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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.
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.
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);
French fries – Deep-fried strips of potato; Fried chicken – Dish of chicken pieces coated with seasoned flour or in batter and then fried; Fried Coke – Fried Coca-Cola flavored batter; Fried dough – Fried dough pastry, sweet or savory; Fried mushrooms – mushrooms which have been fried
Customers received a card for an Olympic event. If the U.S. won gold in that event, you won a Big Mac. If the U.S. won silver, you won a medium fries. If the U.S. won bronze, you won a small drink. 1989–Scrabble promotion; 1989–Million-Dollar McDonald's song contest for the Big Mac. 1991–Dick Tracy scratch-off game.
McDonald's french fries alongside a chicken sandwich. Introduced in 1949, the French fries were cooked in a mixture of 93% beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil. [2] [3]In the 1950s, CEO and founder Ray Kroc established quality control measures for McDonald's suppliers, ensuring potatoes maintained a solids content within the optimal range of twenty to twenty-three percent. [4]
Menu from a Congressional cafeteria featuring freedom fries. Freedom fries was a politically motivated renaming of french fries in the United States.The term was coined in February 2003 in a North Carolina restaurant, and was widely publicized a month later when the then Republican Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, Bob Ney, renamed the menu item in three Congressional cafeterias.
The origin of the lingo is unknown, but there is evidence suggesting it may have been used by waiters as early as the 1870s and 1880s. Many of the terms used are lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek and some are a bit racy or ribald, [3] but are helpful mnemonic devices for short-order cooks and staff. [2]