Potato wedges - Wikipedia Potato wedges Potato wedges Potato wedges with cheese and bacon, accompanied by sweet chilli sauce and sour cream Course Hors d'oeuvre, side dish Main ingredients Potatoes Cookbook : Potato wedges Media : Potato wedges Potato wedges are wedges of potatoes, often large and unpeeled, that are either baked or fried. They are sold at diners and fast food restaurants. In Australia, potato wedges are a common bar food, that are almost always served with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce. They are usually seasoned with a variety of spices, commonly paprika, salt and pepper. Contents 1 Disambiguation 2 Other names 3 See also 4 References Disambiguation When compared to steak - cut chips ( UK ), fries ( US and global ), roasted potatoes or crinkle - cut chips ( UK ), a wedge could be defined as having distinct corners when viewed as a cross-section perpendicular to the normal - a centreline running along the length of the cut potato form. This can be viewed as a triangular section, should there be 4 corners it would commonly be referred to as just a chip / fries. Other names In some regions of the United States, potato wedges are known as jojos. This term originated in Waconia, Minnesota and is also used in the Northwest, Washington, Idaho, Ohio, Oregon, Minnesota, and other areas. Jojos are potato wedges fried in the same vat as chicken and usually eaten plain alongside fried chicken, coleslaw, and baked beans. A variation in spelling and pronunciation is mojos, particularly in Western Canada, the Western United States and Canada 's Yukon. In Germany, they are known as Kartoffelspalten ( ' potato - clefts ' ), wilde Kartoffeln ( ' wild potatoes ' ), or Westernkartoffeln ( ' Western potatoes ' ). In France, they are called potatoes ( pronounced as it is in English ). In Sweden, they are called klyftpotatis ( ' wedge - potatoes ' ). In Russia, they are known as картофель по - деревенски ( ' village - style potato ' ) or картофель по - домашнему ( ' homestyle potato ' ). See also Food portal List of hors d'oeuvre References Jump up ^ DiStefano, Anne Marie ( July 4, 2013 ). `` Restaurants add another chapter to jojos ' long history ''. Portland Tribune. Retrieved 8 July 2013. Jump up ^ Price, Nikki ( 2009 - 09 - 25 ). `` A fry with MoJo : The Coast loves its JoJos ''. Oregon Coast Today. Lincoln City, Oregon. Archived from the original on August 17, 2011. Retrieved 2009 - 09 - 26. Jump up ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101011164224/http://greensboring.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=329. Archived from the original on October 11, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2010. Missing or empty title = ( help ) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Potato wedges. 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Question: where did the term jojo's come from
Answer: Waconia, Minnesota