The thing about pomme frites for me is they taste like potatoes. The fries here taste like salt and grease. That is a thing they do better than us.
My wife tends to prefer CA wines and I lean to French or Italian wines, broadly speaking.
I'd like to try a steak in Argentina sometime, I hear they do it right.
I still remember a lunch in Sorrento, I had spaghetti, it was marvelous, I kept thinking "Why is this so good?".