French-fried potato
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- 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.