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FRENCH FRIES (cont’d) • About 7% of all the potatoes grown in the U.S. are turned into McDonald’s fries. They sell more than 1/3 of all the French fries sold in restaurants in the U.S. each year. • McDonald’s fries contain 19 ingredients. • Americans dunk fries in ketchup, Brits eat their “chips” with salt and malt vinegar, mayonnaise is a popular accompaniment in Belgium, and in Vietnam they serve their fries with soft butter and a sprinkling of sugar. Poutine, consisting of fries, cheese curds, and gravy, is considered one of Canada’s unofficial national dishes. • In a 2014 study, Greek researchers tested how gravity affects deep frying. Using a centrifuge, they found that as gravity gets stronger, fries get crispier. The perfect fry would be made at three times Earth’s gravity. Fries in microgravity would be soggy. • The slang term for potato, “spud,” comes from the spade-like tool that is used to harvest the potatoes. • Tater Tots were created to use potato shreds left over from production of French fries. • Steak fries tend to have lower fat content than normal French fries, due to the lower surfaceto-volume ratio when submerged in oil. • To burn off the calories in a medium order of McDonald’s French fries, you would need to do 58 minutes of cycling, 90 minutes of bowling, or 47 minutes of high impact aerobics. • The largest helping of fries was served in Eagle, Idaho on Sep. 20, 2014. It weighed 1,003 lbs. (454 kg) and used 1,256 lbs. (570 kg) of raw potatoes along with 110 gallons (416 l) of oil to fry them up. The longest fry in the world was made by Arby’s and was 38 inches (96 cm) long. It was a curly fry.

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• Potatoes originated in the Peruvian Andes. The Incas called them “batatas.” They were eating potatoes 2,000 years before Columbus set sail. When the Spanish Conquistadors arrived, they had never seen anything like it. They were forced to eat potatoes when their food supplies ran low. The potatoes they introduced to Europe were more valuable than the gold they sought. However, it was hard to convince the European populace to try them. • Because the potato is a member of the deadly nightshade family, Europeans were suspicious of it, and rumors spread that eating them would cause death. Laws were passed forbidding their cultivation for fear they would spread leprosy. That changed due to French pharmacist Antoine Parmentier. • Parmentier was serving the French army during the Seven Years War in the mid-1700s when he was captured by the Prussians and thrown into jail. At the time, potatoes were considered to be livestock feed only, not fit for human consumption. Jailers fed Parmentier only potatoes, expecting him to die. Instead, he thrived. By the time he was released from prison, he was convinced that potatoes were the food of the future. Now he needed to convince the rest of France. • He entered a contest that offered a prize to the person who could come up with the best recipe that offered the most nourishment for patients suffering from dysentery. He won with a recipe for potato soup. • Next there was a contest to come up with the best substitute for wheat flour when making bread – and potato flour won. No one paid much attention at the time, but when the wheat crop later failed, it was potatoes that kept the populace of northern France from starving (continued on the next page)

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