Concensus of opinion seems to place the origin in Belgium, c.1680. Although cooked in a French style (pommes de terre frites), the term 'French fries' seems to have caught on with foreign visitors after the French annexation of French-speaking Belgium in the early 1800s.
Early references to Vlaamse frieten ('Flemish fries') hint at a possible origin in the Netherlands.
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
Chips
French call that just fries. You can eat some in Paris but parisians are not specially famous for them.
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"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.
Yes, cold french fries are regular french fries which have cooled.
his favorite food is French Fries.
Belgian fries