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  2. French fries - Wikipedia

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    French fries ( North American English ), chips ( British English and other national varieties), [1] finger chips ( Indian English ), [2] french-fried potatoes, or simply fries are batonnet or allumette -cut [3] deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin from Belgium or France. They are prepared by cutting potatoes into even strips, drying them, and ...

  3. Poutine - Wikipedia

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    Poutine ( Quebec French: [put͡sɪn] ⓘ) is a dish of french fries and cheese curds topped with a brown gravy. It emerged in Quebec in the late 1950s in the Centre-du-Québec region, though its exact origins are uncertain and there are several competing claims regarding its invention.

  4. History of the hamburger - Wikipedia

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    History of the hamburger. Hamburger profile showing the typical ingredients: bread, vegetables, and ground meat. Open hamburger with cheese and fries served in an American diner. Evidence suggests that the United States was the first country where two slices of bread and a ground beef patty were combined into a "hamburger sandwich" and sold.

  5. Moules-frites - Wikipedia

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    Moules-frites. Moules, served in the pan, with fries. Moules-frites or moules et frites [1] ( French pronunciation: [mul.fʁit] ]; Dutch: mosselen-friet) is a main dish of mussels and French fries originating in Northern France and Belgium. [2] The title of the dish is French, moules meaning mussels and frites fries, with the Dutch name for the ...

  6. History of McDonald's - Wikipedia

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    1930s. The oldest operating McDonald's, on Lakewood and Florence in Downey, California in March 2007, was the chain's third restaurant and the second to be built with the Golden Arches. The McDonald family moved from Manchester, New Hampshire to Hollywood, California in the late 1930s, where brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald ("Dick" and ...

  7. Bichon Frisé - Wikipedia

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    While the English name for the breed, Bichon Frise, is derived from the French bichon à poil frisé meaning 'curly haired small dog'. History The White Duchess, painted by Francisco de Goya in 1795, featuring the Duchess of Alba and her Bichon. The Bichon Frisé is often depicted as a French dog. [citation needed]

  8. Hash browns - Wikipedia

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    The name was gradually shortened to "hash brown potatoes". Etymology. The word hash is derived from the French word "hacher", which means to hack or chop. This means hashed browned potatoes literally translates to "chopped and fried potatoes". [citation needed] Preparation Triangular hash browns served as part of an English breakfast

  9. Tater tots - Wikipedia

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    The name "Tater Tot" was created in the 1950s, and soon trademarked by a member of the Ore-Ida company's research committee who used a thesaurus to come up with an alliterative name. [11] Originally, the product was very inexpensive; according to advertising lectures at Iowa State University , people did not buy it at first because there was no ...