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Chips are not french fries
I met up with a friend who had just bought some... stuff, from MacDonald\'s, and I sampled a french fry. My conclusion;
chips: fingers of potato fried in oil
french fries: equally lengthed extrusions of compressed potato powder, rehydrated and somehow cooked :|~
I met up with a friend who had just bought some... stuff, from MacDonald\'s, and I sampled a french fry. My conclusion;
chips: fingers of potato fried in oil
french fries: equally lengthed extrusions of compressed potato powder, rehydrated and somehow cooked :|~
vincegamer
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Now that\'s not fair. McDonalds does that, true. But theres is a subspecies of french fry. I think most others use one of these:
I agree with Vince. It\'s absolutely not fair to judge any food by the variation served at McDonalds. At best, McDonalds is an amazing simulation of food.... Not to say I don\'t eat there, but I\'d never consider it to be REAL food. It\'s like people here who grumble that McDonalds doesn\'t serve healthy food. Well, DUH!!!
Shawn R. L.
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Here in the States the fries at Mac\'s are the real deal. Those compressed things arent too bad as long as you remind yoursel they arent the real thing. Kinda like Pringles.
vincegamer
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Shawn, you\'re in Cali.
You have In-n-Out.
They have great burgers and you can watch them slicing the potatoes while you wait.
You have In-n-Out.
They have great burgers and you can watch them slicing the potatoes while you wait.
Shawn R. L.
New member
(Homer voice) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm In-n-Out burgers!!!!
It\'s funny to look at the menu at In-n-Out.
Burger
Cheese burger
Fries
Drinks
Good and simple.
On the production end of french fries. My dad was a mechanical engineer and did alot of work for the food processing industry. He saw a device for making ALOT of fries that consisted of basically a cannon with a grid shaped blade on the end of it. The taters would be litterally fired thru it and fries would shoot out the end. He said it could put out about 30 shipping containers worth in I think it was a day. Could have been even an hour. Either way, it was really pumpin em out.
Ebonbuddha
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I have one.
Telley is for television. Is there another word for telephone in Britain?
Telley is for television. Is there another word for telephone in Britain?
Shawn R. L.
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I could be wrong but I seem to recall that in Australia the telephone was called the blower. True?
Anyone remember DIAL phones?
Anyone remember DIAL phones?
Not only do I remember dial phones, but when I was growing up, you did not have to dial all 7 digits to make a local call, only 5, for example, when I was a kid our phone number was 463-3336, yet all we had to dial was 33336, Not any more!
So does any one here remember when phone numbers stared with a word?
Gin
So does any one here remember when phone numbers stared with a word?
Gin
Shawn R. L.
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Dont remember phone numbers starting with a word (my parents do) but I do remember party lines (not the meaning they have now). We lived in a semi rural area so, I guess, the phone company wasnt willing to run alot of cable out there. A neighborhood shared a phone line. You would pick up the phone to make a call and the neighbors would be on the line. You had to wait your turn.
Ebonbuddha
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Actually. I remember. But only because of the old White Dwarfs in the 80s. They had numbers with letters in the beginnings.
I also remember dial phones.
The reason I asked about Telephones;
I remember watching/reading/hearing (I can\'t remember which) a character british refer to the telephone as the telly. I made this comment the other night and my wife\'s obnoxious friends decided to make an on going joke about it.
I also remember dial phones.
The reason I asked about Telephones;
I remember watching/reading/hearing (I can\'t remember which) a character british refer to the telephone as the telly. I made this comment the other night and my wife\'s obnoxious friends decided to make an on going joke about it.
Hieronymus
Member
It\'s those letters \"R\" that drop off words in Massacheusetts, like Hahvahd, pahk and cah. They float around the ether and attach themselves to words in other parts of the country.
Shawn R. L.
New member
Yeah, we call\'em elevators. And the moving stairs, \'esclators\'.
When I was in highschool (what other age would I be dumb enough to do this) me and a friend went into an elevator in a department store. The thinking goes - \"hey, we are in a metal box, in a well built shaft, with the doors closed. Sound proof? OF COURSE\"! The doors close the elevator starts to go, me and John SCREAM at the top of our lungss............we stop, the elevator gets to the next floor, doors open and EVERYONE in the store is looking at us. What a couple of geniuses!lol
When I was in highschool (what other age would I be dumb enough to do this) me and a friend went into an elevator in a department store. The thinking goes - \"hey, we are in a metal box, in a well built shaft, with the doors closed. Sound proof? OF COURSE\"! The doors close the elevator starts to go, me and John SCREAM at the top of our lungss............we stop, the elevator gets to the next floor, doors open and EVERYONE in the store is looking at us. What a couple of geniuses!lol
vincegamer
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Nope, but I do have some old business cards that have a word then number on them.
On the matter of telephones, I understand in the UK you ring someone but in the USA you call someone - but I think in the UK to call means to visit in person...
Ebonbuddha
Active member
Yeah. I also rememberwhen arcade games were just a quarter.
