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Especially since they didn't invent the fried potato. The French did. They invented cutting the potato in sticks instead of disks to fry them...
Can we really say that with any certainty? Frying is a pretty basic cooking technique, and potatoes became a very common ingredient. Maybe it really caught on in France, but I'm sure just about anybody who was eating potatoes must have tried them fried on occasion.
This is "who invented the sandwich" all over again when what we really mean is "who named the sandwich". We credit the Earl of Sandwich for the invention, but sandwiches have existed for as long as bread has. I mean there are only so many things you can do with bread and slicing it and putting other food in between is beyond obvious.
Now I'm hungry.
But considering sliced bread is treated as an amazing invention (at least the phrase "best thing since sliced bread" would have you believe that) then maybe whoever invented sliced bread was also responsible for inventing sandwiches.
As for what people did before sliced bread? I've seen people tear pieces from a bread loaf and use it to soak liquids, so I assume that was the method used for all uses of bread.
froid potato