pommes

xxiiiIn French, french fries are called pommes frites, literally “apples fried.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

xxiiiIn French, french fries are called pommes frites, literally “apples fried.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Its also used to bind mashed potatoes, which are then piped out and deep-fried, a preparation called pommes dauphine the choux paste leavens the croquettes; alternately, you can mix it with leftover mashed potatoes2/3 potato, 1/3 pte chouxform disks, flour them, and panfry for exquisitely light potato pancakes.

Ratio Michael Ruhlman 2009

CW Bush + Humors Chirac by calling pommes frites french fries.

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM 2007

I observed in the broken banks of this island, a number of tuberous roots, which the Canadians call pommes de terre.

Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 1819

Traditionally confined to diners and cafeterias, mashed potatoes began appearing with increasing frequency in more upscale restaurants, where they joined trendy, starchy staples such as pommes frites and polenta.

NewsObserver.com - Home 2009

As if Germans weren't suffering enough from cuts to their quality of life, now the guilty pleasure of snacking on "pommes" is also under attack as french fries get shorter.

Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

Pommes itself is a shortening of pommes de terre, literally “apples from soil,” as in “earth apples,” French for “potatoes.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

One way French gets around this dilemma is by specifying the type of apple that will be served fried, so pommes sauvages frites is clearly “fried wild apples” and not “french fries.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

For short, people just called them frites, turning the old plural adjective describing the plural noun pommes, “apples,” into a plural noun meaning “the fried ones.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010