LA Times:
That’s right, my friends, I am pleased as punch to announce the authoritative, totally not subjective, incontrovertibly definitive and 100% correct L.A. Times Fast Food French Fry Rankings.
French fries, a.k.a. chips, aka freedom fries, aka 炸薯条, are a delightful treat enjoyed the world over, and they’re a staple of the fast-food meal. And what is fast food, exactly? For the purposes of this survey, I’ve selected chains where there’s an emphasis on speed of service, you’re not waited on at a table, and where there are at least a couple hundred locations, if not more. I ordered medium- or regular-sized fries (when available) and judged them based on the two metrics: (1) taste and (2) texture, which includes fry shape and mouthfeel.
We don’t have the #1 here in Vancouver so I can’t judge but I do agree with the writer that the memory of MacDonald’s fries is often better than the actual fries.
I don’t know who this bozo is, but Burger King’s fries better than anything else? No way. They are nasty. In-N-Out, well he must have never had the frozen fries you could buy in the 60s from Safeway because they taste just like those. And some people are nuts over them. Me, don’t like ’em. But what I go to In-N-Out for is not the overrated burgers, but the Neopolitan shake that’s off menu.
There’s a Five Guys on Robson, between Seymour and Granville.
Why does the LA Times (and yesterday the Boston Globe) say that Safari Technology Preview is browsing in incognito mode when it isn’t?
The reason McDonalds fries are better in memory (at least the memory of people above a certain age) is that they used to fry them in beef tallow, a practice they stopped in the 1990s I think, in response to health concerns.