Frietmuseum Brugge
Fourteenth-century wool hall turned museum tracing the potato from Peru to the deep fryer.
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This guide to the Frietmuseum in Bruges begins in 2008, with a man who already ran a chocolate museum and went looking for a museum devoted to the fry. It then turns to the building he chose, the Saaihalle on Vlamingstraat, a wool hall raised in 1399 that housed Genoese merchants, weavers, an inn, a cinema and a bank before it held any potatoes. Best heard standing on the street, looking up at the stone front.
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