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Why do people like French fries called French fries?

In fact, "French fries" are French fries, in which the English word "French" means "cut into strips", and the strips of "French" are larger than the filaments of "julienned", which is why they are called French fries.

This netizen also posted two photos of "French" and "julienned" to help you distinguish them. What a conscientious netizen!

Of course, there are other sayings about the origin of the name "French fries".

For example, Thomas Jefferson, who is famous for cooking French food, thinks that French fries are called French fries because French means French frying and refers to its cooking method.

For example, there is a view that American soldiers ate this kind of French fries in Belgium during World War I, which was particularly delicious. At that time, the common language of the Belgian army was French, so they thought it was "French fries" and naturally called it "French fries".