I have never seen so few fries from Five Guys before.
There’s more but they had to crop out the 1ga bag of fries that they use as insulation for your burger.
The fries act as ballast too
Yup. And they know how to make fantastic fries. And cajun seasoning if you want. Fucking great, a worthy compliment to their consistently decent-to-great burgers.
Every time I eat any fast food burgers besides 5 guys I’m disappointed that I didn’t hold out for 5 guys.
You guys have too many fast food options
I’ll agree with that. And they’re all so overpriced, I can’t afford to eat any of them lol
Overpriced? Really? I thought the whole point was it being fast and cheap. So that only leaves convenience as an argument to go there…
Yeah a combo meal runs like $13+…It’s ridiculous. My field guys at work eat out every day. I can’t afford it. Cheaper to hit the grocery store and make sandwiches all week.
And too strong opinions on them. How anyone part age twenty or so can have any thought on them besides ‘yuck’ baffles me.
People like different things
Homemade
Fuck fast foods (and fast fashion and everything related)
Fuck consumption society
Life is an act of consumption.
The comma doesn’t do anything there
Does the Italic work better for emphases?
It does indeed!
Small pause. That’s all
Yes but there are different types. What we have is the reckless, thoughtless kind.
And fuck this post, seriously. Glad to see this attitude in the comments.
I’m fine with the post tbh. OP is still creating content on lemmy, wich is what matters most
We only have McDonald’s and Burger King here and i wouldn’t eat there when i was starving
Latish reply, but how do you make yours? Do you do the ‘restaurant’ steps of using water & freezing to get the starch out?
Me, I just slice up baking potatoes and pop them in my air fryer for a while, turning and re-basting with oil a few times. Not restaurant grade, but good enough.
Sometimes when I have patience, but most often I just do the same. The difference is huge though for so little effort.
As a non-american it blows my mind that you have so many fast food companies.
What blows my mind is that it’s all large franchise. We have tons of independant selling various form of fast-food. Stuff like Sandwiches, Pizza, kebap and more. But I can’t think about only 2-3 large chain, basically we have Mc-Donalds, Quick, and that’s it ? or may-be burger kind did a comeback last years, not even sure…
What really amazes me is that, that’s not all of them
I was pretty sure most of them were made up. I hope this crap never makes it over here
To be fair, where I’m at in the south we have these. Still a lot but most are very regional
I’m a human not a french fry
Top two picks from each row:
- McDonalds is a standard, but I prefer Arby’s seasoned curly fries
- Wendy’s recently changed their fries and they’re good enough, but prefer Smash fries.
- (Special mention goes to Canadian KCF, which offers fries and gravy instead of mashed potatoes and gravy. I don’t know if their US fries are different because I don’t mess with that if mashed 'taters are an option.)
- Five guys and Checkers
- Steak 'n Shake and Popeyes
Overall, if I were choosing a place based solely on the fries: Smash > Five Guys > Popeyes > Arby’s
The top two spots were tricky. I like the 5 guys fresh cut style, but Smash mixes a traditional thin cut fast food fry with rosemary. And they don’t make things weird by giving you more than you can or should eat.
The only one I actively dislike is Chick-fil-A, but some of the other offerings are ‘meh’ enough that they need ketchup.
Missing entries: Penn Station and Skyline. They’re both regional, but I like both of them over most of the other offerings. Penn Station has fresh-cut style and Skyline’s fries are thin and crispy.
Arby’s curly fries are peak fast food fries.
I’ve heard of eight of these and I’ve tried four. Are any of them better than Belgian frites?
God no. Belgian frites are in another league!
Of course not, but thanks for the sanity check. Do the Popeye ones come with extra spinach I wonder?
Nope!
I genuinely love McDonald’s fries. I don’t love anything else there and I go maybe once or twice a year, but they really are my favourite fries.
Checkers/rally’s fries are my #1, plus I think they’re the only ones on this list that backup their fries with a guarantee.
I know the fries are good, but Rally’s/Checkers is pretty rare out here; what’s the guarantee?
OP is looking to start some fights.
Im more of a this kind of guy
This is Taco John’s potato olé erasure, and I will not stand for it.
None of these, I really don’t get why people like fries so much. Those baked potato wedges on the other hand are great
Checkers. And I don’t even normally like that type of fry.
