***FRIES*** TransCanada Fryway french fry review ***FRIES***

[frozentripper]

Chip wagons are being reviewed for the benefit of travellers along the TransCanada Highway, some with scenic views. A most valuable piece of research, deserves a federal grant to expand scope and extent.

Here's the stretch along the Ottawa river if you're headed that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbgpni2u4zU

 

[yellowcanoe]

Can't wait till they get to Manitoba and Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Which Trans Canada are they on? We picked up the Yellowhrad out of Portage La Prairie and chip stands and for that matter anything else is few and far between. It's another Trans Can. Rt 16

 

[frozentripper]

The Yellowhead runs north of the TransCanada... no map here to confirm.

There was a little ghost town off the Yellowhead, very interesting. I stopped in for lunch just by chance, no fries, food from a grocery store. Somewhere there's a map of those ghost towns in that area, IIRC abandoned during the dust bowl depression years.

Maybe on the return you'll get to try the best chip wagons? I don't know where the fryway guys are now & have been to, they have a facebook page and maybe will answer. Have fun out there...

 

[Mihun09]

Vermillion Bay Chip Bus, best in NW Ontario

 

[southcove]

Some of the best fries I have ever had came on a recent trip to ME, outside of Bar Harbor/Acadia NP, in one of those roadside BBQ and lobster pounds...that and the halibut, fried, was to die for! And blueberry lemonade...could have used some alcohol in it, but it did the trick w the dinner.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Watching two Fryway videos, one gets the impression that fries are served with various gravies in Canada.

I've never seen meat gravy on fries in the US. Ketchup (nee catsup) has been the dominant condiment for fries all my life and everywhere I've gone. Cheese is also melted over fries, especially in and around Philadelphia in connection with cheese steak sandwiches.

However, in my house as a boy, we always dipped fries in vinegar because that was the Scottish way. Vinegar is still my favorite condiment, but most restaurants will either not have it available or call the local psych ward if you ask for it in a dish. I've heard vinegar was also the English and Irish way. If that's true, how did Canada, part of the British Commonwealth, transition from vinegar to gravy?

 

[yellowcanoe]

Gravy on fries is normal in Maine
The Yellowhead Highway also bears the TransCanada Highway logo
Been on it twice and the southern one twice
Vinegar is a New England thing particularly southern NE though I might have seen it in Missouri

 

[Iskweo]

No YC...there is not much on the Yellowhead....pretty sparsely populated. The actual Trans Canada is #1 which goes straight across the prairies. Again, not much in the way of roadside stands. Pity that.
Glenn I am with you on the vinegar. Me Gran used it all the time and yes it is still wildly popular here for fries. It is in fact my preference. The gravy thing has been the backup plan forever. No idea where that came from other than maybe Quebec. Poutine without the cheese eh. Fries and gravy is a lunch staple in restaurants and bars, especially bars.
I would say that if you want to eat on the out of the way roads, try the local bar for a burger and fries. With gravy. In fact, I am jonesing for that now and will have to stop and get some on the way home.
Of course, in NW ontario and manitoba you can find pickerel dinners pretty easy ....with fries....and vinegar. Yummmm.


Christy

 

[yellowcanoe]

No chip stands past Dauphin MB. To Jasper. All wide open road and they bypassed all the towns. Some now dying. No business

Much different than Ontario with its Culinary adventures frequent
Saskatoon and Edmonton. Demoralising. So many shopping centres. First wide open prairie then houses jammed together then shopping. I guess where we have trees we can hide that stuff better

 

[yellowcanoe]

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[sweeper]

We had some good Gravy-Fries at Rock's in Ft Kent, ME last month.

So Frozen, are there any good Fries Stops on Rt 62?

 

[frozentripper]

Glenn, salt and vinegar is what I have on my fries... all the chip wagons around here have vinegar available, and restaurants too.

Chip wagon at Barry's Bay east of Algonquin, on the left is ketchup and mustard, and white and malt vinegar.

http://www.theoldschoolcafelaundrygreenhouses.com/chip truck front - open-1.jpg

Pickerel and fries... must try to forget about pickerel and fries...

 

[frozentripper]

Sweeper, in Barry's Bay are two places although not on Hwy 62... Charlie D's, drive to the end of Arena road and enjoy under shade trees, much quieter than the highway. And Polka Spuds, where they also have great Polish perogies.

 

[Iskweo]

No chip stands past Dauphin MB. To Jasper. All wide open road and they bypassed all the towns. Some now dying. No business

Much different than Ontario with its Culinary adventures frequent
Saskatoon and Edmonton. Demoralising. So many shopping centres. First wide open prairie then houses jammed together then shopping. I guess where we have trees we can hide that stuff better

Yeah. The prairie towns tend to be pretty lackluster as far as personality goes, although they get really testy if you say that. I have done the Saskatoon to Edmonton trip more times than I can count so I feel your pain. I once took hwy #3 across Mb/SK and cut up to #1 at Maple Creek. That was a nicer drive.You might like southern AB around Lethbridge better. There are days when I really miss Niagara.

 

[memaquay]

Manitoba to Edmonton........impossible to be bored, just count gophers all day!

 

[Iskweo]

Yeah Mem...case of BLite and a pocketfull of .22's...count gophers for sure.

 

[frozentripper]

It seems Canada's Prime Minister Trudeau showed up at one of the chip trucks near Ottawa. Later on the Belgian Prime Minister appeared and chatted with Trudeau for an hour and a half during the poutine summit (poutine = Canadian style fries with melted cheese and gravy).

The chip truck at Gloucester now has international recognition from the Belgian PM... (Claude Chip Wagon at 1060 Olgilvie Rd. in Gloucester).

“I can tell you that as a Belgian I am an expert naturally and a connoisseur with regards to French fries,”

News report:

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/06..._17187726.html

 

[yknpdlr]

I have just returned from a drive to Dawson City YT and back for the Yukon River Quest canoe race with a C4 canoe on top of the car . First time I have driven that route (always flown 4 previous times). Put nearly 9,000 miles on the car and wore out a set of tires.

I have to claim that I stayed one night in a town called Portage La Prairie and then the next in Swift Current, I thought both interesting and appropriate town names for a canoer. In the vast wide prairie lands between the two, in a grassland area without a single tree in sight, two cow moose were seen running toward the road. How unusual is this kind of occurrence? Of course later, in BC, we saw many bear, bison, and goats and a couple of wolves along the road but no more moose.

As for fries, there were a number of roadside stands offering fries. At a KFC I ordered fries, and was asked: "do you want gravy with that?". "what???" I thought oh yeah, this is Canada.

 

[yellowcanoe]

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No fries much past Riding Mt on this other Trans Can.
If this not a Trans Can why the logo?

 

[Ralph]

Both Highway 1 and Highway 16 are TransCanada Highways. Highway 1 is the original and goes through Calgary, Kicking Horse Pass, Rogers Pass to Kamloops. Highway 16 was designated a "TransCanada Highway" later. In western Canada, Highway 16 splits off from Highway 1 in Manitoba then goes NW to Edmonton, through Yellowhead Pass to Prince Rupert.