Are we so lazy?

[PottedMeat]

I take a look at a little can of french fried onions and what does it say?

"Product of Holland, Packed in USA"

Are we so lazy that we can't even fry our own stuff? Surely it can't be cheaper to fry onions in Holland, toss them on a boat, and bring it to America!

 

[Descartes]

It has nothing to do with laziness and everything to do with a Netherlands company that decided to export their product to the US. It's no different than others products like beer, wine, etc. that are bottled in the US but made elsewhere.

Why do you think people import and/or can San Marzano tomatoes? We grow plenty of tomatoes here.

 

[PottedMeat]

Damn your reasoning skills.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Descartes
It has nothing to do with laziness and everything to do with a Netherlands company that decided to export their product to the US. It's no different than others products like beer, wine, etc. that are bottled in the US but made elsewhere.

Why do you think people import and/or can San Marzano tomatoes? We grow plenty of tomatoes here.

because the only real way to make marinara is to use tomatoes grown on the slopes of mt vesuvius.

 

[TehMac]

I'm glad the OP asked this question. It means there's one less retarded question floating around out there in the future.

 

[DrPizza]

I could be wrong, and I'm not going to google it, but I think the majority of onions are imported. For 20 years at a pizza shop, I can never remember a brand of chopped onions that didn't originate outside the USA. Ditto mushrooms. Onions are a bulb - Holland is known for its bulbs. So, it makes sense that we might get some of our onions from there. (Canada is the other big exporter of onions, afaik)

edit: wow, I did google. Seems we export a lot of onions to Canada, which is really weird, since almost all the onions the pizza shop I worked at came from Canada.

 

[IronWing]

"Product of Holland, Packed in USA"

To me, that means the onions came to the US as onions and were fried here using good ole American grease.

Also, we grow a bunch of onions in Idaho and eastern Oregon.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Tough to call the hardest-working country in the world (that's not a slave state like North Korea), "Lazy". I hear that a lot, about "lazy Americans", but we work more than any Euro country.

 

[nanette1985]

I'm sitting here eating a can of French's French Fried Onions (Original) and because of this thread, I looked at the label. It says Made in USA. No mention of any other countries.

Addictive little things, mmm.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

What's french fried? Is it the same as deep fried?

 

[rbV5]

I thought this was about being too lazy to fry your own onions....go figure

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
What's french fried? Is it the same as deep fried?

the term "french fried" comes from the process of frying something at one temperature (ex: 325F) to cook it, then frying at a higher temp (ex: 375F) to crisp it

like french fries

im not sure that it matters if its deep fried, or pan fried *shrug* but most things done that way are probably deep fried. its easier to maintain temperature that way

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
What's french fried? Is it the same as deep fried?

the term "french fried" comes from the process of frying something at one temperature (ex: 325F) to cook it, then frying at a higher temp (ex: 375F) to crisp it

like french fries

im not sure that it matters if its deep fried, or pan fried *shrug* but most things done that way are probably deep fried. its easier to maintain temperature that way

The US is the only place they're called french fries.

 

[KlokWyze]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
What's french fried? Is it the same as deep fried?

the term "french fried" comes from the process of frying something at one temperature (ex: 325F) to cook it, then frying at a higher temp (ex: 375F) to crisp it

like french fries

im not sure that it matters if its deep fried, or pan fried *shrug* but most things done that way are probably deep fried. its easier to maintain temperature that way

The US is the only place they're called french fries.

"frites" in most European countries. :wink;