Somewhat related, but IMHO not important enough to start a new thread:
“McDonalds french fry supplier, Lamb Weston, is closing their plant in Washington due to financial losses. People are apparently eating fewer fries, substituting smaller sizes to save money.”
Well, I just had a large handful of the best frozen-to-oven French fries with tonight’s dinner. So I’ll help keep them alive. 
You can find Lamb Weston in the supermarket? I’ve only seen Ore-Ida and McCains.
Yup. Locally to me, Market Basket and Hannaford, and I think Wegmans.
Our Giant carries them, too.
Very much at a tangent, I have a McCains story. Some contributors may recall that, in real life, I am an amateur military history researcher, with a particular interest in the Great War. On my first trip to the 1916 Somme battlefields, we were staying in a small hotel in the town of Albert. Having a drink in the bar, we got chatting to the only other person there - a fellow Briton. Turned out he was a quality control supervisor with McC and he was working, not war touristing. At the time (and possibly still), the company usually sourced all of its potatoes for UK products from British farmers. But, that year, there had been a problem with the crop and they were having to source some from France. He was there to oversee the harvest for the company. The Somme is just one vast potato growing area and , at harvest time, you’d regularly come across enormous heaps of spuds, waiting to be collected by a contractor working for McD. It occurred to me that the next time I had oven chips at home they might have come from the exact fields that Grandad Tom advanced across on 1 July 1916 - the day, twenty thousand British troops were killed, including 140 of Tom’s comrades.
This photo shows the potato growing area over which Tom attacked - their start point in the distance with the camera position on the outskirts of their objective. (Photo: Tim Bell - whose ancestor also attacked alongside Grandad in A Company)
On the subject of skipping restaurants and making more meals at home, I’m more and more inclined towards that, especially since the quality at local restaurants seems to have nosedived. Two meals in particular stand out, both involving seafood. In one the scallops were so rubbery I couldn’t cut them! In the other (a high-end French restaurant I used to love), I had a similar issue with overcooked seafood; it’s now off the list.
This weekend, for Thanksgiving, the in-laws are going to a golf course restaurant for lunch. The food there is pure crap; I’ve given it several chances. I can’t see myself paying $70+ for a mediocre buffet.
Despite battling multiple health issues I’m doing my own cooking for Thanksgiving, albeit with great difficulty. An occupational therapist I know says that’s the best therapy.
You’ll enjoy the eating even more, with the achievement
My daughter was going to order from Souvla (SF) for lunch at work … wonderful salads with rotisserie chicken is now $17 + $1 for fries. When she added up delivery fee, tax & tip, it came to $30 so she cancelled. Thank God. What a waste of $$. I don’t know why she doesn’t bring a sandwich, etc.
Definitely, and be able to splurge on a good wine.
