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	Mandina's: Menu
		Fried fish, fried shrimp, fried oysters, crab ball, with French fried potatoes
		Fried fish, fried shrimp, fried oyster, crab ball, with French fried potatoes
		Stuffed Shrimp with French Fried Potatoes (4 shrimp) $12.95
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	Petits Propos Cullinaires
		When the potatoes are fried of a fine brown colour; and crisp, drain all the grease on a towel, and serve them quite hot on a napkin, or in a deep dish, for this entremets cannot be dished nicely in any other way Do not forget to sprinkle them over with a little pounded salt.
		Below, I give a panoply of receipts for fried potatoes, ranging from 1755 with Menon's Les Soupees de la Cour to 1824 and Mary Randolph's The Virginia House-wife with her receipt for frying 'shavings' of potato in boiling lard 'till they are crisp'.
		While the English term frying comes from the French, it is not nearly so specific as frite ; indeed, it is necessary to resort to the term deep-fat frying to differentiate it from pan-frying, which more nearly corresponds to French sauter.
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	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the origin of French fries?
		You asked how they got their name--pretty obvious, I'd say: they came from France, and they were fried potatoes, so they were called "French fried potatoes." The name was shortened to "french fries" in the 1930s.
		The generally accepted story is that a French army officer named Parmentier was taken prisoner during the Seven Years War (1756-1763), and ate potatoes as part of his prison diet in Hamburg, Germany.
		French fries are commonly eaten with ketchup in the U.S., but with malt vinegar (delicious) in the U.K., and with mayonnaise (appalling) in the Netherlands.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mfrenchfry.html

	gladwell dot com - the trouble with fries
		"The french fry," he once wrote, "would become almost sacrosanct for me, its preparation a ritual to be followed religiously." A potato that has too great a percentage of water--and potatoes, even the standard Idaho russet burbank, vary widely in their water content--will come out soggy at the end of the frying process.
		Bread is buttered; macaroni comes with cheese; dumplings are fried; potatoes are scalloped, baked with milk and cheese, cooked in the dripping of roasting meat, mixed with mayonnaise in a salad, or pan-fried in butterfat as latkes.
		To make a crisp French fry, a potato has to be stored at a warm temperature for several weeks in order to convert those sugars to starch.
	www.gladwell.com /2001/2001_03_05_a_fries.htm (3744 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the origin of French fries?
		You asked how they got their name--pretty obvious, I'd say: they came from France, and they were fried potatoes, so they were called "French fried potatoes." The name was shortened to "french fries" in the 1930s.
		French fries are commonly eaten with ketchup in the U.S., but with malt vinegar (delicious) in the U.K., and with mayonnaise (appalling) in the Netherlands.
		By the way, the verb "to french" in cooking has come to mean to cut in long, slender strips, and some people insist that "french fries" come from that term.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mfrenchfry.html (1196 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com
		The dish was first prepared as early as the 1700s and was simply called fried potatoes.
		He sliced the potatoes paper-thin, fried them to a crisp in oil, then doused them with salt.
		They dubbed them "French fries" and liked them so much they wanted to have them at home, too.
	csmonitor.com /cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/2000/05/02/p18s1.htm (790 words)

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		It's short for "Frenched and Fried Potatoes." Frenched means to cut the potatoes into smaller pieces.
		Since french fries are usually deep-fried twice before being served, a serving of french fries can yield an unbelievable amount of calories.
		They're somewhat like potato chips with cheese crap on them but theyre the shape of french fries lol.
	www.xanga.com /apreci8_1337hax0r/404020646/item.html (1471 words)

	French [Definition]
		The term french fries French fries, chips, or pommes frites are potatoes that have been cut and deep-fried (i.e., french-fried potatoes).
		The French city of Paris Paris is the capital city of France, as well as the capital of the Île-de-France région, whose territory encompasses Paris and its suburbs.
		French units are used primarily for catheters In medicine, a catheter is a tube that a health professional may insert into part of the body.
	www.wikimirror.com /French (1471 words)

	Allrecipes Cook's Encyclopedia french fries
		Other versions of french-fried potatoes are shoestring potatoes (matchstick-wide) and steak fries (very thick strips).
		The name does not come from the fact that their origin is French, but because the potatoes are "frenched"-cut into lengthwise strips.
	allrecipes.com /advice/ref/ency/terms/6564.asp (104 words)

	French fries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		French fried potatoes, known as french fries, fries or pommes frites in North America and as chips elsewhere, are long pieces of potato that have been deep-fried.
		French fries may contain a large amount of fat (usually saturated) from frying and from some condiments or topping and may be bad for the health of those who consume them regularly.
		The Spanish claim for originating french fries claims the first appearance of the recipe to have been in Galicia, where it was used as an accompaniment for fish dishes, and from which it spread to the rest of the country and then to Belgium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_fries (2741 words)

	19th Century Scientific American Online
		Potato chips originated in New England as one man's variation on the French-fried potato, and their production was the result not of a sudden stroke of culinary invention but of a fit of pique.
		Ever since Jefferson brought the recipe to America and served French fries to guests at Monticello, the dish was popular and serious dinner fare.
		Crum cut and fried a thinner batch, but these, too, met with disapproval.
	www.history.rochester.edu /Scientific_American/mystery/crum.htm (2741 words)

	Ralph and Beulah's Online Cuisine for the Adventurous: a Menu of Unlikely Food Combinations
		All dinner plates come with your choice of chocolate chip mashed potatoes, deep fried blisters, or stickleburr salad.
		Avignon sunrise: chilled jelled mayonnaise in Perrier with French fried potato bits, topped with melted butter...
		Marinated skuggs and jellied frews: This is the specialty of the house.
	www.heptune.com /Ralphbeu.html (941 words)

	Potato
		Potatoes can also be baked whole; cut into cubes and roasted; grated and formed into dumplings or potato pancakes; and cut into long, thin pieces and fried or baked (French fries, called "chips" in the UK).
		By 1650 potatoes were the staple food of Ireland, and they began to replace wheat as the major crop elsewhere in Europe, being used to feed both people and animals.
		Potatoes are generally eaten hot, but several basic potato recipes involve cooking the potatoes and then eating them cold - potato salad and potato chips.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/p/po/potato.html (2116 words)

	Las Vegas Weekly
		Fried onions, fried bread, fried cake, fried potatoes, fried hot dogs—so much fried stuff you can feel the oil on your skin even before you ingest and then secrete it.
		Fry bread is a Navajo dish, essentially a plateful of fried dough.
		Out came the Mexican pizzas and bean-and-cheese fry bread, steaming with heat, adding to the air's 80-degree temperature, mixing with the nearby aromas of apple and peach dumplings, french fries, corn dogs, onion rings, Walla Walla burgers and funnel cakes, all sitting disturbingly close to the petting zoo and pony ride area.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /2004/04/15/taste.html (799 words)

	French Fries
		French Fries seem to have gotten their name from "Potatoes, fried in the French Manner," which is how Thomas Jefferson described a new cooking method he brought over to the colonies in the late 1700s.
		It is interesting to note that the French Fry was the forefather of potato chip.
		There were also numerous references and quotes from magazines to French Fries from the 1950s, but these are meaningless to a historian, other than a possible etymological study.
	www.geocities.com /NapaValley/4273/fries.html (294 words)

	Fried meatballs
		Serve hot with French Fries or mashed potatoes.
		Fried meatballs, Qofte të fërguara, is an Albanian dish of meatballs.
		Roll in flour and fry in hot oil.
	www.portaljuice.com /fried_meatballs.html (104 words)

	Fish Fry Milwaukee, Wisconsin
		Whether you try deep fried baked cod that made Serb Hall's Fish Fry so famous throughout Wisconsin, or any other Fish Fry choices mentioned above, they are served with family style coleslaw, tarter sauce, mashed or French fried potatoes, bread and butter.
		The Serb Hall's now famous Friday Milwaukee Fish Fry was initiated in 1967 and continue to this day with approximately 2,000 pounds of fish now served in the hall and at its unique Fish Fry Milwaukee drive-thru and carryout window each Wednesday and Friday, with the Milwaukee Fish Fry Dining option available on Friday.
		In addition to the awarded Milwaukee Fish Fry, the Milwaukee Wisconsin restaurants menus for sit-down or buffete dinner, as well as for all other occasion, and the food served for various events at Serb Hall over the years has become well known throughout the entire Milwaukee.
	www.wisconsin-milwaukee.com /fishfry.html (104 words)

	Kentucky Fried Chicken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beyond the fried chicken, KFC also serves side-dishes like coleslaw, various potato-based items (including french fries, potato wedges, and whipped potatoes with gravy), corn on the cob and biscuits.
		On June 3, 2004, the FTC and KFC came to a settlement regarding KFC's advertising campaign claiming that "fried chicken can, in fact, be part of a healthy diet." The terms of the agreement were not disclosed; however, the TV commercials stopped airing after the settlement.
		Harland Sanders, KFC is known mainly for its fried chicken, which is usually served in a bucket.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kentucky_Fried_Chicken (1854 words)

	Lake George Restaurant
		With carmelized, fingerling potatoes in a clover honey and thyme sauce�..20.95
		Fried Calamari - Tender tempura battered Squid served with marinara sauce�..9.95
		Steak Frit - Classic French grilled steak and fries with veal jus�..12.50
	www.indian-kettles.com /lake_george_dining.html (1854 words)

	George Foreman Grill: Potato recipe, recipes, chips, french fries.
		George Foreman Grill: Potato recipe, recipes, chips, french fries.
		Potatoes on the grill is the one recipe that is truly unique to the GFG and can't be duplicated cooking them any other way.
		They come out like a cross between potato chips & french fries.
	www.321recipes.com /potato_george_foreman_recipe.html (1854 words)

	Kentucky Fried Chicken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beyond the fried chicken, KFC also serves side-dishes like coleslaw, various potato-based items (including french fries, potato wedges, and whipped (mashed) potatoes with gravy), corn on the cob and biscuits.
		Harland Sanders, KFC is known mainly for its fried chicken, which is usually served in a bucket.
		On June 3, 2004, the FTC and KFC came to a settlement regarding KFC's advertising campaign claiming that "fried chicken can, in fact, be part of a healthy diet." The terms of the agreement were not disclosed; however, the TV commercials stopped airing after the settlement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/KFC (1966 words)

	Lowcountry NOW: Local News - Anti-French sentiment gaining popularity 03/03/03
		O'Gorman said his calling the fried potatoes "freedom fries" was prompted by hearing that a restaurant owner in Beaufort, N.C., had made the name change as a way of showing patriotic pride.
		Uli Stelzer, owner of La Normandie, a French restaurant on Hilton Head Island, and Sam Dindere, owner of the Café at Wexford, said their restaurants have been just as busy as usual, and Stelzer said she has not heard any anti-French sentiments.
		Some Lowcountry residents and restaurants are showing their opposition to France's stance on war with Iraq by eliminating or renaming French menu items.
	www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/030303/LOCfrench.shtml (1966 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/French fries
		French fries, or chips, are potatoes that have been cut and deep-fried (i.e., french-fried potatoes).
		In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, the word chips is used for both forms of fried potato; although the phrase hot chips unambiguously refers to french fries or chips.
		In the regions where the word "chips" is in more common usage, the term "french fries" is usually also understood; "chips" in these regions, however, usually refer to much thicker, and slightly less greasy, slices of potato than "french fries" (see fish and chips).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/French_fry (2249 words)

	French fries Details, Meaning French fries Article and Explanation Guide
		French fries (called french fries in the United States and Canada, chips in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Commonwealth [though not Canada]; frites (or pommes frites) in France and Belgium) are potatoes that have been cut and deep-fried (i.e., french-fried potatoes).
		The simplest expanation of the origin of the name, however, is that the verb "to french" is a cooking term meaning "to cut into thin strings"; hence, they are potatoes that have been frenched, then fried.
		Potatoes cut and fried in this manner are said to have first been served in the United States by Thomas Jefferson at his Monticello estate after his return from his ambassadorship to France.
	www.e-paranoids.com /f/fr/french_fries.html (2249 words)

	Coffeyville Community College - Chartwell's Menus
		Lunch: BBQ riblets, chicken pot pie, broccoli and rice casserole, rissole potatoes, oven roasted veggies, fried okra, chili dogs, reuben, French fries, pasta with alfredo sauce, cream of broccoli soup.
		Dinner: Ravioli, chicken mostacolli, Rissole potatoes, pesto pasta w/ veggies, honey carrots, fried okra, corn dogs, French fries.
		Lunch: Mushroom steak, creamy chicken quiche, rissole potatoes, alfredo bake, peas with mushrooms, green beans, hamburgers, hot ham and cheese, French fries, pasta with alfredo sauce, tomato soup.
	www.ccc.cc.ks.us /food/menus.htm (2201 words)

	BeefExt/BeefReports/1995/95-19
		Products fried in this study were french fried potatoes (similar to those in fast-food restaurants), breaded chicken nuggets, and breaded beef fingers.
		The objectives of this study were to compare the color, flavor, and cooking performance of three products (french fries, chicken nuggets, and beef fingers) in three cooking oils (100% beef tallow, 100% soybean oil, and a 50% beef tallow 50% soybean oil blend).
		Frying french fries (Table 1) and beef fingers (Table 3) in SBO resulted in higher cooking yields (P<.05) than frying in 50/50 or TAL.
	ars.sdstate.edu /BeefExt/BeefReports/1995/95-19.htm (1669 words)

	List of recipes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		(Fried fish and french-fried potatoes) Fish and chips
		Further unwritten articles and recipes: Fried Cheese Curds, Mashed potatoes, Pickle Pie
		(Leftover cabbage and potatoes and meat fried together) Bubble and squeak
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_recipes.htm (3338 words)

	Potato Chips
		On Moon Lake Lodge's restaurant menu were French-fried potatoes, prepared by Crum in the standard, thick-cut French style that was popularized in France in the 1700s and enjoyed by Thomas Jefferson as ambassador to that country.
		Potato chips originated in New England as one man's variation on the French-fried potato, and their production was the result not of a sudden stroke of culinary invention but of a fit of pique.
		The guest was ecstatic over the browned, paper-thin potatoes, and other diners requested Crum's potato chips, which began to appear on the menu as Saratoga Chips, a house specialty.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/quiz/fqp-A07.htm (3338 words)

	<<quirks>>
		Let's not be fooled into thinking that Ney or Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC, another supporter of Freedom foods) or any other politician actually believes the French will give deux merdes what we call our greasy fried potatoes.
		Leaving aside the obvious fact that fries are not even French, what's really infuriating about this move is that it belittles the entire American population.
		The town of Carrboro, North Carolina reacted to the House renaming of French fries by declaring April "French trade month," in which residents will be encouraged to buy up as many French products as possible.
	www.the-logos.com /quirks_more.php?id=67_0_4_0_C (3338 words)

	French fries at Efari United Kingdom
		By one account, the fried potatoes are called 'french fries' because they are commonly fried in the Belgo-French manner (that is to say, frying them twice with a small pause in the middle).
		The poor inhabitants of this region had the custom of accompanying their meals with small fried fish, but when the river was frozen and they were unable to fish, they cut potatoes lengthwise and fried them in oil to accompany their meals.
		French fries may contain a large amount of fat (usually saturated fat) from frying and from some condiments or topping and may be bad for the health of those who consume them regularly.
	www.efari.co.uk /home-and-housing/cooking-and-recipes/french-fries.html (2172 words)

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