Where did the name French Fries originate?

I think it's the way the potatoes are cut. French cut is slicing thin strips possibly. Any other insight?

Where did the name French Fries originate?
in Belgium, they say !!


The Belgian Tourist Office


http://www.visitbelgium.com/food.htm


* click on the blue lettering to open up the site, then click on "Belgian Frites" which will open up the page with all sorts of information, including that which tells us that in old English, "to French" meant "to cut in strips" ...a word we use today to indicate that green beans are "French-style" or cut in strips


and ....


more here, on the same page, under:


French Fry Links / then under "Belgian Fries"


http://www.ping.be/~tping008/engels/ehis...


* the reasoning for calling them French Fries seems a little


far-fetched to me, but hey...... not the first example of such a


thing !!!





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Reply:It is an english adapted word or phrase as the french name was pomme frite, or fried potato's, in the Uk and here in Canada we call them chips, but else were around the world they have adopted the word's french fries, they were first made in Paris back in the 1700's, and the name has just stuck over the years, of course some one will shot me down with a Wikipedia answer, funny as a former chef who was in the business for over 20 years, I did pick up some wisdom over that time.
Reply:The name French Fries comes from the way cooks cut the fries in France. As you guessed, the French cut means cutting them into thin strips. French Fries came originally from Belgium, not France. South Belgium gained renown for them in the late 1600s.