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By the way, the verb "to french" in cooking has come to mean to cut in long, slender strips, and some people insist that "french fries" come from that term. However, the French fried potato was known since the middle 1800s, while the OED cites the first use of the verb "to french" around 1895, so it appears pretty convincing that "french fried potatoes" came before the verb "frenching." The origin of the name is thus the country of origin French and not the cooking term french.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mfrenchfry.html

Siehe auch in der Erklärung der anderen Threads.
http://forum.rpg-ring.com/forum/show...&threadid=2783