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I really don't understand why Belgium is so upset about this. They're literally fried potatoes. Choose something else.
THEY'RE NOT JUST FRIED POTATOES THEY ARE A CULINARY MASTERPIECE! THEY'RE CRISPY ON THE OUTSIDE, FLUFFY ON THE INSIDE, AND SERVED WITH A DIZZYING ARRAY OF SAUCES AND TOPPINGS THAT ELEVATE THEM TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF DELICIOUSNESS!!
I don't know why you think the entire country of Belgium has anything to do with this and it's not just a joke to laugh about language in the US.
I had a Belgian roommate one time, and he was very upset about it.
I'll never get over Polandball calling them "made-up waffle country."
Especially since they didn't invent the fried potato. The French did. They invented cutting the potato in sticks instead of disks to fry them...
Can we really say that with any certainty? Frying is a pretty basic cooking technique, and potatoes became a very common ingredient. Maybe it really caught on in France, but I'm sure just about anybody who was eating potatoes must have tried them fried on occasion.
This is "who invented the sandwich" all over again when what we really mean is "who named the sandwich". We credit the Earl of Sandwich for the invention, but sandwiches have existed for as long as bread has. I mean there are only so many things you can do with bread and slicing it and putting other food in between is beyond obvious.
Now I'm hungry.
But considering sliced bread is treated as an amazing invention (at least the phrase "best thing since sliced bread" would have you believe that) then maybe whoever invented sliced bread was also responsible for inventing sandwiches.
As for what people did before sliced bread? I've seen people tear pieces from a bread loaf and use it to soak liquids, so I assume that was the method used for all uses of bread.
froid potato