TOO DAMNED MANY CHOICES at the Boise Fry Company. Just give me some DAMNED FRENCH FRIES.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Boise, Idaho: French Fry Options Galore at the Boise Fry Company

Posted by Adam Lindsley, January 7, 2011 at 1:30 PM

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Boise Fry Company

111 Broadway Ave., Suite 111, Boise, ID 83702 (map); 208-495-3958; boisefrycompany.com
Cooking Method: Griddled
Short Order: The combinations of potato, cut, seasoning, and dipping sauce are too numerous to count; the burger is nothing to sniff at, either
Want Fries with That? If you don't order fries here, you've missed the point entirely
Prices: 4-ounce beef burger, $5.29; bison burger, $7.49

BFC gives you a minimum of six choices of potato—recent options included the classic russet, gold, red lady, sweet potato, yam, and purple. All were organic; all were delicious. Yes, I ordered every one of them.



The fries come to you unsalted, but fear not, BFC has you covered. Boy do they ever. They currently offer eight different types of salt to sprinkle at your leisure, including cinnamon ginger, vanilla, jalapeno, Cajun, horseradish, hickory-smoked, plain sea salt, and best of all, rosemary garlic.



But why stop at salt? You also have eight different dipping sauces to play around with, sending the possible number of potato/salt/sauce combinations into the stratosphere. The most unusual had to be the blueberry ketchup, which tasted very much like a blueberry muffin. Try it with the yam and sweet potato fries. My favorite by a mile was the spicy fry sauce: smoky with a nice kick of heat. Other options included sour Thai, chipotle, roasted garlic, sweet mustard, and even plain ketchup for the unadventurous; there's something for everyone's palette here.

[kentauros]

1. Isn't that about like going into a Starbucks

and asking for a plain cup of coffee? :P

Plain, but properly fried French Fries don't need "variety" :)

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Missionary position much?

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And I USED to go into Starbucks and get a venti white chocolate mocha
with two extra shots because it was just divinely fucking deelicious...
but then I tried their plain coffee in a rare spasm of frugality -- and
found that it's rocket fue... no, it LEAVES rocket fuel in its dust!!!
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We've got a relatively new Two Guys (or is it FIVE Guys) burger joint
nearby and I may just go in their for their legendary fries -- although
the POINT of going there is for their incredible burgers (or so I heard).
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[kentauros]

4. No position these days...

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I don't drink coffee. I drink tea, as well as chai. I have a good recipe for chai, if you want to make it in two-gallon increments ;)
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And when I want fries, I get them at that Palestinian cafe I go for the best falafel in the universe! They know how fry. They make great onion rings, too :9
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[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. Best onion rings / fried fish I've ever had was in a Portuguese fish restaurant

"The White Cap" in Ipswich Mass, which is now...TRAGICALLY...an Italian restaurant.

But when I lived in Massachusetts, this place was a weekly destination for my family. They got EVERYTHING right...the batter, the oil temperature, you could dump the contents of your take-out box onto a paper plate and when you were done eating there would be NO GREASE on your plate.

The family owned a fishing boat and went out in the mornings. Whatever they didn't catch themselves, they bought elsewhere. Freshest, tastiest fish in the universe...flounder, shrimp, scallops, clams...we'd eat in the car and half a mile down the road was a Dairy Queen where we'd go for dessert.

:-)

[kentauros]

14. I know what you mean about "weekly destination"

Some places are just so good at what they do that you become a regular in a few weeks! :D
(I'm good friends with the owners now, and go to movies regularly with one of them.)

Though I don't eat seafood anymore, I do remember places like your favorites. Texas Gulf Shrimp is still famous around here...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. I know! Peel it, slice it, fry it, salt it, take my money, and give me my change!

But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Let's give you a little paper cup of blueberry ketchup!

:eyes:

Reminds me of the time I was at a friend's house for dinner and they had just served coffee, which I like hot and au naturel...no cream, no sugar, just pour it and step the hell BACK...and my friend's husband comes over with a pint of Hagen Dazs and a sppon and says "Would you like ice cream in your coffee?" and I shot him a look that said "Do that and I'll knock you on your ASS," even though I managed a polite "No thank you."

I turned my head for a split second and the daffy bastid put some in!

I need to stop typing for a minute and go outside and get some air and clear my head, I think. I'm getting too emotionally involved in this thread.

:rofl:

:toast:

[kentauros]

5. Have you ever tried Turkish or Greek coffee?

If not, you ought to give it a try, even though Turkish is boiled in milk and Greek is sugared.

One reason I don't drink coffee is it tastes like baker's chocolate if my "cup" isn't basically a little coffee with my cream and sugar ;)

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. My brother studied in Yugoslavia one semester and he said the whole country...

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...was on one big l-o-o-o-n-g endless coffee break.
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Coffee you could almost drink with a fork!!!
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[kentauros]

8. I've never had Turkish

but Greek coffee is exactly like that! Thankfully, the one "cup" I had was tiny and you were only expected to sip the first two thirds. The rest wouldn't even pour out of the cup :rofl:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. MMMMMMM...forkin' good coffee.

If a fork doesn't stand up in it, send it back.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. No, I haven't tried either one...

...I grew up in a home where as a little kid the adults, who drank their coffee with milk and sugar, would give you a spoon of it as a "treat" every now and then.

So I later drank my coffee with milk and sugar. And in my college days, I was at a friend's house...kind of a hippie pad, if you will...and they ground their own coffee with an ancient hand grinder (You held it down with one hand and turned the crank with the other and if you weren't careful the crank would come around and take off your first couple of layers of skin).

So the coffee's ready and I ask for milk and sugar and they only had brown sugar...and they brought this plastic jug out of the fridge and took the cap off and smelled it and I could almost see their eyes water...so I said "I'll have it black," and LOVED it, and have had it that way ever since.

Used to sit in Denny's and Howard Johnsons and all of those places with my stoner brother-in-law and drink black coffee for hours on end. When you learn to drink black coffee in THOSE places, you can drink it ANYWHERE.

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[kentauros]

11. I guess if you develop a "resistance" to it, then you can drink that stuff.

It mostly upsets my stomach, thus the need to "water it down", so I just went with tea and herbal varieties. I think I need a pantry just for all the different types of tea I have here! ;)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. I'm drinking this right now, as I'm typing:

I like green tea plain and strong...no flavorings. I normally buy loose "sushi tea" at the Japanese market nearby but it's $16 for a little TINY bag. Best green tea on the planet, but $16 for a "fix."

So one day I had to meet a client at Starbucks and had a bit of an upset stomach, and had already had my coffee for the day, and asked what kind of green tea they had. Settled on this, and still drink it...especially when I can;t afford one of those $16 trips to the Japanese market.

[kentauros]

15. Green Tips is "white tea" right?

I was just talking about tea with a Indian co-worker today, and I was telling her that white tea is the tips and very expensive. It's good, soothing, calming, but not something I'd drink every day. Tazo is a good brand, as is Yogi and a new one I've tried, allegro.

But my favorite is Choice Organic Teas, especially their Green Moroccan Mint Tea. Very nice green and mint tea, in the Moroccan style (they mix both kinds traditionally.)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. I'm not an expert, but here's what Starbucks says about the loose leaf version

"Description: Spring-harvested green teas from China.

A classic Chinese green tea with a delicate bouquet and fresh taste, China Green Tips contains a blend of Mao Feng green teas that are cultivated in Zhejiang province and plucked in the spring as they have been for thousands of years. After harvesting, the tea is steamed to halt the fermentation process before it can darken the leaves and alter the taste. "

http://www.starbucksstore.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=623230

That may be where the "white tea" concept comes from.

The tea I get from the Japanese market is "Ito En" brand. The label reads "Ichibansumino Oishiocha 1500."

I have very, very rudimentary Japanese language skills but I do know "Ichiban" means "best" and "Oishi" means "delicious," so who knows.

The 3.5 ounce bag of loose tea is $16.

:-)

[rurallib]

6. Organic purple. Yummmmmm!