French-fried potato

English

Noun

French-fried potato

1. singular of French-fried potatoes
   • 1924, The Libertarian, page 541:

     Rather than eat a home-cooked steak she preferred one French-fried potato in a restaurant Only one.

   • 1937, Temple Dental Review and Garretsonian, page 39:

     Travels of a French-fried potato: In your mouth a few minutes; in your stomach a few hours; on your hips for the rest of your life.

   • a. 1965, Shirley Jackson, “In Praise of Dinner Table Silence”, in Laurence Jackson Hyman, Sarah Hyman DeWitt, editors, Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings, Random House, published 2015, →ISBN, section IV (Somehow Things Haven’t Turned Out Quite the Way We Expected: Humor and Family), page 324:

     A very small child, dawdling and playing and telling endless, giggling stories, can string out one French-fried potato until he is permitted—with some shrillness and a certain involuntary clenching of fists—to be excused from the rest of his dinner.

   • 1973, Marcia Seligson, Cosmopolitan’s Super Diets & Exercise Guide, New York, N.Y.: Cosmopolitan Books, →ISBN, page 202:

     A modest spoonful of rice pudding, 25, one French-fried potato (2 by ½ by ½ inches), 19½.

   • 2012, Robert Lockwood, “Lacking Intelligence”, in A Dragon Defanged, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 171:

     Yehuda forked a French-fried potato into his mouth, as the steward arrived with the ketchup.