French fried potato

English

Noun

French fried potato

1. singular of French fried potatoes
   • 1943, McCall’s, page 85:

     She picked up a French fried potato in her fingers and began to eat it.

   • 1944, Pacific Oil World, page 31:

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

   • 1964, Quick Frozen Foods, page 35:

     Would it not be better, argue some, to sacrifice three sales out of ten, made on the pure convenience appeal, in favor of six out of a possible ten which might be procured on the basis of a crisper, browner French fried potato?

   • 1972, Albert Averbach, Handling Accident Cases, The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, pages 136–137:

     The plaintiff testified that she noticed a sticky and slimy chocolate colored substance three to four inches in length (a French fried potato) on the floor.

   • 1980, Howard Moss, Two Plays, New York, N.Y.: The Sheep Meadow Press/Flying Point Books, →ISBN, page 93:

     I was the first person in the world to throw a French fried potato onto an ice floe and watch it freeze.

   • 1984, Beatrice Warren, Nurse Kristi’s Secret, Avalon Books, →ISBN, page 141:

     The evident enjoyment with which he dipped a French fried potato into a glob of ketchup, then plopped it into his mouth, repaid Kristi in part.

   • 1987, Denis Grogan, Grogan’s Case Studies in Reference Work, London: Clive Bingley, →ISBN, page 110:

     ‘The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating house in the country’ (Russell Baker).

   • 1988, Paula Williams, Lovesong, Pageant Books, →ISBN, page 146:

     She dabbed a French fried potato in a glob of catsup, but stopped midway, placing it on her plate again.

   • 1992, Benjamin Cheever, The Plagiarist, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 17:

     He picked up a French fried potato, stabbed it into the ketchup and put it in his mouth.

   • 2000, Douglas Bond, “Johann Michael Altenburg, 1584–1640”, in Mr. Pipes and Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation, Arlington Heights, Ill.: Christian Liberty Press, →ISBN, page 71:

     He occasionally paused and cut a French fried potato in half and placed it—with his fork—into his mouth.

   • 2001, Alistair Mackenzie, Katie Jones, editors, Dubai Explorer, Explorer Publishing, →ISBN, page 278:

     Not a French fried potato in sight, just your choice of tasty, healthy food.

   • 2003, Edward Alexander Batory/Paul Peterson, The Bible Burners, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN:

     She reached over and picked up a French fried potato.

   • 2003, Sylvia Snyder, The Sawdust Festival, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN:

     Skipper put a French fried potato into his mouth and nudged Gil.

   • 2015, Shigeru Ikuta, Diane Morton, Mikiko Kasai, Fumio Nemoto, Masaki Ohtaka, Mieko Horiguchi, “School Activities with New Dot Code Handling Multimedia”, in Lesia Lennex, Kimberely Fletcher Nettleton, editors, Cases on Instructional Technology in Gifted and Talented Education (Advances in Early Childhood and K–12 Education), Information Science Reference, →ISBN, section 5 (Teacher Training), page 323:

     He selected a movie titled “Wonderful Time,” in which he and his close friend were filmed in a thrilling game that involved picking up a French fried potato from blocks.

   • 2016, Cassius Mullen, Betty Byron, Living for This Moment, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

     Derreck dipped a French fried potato in some ketchup and stuffed it in his mouth.