Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Waffle fries are potato chips that are cut into a criss-cross pattern by quarter turning the potato before each slide over a grater before frying. Apart from their shape they are similar to French fries.French fries (North American English, sometimes capitalized), fries, or french-fried potatoes and, in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, chips are thin strips of deep-fried potato. North Americans often refer to any elongated pieces of fried potatoes as fries, while in other parts of the world, long slices of fried potatoes are sometimes called fries to contrast them with the thickly cut strips, which are often referred to as chips.