french fried potato

In one of his delicate monkey fists he clutched a french fried potato, in the other a rubbery red Penrose hot sausage.

1979, TriQuarterly, page 117

This case seems to me no more momentous than Judge Roberts’s (as he then was) decision declining to find unconstitutional the arrest of a young girl caught eating a french fried potato in a Washington subway station.

2006 January 9, “Testimony of Charles Fried; Senate Judiciary Committee; The Confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States”, in Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to Be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 1035

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.

1944, Pacific Oil World, page 31

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?

1964, Quick Frozen Foods, page 35

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.

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

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

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

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.

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