French Fries
Can we go back to calling them Friench Fries? Were they ever really French in the first place?
Can we go back to calling them Friench Fries? Were they ever really French in the first place?
MOM
Don’t ever tell a Belgian that French fries are French. Us Belgians are abnormally sensitive about the topic.
Five Guys Burgers
makes the best fries.
Belgium huh?
I always thought the first French Fries were made in greece.
best french fries…hhhmmmm…..haven’t been to McD’s or Burger King for ages but a place in Henley I go to occasionally is pretty good at French Fries. In ozz, they call crisps chips like we brits call french fries chips. Vistied France recently, tried some snails and frog legs, with fries…bloody awful if not gross. Now I’m feeling chipper again
I think…
I’m sure that you make the Best French Fries
;D
I love zee French kisses, and she loves zee escargot…..
Winghouse (Ker’s Winghouse) has the best fries. serve them up with
a dip of Jalapeno cheese and it’s better than candy !!!
Dear teacher,
Thank you so much ! Yes french fries are not french they are belgian ! Merci au nom de toute la nation française ! Thank you from all the french people ! There is a big difference between France and Belgium! They have a king we have a president, every body speak french in France, half Belgium speak another language! They eat french fries all the time and we prefer “pot au feu” or “osso buco” or “boeuf bourguignon” etc…. so this is not the same country ! These are not the same traditions !
Amicalement,
Don Felipe Gonzales el gaucho de las vegas
Of course, in France, they are typically just referred to as frites. The whole freedom fries movement was stupid. France has a president? I didn’t know that. I just thought that Carla Bruni was in charge. When you say la nation française, you mean that hexagon thingy, right? Whatever. I’m off to the Paris Las Vegas to grab a burger and fries…. Il y a des gauchos dans les parages ? Faut aller chercher un peu…
Dear fellow student,
Hey hey hey! what a french touch, are you french too? Are you just an excellent francophone? No there is no gaucho in France, just people that dream of the wild west or the mexican wide open.
Amicalement,
Don Felipe Gonzales that prefers “les pommes de terre sautées”
Oh, donfelipegonzales, I’m just an Ozark hillbilly living in Las Vegas. Mais j’ai étudié le français pendant bien des années, et j’ai même reçu la maÎtrise en littérature française à l’Université d’Arizona en 1978. J’ai passé un peu de temps en France, mais pas récemment. Je t’ai déjà écrit à l’occasion de petits messages dans lesquels je t’ai indiqué que j’ai une connaissance assez profonde de la langue française. Bien sur, je fais semblant des fois de l’ignorer, mais c’est purement pour le plaisir de me permettre de plaisanter un peu. Et voilà !
the germans make the the best pommes. they eat it with every meal…
Hi Marina, hi all !
i especially like this lesson, cause that’s what i keep saying ALL the time …
my homework ;
everybody knows my grandmother makes the best
hugs from belgium!
Of the fast food places, McDonald’s fries are the best.
My vote is for In-N-Out Burger’s Fries. They must have some kind of a drug in them because they are addictive!
It’s 1 am I have to sleep
Therefore I am declaring the first space on the next video for myself, the only people granted immunity are : Marina&Foxbow15
The first comment shall be property of myself.
I don’t own this website… Get used to it
Marina could you indulge us the knowledge of the origin of “I cross my heart.” As in making a solemn promise to someone. Is it religious? I would very much like to know where we got this. Thank you!!
Do you hope to die?
the best fries are from any small mom and pop restaurants. They’re thick and crunchy and taste like real potatoes, not like McDonald’s. The worst fries, sadly, are from In and Out Burger. They’re always soggy and have no taste. Gross!
Not to get off subject, but it’s raining here. Is it just me or does anyone else love the smell in the air just before, during, and after a good rain fall. Thunder storms are even better.
One of the best smells of Summer, along with the smell of freshly mown grass.
Dear fellow students,
Here, in “La côte d’Azur” we just like like the smell of monoï.
Sorry !
Amicalement
Don Felipe Gonzales
La côte d’Azur. Sounds like a Nice place to visit someday.
they’re
Wendy’s has the best fries, if they hot and cooked long enough so that they aren’t soggy. Go Dave!
Why is french kiss called a french kiss?
Dear fellow student,
Perhaps because romantism is associated with France. We all know that love is universal but for some reason, France (and Italia) is (are)associated with love… We all use our tongue (not only for speaking), this is not a french exclusive.
Amicalement
Don Felipe
Even the cattle are romantic in France. They just love dishing out a slurpy langue de boeuf.
video is at 25… Urm everyone else.. go to sleep or something comeback in about 3 hours. Nothing will happen
That’s exactly what i’m gonna do, except i’m gonna be back in like 12 hours:P got an important match tomorrow morning
kinda late allready 
Good luck on getting first
g’d night people
hehehe 1 down 700 to go
Video is more 23 but not showing
when i’m in the mood, i make the best french fries…
commercially, Zaxby’s, which most won’t know, does a nice mesquite-style; i also used to like Backyard Burgers’, but they folded here…
however, if only i knew French - go at least this dame française attirante…
annudder
I wanted to watch this, but it buffered forever.
‘eh, just a guy droolin’ over a couple of very attractive breasts…
oh, wait…
that’s half the guys here…
annudder
As everyone here knows what my next video will be… I’m Singing…(oh god)
This. On account it sounds rubbish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSWE1Iy1V-M
Here’s another site I found in a different country or language.
http://www.taringa.net/posts/noticias/1190865/La-p rofesora-hot-ense%C3%B1a-ingl%C3%A9s-online-+Yapa! .html
….where the the word ‘Saheeb’ come from anyway??!?
Hey just curious. I just got two beautiful dobermen and I named one of them Saheeb…
Вы Miss M.
It should have read thank you
Don’t go all Russian on my ass capman
I am trying to learn enough to talk to Superdanilchik and others.
Dear Marina,
I’m back and caught up with your latest vids. Good job Marina, esp. with the O’reilly show.
Hi everybody! I’m not sure how you all have time to watch vids and post during the week….I can only really make time during the weekends!
Some of you must be retired….hold on while I try to control my envy
OK………. 
Don’t have any new word requests…still waiting on Cold Turkey and Testify to be answered.
OH…..and my favorite way to eat potatoes……….is called PAPITAS CON HUEVOS………….it is fried potatoes with eggs and I put a little hot sauce and cheese on top….so good!!
I’m catching up on videos since AK-47 (a couple of June vids, all of July, and half of August!) because of the time demands of teaching and being a student. It takes time to catch up, especially if you want to read some of the comments and perhaps add one or two.
That shariatuber that keeps posting on yt… I know I shouldn’t talk about youtube.. But I sent him a message saying every time i see a comment from him on hfw im going to email it back to him
He says the owners of the channels of allow him to advertise islam.. hmm
what about french kissing?
what about it?
you mean THIS?
awwwww how cute!! lol
Ohhhh…..good request kyrotho!! Do you mean to ask why kissing with full open mouth and tongue contact is called French Kissing?
Maybe the french invented kissing like that? Maybe Marina should look into that for us? But please don’t show us an example of it Marina
I’m sure the guys would love that, though!
absolutely
damn ! seems that i’m doomed , i will wait until you will run out of words and you will be disposed to investigate for the word ” waiter ” Marina . I will wait because i’m a waiter .
Though i hope that you don’t forget and have me waiting in vain .
im requesting the word “tickle” or “tickled pink” please do it, thanks!
Was 26 now 29
James
You know ??
Marina could use a new
live plantsilk plant for her room.The stick plant is looking very sad. That could be the perfect gift.
Go to the shopping site on her web page and have one shipped to her??
Ok rrr
…………………….
A BONSAI 
Never put a tree in the same flat as a dog!
A BONSAI ? high maintenance, needs to be watered
Silk is forever.
Nex-Tag
This is a great site to shop anyhow and ships direct.
Silk, however is not real.. I have an aloe vera
She has an absent of pillows on Her Bed ?
My Wife throws 5-10 pillows on the bed .
Pillows are good…??
Pretty sure She can’t kill a Pillow
Hello Marina! I married a young, and beautiful Ukrainian woman, and we are in the process of learning one an other’s languages. Occasionally she says, “Yalkey palkey!” What does this actually mean? Where did the expression come from? Thanks in advance, Will
Being half French i can certainly make boast of our ”FRIES” and our kisses..actually i do do not know whether we have the best fries but i’m sure that we have the best kisses…i think that,,,maybe nobody disagrees
I’ve had lots of French kisses. I can’t disagree with you.
Hi Марiна, tell me плиz, may be я не верно сформулировал вопрос, or question нужно писать only на английском языке????? Или мой вопрос не предстовляет для вас никакого интереса?
From России with любовью.
С уважением Илья.
Hi Ilya, She understands what you are saying. She just has a long list of words and videos all ready made up to do. She will get around to yours I hope.
Mike
THIS is part of why I’m trying to learn!
Read one yesterday and only understood
“Doh!” Today, I can read his name….
Tomorrow? Let me get there…
Thanks Mike. Simply at me the impression of ignoring of my questions was made. I shall look forward to hearing!
ZDOROVO, MISHA! Sooo i think we can already communicate in Russian,can’t we?
@ superdanilchik
Soon I am still learning. Like you said the different letter meanings are hard to learn. I will get there I hope.
And that! Marina that Russian:) the Sense to communicate here in English?)))
You know the last thing she is going to do is ignore a fellow countryman.
It helps to comment in English. Her site has friends from all over the world and different dialects. Everyone does the best they can to comment. But if English is hard for you then use your natural language. Marina understands this and will answer back. It doesn’t matter if we understand you as long as she can. Superdanilchik will help you all that he can. Just talk to him some. He has been a big help to me.
Ilya, Вы получили ваш ответ пока?
Misha
Да, я в другой теме получил исчерпывающий ответ от Марины.
Спасибо Вам всем за уделённое внимание
Ещё раз привет всем из России )))
You are welcome my friend.
Миша, я посмотрел видео , ссылку на которую дала Маша, слово “DUH” имеет совсем другой смысл нежели слово “D’oh” , жду от неё объяснений.
Parts of this I simply do not understand. The rest is beyond me.
Друг мой, учи русский язык!
Hey, im requesting the words/phrase “Pitch Black” Why is it called that???
pitch black?
pitch fork,
sales pitch,
roof pitch
pitch has a lot of different meanings
cool
I’d like to see James trying to put pitch onto a pitched roof using a pitch fork.
Do you think he would be open to a sales pitch for a shovel?
How about the movie Pitch Black with Vin Diesel.
I love the Chronicles of Riddick, and Vin Diesel really wants to make a sequel. He needs to hurry before Judi Dench gets much older. She’ll be 74 this coming December 9th.
I see Captain Jack is still at sea. He’s aboard the Kokopelli. Maybe he’ll be back soon to resume his job as door greeter.
Did you post on my comment and channel.. Or just one.. Beacuse it showed up on both…
I did it on both so I would make sure you got my 5 star comment.
Capman, I am very much all for a spamming war, However I can’t risk my account being deleted… Just as well I have a fake one then!!!!! You first
Actually capman… I started it I couldn’t help it
Every thing will be a ok James.
Oh… This is an RRR activity
.
Not me I am NOT worthy .
??
Besides I hate everyone.
Old Man James though would make a good SXT Mate……??
SXT?
…………( # 2 )
Marina, I don’t know if this is ok or not but it looks to me like someone has stolen 8000 views from your kool-aid video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue7DSAsuemw
Seems his channel is just about becoming a millionare overnight sort of thing as well.
Hit Shappins… not too worried about it… it happens more than you can imagine.
People like that are such sock cutters
(reference from my homework vid
)
Hit Shappins…
ja ja ja
How can someone still your views?
Ok never mind. I see the big picture.
Really?
The guy is not so much stealing as he is piggy backing on Marinas fame.
He might even be helping Her by bring new people to Her.
The more command her name becomes, the more it’s worth to advertisers. SO spread Her Name..
Hit-S……….Common
You just gave the guy even more views by posting it here…
Hi James,
Marina could flag the video as a copyright infringement. You could flag it as spam. On the other hand, people that find that guy’s video, could be people that have never seen HFW videos which means that HFW might actually gain new subscribers.
By the way, not to pick on you, but your Fork video uses tags referring to HFW, which may or may detract from HFW video views. Just some thoughts….
Lets all go do a spamming war on this guy for stealing from Marina.
He’s even got a comment that someone has called him a spammer.
I used those tags so that on the side list Marinas videos would show up.
13 more spots before you reach #24 at utube Miss M.
todays #24 has 40,000 hits.. Views. Perhaps it might be a while. Need to sabotage all the rubbish/anime in the way
You need to multitask
this is what i’m doing
(my neighbors must be wondering
who i’m talking to, learning the
Russian alphabet)
http://www.languagehelpers.com/members/russian/onl ine/languagehelper.html
Chacha,
Are you learning the Russian Language so that when Russia owns the US you will be able to talk to your Masters??
Or just to impress Marina?
Learn Spanish, easier.
I like spanish
I thought about learning Russian
for a few years. I’m just off my
“bluetooth” and actually doing it.
John Cleese was very convincing
that this was a good idea in a
Fish called Wanda.
Impress Marina? Doubt it!
not yet, anyway…
#32
Hello Marina! I thought a good word for your research would be Buck as in the slang for a dollar and how it is used in the phrase ‘passing the buck’ I believe the term started during the old west in the United States
butter churn
In terms of typical fast food chains, McDonald’s.
When I was at studying at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Jay’s Diner has the best fries. I look for the crispiness on the outside and the chewy warmth on the inside of the fries.
Come to think of it, seafood restaurants tend to have some good fries.
Interesting on the timing.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/02/chip.lawsuit. ap/index.html
Wetsuit you never know what is in your food or what you are really eating.
Hi Marina.
This is Sérgio again.
About your class on spoonerism, I’ve got one sentence that you gonna like: “It is kisstomary to cuss the bride” (”customary to kiss”).
Bye
Hello marina.
My name is Sérgio and I’ve got one new word for your vocabulary. Have you watched the latest Hulk movie? Right at the beginning of it we can see the expression “Rocinha Favela”.
“Favela” is slum, or shanty town, in Portuguese. During the 1890s, in Rio de Janeiro, there was a very poor neighbourhood there called “Morro da Favela”- Favela Hill. “Favela” is the name of a typical weed in Brazil. Therefore, all the houses there were ill-built and badly assisted by the government. And that is what we still have today: huge poor neighbourhoods in all our big cities.
P.S: The word favela is now part of the Oxford University.
Hey can you look up the term cajun. I’ve always wanted to know why they call people from like Louisiana cajun.
Zydeco Gumby Ya Ya!
http://www.jango.com/music/5832-Brave-Combo?l=0
Someone just posted on my cheesecake video that there was an error in the title
This is what I called it
Handsfree: Strawberry Cheesecake
DUH!! I used my hands!!!
They must be blind James
Being from Belgium I must say that our fries are the best
We have a ‘frituur’ at almost every other street corner, where you can buy a packet of fries and other fried things. And yes, we usually eat them with mayonnaise
Anyway, I propose we just call them fries.
That’s true :P, you can’t go to belgium withouth seeing a so called “snackbar” or “frituur” I think they have even more than here in the Netherlands, but I don’t like belgian mayonnaise , to much vinegar.
btw Michael, do you speak dutch or french?
In Sweden we just call them “Strips” (obviously derived from “Stripes”, which is what they look like). Anyways, I’d like to see Marina’s explanation for “Fuzzy”. that’s a funny word
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair!
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t
very fuzzy was he?
Sorry - old limerick
Hey you were great on O’Reilly. They should give you a regular segment.
tt
There is no answer to that question but I expect that you want us to say “You”.
I was wondering if you could do the word “Yahoo”
That’s a good one to do. It could be Yahoo like in the search engine or he’s a yahoo. I second the motion.
Woo Hoo! I also second the motion
My wop friend came over and we drank rum and ate french fries. rhum
but here’s no explaining for a hamburger?
BTW, Gyes, Ihave no idea why you call those things HAMBURGERS
or SANDWICHES (!!!!that is my request for a word !!!!) here in exUSSR countries we call such a things by German word ButterBreuted (spelling Bouterbroud)
Marina would you explaine me why is it so ?
Sandwich: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjiJRdRO38Q&eurl=ht tp://www.hotforwords.com/2008/07/23/sandwich/&fmt= 18
and how ’bout a hamburger?
This is where “Hamburger” may come from”
Hamburg steak patty forming machine
United States Patent 2634458
[this is what fishermen call "bait"]
Right now I am working on a big project like the amy winehouse video I made. Its family guy libbing a remix reggae song.. Type in spongebob soulja boy on YT. It’s like that
Those Ed Hardy shirts are freaking expensive, I saw them at a store today and they were all 70+ euro’s , There was one shirt that was kinda nice so asked how much it was and the guy said 100 euro’s LOL rip off !
I was going to order a t-shirt from the Time Bandit fishing vessel the same people that Captain Jack taught a class to. The t-shirt was $60:00. Just for t-shirt with their logo on it. Sorry no way to high. Rip off is right:???:
Hi Marina,
Not sure whether this one would be allowed on your show.However, it is a common term used among men in the UK.
It seems if something is really good and recommended it is referred to as “The Dog’s Boll*cks”
.(replace the * with O).Does it go back to the days when Dog Fighting was common and the strongest dog being recommended?Hope I haven’t offended anyone nevertheless,I am so curious.
I love your show and I have always been fascinated by where these words come from.
Thanks again.
Here’s one. Which word has the most double letters in it? eg. skIIng, leTTer, spOOn….
balloon?
Mississippi?
I seem to remember there was a burlesque performer called
“Miss Sissy Mississippi”.