From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 11:51:18 MST
> (Amara Graps <amara@amara.com>):
> > House restaurants have renamed french fries "freedom fries."
>
> I confess I don't understand these actions. I doubt that 'french
> fries' have anything to do with the French people. I suspect that it
> is an American invention, like 'french toast' is probably an
> American invention. (French people don't have french toast in their
> recipe books.) This sort of cultural naming of food is not limited to
> Americans, Hawaiians don't have Hawaiian toast, either, which you can
> find on many German menus!
>
> Amara
"French toast" is almost certainly of American origin, probably
from New York in the late 1700s. French fried potatoes, on the
other hand, most likely did indeed originate in Paris in the 1840s.
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