started to eat potatoes. Today, people in this part of Germany eat more potatoes than any other nationality. Each person eats about 370 pounds of potatoes every year! potato dishes. Germans eat Today, many countries have their own course potato salad, and the United States has the baked potato. And, of over the French invented French fries. Now French fries are popular all eat the world. The English eat them with salt and vinegar, the French and them with salt and pepper, the Belgians eat them with mayonnaise, the Americans eat them with ketchup.