Correct. The “frites” part means exactly the same as “fries” (well, technically it means “fried”).
Americans just LOVE to make things sound fancier by adding “French” to the name to give it some “ooh là là”. See also: “French” vanilla ice cream (everywhere else in the world it’s just vanilla).
lime@feddit.nu 5 weeks ago
is it not pommes frites? fried apples?
Kojichan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
My bad. I had really bad nausea when typing that. Patate frites. I messed up the pomme de terre in there.