Talk:Home fries
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If you add onions, it's potatoes lyon, not homefries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.131.85.142 (talk) 05:43, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] US variant?
Am I right in thinking that this is just a US name for what the rest of the world calls fried potatoes or Sautéd potatoes? In which case might one of those provide a more WP:CSB name for this article? Or just merge in with Sautéing and have done - there's already quite a bit on the potato angle there, and it might be more satisfactory to have one bigger article than two smaller ones. I've also reduced the suggestion that it is a global thing to have potatoes with breakfast - that's very much a North American thing, even in a seriously spudoholic country like the UK, carbs at breakfast are usually from grains rather than potatoes. As one reference for that, Leiths New Cookery Bible has no mention of hash browns, potato waffles etc in her breakfast section - although she does give wine suggestions, I like her style :-)))
[edit] Nomenclature/Physical Description
A few humble suggestions: in my experience, home fries (also known in the U.S. as cottage fries) are never shredded (hash browns are shredded.) Par-cooked potatoes are cut into cubes (usually larger than dice), then fried in vegetable oil and butter. I wouldn't say that "chopped onions, pepper and other ingredients" are "typically" added. They can be added, but after fifty years of eating home fries throughout the United States, I'd say they're more often served by themselves, or with ketchup. If home fries have chopped green bell peppers added to them, they're referred to as "Potatoes O'Brien." RRM —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.182.224.160 (talk) 23:22, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dutch fries
I would have thought that fries would have come from Friesland, The Netherlands. These kind of food are allways recognized as an American food, when in actual fact, they all originate from Europe. E.G.
