Whilst I wouldn't want to claim he's a big fat liar, of course, the chap in the programme stated they'd been doing this for generations, and I think Mr B may have been a little too young to trump that statement?
Most of the excellent frites places in Brussels bang on about triple fried, and I even watched a food programme once that explained why they do this and the chip structure it creates .... in other news, I also count coins and contemplate what life would be like without the Tetrapak!