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I was just spurred by

jessicaqueen to write this post on "Fries" in the US. Please "chip" in!! Heheheh.

I'm not sure if it's common knowledge in the US what UK "chips" are or not. USers do know the common phrase "fish n chips" but then translate it into "battered cod with french fries" in our heads. A complicating factor is that we eat fried potatoes in so many different ways. Once I started listing them I became kind of astonished at how many varieties we actually eat.

One thing I've never been sure about: are McDonald's fries really called "chips" in the UK and elsewhere? When I think of "chips" I think of what we call "steak fries" which are thick slabs. We actually have a huge variety of fries in the US:

( let the chips fall where they may )

Had a very tasty Spring Feast yesterday. Friends brought us a cooler of ramps from West Virginia. Ramps are "the wild leek" and have a strong flavor a little like garlic. They are the ideal, tastiest allium, made all the more delicious because they are only available in the spring, when they come up wild in the woods looking like lilies of the valley. A ramp patch like where the morels grow is a closely guarded secret!

The ideal is to eat foods that go well with ramps, and to prepare as many rampy things as we can think of.

( food porn and recipes behind cut )