French Fries are elongated pieces of potatoes that are fried
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French fries
French fries, or simply fries (North American English), chips (British and Commonwealth English), finger chips (Indian English) or french-fried potatoes, are "batonnet" or "allumette"-cut deep-fried potatoes.
French fries are served hot, either soft or crispy, and are generally eaten as part of lunch or dinner or by themselves as a snack, and they commonly appear on the menus of diners, fast food restaurants, pubs, and bars. They are usually salted and
beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil until 1990, when they switched to vegetable oil with beef flavoring. Starting in the 1960s, more fast food restaurants have been using frozen french fries.
Etymology.
In the United States and most of Canada, the term "french fries", sometimes capitalized as "French fries", or shortened to "fries", refers to all dishes of fried elongated pieces of potatoes. Variations in shape and size may have names such as "curly fries", "shoestring fries