Why????

I read it somewhere about this As far as i remember, it is called french fries because it is deep fried, "french" style, although it was not invented in France But i could be wrong, so Correct Me If I'm Wrong

They aint french they are begian which is close enough for me, in begium they have them with mayonnaise and Im telling you you aint had french fries until youve had them there!! Here there just called chips lol :)

French fries or "frites" in Belgium are amazing. Loads of calories too, like here, if anything its worse here lol

i saw a good explanation of that here... take a look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries your discussion sounds interesting so i tried to find out why. i love french fries but never wondered why it was called french fries. in some countries they are just called fried potatoes. welcome to mylot kyle, hope you like it here and happy posting

What's even weirder is that the French word for potato (pomme de terre) literally means "apple of the Earth." Also, fries in America are called chips in Britain (ex.: fish and chips), and chips in America are called crisps in Britain.

I'm not sure, but it has to do with the way they are cut. If you go to ca.answers.yahoo.com/questions/index. I couldn't get the rest of it and it wouldn't let me cut and paste it, but if you go to that web address and do a search on french fries you should be able to get the information.