{"id":12679,"date":"2015-06-23T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12679"},"modified":"2015-06-22T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:17:10","slug":"the-history-of-fries-with-your-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-history-of-fries-with-your-burger\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of Fries With Your Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/History-of-fries-with-that1-1024x648.png\" alt=\"History of fries with that\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/History-of-fries-with-that1-1024x648.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/History-of-fries-with-that1-300x190.png 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/History-of-fries-with-that1-80x50.png 80w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/History-of-fries-with-that1.png 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The historians of Reddit discussed why French fries became such a common pairing with burgers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>White Castle was the first fast food chain to serve french fries next to burgers in 1921.<\/li>\n<li>They may have gotten idea from WW1 soldiers returning from Europe who had gotten a taste for fried potatoes in Belgium.<\/li>\n<li>Fries had the advantage of being cheap to make, were not frequently made at home (since few deep fried), and had a taste that was neutral and complimented meat.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover they were both fast and cheap to make, and didn&#8217;t require cutlery to eat.<\/li>\n<li>By the time the MacDonalds brothers opened their first restaurant, getting a side of fries with a burger was expected by patrons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the history of fast food and French fries over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/comments\/39v00a\/when_did_french_fries_become_the_standard_side_to\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/comments\/39v00a\/when_did_french_fries_become_the_standard_side_to\/\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The historians of Reddit discussed why French fries became such a common pairing with burgers: White Castle was the first fast food chain to serve french fries next to burgers in 1921. They may have gotten idea from WW1 soldiers returning from Europe who had gotten a taste for fried potatoes in Belgium. Fries had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/History-of-fries-with-that1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12684,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions\/12684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}