Show M gould credited with french fried potatoes I 1 like all others who take delight in a platter splatter of crisp hut french fried potatoes I 1 always supposed ed tills this tar lar way of preparing them was originated by some eminent french chef to in the distant long ago go until along cuine one of those fellows who ore are always digging into history und and finding things to shutter blunter our pet illusions according to his fits ver version slon tile the french tried potato originated not in france but in new york one day so BO the story geets buy gould dropped into restaurant lu la that city und and euld auto 1 I want potatoes quartered and fried in deep fat tho the desire to imitate the doings of a gould probably pro bubly caused the use of potatoes fried in tills this way to assume tile the proportions of a fad although unlike ninny many other fads this one survived for ears these were known simply as quartered potatoes then delmonico took to slicing them thinner and called them ly by the name under which they are now known throughout the cou country whatever may be sald of jay gould as ag a financier and railroad builder all I 1 I 1 lovers of french fried potatoes are arc under lasting obligations to tills this forceful American st louis globe demo crat I 1 |