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In and Out, and McDonalds, have been my favorite standard fries.
The kind I like most I can't find out here in Northern California - curly Cajun fries, which I used to get in New York many years ago. Sometimes I wonder how far I'd have to drive to find good crispy ones ....... but I'll probably just make some, now that I've thought about it. Or at least straight Cajun fries, I don't have a curly maker thingy.
Funny. BK changed their fries back in the early 90's. They had a HUGE television campaign about it. Showing people at blind taste tests and everything. Their fries used to be more like McDonald's before that. But they changed for the worse. I always suspected that they did it to save money and tried to promote them as something they were not. A lot of fast food places followed suit, although it seems like they may have changed in the last few months.
Weinerschnitzel has good fries. Not the best (like 5 Guys), but they are just like the old BK and other fast food places in the 80's. (Sonic, Dairy Queen, Jack in the Box, etc.)
I like the quality of Five Guys fries. They use huge baking potatoes and in fact keep the huge bags of potatoes (50# or 100#) on display in the dining area, along with the containers of peanuts oil. You can watch as they slice the potatoes and fry them, nothing unnatural, just potatoes and peanut oil.
I was a mystery shopper for Five Guys for several years, and I was always impressed by their employees and also how serious the company was about every aspect of the food quality and customer service.
I once read that McDonald's fries were made from a "mashed potato" type of beginning product. Even those are better than most fast-food places.
I don't know what those things at the ff places are, if they are even worse than McD's (which are great in comparison.) They remind me of "canned" or bagged crunchy frie-type snack food that is sold alongside the potato chips in the grocery store. They are not even as good as regular potato chips. Whoever thought these would be good should have been fired from these companies.
At the rare times I would eat at those particular fast food places, I would either not get fries or replace them with onion rings. Their onion rings were not always that good, but at least they were a little better than the fries.
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