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A friture, baraque à frites or friterie () in
A friture, baraque à frites or friterie () in French-speaking Belgium
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and Northern France Northern France may refer to:
*the north of France, especially:
**the region of Hauts-de-France
**the former region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais
**Nord (French department)
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, or frituur or frietkot in Flanders and the Netherlands, also fritkot in French-speaking Belgium and friture or frietkraam in the Netherlands, is a traditional restaurant, kiosk or van serving quick-service fast food
Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service. It is a commercial term, limited to food sold in a restaurant or store with frozen, preheated or precooked ingredien ...
, particularly fries from which they derive their name.
Friteries are often found on main highways and town squares and may be in the form of restaurants offering table service or a caravan, trailer or even converted van only offering take away food at roadsides.
Friteries offer several fried and grilled dishes served with frites, such as hamburgers, brochette, meatballs, merguez and fried chicken. These dishes have regionally varying nicknames to distinguish the different combinations of ingredients, like the "bearclaw", for example. Traditionally, the most typical companion to fries were cold mussels in vinegar, as well as carbonade flamande
Flemish Stew, known in Dutch as stoofvlees or stoverij and in French as carbon(n)ade ''à la flamande''large selection of Belgian sauces including ketchup, curry ketchup,
The only potato fries museum in the world
All about Belgian fries
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Le Fritkot et la culture belge
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mayonnaise
Mayonnaise (; ), colloquially referred to as "mayo" , is a thick, cold, and creamy sauce or dressing commonly used on sandwiches, hamburgers, composed salads, and French fries. It also forms the base for various other sauces, such as tartar ...
, aïoli
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, tartar sauce, cocktail Whisky sauce, American, Samuraï, Andalouse, Riche, Mexican, Orientale, Brazil, Béarnaise or Diablo.
Originally, the frites were served in sheets of paper rolled into an upside down cone. Nowadays most friteries also serve them in a plastic or cardboard tray, with a small plastic fork. An order usually concludes with the question whether the fries need to be salted, and whether the order is to go, in which case it will be wrapped in sheets of paper that are punctured to let the hot air escape instead of condensing on the cold paper.
A variation is to serve meat, fries, sauce and possibly salad in a half of a baguette and is known as a ''Mitraillette
A ''mitraillette'' (, literally "submachine gun") is a type of sandwich in Belgium commonly served at friteries and cafés. It is popular among students.
It is thought to have originated in Brussels, but is also popular in Flanders, Wallonia, a ...
''. Alternatively, the same ensemble can be put into a Dürüm, although this practice is more common in friteries run by Turkish
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* of or about Turkey
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immigrants.
The oldest known friterie was located in Antwerp
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( Belgium) in 1842.
The friterie is the subject matter of the 2010 documentary "Fritkot" directed by Manuel Poutte.
In popular culture
InMarc Sleen
Marcel Honoree Nestor ( ridder) Neels (30 December 1922 – 6 November 2016), known as Marc Sleen, was a Belgian cartoonist. He was mostly known for his comic '' The Adventures of Nero and Co.'', but also created gag comics like '' Piet Fluwijn ...
's comics series '' The Adventures of Nero'' the character Jan Spier owns a friterie, where usually caricatures of famous people order fries.
See also
* Fish and chip shop *Cuisine of Belgium
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* Cuisine of France
*Cuisine of the Netherlands
Dutch cuisine ( nl, Nederlandse keuken) is formed from the cooking traditions and practices of the Netherlands. The country's cuisine is shaped by its location in the fertile North Sea river delta of the European Plain, giving rise to fishing, f ...
References
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The only potato fries museum in the world
All about Belgian fries
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Le Fritkot et la culture belge
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Gourmet Museum and Library
The Gourmet Museum and Library (french: Bibliothèque et musée de la Gourmandise) is a museum dedicated to the history of gastronomy, located in Hermalle-sous-Huy, Liège (province), province of Liège, Belgium.
Overview Library
It is the most ...
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