Teri Schultz for NPR
Romain Cools points to statistics showing Belgian households typically eat one serving of fries per week and suggests one more won't hurt consumers and will really help producers. Cools came up with the campaign to eat twice as many fries as he was giving an interview about the crisis in the industry last month. The attention it's received from around the world has surprised and amused him. He's pleased his advice seems to have spread widely, since Belgium is, by volume, the world's largest exporter of frozen potato products. The processed potato industry is worth more than $2 billion annually in that country alone.
Would love to help with great Belgian fries
Only 1 serving per week! Mais non... more like one or two per day!
I volunteer as tribute 🙋🏽♀️
Sounds like a simple solution. I can handle another steak a week during this mess instead of pasta etc.
You have to understand that fries are the national dish of Belgium, that endless jokes about fries are made at Belgians’ expense.
A week without fries is a week wasted.
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Why is it the consumer’s ‘job’ to help producers? 🤔
With mayonnaise? 🍟
We need a few De Qlerq Roi de la Frite locations in the U.S.
I will eat some
If JoeBiden doesn’t win I’m moving to Belgium.
Not only that, their favorite dip is mayonnaise based, not tomato like ours.
Why not help lard producers by encouraging people to eat more lard too?
Can I help?
😂
What about the breweries? Any additional help needed here
i'm on it!
Is there something wrong with baked potatoes?
Is that perhaps why Belgium has the worst mortality rate in the world?
Make vodka!
Why fries? Just buy more potatoes. Eliminate all the middlemen and the markup. Unless there is also a cooking oil processing association and ...
Hopefully Belgians will say 'HMF!'
Not if you're a diabetic
The Onion is leaking
After Corona Many citizens HAVE to eat potato’s regularly, to survive, Feudalism is back. Ref. Van Gogh’s potato eaters.
TobiasLeenaert I would be willing to make that sacrifice.
Cc: darth
IStandWithBelgium
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I lived in Belgium for 7 years and miss their pommes frites! 'French Fries' originated in Belgium and there is nothing else like it! A frite stand practically on every corner
I don't know about y'all, but I could eat about one serving of Belgian frites per day.
Sign me up! Je voudrais aider! 🍟
Huh
Do they have to eat more fries per se? Can't they just stay at one serving of fries and buy the extra potatoes?
Surely NPR could find a better story
Oh, one extra per week? That’s all? I having been happily “helping” US potato farmers all week with my air fryer.
Wow
Call me, Belgium.
🙄
BFD
Potatoes every day. Sounds good !!
flxfq are you enjoying your potats?
Best fries I ever had: Crete...
I been helping them all my life
I’m doing my part!
I wish I could help.
Heart disease and diabetes to save the potato industry?
je suis la belgique!!!!
Just open one more McDonalds in the country. That'll take care of it.
Companies out here trying to kill you to make a buck.
Sell em frozen
They should eat more magic mushrooms
send me them
Instead of dumping milk all over the world, use cheap energy to make more milk powder.
You know, there is potato vodka, too
Oh to be in Belgium! I could help big time.
Frites?
I volunteer as tribute
Makes sense; not like what’s been reported recently where in the U.S. vegetables were allowed to rot in the fields until some good Samaritans offered to cultivate and donate; milk is being flushed into drainage systems while people are starving. How is this even acceptable, USA?
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I want to help! But I'm in Ohio 😔🍟
MattLorenzo wanna move to Belgium and help out the country?
I heart potatoes. Sigh.
Worst comes to worst I vouluneer to have them shipped to my house
omg maaaarjaaaa
BBQ grill experamints? or whst ever famous cooking method works down there
Fried potatoes are carcinogenic because of acrylamide.
Can you only buy potatoes at a restaurant in Belgium🙄
That should be easy
Open the restaurants you sycophants!
Fries tots, mashed, dried, canned, frozen, pan cakes, noodles, vodka,I could keep going but get the point! Give it away, feed live stock, just don’t be a moron and destroy it!
Easy, they should make 99.99% ethanol, stockpile it for vodka production later on, or make blended gasoline/petrol.
I suppose I am willing to this, too. You know, in solidarity!
c'est le même dans le Canada.
They should partner with the French...for cheesy potatoes
They could always just open the restaurants back up.
Send some darth's way!
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How does that solve the problem? If they eat more potatoes won't they be eating less of something else?
'NEVER eat the frites!' --Every Cycling Coach In Belgium
A new TV ad in Belgium has been released: If at first you don't succeed,..fry, fry, again - W/restaurants closed in Belgium, ~750K tons of potatoes are in storage. To avoid waste, potato growers propose that people eat 2X the amount of potatoes each week
I am 100% willing to help in this effort
drjulie_b y’all really have things figured out, I’m jealous
As long as they don't make me use mayonnaise instead of ketchup.
scknurr FRITES FOR DAYS
Love frozen foods and walk-in freezers
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