The origin of French fries is nineteenth century Belgium, where patates frites were served on the street in paper cones.
In the 1840s pomme fries first appeared in Paris. They immediately popular and were sold on the streets of Paris by pushcart vendors.
The evolution of the fry certainly began much earlier as Spanish conquistadors returned from the New World with potato, which had been harvested for millennia in the regions around Peru.
Thomas Jefferson, ambassador to France, served French fries in Monticello in the early 1800s, but it was not until the early twentieth century, when American soldiers back from serving in Europe in World War I demanded them, that the fried potato became popular in the United States.
The name was shortened to French fries and was further reduced to fries in the late 1960s.
The advent for the automobile as the primary mode of transportation, particularly on the West Coast, began a new chapter in the life of the French fries.
Drive-inns and drive-thrus relied on the French fry as the sidecar to the burger.
The industrial production of French fries started in the USA after World War II. The invention of the industrial process of French fries production is generally attributed to Jack Simplot of the J.R Simplot Company in Idaho.
History of French fries
