Love Island USA uses French fries as sexual code word

A new phrase has become the talk of the reality show "Love Island USA," leaving viewers to decode its meaning after contestants used it to describe a private encounter. During the June 21 episode, set in the show's Fiji villa, contestant Trinity Tatum asked her fellow female islanders which one of them had been "doing French fries" the previous night, commenting that the sounds she heard were "too wet" to be just kissing. Fellow contestant Kenzie Annis soon confirmed she was the one involved with partner Corbin Mims.

In a subsequent confessional, Annis owned up to the risqué behavior. "I was definitely getting some French fries," she said. "Feeling good." She added that she and Mims probably got "a little bit carried away" but that she felt a strong connection with him. The show's narrator, Iain Stirling, humorously predicted the public's reaction, stating that millions of Americans would soon be searching the phrase "French fries sex" online.

While the contestants did not provide an explicit definition on camera, the context of the conversation has led the show's audience and multiple media reports to conclude that "French fries" is the latest code word used by islanders to...