Why are French fries so named, when they are a symbol of American fast food?

Answer 1

french refers to the method of cooking the fries, not where it is from.

Answer 2

They are named for the way the potato is cut (into strips), not for the country of origin.

Ok... Now for my really bad french fry joke.

A Frenchman walks into a bar-n-grill in Texas. A Texan sits down next to him and orders some calf fries. The Frenchman asks the Texan what calf fries are. The Texan explains that they are the testicles of a calf that have been sliced and deep fried. A few minutes later another Texan sits down on the other side of the
Frenchman and orders some french fries. The Frenchman quickly got up and left...

Answer 3

Online Etymology Dictionary:
"French fries is 1918 Amer.Eng., from French fried potatoes (1894, first attested in O.Henry)". Which means that the term first used was "French fried potatoes". After almost 25 years the abbreviated form first began to be used.

The verb "french" seems to originate from the French way of doing something, especially when it comes to cooking and fashion. "Frenched" beans or "Frenched hair" (dressed in the French fashion.

Answer 4

Frenching is a culinary term regarding how the potatoes are cut, or frenched. The fry part is regarding how the frenched potatoes are cooked. Hence the term french fries. Lots of other products are frenched, like french cut green beans, the long sliced type.

Answer 5

Culinary origin of the term
The straightforward explanation of the term "French fried potatoes" is that it means "potatoes fried in the French manner": the verb fry can mean either sautéing or deep-fat frying, while French 'frire' unambiguously means deep frying. Thomas Jefferson, famous for serving French dishes, referred to fried potatoes in this way

It is sometimes suggested that the verb "to french" originally meant to julienne-cut But this term refers specifically to trimming the meat off the shanks of chops and is not attested until after "French fried potatoes" had appeared


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Answer 6

a protracted time in the past, they have been fried in animal fat. It made them extra crispy. I advise quite crispy. in case you pass to a place that has fries that could want for use to construct a kind residing house, there is an extremely reliable possibility the oil has some style of animal fat in it (does not could desire to be one hundred%) because of the fact that's the residual protein that does that by utilising forming something like a "pelicle" on the floor. (that's a cullinary term for a protein crust shaped by utilising pan searing meat.) in the present day, they're fried in vegetable oil. (information: floppy fries) even with the undeniable fact that, it replaced into shown that they upload a chemical flavoring to the oil it relatively is derived from beef tallow. So no that's no longer fried in animal fat, however the oil isn't seen vegetarian. whilst McDonalds have been given sued over this their public reaction replaced into "we never mentioned our french fries have been vegetarian."

Answer 7

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. "

Answer 8

They are French Fried- the style in which they are prepared.

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French fried potatoes, commonly known as French fries or fries (North America) or chips (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth) are pieces of potato that have been chopped into batons and deep fried.

Where "chips" is the common term, "French fries" usually refers to the thin variant (U.S. "shoe string potatoes"). In North America "chips" usually means potato chips (called "crisps" in the UK), which are deep-fried thin slices of potato. In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, "chips" can mean either potato chips or French fries; French fries are also called "hot chips" or (in South Africa) "slap chips" (IPA [slup]; 'slup' is Afrikaans for "soft").

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Answer 9

french fries were adopted as a product by the fast food idustry because of there high profit margine and they are simple and quick to make there originated in belgum

Answer 10

you've obviously never tasted real french fries from the north of france! i visited the north of france last summer (i live in the south east near lyon) and they have thousands of fry-shacks - it's like starbucks coffee there! and they're delicious! with all the grease and the vinegar and salt - yummy! mcdonald's hard crunchy ketchup-y fries are nothing compared to the real french one! but you know, it's not the french that are well known for fries but belgium... i have no idea why they're called 'french fries'... by the way, i thought 'french fries' were officially 'freedom fries' in america hhmm?? lol ( :

Answer 11

French fried is a term ..