I can assure that you have tasted one...

 Everybody has tasted a “French omelette” and everybody has called its name thousands of times but few people knows that “French omelette” does not really come from France...

 Its name has a very curious story that I could never have imagined. It has its origins in Cadiz, Spain and it was prepared for the first time during the first French siege of 1810. During war time there was food shortages suffered by the people of Cadiz and San Fernando. Thus, there were many cases in which the wit was able to overcome the deficiency that caused the war. One of this cases were practiced in the culinary world. Due to the lack of potatoes, people could not cook the famous Spanish omelette made up with that ingredient, so they invented the “Frangaise omelette”, as it would be known later. They just cooked the eggs the same way they did when they were cookking Spanish omelettes but without potatoes . Then they called that dish “ the omelette when French were here” and then it became the so called “French omelette”. 

 Now we can enjoy both types, the Spanish and the “French” one.