Historian David McCullough puts our ties with France in perspective in today's New York Times.
He gets one thing wrong, though. What we call "French fries," (originally "frenched fries" for the way they were sliced or "frenched") are actually Belgian. Belgians become very agitated when pommes de terre frites are ascribed to France. You can read all about it in Asterix and Obelisk cartoons.
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Yes, "Asterix et Obelix Chez les Belges" offers one version of the origin of this Belgian delicacy.
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