no he acually said something like this many days before, during an interview about his execution. here's a quote from wikipedia:"[S]haking hands as French prepared to return to death row, he leaned over to say: "If I were covering my execution, do you know what I'd say in the newspaper headline?"
"What?"
"'French Fries.' See ya."
— Bob Gregory, "They Died for Their Sins", Oklahoma Monthly Magazine (1976)[10]"