Potatoes are very nutritious. Maybe there's a less greasy way to make fries so that they'll taste good? Maybe make them in coconut oil and a lot less salt?
All the meat served in restaurants is far worse for you than fries.
All the meat served in restaurants is far worse for you than fries.
This makes an interested accompanying read. We are still eating 'em taters because root vegetable was the only thing our grandparents and parents had reliable access to all year round. And old habits takes several decades to kill.
Why the hate for tripe? Trippa alla Romana, menudo, phở, various Mediterranean tripe stews, fried tripe with hot sauce, etc. are delicious. Maybe the author had a traumatic experience in childhood?
Tripe has a texture unlike muscle, which makes for an interesting contrast to meat. If you took the tripe out of “anything you cooked with tripe”, you’d be left with something completely different, defeating the point of those dishes.
(Remove tripe, and you end up with boiling water with green onions.)