Is there anything that "French Fries" and "French Kissing" have to do with France?

Answer 1

From the info below, seems so...

From:
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mfrenchfry.html

in the 1840s, pomme frites ("fried potatoes") first appeared in Paris. Sadly, we don't know the name of the ingenious chef who first sliced the potato into long slender pieces and fried them. But they were immediately popular, and were sold on the streets of Paris by push-cart vendors.

Frites spread to America where they were called French fried potatoes. You asked how they got their name--pretty obvious, I'd say: they came from France, and they were fried potatoes, so they were called "French fried potatoes." The name was shortened to "french fries" in the 1930s

http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorf.htm#french

French Kiss
A French kiss is an open-mouthed kiss in which the tongue of one partner is manipulated by the tongue of the other. But what makes this French?

The specific origin is unknown. It dates from at least the 1920s.

It is, however, certainly derived from the idea that the French people are sexually liberated or even promiscuous. Similar phrases include, "pardon my French," the French way (i.e., oral sex), French postcards (pornographic pictures), French pox (syphilis; ironically in France it is sometimes called the "English disease"), and French letter (a condom)

Answer 2

No. Those things have nothing to do with France. It would be interesting to know how they got associated with France in the first place.

Answer 3

interesting question

Answer 4

no

Answer 5

No!