Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
what Americans call "French fries"*

* Wikipedia claims this is "disputed", FWIW
Not surprising. As far as I understand, the American call it "fries", the British just call them "chips", and the European have this stereotypical misconception that the American have to call them "French fries" because they are too dumb to understand what "chips" or "Pommes" means.