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They are called french fries because of the way they are cut and the way they are cooked. In cooking, a long thin cut is called a french cut, and then of course they are fried, so you get french fries. I wouldn't be surprised to find out they were once called french cut fried potatoes and it just got shortened along the way.
"French fries" is an Americanism, and no one knows who first used the term. In Britain they are called chips. What the British call crisps are called potato chips by the Americans. The French call French fries pommes de frits, i.e. fried potatoes.
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French fries are called 'frites' in French (no mention of them being 'French')
French fries are not coated with flour. They are potatoes that are cut into fries and then fried in oil.
Fried potatoes or chips. in Ireland they are still called chips, and they are about twice as thick.
That is the correct spelling but hyphenated, "stir-fries." (stir-fried potatoes - soaked or boiled potato strips that are then pan-fried)
Yes, cold french fries are regular french fries which have cooled.
The word 'fried' is the past participle, past tense of the verb 'to fry'. The past participle of the verb also functions as an adjective.Examples:He fried the pork chops for dinner. (verb)She would rather have fried chicken. (adjective)The word 'fry' is both a verb (fry, fries, frying, fried) and a noun (fry, fries).The noun 'fry' as a word for recently hatched fish is an uncountable noun, it has no plural form.The plural form of the noun 'fry' as a word for a get-together where fried food is served; an informal word for something fried (French fry) or children (small fry) is fries (French fries, small fries).
McDonald's french fries are exactly that, fried french-cut potatoes.
French fries are not a mixture. They are solid potato pieces fried in oil.
French fries are a carbohydrate, but the oil they were fried in would be a lipid.