French Fries: Alternative Stories Of Origin

Alternative stories of the origin of the famous fry:

1. First sold in France, by street vendors on Paris’s Pont Neuf in 1780.
2. Invented by the Spanish, as Spaniards were the first Europeans to encounter the famous South American Potato, and were famous for frying food in oil.
3. Bought to American by Thomas Jefferson, who went to France during the 1780s and had his slave collect recipes for vanilla ice cream, cheese and macaroni, apart from fried potatoes.