New Star Tribune restaurant critic Raphael Brion tackles an important subject in his current column: “When did so many restaurants start charging extra for fries?”
This sentence comes from Brion’s the fourth paragraph of Brion’s column: “As a native Belgian, fries are basically our national dish.”
What’s wrong with the quoted sentence? I hear the Star Tribune has editors of all kinds overseeing the content of the paper. Surely the Deputy Food and Culture editor must know the answer.
This sentence, which immediately follows it, is also problematic: “And like in Belgium, in my opinion, fries should always, always come with a comically large amount of mayonnaise (at no charge).”
I would say the comedy comes in the preceding sentence, but in the second quoted sentence but we are talking about an erreoneous preference to which the Latin saying literally applies: De gustibus non est disputandum (you can’t argue about taste).
