French fry

French fries (also familiarly called chips or French fries) are a food made from potatoes cut into slices and fried elongated in various ways in different countries: in Belgium using the beef fat "Blanc de boeuf" in a special fryer , but in general are vegetable oils (including peanuts), the most widespread in Italy and Spain also the potatoes are cooked in the oven until they take the characteristic crispness, and then serve. The varieties are commercially packaged for sale, usually in envelopes. The chips are a snack very important in the market for English-speaking countries.
There are many differences in the names of the chips in the English-speaking countries. In North America it is customary to use the term chips for crisps enveloped thin and crispy, while saying French fries or just fries for potato sticks. In England, crisps is used for the first type of chips, while chips is used for the second (as in "fish and chips"). In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, both forms of potato chips are called chips. Sometimes the distinction is made between hot chips and packet chips. The Kumara chips (or sweet potato fries) you eat instead of in New Zealand.
In Italy both versions are called in the same way. Although the potato sticks are a culinary product expressed as round ones generally belong to the category Industrial, many Italian restaurants serve French fries cooked thin and round expressed using fresh potatoes.