The phrase means potatoes fried in the French sense of the verb “to cook”, which can mean either sautéing or deep-grease frying. While its French origin, frire, unambiguously means deep-frying, frites being its past participle is used with a plural feminine substantive, as in pommes de terre frites (“deep-fried potatoes”).

In France, fried potatoes are called “pommes de terres frites” , “pommes frites” or more simply (and commonly) “frites”.

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