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If You Haven’t Tried These 11 Different Types of Fries, You Haven’t Lived

I don’t understand why many of us are so stuck on French fries when many different types exist. Please do yourself a favour and try out some of the recipes I’ve listed below.

Crinkle-Cut Fries

These are regular fries but with a different shape that weirdly makes them taste more exciting. To make this, you’ll need a crinkle knife. (You can also use the crinkle knife to cut plantain. You’ll thank me later.)

Get the recipe at My Recipes

Loaded fries

Fries from heaven! Loaded fries are made of anything you want to put inside. You can add bacon, sausage, chicken, minced meat etc. Just make sure to include cheese. And maybe a mixture of mayo and ketchup to top it off.

Get the recipe at Mandi Sarro

Shoestring Fries

These are some of the thinnest fries you’ll ever see, and so they’re crispy as heck. They taste great with fry sauce (or ketchup and mayo mixed together).

Get the recipe at Kitchn.

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Curly Fries

I don’t know why Nigerian restaurants don’t serve curly fries; they bang like crazy. They’re longer than standard french fries have spring-like shapes. Rich people use a spiralizer to cut it, but here’s a video showing how to improvise with a knife. You’ll need to ensure the oil is 190°C hot before frying. This article tells you how you can know when your oil is that hot.

Get the recipe at Soul Food Cooking

Garlic fries

Garlic fries are made with salt, parmesan cheese, parsley, and chopped garlic (of course). The more cheese, the better.

Get the recipe at Caribbean Pot

Home fries

I’m obsessed with home fries, and I make them every other day. They’re thick cuts of potatoes that taste mouth-dripping good when pan-fried in bacon grease. For best results,, fry the bacon first, then use the leftover grease for your fries. You can use any type of potato.

Get the recipe at Spruce Eats

Sweet Potato Fries

Sweet potato fries are amazing because the sweetness goes well with the crispiness from the frying.

Get the recipe at Dinner at the zoo

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Tater Tots

Tater tots are deep-fried, grated potatoes shaped into cute small cylinders that taste great with mayonnaise.

Get the recipe at Urban treats

Wedges

Potato Wedges are thick potato fries. They’re not as crunchy as most fires, but they’re just as delicious. I actually really like that they’re soft, which makes them nice to eat with eggs.

Get the recipe at Yummy.ph

Cheese fries

These are fries topped with any melted cheese. The cheese is basically a replacement for your ketchup.

Get the recipe at Khin’s kitchen

Cottage fries

Cottage fries taste and look like thick, soft potato chips, and can be made with or without the potato skin. They’re seasoned with a variety of seasonings like cayenne pepper, black pepper, curry and other herbs. They’re simply delicious.

Get the recipe at Kitchn

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Dammy Eneli

November 13, 2022

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5 Nigerians Remember The First Time They Tasted These Popular Foods

You ever craved food that’s so popular, but when you finally got the chance to try it, it was disappointing? These five Nigerians spoke to me about their first-time experiences tasting these popular foods.

“Harry Styles doesn’t value the vagina he was singing about” — Nini

I bought a pack of strawberries from Shoprite thinking I had arrived. Turns out, I hadn’t. They were bland. I wondered maybe it’s the ones I got, that maybe it’s like agbalumo — you need luck to get sweet ones. My sister laughed at me and told me strawberries only have aesthetics. Which is why I Iow-key feel like Harry Styles doesn’t value that vagina he was singing for, talmabout, “Tastes like strawberries, on a summer evening.” If I slap him.

“Meat pie was such a let-down” — Aishatu

When I was a child, I used to hate meat pie because of the filling. I could only stand Sweet Sensation’s meat pie crust because it reminded me of sausages. When I was 17 and broke AF, I had this insane craving for meat pie. A kiosk had just opened near my house and was the happening spot. I saved money to buy their meat pie and didn’t eat for the whole day. It was quite a struggle because I only ever saved up for books. When I bought the meat pie and went home, I was like, “Ahhh, I’m going to enjoy today!” But when I bit into the meat pie, it felt like I was tasting death.

“I vomited after eating pizza” — Joseph

I saw pizza a lot on TV: how excited people would get they ordered it and thought to myself that pizza must be really good. In 2016, I tried pizza for the first time. It tasted like eating mucus with dry bread. I threw up.

“No one actually likes seafood; it’s peer pressure” — TK

You see seafood on Insta stories when people do “We outside!” The day, I tried it, I was so mad. I bought a platter an oyster and one thing one thing like that at one of these fancy Lagos restaurants, and I couldn’t just eat it. I took photos of it and posted on IG sha, make I no carry last. When I left the restaurant, I went to The Place to buy jollof rice. God no go shame me.

“Dark chocolate looks nice. Egungun be careful” —Tobi

What can go wrong with chocolate? A lot. I mean, regular chocolate is great, and goes well with everything — cake, Milo, Ovaltine, etc. But omo, I regret the day my inquisitive ass used my own money to buy 70% dark chocolate. It looks as tempting as regular chocolate, but I’m lucky I didn’t buy pure chocolate like my friend. I’d have hated myself.

Ama Udofa

February 6, 2022

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