Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#6205 closed (invalid)

Would you like fries with that?

Reported by: a non mouse Owned by: nobody
Component: Internationalization Version: dev
Severity: Keywords: fries, french, julienne, potatoes
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

French fries are known as such because thin strips of vegetable are known as julienne in French. Julienne potatoes doesn't exactly roll off of most American tongues, and thus such potatoes were referred to as French-cut. French-cut further devolved into just French, giving us French fried potatoes. Since potatoes were accounting for most all of the French fried products, potatoes was dropped, and fried was morphed into fry.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Brian Rosner, 17 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

Heh. This is funny.

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