In response to a question from reader capurrs: "disco fries" = fries with brown gravy and cheese.
I have seen disco fries defined as fries with cheese only. Alas, no. Fries with cheese only = cheese fries.
The word "fries" looks really weird now that I've just typed it a bunch of times.
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I second the poutine comment. Do disco fries use cheese curds or some other form of cheese?
I always thought disco fries were like disco naps and had to do with greasy post-disco meals.
In Philly disco fries are cheese whiz and gravy. Cheese curds sound gross. Disco fries are artery clogging heaven.
Back in Jersey, we just called them "cheese fries" with gravy. Apparently American cheese is the standard but they're better with mozz.
Poutine is...close enough. Different presentation -- more like home fries with cottage cheese on them -- but they'll do in a pinch. Other Americans seem to find the poutine concept singularly disgusting but I'm not sure why.
You speak of the French Canadian dish...
Poutine.
Cheese Curds + Gravy + Fries = Poutine.
Yum.
YES! Poutine! I thought it would be the grossest thing ever ("curds" is not an appetizer word to me) until I tried it. Now I crave it and look for excuses to cross the border.
I have had both cheese fries and gravy fries, and now that I live in NJ where they actually HAVE diners (there are no real diners in the midwest, and anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is full of it) perhaps I shall try the disco fries. :o)
my first instinct is "ew", but I was wrong about the gravy fries, and I was wrong about the ketchup-on-eggs, so... suppress "ew", try disco fries. :o)
I grew up summering in Delaware, and there's this chain of french fry places on the boardwalks. The ONLY thing they sell is fries, yet- they do not serve ketchup. Or gravy. Or cheese. I... don't get it. :oP
Wow. In college, I thought disco fries were a unique concoction/appellation specific to our favorite dive, the Argonaut Diner in Yonkers. So pleased to be proven wrong! ...although I don't think anything of the sort exists in present-day Seattle, dammit.
Jagosaurus, don't you want to open the Hobo Disco now? I sure do.
I had never heard of these, but they do sound pretty awesome.
I have to add that, in my head, there is a song about disco fries to the tune of Frank Zappa's "Disco Boy." As of right now.
Not that I've seen, no. I love disco fries, but can't eat them anymore because I don't do red meat.
It is possible to make a mushroom gravy, but most "true" diners aren't trying to hear that.
Poutine is awesome. And I don't know what form of cheese Disco Fries use, but poutine is definitely made with cheese curds.
Chips (fries, yeah yeah) and gravy is a very UK thing. (Don't know about the cheese thing.)
I was introduced to french fries with melted cheese and gravy on the Staten Island Campus of St. John's. The lunch ladies would normally put American Cheese, but if you were nice and they didn't serve a ton of pizza that day, they would give you mozzerella. Simply fantastic.
Love, love, love the term disco fries.
yes! I love gravy cheese fries! there is one restaurant here in cincinnati that serves them! they are greatness! and the best thing is that the place stays open late... perfect after the bar activity.
They do have them in Connecticut! Not too too far from New Haven... the Riverdale Diner in Shelton, CT serves them =] Back in high school, my friends and I would go there at 1 in the morning and chow down. Mmmm soo goooood
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