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
French fries side dish to a burger—and both are often used as vehicles for things like sugar-laced ketchup and fatty mayo." Frying french fries in beef tallow, lard, or other animal fats adds saturated fat to the diet. Replacing animal fats with tropical vegetable oils, such as palm oil, simply substitutes one saturated fat for another. For many years partially hydrogenated vegetable oils were used as a means of avoiding cholesterol and reducing saturated fatty acid content, but in time the trans fat content of these oils was perceived as contributing to cardiovascular disease. Starting in 2008, many restaurant chains and manufacturers