Fricot food culture that the call to eat in Acadian French is ""Au fricot!"" Fricot Fricot is a traditional Acadian dish. The word "fricot" has its origins in 18th century France where it was used to mean a feast. The following century, it had evolved to mean "meat stew", and later still it became used to refer to prepared food. The main ingredients consist of potatoes, onions, and whatever meat was available, cooked in a stew and topped with dumplings. The common meats used were chicken ("fricot au poulet"), clams ("fricot aux coques"), rabbit ("fricot au lapin des bois"), beef, or
Horse meat stands, sold in a bread roll. Dumplings can also be prepared with horse meat, spinach, or Tyrolean "Graukäse" (a sour milk cheese). They are occasionally eaten on their own, in a soup, or as a side dish. In Belgium, horse meat ("paardenvlees" in Dutch and "viande chevaline" in French) is popular in a number of preparations. Lean, smoked, and sliced horse meat fillet ("paardenrookvlees" or "paardengerookt"; "filet chevalin" in French) is served as a cold cut with sandwiches or as part of a cold salad. Horse steaks can be found in most butchers and are used in a variety of