Talk:Home fries

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Onion

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)[reply]

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 :-))) —Preceding unsigned comment added by FlagSteward (talk • contribs) 14:55, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds to me like what British people just call chips. :-D Potatoes cut up into chunks and deep-fried, that's just British home-made chips, except that most people (to my knowledge) cut the skins off, and do not parboil first. To this end, I have added the Chips article under See also. leevclarke (talk) 21:51, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Switzerland's Rösti at least, seems to attest to potatoes being a breakfast food in places besides North America. Whitebox (talk) 04:56, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm but if you read the article [1] it was clear than as it is even more now that home fries are apparently not deep fried.... Nil Einne (talk) 17:29, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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.

Hamburgers - allways recognized as an American food, they actually come from Hamburg in Germany.
Hotdogs (Frankfurters) - Another food recognized as american, they come from Frankfurt, Germany.
Pizza - most people know this is an Italien food, but it is mosty mistaken as an American food.←≈≠≈→ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.246.56 (talk • contribs) 21:14, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hamburger Patty comes from Hamburg, Germany. Put that patty on a bun, you have a Hamburger which is American food.

Frankfurters are German.

Hotdogs are American. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.212.47.41 (talk) 17:59, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pizza means pie in Italian. It originated in Naples, Italy. Deep Dish style pizza originated in Chicago, IL, USA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.212.47.41 (talk) 18:10, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's true that Germany and German Americans have had a large influence on America, and those influences are sometimes taken for granted or misunderstood. However, don't forget that the potato itself is not native to Europe. Potatoes are a root of the Americas. Home fries are not as refined a dish as "french fries" or "chips", home fries to me have always seemed the crudest and most basic cut, shallow-pan-fried potato preparation, often with the skins still on, unlike the deep fried texture of well made French/Belgian fries or even American types of "french fries".

As to Friesland, there seems to be some speculation that frites came about with the influence of the cooking of Spanish Jews in the south of the Netherlands (now Belgium) rather than the north. By name alone a person could mistakenly guess that pizza originated in Pisa, but it's said to be Naples. Americans certainly eat a lot of cookies and doughnuts which do seem to have been introduced by the Dutch in America, but then later versions like the chocolate chip cookie are known as an American recipe, and rightly so (even though chocolate itself isn't grown in the USA either). Whitebox (talk) 00:01, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oven chips

In the UK, oven chips are precoated potato chips, coated with a very small amount of oil so no oil is added at cooking time. The result is very low fat, though the eating quality doesnt compare that well with deep fried chips. 86.4.152.167 (talk) 14:45, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Other Names

"house fries (US), cottage fries (US), American fries (US) or fried potatoes (UK & regional US) "

I've lived in the US most of my life and have never heard any of these variants, and there are no references.

I googled Cottage Fries, and other than being potatoes, they are nothing like Home Fries. According to most recipies online, Cottage Fries are "Oven Roasted Potatoe Rounds"

If you search for American Fries, you get the US version of french fries.

Unless there are any references, I'm going to pull these out of the article. --Tcxspears (talk) 21:13, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm another American who has never heard of 'house fries,' whereas 'pan fries,' which is not listed, is a term I'm familiar with. Both word pairs are found in ngram viewer, with the form less common than the latter but rising quickly in the last decades to come close in frequency. Both are dwarfed by 'home fries.'Kdammers (talk) 04:40, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]