What the mayo ends up as all depends what’s in my fridge/spice drawer at the moment!
I don’t know why more people don’t make it, it’s the simplest thing in the world, and uses ingredients most people already keep in the house.
Only with Old Bay Seasoning. Otherwise they taste like those over-rated fries from Five Guys.
I don’t generally use it, but a little is good on fries.
Mayonnaise + ketchup is basically just Russian Dressing. It’s not that outlandish a suggestion. Put some pickle relish in it, and it becomes Thousand Island Dressing.
I personally wouldn’t eat it, but if you like it…
Tell your stepdad to grow up. His antics are childish and immature. Life doesn’t revolve around his likes and dislikes.
Crazy delicious.
There’s a Philly Cheese Steak type joint around the corner from me, and I ate there a few weeks ago. I asked for vinegar for my fries, and the woman behind the counter acted like I was certifiable. I can understand Joe Public not knowing about vinegar on fries, but how can someone who works at a Steak Sub place not know? It just seems to go with the territory…
Malt vinegar is best. I love ordering fries in a place that provides malt vinegar. But I’m decadent: I use vinegar and ketchup. :o
Oh the humanity. If any of you have run across my posts in other food threads you won’t be surprised to know that I find this practice heinous beyond words. Shall I venture a guess at how many of you are Brits?
None of the above. It’s okay, especially with fish, but I prefer gravy. I don’t think I’d want to try fish gravy if there is such a thing.
I got a funny look in a restaurant in St. Louis ordering fries and vinegar. They had to break some out of their broom closet. I guess they clean with food in St. Louis.
I like mine with honey mustard unless I get them from Wendy’s.
Then they must be dipped in my Frosty.
Really? Because I live in St. Louis, and I get it all the time - it’s the only thing my husband will put on fries. Plenty of restaurants have it on the table.
People clean with vinegar all over. What a good soaking with vinegar or vinegar + baking soda can’t clean, isn’t worth having clean in the first place. There’s more than one reason they sell it in gallon jugs, and it’s not because everyone is as insane about eating their fries with vinegar as we are.
But cleaning grease off my oven door with vinegar and watching the crap dissolve didn’t put me off vinegar. It made me want some more, actually.
To the OP: I also love vinegar with my fries. Although I’ve never tried regular Vinegar with it. Is it the smell that bathers him, or just the thought of vinegar and fries? Vinegar goes with anything fried since it not only taste good, but seems to help cut the oilyness of the fried food. Does your FIL not eat vinegar with other things like fish?
My mouth is watering just thinking of Balsamic vinegar with fries. I can’t believe it never occured to me since I do like fries and vinegar. Thanks for the great idea! Vinegar isn’t available as a common condiment here so usually I have to throw on Tabasco.
Is cider vinegar sweet? I’ve seen it in the stores, but don’t know what to dowith it so I’ve never bought it to taste. Just curious.
As for the bread dip with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, I think it might be an Italian thing. At least I’ve only noticed it in Hawaii at Italian restaurants.
This was at a truck stop, some time in 1997. I will admit a sample of 1 is not much of a basis for a theory, but I did get a funny look and closet vinegar.
Not delicious. Just weird.
I live in St. Louis, too and have never had a problem.
Absolutely, but only if they’re good fries. Just the things you get from McDonald’s, or whatever? Ketchup. But if you go to one of those places that has whole potatoes, and slices one up and fries it on the spot when you order? Salt and vinegar, all the way.
And I don’t understand the folks talking about using “plain vinegar” (which I assume means white) for this purpose. Plain vinegar is a cleaning agent or reagent for chemistry experiments, not a foodstuff. There are too many good vinegar flavors out there to ever bother with white.
It’s my personal favorite, mostly because it’s what my gramma (from whom I learned most of what I know about cooking) always used. Think of the flavor of good apple cider. Now think of everything in that flavor except for the sweetness, and then add the sourness of vinegar to it. That’s what cider vinegar tastes like. You can use it in any recipe that uses vinegar, but I’d recommend it especially in things associated with bacon or other meats (homemade BBQ sauce, say). And bacon and cider vinegar, plus some sugar, makes a wonderful salad dressing for robust greens like dandelion.
Heck, I HOPE he was sort of having a joke. Otherwise stepfather is a sad demented man* :eek: Vinegar wins! Tell him the Straight Dope said so: I’m sure that will sound really convincing. 
*Of course, it might sometimes be useful to know a nice simple way to be banished to another room.
I dig malt vinegar on fries; lots of things go great with fries - cheese, gravy, mayo, ketchup, steak sauce - it’s all good to me.
I have a kinda left field notion of why your SF has an aversion to it (other than just not liking vinegar); back in the day, women used vinegar in their douches, and maybe he makes that association with it.
Another vote for “delicious.” Vinegar and salt are the way fries should be eaten.