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LOL! Id forgotten, but that is completely the case.

Well, they have managed to get the British chip wrong, claiming it is normally only cooked once. In fact, any decent fish and chip shop will be serving chips that have been parboiled first, and fried twice, at different temperatures. It may appear that they only get cooked once in the chippy, but that is simply the last of the three stages.

Irrelevant to the earliest french recipe book which can be checked if you doubt that frys appeared in that long before the belgiums ever had anything like that.

French frys aren't just any old chip.

I have just finished the memoirs of an american who ended up in Poland during the war who said that his mum, who was polish, fried pototoes for the krauts occupation troops who asked her to do that. Not clear about what they looked like physically.

Almost certainly bratkartoffeln. Possibly without the bacon during wartime.

No, he said that bacon was included and that the later russian troops had never seen any bacon at all and loved it.

It wasnt the germans that came up with the fried potatoes, his mum was polish.

So, she would have called it smażone ziemniaki. It is the same dish by a different name.

Don't believe that. It was new to the krauts.

Bratkartoffeln appear in a cookbook published in Berlin in 1845. They are a German staple, probably dating from the introduction of the potato by Frederick the Great. Of course Germany has many regional cuisines, so they may have been new to those particular Germans.

Irrelevant to what his mum supplied to the krauts that they had never encountered before.

They also have to store them in heated cabinets until they turn into wood.

I never go to a chippy where I don't have to wait for my order to be cooked.