Why do you call them french fries?

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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.

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