At the other end of the food chain, frites drowned in mayonnaise, a favorite Dutch snack, will get more expensive. So will hutspot, potatoes, carrots and onions topped with a bechamel sauce, and andijviestamppot, a dish of mashed potatoes, endives and sausage.
"I'll raise my prices in February," said Jan Borst, standing outside his frite stand, Het Vlaams Friethuis. A storefront about 2m wide in the center of Amsterdam, Het Vlaamse Friethuis draws a crowd of both locals and Lonely Planet-toting tourists that stretches around the corner of Voetboogstraat. It's profitable enough to let Borst spend most of the year in Thailand.
The 53-year-old Dutchman has been here before -- potatoes fluctuated in 1998, too. "I brought up my prices and I never took them down," he said.
"Dutch people love potatoes," he said. "It's our number-one food. I can double my prices and they'll all come back."
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