Being both a sometime practicer of the culinary arts and a modest french speaker, I thought I had to correct you on one point.
A little elemantary research might yield that the potato in french is the pomme de terre. I learned that in French 101. :rolleyes:
Thus the proper name of the french fry in it’s native tongue, as it were, is the pomme de terre en frite’
It should also have been noted that whatever unknown french chef who first fried the potato in hot oil was borrowing from a portuguese technique.