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à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
Long cuts of deep fried potato, usu. thick cut resembling American steak fries : French fries, in (orig. UK) phrase fish and chips: thin slices of fried potato*(UK: crisps) chippie, chippy carpenter (slang); fish-and-chip shop (slang) (Ire: chipper) (adj.; chippy only) aggressively belligerent, especially in sport loose woman (dated slang);
Generally, words coming from French often retain a higher register than words of Old English origin, and they are considered by some to be more posh, elaborate, sophisticated, or pretentious. However, there are exceptions: weep , groom and stone (from Old English) occupy a slightly higher register than cry , brush and rock (from French).
Waffle fries may be a polarizing cut, but we can all admit that Chick-fil-A does them well. There's plenty of surface area for maximum crispiness and for dunking in their wide variety of sauces.
It excludes combinations of words of French origin with words whose origin is a language other than French — e.g., ice cream, sunray, jellyfish, killjoy, lifeguard, and passageway— and English-made combinations of words of French origin — e.g., grapefruit (grape + fruit), layperson (lay + person), mailorder, magpie, marketplace, surrender ...
French fries [a] (or simply fries, also known as chips [b] among other names [c]) are batonnet or julienne-cut [3] deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin from Belgium or France.They are prepared by cutting potatoes into even strips, drying them, and frying them, usually in a deep fryer.
"The use of peanut oil in cooking the French fries gives them a unique flavor. In addition, the Cajun seasoning compliments the flavor." 3. Nathan's Famous. Photo: Courtesy of Nathan's Famous.
In Australia, french fries (which Australians call "chips" or "hot chips") are common in fast food shops, cafes, casual dining and pubs.In fast food shops, fries may be sold by dollar amount, customers may order for instance "$10 worth of chips" or "the minimum chips" which is the smallest amount of chips the shop will fry at once, differing per shop.