frites

Sure, my thick-cut pub-style fries are super-potatoey and fantastic, and when I'm in the mood for them, my seasoned steak fries can't be beat, but for thin, super-crisp fries (I'm talking the kind that only appear in fast food restaurants and French bistros under the name frites)?

Serious Eats 2010

(d) Chips - the big fat ones from a real fish and chip shop rather than thin frites, which have their place too of course!

et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day 2010

I usually order the excellent steak frites, which is served with truffle butter and house-made aioli, with a glass of Côtes du Rhône.

SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Sarah Adler 2011

The fries at this French restaurant on Potrero Hill are called frites ($5), of course, and instead of ketchup alongside you'll get a garlicky aioli ($5).

SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

Here, they were more comparable to doner-kebab variety fries (greasy, soft, and mushy) than the "frites" they serve at a neighborhood bistro back home (crispy and sprinkled with herbed salt - yum).

Archive 2007-03-01 Etienne 2007

Here, they were more comparable to doner-kebab variety fries (greasy, soft, and mushy) than the "frites" they serve at a neighborhood bistro back home (crispy and sprinkled with herbed salt - yum).

Le Chou de Bruxelles Etienne 2007

"frites," Roquefort butter and marchand de vin, or a peppercorn-sauced Brandt tenderloin

unknown title 2009

"frites", but Robert Grey is a very very smart man.

RVABlogs 2008

One way French gets around this dilemma is by specifying the type of apple that will be served fried, so pommes sauvages frites is clearly “fried wild apples” and not “french fries.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

For short, people just called them frites, turning the old plural adjective describing the plural noun pommes, “apples,” into a plural noun meaning “the fried ones.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010