→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut How the Milky Way Got Its Name https://youtu.be/1pFTdEApM0s?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3-uys3Rl2dvdsFkk96zRbt The Surprising Truth About Cousins and Marriage https://youtu.be/GJeztKVIEcA?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: Potatoes were first introduced to Europe not through the French or Belgians, but through the Spanish. In 1537, Jimenez de Quesada and his Spanish forces encountered a village in Colombia where all the natives had fled. Among other things, they found in the native’s food stuffs potatoes, which the Spanish initially called “truffles”. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/09/the-history-of-french-fries/ Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2033/whats-the-origin-of-french-fries http://www.easy-french-food.com/history-of-french-fries.html http://www.professorshouse.com/food-beverage/food/french-fries.aspx http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/05/the-burger-lab-how-to-make-perfect-mcdonalds-style-french-fries.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Antonieta_de_Austria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Augustin_Parmentier