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The A-Z of Turning Dutch – the Letter F

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Up today in the The A-Z of Turning Dutch – the Letter F. What words beginning with F do you associate with life here in the Netherlands? Or with the Dutch themselves? That’s the question I posed on Twitter as part of the A-Z of Turning Dutch series.

With no further ado, here’s what you said:

  • Frieten
  • Femke Halsema
  • Fietsen
  • Flipje
  • Fabeltjeskrant
  • Fiets
  • Fietspaden
  • Frietjes met fritessaus (en pindasaus)
  • Floddertje
  • Frikandellen
  • Fabritius van ‘t Puttertje
  • Flipperkast
  • Florijn or guilder, the currency before the Euro
  • Fierljeppen
  • Funda
  • Febo
  • Fokke & Sukke
  • Friet met
  • Fried food
  • Flensjes
  • Frituren

The Dutch Art of Frying

Clearly, there’s a heavy leaning towards fried food when you all think of life in the Netherlands. Chips (as in friet, not as in the Dutch for crisps) are a staple here, loaded with mayo, sate sauce or onions. All all three.

This is a foodstuff that could pop up again when we tackle the letter P……

And it seems that frikandellen are popular too.

The A-Z of Turning Dutch – the Letter F

Other F’s Worth Knowing About

Femke Halsema is worth a mention. She’s the mayor of Amsterdam, and has a distinguished political background, having been the leader of GroenLinks until 2010. You can read lots more about her here.

A flipperkast is a pinball machine. If you are a pinball fan, I can recommend a visit to the Bonami SpelComputer Museum in Zwolle!

Febo is essentially a food chain where you can buy fried foods (yes, we’re back to that) out of a wall. Fans of Febo will be delighted to know that you can purchase a variety of merchandise from Febo itself, along with the essential frikandel en friet natuurlijk.

And lastly Fokke en Sukke. This is a popular cartoon strip that features in the Dutch newspaper, NRC Handelsblad, created by John Reid, Bastiaan Geleijnse en Jean-Marc van Tol. Fokke is a duck and Sukke a canary. Apparently. The strip is humorous and often politically incorrect or sensitive.

So that’s it for now for the A-Z of Turning Dutch – the Letter F. Guess what’s coming next…..

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