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- noun plural Strips of potatoes, usually cut with a rectangular cross-section, cooked by immersing in hot fat or oil.
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- noun Alternative capitalization of
french fries
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- noun strips of potato fried in deep fat
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chained_bear commented on the word French fries
"... of all vegetables, the potato still reigned supreme. By the late 1850s they were being cut into strips and fried from raw -- in the 'French fashion', according to Mrs Beeton -- to accompany rump steak, and though some fried parboiled potatoes, everyone by the 1870s agreed that these delightful crispy strips were called 'chips'. Soon -- as steamships plundered the teeming northern seas, returning with such quantities in their refrigerated holds that fried fish for a penny became working-class fare -- chips would replace the baked potato."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 297
January 18, 2017