17/07/2026
Manneken Pis, fries and friturists: a very Belgian story
On 1 August 2026, Manneken Pis will don a friturist’s costume and receive a distinction from the National Order of the Golden Cone of Fries. That same weekend in Brussels‑Forest, Home Frit’ Home and its Micro Museum of Fries will open their doors free of charge to celebrate, in their own way, Belgian fries and the people behind the fritkots.
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19/05/2026
Fries and religion: a paper cone at heaven’s gate
In Belgium, fries are more than food: they are a shared ritual, a small crunchy absolute often found in the shadow of church towers.
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20/02/2026
Fries vending machine: the monster of Mayochness?
Since 1965, they pop up in Belgium… and vanish! Fries & Go relaunches in 2026 (35 seconds, €3.50 for roughly 110 grams). Real fries or gimmick? The debate is on!
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30/10/2025
Gomer Goof always has the fries!
For its 385th collection, the Journal de Spirou pulled out all the stops with the help of Delaf. The latter graced us with a fry-filled cover inspired by Franquin, featuring Gomer Goof, his cat, his seagull, and fries in a cone! Is this the first time Gomer has been depicted with fries? Not at all!
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31/07/2025
August 1st, International Belgian Fries Day: a Belgian joke?
For about a decade now, August 1st has tickled the deep-rooted Belgian pride: this date is supposed to be International Belgian Fries Day. Really? Or maybe not! Or perhaps… Yes… perhaps! Yet no official source or founding document truly attests to its existence.
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16/03/2025
Micro Fries Museum from Brussels: 25 years already
2025 celebrates the quarter century of the first exhibition of what will become Home Frit' Home and its Micro Fries Museum from Brussels! On August 26, 2000, on the 3rd floor of 242 rue des Alliés, 1190 Brussels-Forest, an exhibition by Gilles Houben, known as the "painter of fritkots", is being held. Born at the initiative of Frites.be, it welcomes among its guests Jules Jean Vanobbergen, aka le Grand Jojo, and his buddy Lou Deprijck.
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