A genuine tractor, freezers, the history of mayonnaise and other sauces, and of course potatoes in abundance are featured when bakery magnate Eddy Van Belle now opens his 15th museum.
Opposite his own chocolate museum in central Brussels, there is also a French fries museum, focused on the Belgians' own favorite food, since Monday.
Visitors will, among other things, learn that genuine French fries should be fried and between 10 and 13 millimeters thick, reports the newspaper Le Soir. There is also a signed original edition of the Flemish 16th-century botanist Charles de L'Écluse – Carolus Clusius in Latin form – who is considered to be the one who spread potatoes seriously in Europe.
Van Belle has previously also had a French fries museum in Bruges, built up from the collecting of all sorts of things that he has devoted himself to since he as a child bought his first lamp at a flea market.
When I bought the lamp as a 10-year-old, I saw the light, he tells Het Nieuwsblad.
