page_title: List of accompaniments to french fries
section_title: Netherlands
hierarchical_section_title: List of accompaniments to french fries / Netherlands
caption_attribution_description: English: A Patat speciaal or Friet speciaal: French fries served with a sauce mix consisting of "frietsaus" (a kind of mayonnaise), "curry-ketchup" or tomato ketchup (the latter is used in this image), and chopped raw onions.
context_page_description: French fries are almost always salted just after cooking. They are then served with a variety of condiments, notably ketchup, curry, curry ketchup, curry sauce, hot or chili sauce, mustard, mayonnaise, salad cream, honey mustard, bearnaise sauce, tartar sauce, tzatziki, feta cheese, garlic sauce, fry sauce, burger sauce, ranch dressing, barbecue sauce, gravy, brown sauce, worcestershire sauce, vinegar, lemon, piccalilli, pickled cucumber, gherkins, very small pickled onions, mushy peas, baked beans, fresh cheese curds, or honey.
context_section_description: In the Netherlands, fries are popular as fast food and served in vending points similar to the ones in Belgium. Fries are served with mayonnaise or a lower-fat version called fritessaus (fries sauce), although the latter is often also referred to as mayonnaise. This combination is usually called patatje met (for "fries with"), as opposed to patatje zonder (fries without, without any sauce).
  Other popular sauces are satésaus (satay sauce, a peanut sauce that is also served with the Indonesian meat sate), curry ketchup, and speciaal (special; a mixture of chopped raw onions, frietsaus, and curry ketchup or tomato ketchup). Another interesting combination is Patatje Oorlog (Dutch for French Fries War), which is French fries with mayonnaise, sate sauce, and onions, a variety that differs from region to region, and even from one snackbar to another. While it sometimes means mayonnaise (or rather, fritessaus, or fries sauce), peanut sauce and chopped raw onions, in other places it means the fries are accompanied with all condiments available.
  On average, Dutch snackbars typically offer between 9 and 10 different condiments to be eaten with fries, or to be combined (the condiments are rarely free in Dutch snackbars), but some venues serve many more. A recently introduced way of serving fries is the kapsalon (hair salon, named so because Nataniël Gomes, a hairdresser from Rotterdam invented the dish), which consists of fries, shoarma (or another kebab style such as Doner), lettuce, molten cheese, hot sauce and garlic sauce in an aluminum foil tray which is then briefly baked in an oven.
  Another recent addition to the plethora of accompaniments is Joppiesaus, a mayonnaise-based sauce whose recipe is a trade secret. In 2013 a fast food store in Amsterdam started selling fries with cannabis sauce.
  Fries are often accompanied by other popular deep-fried fast foods such as the kroket and frikandel, but fries are also served as a side dish in regular restaurants.
caption: Fries with "speciaal saus" is a popular combination in the Netherlands
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