French fries

French fries (American English, with "French" often capitalized), or chips, fries, or French-fried potatoes are thin strips of deep-fried potato.North Americans refer to any elongated pieces of fried potatoes as fries, while in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, long, thinly cut slices of fried potatoes are often called fries to distinguish them from the (more) thickly cut strips called chips.French fries are known as frites, patates frites or pommes frites in French, a name which is also used in many non-French-speaking areas, and have names that mean "fried potatoes" or "French potatoes" in others. This is a Belgian culinary specialty.