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French Fries or "Fenching" cooking sliced potato in in hot fat was discovered at about the same time in both Belgium and France. The French made the potato popular when King and Queen of France wore potato flowers and publicly ate some potatoes cooked many different ways and liked em, well before Fries. Until then only the Scots would eat potatoes because people thought they would make you sick. They planted potatoes in the royal garden and because something guarded must be valuable the plants were stolen and propagated all over France and Belgium.