Tyler Cowen: belief

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…You give me French fries, I’m probably going to like them. Certainly, growing up, McDonald’s was my answer. That was my favorite place when I was growing up. It no longer is, but it was once. I think that New York has a lot of very good French fries. I think that in Europe, sometimes, very good French fries. You could potentially find them everywhere, but I think that the places you would stereotypically associate with them are the places I’ve had the best ones. I’ve never been to Argentina, though. I’m probably missing the best, and I would go with your place over mine. I think the Andes have the best potatoes, but maybe not the best French fries because the food isn’t always that European. In southern Argentina, you have basically Andean potatoes but European cooking techniques. In Europe, I would say France and Belgium are the best, but try Patagonia. Belgium is quite good. I will try Patagonia because a big problem I think a lot of people make — feel free to disagree — is not drenching them in salt and oil. They’ll sometimes go light on the salt and oil. I think the whole f-cking point of the French fry . . . Sometimes in Asia, I think there are really good potato products. They’re not — I don’t know — they’re kind of only good French fries, and it’s hard to find the thing that I’m exactly looking for done well there, but Belgian fries are quite good.…

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