In Belgium we eat
Belgian fries with mayonaise out of a paper cone, to some people it sounds weird but all of my foreign friends who ever tried them while in Belgium think they're delicious! They say our mayo tastes diffrent too...
Actually they shouldn't even be called French Fries, since we invented them ^.^v There are all sorts of theories why they are called french fries in English but the one and only correct one is that the potatoes are 'frenched' hence french fries...The French have absolutely no claim on them, hah!(nothing personal agains the French though, they have wonderful cuisine as well) Personally I always talk about Belgian fries or "Frietjes!" for more info/ the original recipe visit the
"Belgian fries website"
other weird things I eat are probably the lunch-subs. In Belgium its quite common to have a French baguette(a small one) for lunch with topping and a lot of vegetables. The original 'smos' as we call them, is a ham and cheese sandwich with mayo and all sorts of veggies and eggs. The word
'smos' comes from
'smossen' which is a colloquial way of saying 'to spill', because eating one can get quite messy.
Recently you can find almost anything on those sandwiches, another quite famous one is a 'Martino', that has 'Filet americain preparé' (which is basically minced beef with a tablespoon of mayo, one tablespoon of ketchup and worcester sauce, flavoured with salt and pepper, and occasionally onions and parsley), with pickles, tiny silver onions (pickled onions), ansjovies, mustard and ketchup...yummy! I also love the ones hat have apples and bacon in them, or tuna and peach!!!Or salmon, pineapple and cocktail sauce!...ok now I'm hungry!:lick2:
lol, I'm the boards official sponsor for Belgian cuisine... you definately should try something Belgian, besides waffles and chocolate, it will surprize you!