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As early as the 17th century, Belgian villagers began frying potatoes in the same oil they

used for fish, birthing a dish known as frets or fries.

The oily salted tuber strips were wrongly attributed to the French by dumbass Americans

and consumed by the fistful by fat-ass Americans, often alongside other appropriated national

cuisines like hamburgers and hot dogs. But in 1979, Edgar Matzler reinvented the century's old side via his patent

for a waffle-fry potato cutter. This novel new potato preparation, with the crunchy soft texture

of a fry but the flatter, wider form factor of a chip, if you're a Brit and wondering,

what's all this then, replaced fry with chip and chip with crisp, was scaled up first

in flash frozen form by Lamb Weston in 1983, and more notably by a fried chicken sandwich chain

in 1985. First founded in 1948 by S. Truett Cathy and region locked in the American

South for decades. In the 21st century, a national and then international expansion spread its

greasy wares worldwide, but also made it a flashpoint of political controversy, self-imposed

by its evangelical family ownership's financial support of anti-LGBQ causes. Nevertheless, the company

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