It’s not about ….
May 22nd, 2010
Belgium …
it’s not about the chocolate …
… and it’s not about the beer.
And neither is it about Tin Tin
or Eddy Merckx.
Belgium is
solely,
uniquely
and singularly
about …..
chips!
There are these friet places EVERYWHERE! I passed three on my short cycle from Zeebrugge to Brugge and then when I got to the square in the town centre of Brugge there were chip places EVERYWHERE there too. And a chip museum!
But I restrained myself.
However on the way back to Zeebrugge I did have to slip in to a friet place near my hotel and get lots of friets with mayonnaise on. Oh Yum. At the friet place there were curious looking sausage type things like what I have seen in *shudder* Febo in Amsterdam. I abstained and tucked in to my chips.
Fricadelle?
Joke, heard many years ago in European Commission:
Q: Where is Europe’s largest chip shop ?
A: On the border between France and the Netherlands.
In Ghent, did you try that place called Friedkettel or somesuch? Their tasty dishes will blog your mind, and most of your arteries too.
Also i was delighted to see a typically Belgian “salad” dish being served as far as Australia.
No wait, i mean Friedkettell will blow your mind, not blogit. That was freudian