Wet Fries

[Ed Keer]

Wets or wet fries are pretty standard NJ diner fare.

Ed

--- "Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM> wrote:
> "Wet fries" seem to be diner food, found in pretty
> much any large city that has diners, but not
> elsewhere.  I first had them at Boston's well-known
> Blue Diner around 1993, and they did not at all seem
> to be a new item.  From the Atlanta Journal and
> Constitution, 1/9/88:  "So the club is following a
> hot culinary trend and will become The Dixie Diner,
> featuring Dixie Beer and dinner fare such as
> meatloaf and fried chicken and "wet fries" (french
> fries with gravy
> or cheese). "
>
> John Baker
>
>
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: Bapopik at AOL.COM [mailto:Bapopik at AOL.COM]
>       Sent: Thu 8/1/2002 10:47 PM
>       To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>       Cc:
>       Subject: Juicy Lucy burger (MN); Wet Fries; Beggo &
> Beggel; Jo Jo Potatoes Mystery
>
>
>
>
>       WET FRIES--French fries with gravy.  About 70
> Google hits, and in the
>       newsgroups since 1992 (Kooky's, Miramar Road, San
> Diego, CA).  Fouund in a
>       1998 menu in the LAPL menu collection for The Hat
> in Pasadena.  Not recorded
>       in Mariani's tome.
>
>
>


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