European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A forttes stand la Ouden Aarde features escargots among us snacks Paul Lle gems with part of his frills exhibition. Anyone can Sun a into i and a the past few pc hrs Serju Illions have tightened in Quiring a land to have a refrigerator and to comply with other health and Sally standards but even these rules which make a to is land Cost More have no been discouraging in fact there Are about 7,000 blinds in Belgium today More than double the number of Hoo years ago i see the intes stand As a kind of Folk Art " Llo Goms. Said something like Tho Dine cult in America he got interested m intes when he Vas a student and canny 1 ills often he noticed  the Little Forks that come ail each serving changed lion Vood to plastic and Hal the Plasic ones began to appear m varying shapes and colors those works were something unique to  to said and the collection was comp Clely free he Lunod Par of that collection into a work of Art. Id basis for his 80 piece re fes exhibition 11 was doing an Art lecture when it occurred to me that had never seen a by Jlian Woik of Art in which it tics  he said melt this was Ili Prool of a certain shame Aboul this nationals Mol " so he began to Contact artists tic knew to ask them to help fill the void Many cil them liked the idea and soon Lle gems had Aboul two dozen works Oart built around to pcs and Hills stands he put them Lottel Rwjr in an exhibition. Which he took to Amsterdam in 1981 if was a sort of Defiance to said to face the hrs Cut scism in a Counley Here so Ninny incs jokes arc made the Sho Vas a Scucces. And soon Ivas travelling Amund Belgium and the Netherlands ii had 24 showings Over four years and it grew As it was shown it nov has 60 pieces Iii show in once More in october or november in Deventer Netherlands said Lle gems after thai. M will open in a permanent lulls museum in Central Antwerp among the pieces Are a pottery Cone of re ifs. A put the Lulos in the Cone game and an old potato Slicer modified so that every potato sliced will typify a Mon Naan painting Piet Mon Naan is a dutch artist noted for his Stark lines Lle gems admits Hal he does t Cal lulls much anymore they Are food Lor a Ludonis. As you grow older your consumption i Street Lood diminishes " but he said the Only Way to Uduc the Quality of in pcs is to last them the perfect Itile is hot Crisp  too Tal a Nice color and very import land. Leaves a Good aftertaste thai depends on the kind and Quality of at used Tor Iryma the Best he said is vegetable or Nul Oil but not All Are Good and Nul Oil is expensive most stands use o Tat. Which is also Good Quality is also determined by the temperature of the fat. To Long it is used it det Norales quickly and whether other things Are Fried in it a wide vanity of sauces can be ordered Wilh noes at Tirol Back to the 19th Century they were served Only with Salt according to Lle gems Mayonnaise was Dollop cd on after world War ii in Tho 1950s, cur a sauce and tartar sauce were added then came Side orders no i lie picketed onions and mussels in vinegar in the student cities lulls islands of the 196ns added a hot slew meat to their Olsen nos followed by Indian Curry sausages and Spring Rolls Frozen Lood not prepared by the stand owner ller jams Calls this the Mcdonald s Tactor. A  Sian Vartti Alion creeping in but he a Sills Hal Ionics islands will not become totally Mcdonald Zed frills staring in just the contrary of Mcdonald s. He said Tho owners have character identify there is Contact Between the stand owner and his clients the marked individually will remain " no one knows when and where the first tales land was established the French claimed to Tiave invented the French Fry. But Legoms in t so Sutic thai s True the earliest mention to has found is an 1862 description of a totes stand in Antwerp the idles stand called itch stir in flemish and a Erie in the French speaking regions is accessible and re Alively Ino pensive ii is generally open mid afternoon to Midnight or later and a hefty serving of Ines costs 40 to go belgian francs about $ i to is 50 traditional paper Cones arc giving Way to Fht cardboard of plastic serving dishes even i Hough the Cones seem More practical absorbing excess grease keeping the incs hot longer and allowing them to dram hotter.  3,1986 the stars and stripes Page 15