french-fried potato

plural french-fried potatoes

1. singularsingular of french-fried potatoes

1. singularsingular of French-fried potatoes

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

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

   4 more examples

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

   1924, The Libertarian, page 541

   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.

   1937, Temple Dental Review and Garretsonian, page 39

   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.

   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

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

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