Would a Fry by Any Other Name Taste as Delicious?Īlternatively, French fries really were French, first sold by street vendors on Paris’s Pont Neuf in the 1780s. It’s said that this dish was discovered by American soldiers in Belgium during World War I and, since the dominant language of southern Belgium is French, they dubbed the tasty potatoes “French” fries. In winter, when the river froze, the fish-deprived villagers fried potatoes instead. Some claim that fries originated in Belgium, where villagers along the River Meuse traditionally ate fried fish. The French fry-though indisputably a fry-may not actually be French.
This was a high point in the history of the French fry.
Bohnenberger sued and was awarded a compensatory sum of 2,000 euros for the missing fries, possibly the most money ever spent on two strips of potato. Titled “Pommes d’Or,” the crossed fries were displayed in a room of their own at the Munich-based art gallery Mosel and Tschechow, where, according to the artist, they were intended to demonstrate “the metamorphosis of a profane, everyday object into a sacred artwork.” Trouble arose in 2005, when it was discovered that the original plain-potato fries on which the gold cross was based-an integral part of the exhibit-had mysteriously vanished. Stefan Bohnenberger is famed for having made a cross of gold from a pair of French fries.
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