I’m Belgian!” . But thanks— taters are taters. The famine from a blight cleared and killed off a lot of Ireland from single source starving tenant farmers— who escaped if they could to America!
From now one-— gonna say “Belgian Fries” keep them guessing! hee!
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