Chips
French call that just fries. You can eat some in Paris but parisians are not specially famous for them.
They are called French fries because "to french something" is to cut it into thin slices. The French themselves don't call their fries "French".
The British call "french fries" "Chips".
Pommes frites
french fries
We call them 'chips' in other countries they are known as 'fries' or 'French fries' the confusion arises in America, American 'chips' are what the British call 'crisps' a very thin slice of potato deep fried until crisp and golden.
French fries (fried potato strips) are named for the method of deep frying which was associated with their method of preparation (in the French manner).The fries themselves were apparently first prepared by inhabitants of French-speaking Belgium (Spanish Netherlands) in the same manner that they fried fish.
"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.
Chips.
Belgian fries
Your Answer: Freedom FriesDid you know:In early 2003 some members of the U.S. congress proposed calling French fries Freedom Fries in response to France's opposition to the proposed invasion of Iraq. By 2006 the menu at the House restaurant had reverted to calling them French fries.
A collection of hamburgers, pizza, and french fries is集合比萨,汉堡和炸薯条 in Chinese.