What is It with the Chinese and Mayonnaise?

[lord of the mark]

"memories of seaside resorts in Devon or Cornwall out of season than the taste of chips fried in beef fat, then liberally sprinkled with salt and moistened with malt vinegar."

Interestingly the use of vinegar on fries in Maryland is particularly associated with oceanfront, especially Ocean City - "Boardwalk Fries". An english connection, or something natural about vinegar fries/chips by the salt air?

[Imran Siddiqui]

they could be served up with Velveeta.

Yum . No, seriously... French fries covered with cheese... I can definetly go for that .

[molly bloom]

Imran, shall I schedule you for a quadruple bypass now?

It'd be like having mayo or lard with chicken kiev. You want some more fat with your fat?

L.o.t.m.- a food historian I was speaking with told me about how she was researching the origins of battered fish with chips in Great Britain. Apparently she was working around the theory/'fact' that Sephardic Jewish refugees from Spain/Spain's colonies brought back tempura style fish from Japan on to English trading ships in the Pacific and East Indies' traiding routes, then when the potato proved a hit in Great Britain, a marriage made in heaven was formed. Interesting given that tempura battering was introduced to the Japanese by the Portuguese/Spanish, but the Japanese made the batter much lighter, and extended it to vegetables and fungi and tubers, not just fish and meats.

Is Maryland a more 'English' state? I know about Lord Baltimore, and Catholic refugees, but is it in general a more 'English' state?

[Sava]

I heard Canadians are mayonaise freaks...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Imran, shall I schedule you for a quadruple bypass now?

I'm 5'11'' and weigh only 175 pounds... now what were you saying about a bypass?

You want some more fat with your fat?

Why not? I mean what is the difference between having cheese with fries and having mayo with fries? Mayo is like pure fat, you know?

[alva]

I'm 5'11'' and weigh only 175 pounds... now what were you saying about a bypass?

1. that's more then enough (though I'm always less accurate when it comes to using these ancient methods)
2. Low weight doesn't necessairily mean low cholestorol.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It certainly is a decent predictor. Who will be more likely to have the heart attack, someone weighing 325 lbs, or one weighing 160 lbs, being of the same age and height?

[alva]

Notice the word 'necessairily' in my previous post.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I'm 5'11'' and weigh only 175 pounds... now what were you saying about a bypass?

I don't understand US people and weight. I'm a rugby player, and I'm 5'11" and 145lbs. I'm not that light (my brother weightlifts 6 times a week and is 5'9" and 135lbs). I weightlift and I don't have that little fat (though I do look it), but I'm massively under US weights it seems.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by aaglo
The canadians eat their salted french fries with vinegar

What's so bad with that? I don't like vinegar, but it's a brit tradition, fish 'n' chip shop chips with salt and vinegar. Though I just have salt, and occasionally mayo or tommy ketchup.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Dissident
well don't Europeans eat french fries with mayonaise on them?

Yes. Why is it worse than ketchup though?

[The Mad Monk]

Ketchup is non-fat, and is (believe it or not) an excellent source of lycopene.

[Drake Tungsten]

I like to dip fries in a mixture of ketchup and mayo. Combines the lycopene of ketchup with the deliciousness of mayo.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Sava
I heard Canadians are mayonaise freaks...

Freaks yes, but not all of us are fond of mayonaise. I am though.

Salt and vinegar chips are yummy too.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Imran, shall I schedule you for a quadruple bypass now?

I'm 5'11'' and weigh only 175 pounds... now what were you saying about a bypass?

You want some more fat with your fat?

Why not? I mean what is the difference between having cheese with fries and having mayo with fries? Mayo is like pure fat, you know?

I think by now I have established that I do know a little about food, and yes, I am aware of the constituents of mayonnaise, although if made the traditional French way with olive oil and egg it is not necessarily the coronary in waiting that -ugh-retch-gag- industrial manufactured mayo is.

However, you should be aware that even skinny people may come from a family with an inherited predisposition towards coronary infarctions. How is your cholesterol level? If memory serves, there are some chubby Inuit, Piedmontese and Catalans, but you don't see them falling down dead at the drop of a hat...