Thu, 24 May 2012
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Camera in hand, Andy Carling attended the inaugural National Frites Day in Brussels in the past. Now, on the day of celebration, indulge in one of Belgium's finest culinary crafts. Around a hundred people gathered in Brussels' Place Reine Astrid to celebrate the inauguration of National Frite Day two yers ago this day.
The event was organised through the social networking website Facebook. The two men behind the event, Jamal Aynaou and Bao-Lan Nguyen-Phuoc, explained how it all happened. They started off by creating a Facebook group called "It's not "French fries" but "Belgian fries" as a joke between friends and the group rapidly expanded to over 4,000 members.
Their Facebook Group sites: In truth, potato fries as we know them were made fashionable among us after 1851 by the outlawed installed in large numbers in Brussels.
They argue that Frites unify all Belgians as the words mayonnaise and frites are the same in French and Flemish. "Everyone speaks Frites!" announced Jamal.
ide Note: How did they get the name "French fries"? The group notes:
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