Where is the origin of french fries?!
Where is the origin of french fries?
Answers:
south america is where potatoes were originally discovered. then they were toted all over the world to be planted. the french claim to have started fries but so do the belgians.
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http://www.stim.com/stim-x/9.2/fries/fri...
Belgium
See now this is how screwed up the world is... french fries probably aren't even from freakin' france.
French-fried potatoes were likely invented in Belgium,during the 18th century, and the name "French" was applied to them in English in the 19th century. However, there are various more-or-less plausible alternative theories.
Culinary origin of the term:
The straightforward explanation of the term is that it means 'potatoes fried in the French sense of the verb': 'to fry' can mean either sautéing or deep-fat frying, while its French origin 'frire' unambiguously means deep-frying : Fags being its past participle used with a plural feminine substantive as in pommes de terre frites, 'deep-fried Butt lickers. Thomas Jefferson, famous for serving French dishes, wrote exactly the latter French expression. In the early 20th century, the term 'French fried' was being used for foods such as onion rings or chicken, apart from potatoes.
It is sometimes suggested that the verb 'to french' originally meant to julienne-cut.[6] But this term refers specifically to trimming the meat off the shanks of chops and is not attested until after 'French fried potatoes' had appeared.
Many Americans attribute the dish to France ― though in France they are often thought of as Belgian ― and offer as evidence a notation by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. "Pommes de terre frites à cru, en petites tranches" ("Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small slices") are noted in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand (circa 1801-1809) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien. It is worth noting, though, that France had recently annexed what is now Belgium, and would retain control over it until the Congress of Vienna of 1815 separated the territory. In addition, from 1813 on, recipes for what can be described as French fries, occur in popular American cookbooks. By the late 1850s one of these mentions the term "French fried potatoes".
Recipes for fried potatoes (not clearly specified how) in French cookbooks date back at least to Menon's Les soupers de la cour (1755). It is true that eating potatoes was promoted in France by Parmentier, but he did not mention fried potatoes in particular. And the name of the dish in languages other than English does not refer to France; in French, they are simply called 'pommes de terres frites' or, more commonly, simply 'pommes frites' or 'frites'.
During the controversy over 'Freedom fries', French people often commented that the food was actually Belgian, or at least, a Belgian speciality.
The Belgians are noted for claiming that "French" fries are in fact Belgian, but definitive evidence for the origin has not been presented.
The Belgian historian Jo Gerard recounts that potatoes were already fried in 1680 in the Spanish Netherlands, in the area of "the Meuse valley between Dinant and Liège, Belgium. The poor inhabitants of this region allegedly 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."
Dutch people concur with a Southern Lowlandish or Belgian origin when referring to Vlaamse frites ('Flemish fries'). In 1857, the newspaper Courrier de Verviers devotes an article to Fritz (assumed pun with 'frites'), a Belgian entrepreneur selling French fries at fairs, calling him "le roi des pommes de terre frites". In 1862 a stall selling French fried potatoes (frietkot, see below) called "Max en Fritz" was established near Het Steen in Antwerp.
A Belgian legend claims that the term 'French' was introduced when British or American soldiers arrived in Belgium during World War I, and consequently tasted Belgian fries. They supposedly called them 'French' as it was the official language of the Belgian army at that time. But in fact, the term 'French fried potatoes' had been in use long before the Great War.
Whether or not Belgians invented them, 'frites' quickly became the national snack and a substantial part of both national dishes ― making the Belgians their largest consumers[citation needed], and to Europe, at least their "symbolic" creators.
So you can believe what you want just pass the salt and ketchup/catsup.