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The REAL meaning of French Fries revealed!
I don't know where that earlier linked article got it's ideas on fries, but here's the deal:
The real name is Frenched Fried Potatoes. Frenched is a shortened term for French cut, which refers to long, thin cuts for vegetables (ever had french cut green beans? They are green beans cut the long way, in thin strips). So french cut becomes frenched, but that's not good enough for us lazy-ass americans, we shorten the ALREADY shortened Frenched Fried Potatoes to French Fries, and now even to just FRIES. Some cultures (English English) have their own words (chips) but others have taken ours as a slang term for something they already had OR the american-made popularity encouraged some to start making "fries" and so also used the word, in their own language (i.e. Frites).

As to the name change to drop french? Really! I understand your want to stand against the french, but in this case, it really has nothing to do with the french anymore. Oh, and the things Wendy's serves should be called chunk fries, as those things are NOT french cut anyway.