[78-L] Record collection brings laughs

[David Lennick]

Das schmeckt!

dl

On 3/31/2011 12:01 AM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> I almost considered posting the motto that could be in the kitchen of a
>> German
>> fast foodery, "Arbeit Macht Fries", but thought better of it. Glancing
>> through
>> "The Grouchophile" I see that Groucho played Toronto in 1915 and
>> anti-German
>> sentiment was so strong that when he ordered "German Fries" he was told
>> they
>> were now called "home fries". I did not know that.
>>
> Interesting! I also had never heard that story...although it makes sense.
> However, "home fries" are NOT the same as German fried potatoes
> (which I sometimes ciook at home)! To prepare "German-style fried
> potatoes (a taste for which I acquired while in Germany (Garmisch-
> Partenkirchen) for the USAF. I liked their fried kartoffeln so much that
> I asked the cook at my local hangout (Stammtisch) how to prepare
> them...
>
> Chop an onion finely and put that into a skillet. Then slice 2-4 potatoes
> about 1/8" thick. Put those in the skillet. and add enough water ro cover
> the potatoes. Let that cook on medium heat for about 15 minutes, so
> that the potatoes are both fried and boiled at the same time. Then turn
> up the heat, and boil off all the water; allow the potato-onion mixture
> to fry for a short time (3-5 minutes). Tastes like the fried potatoes I
> so often enjoyed at my two German "hangouts" back in 1967-70...!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>