Who Invented French Fries? They're Not French And The Reason Is Surprising #history #food #curiosity

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Who invented French fries? [music] France. Right, wrong. French fries are Belgian. In the late 1600s, poor villagers in the Muse Valley in Belgium used to fry small fish from the river as their [music] main food source. When the river froze in winter, no fish, so they cut potatoes into fish shapes and fried those instead. The first French fry was a potato pretending [music] to be a fish. But here's the twist. So, how did they become French? During World War I, American [music] soldiers were stationed in Belgium. They tasted the fried potatoes, loved them. But the official language of the Belgian army was French.

[00:00:31]So the Americans called them French [music] fries. And the name stuck forever. A Belgian invention named after a language credited to a [music] country that didn't make them. Stay curious.