Well, they are the current Champion.
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This is Madness indeed
For a certain class of (North) American, Fries are the âI love them and theyâre too much of a PITA to make at homeâ target. Deep frying is a hassle unless you do it often enough to ammortize out the inconvenient parts (oil change and disposal, the CLEANING from inevitable spatter, etc).
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Yes. Fries at home never match the glory of hot and fresh from the restaurant deep fryer.
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I like french fries generally speaking, but not all sizes/shapes are created equal. I have no use at all for crinkle cuts, and steak fries usually leave me cold. I would choose (good) onion rings or sweet potato fries (with plenty of blue cheese dressing!) over either. Also, tater tots are really my top favorite deep fried potato product, just edging out seasoned curly fries - a burger with a side of tater tots is a thing of beauty!
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I would be clear that I like French fries, but I didnât realize people like potato fries significantly more than say sweet potato fries, taro fries, onion ringsâŚetc.
I love tater tots.
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Sweet potato fries feel too much like "cauliflower crust pizzaâ. I want THE THING, not the almost-but-not-quite-maybe-healthier-for-you thing.
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At the risk of being stoned (and not in the good way) by the community, I donât order fries and just eat a few of my husbandâs (as does the dog). My feeling is that they take up valuable stomach real estate that I would rather devote to my cheeseburger with pickles.
My Hungarian Jewish grandmother made the worldâs best onion rings, and I have never had any that are as good as hers. I do like the occasional sweet potato fry, but Iâm alone in that.
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Do you think you will be stoned because âyou donât like friesâ or because âyou steal your husbandâs friesâ?
I do agree that I always love burgers and simply think of fries as filler.
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I think it would be because I donât like fries. (Iâm weird - I donât care for chocolate either.) Weâve been married for 47 years so heâs used to me taking a few fries.
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I donât like fries with my burger. Or any type of fried finger foods.
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Usually French fries, as its usually the only decent choice. But from worst to bestâŚ
Sweet potato friesâŚIâll eat them if theyâre the default, but wonât order them specially.
Onion ringsâŚonly if theyâre really onions, not the ground up stuff. If youre running the risk of burning your chin because the onion slipped out of the breading even better.
(In a toss up, rings over tots)
TotsâŚi know, theyre hash brown nuggets. But I like them.
Regular fries if theyre hot and fresh
Properly double-fried hand-cut fries (Belgian style) are a thing of beauty. I will skip the burger for great fries
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If Iâm at a place where I know they do them well, then deep-fried mushrooms are my favorite burger friend.
By âdo them wellâ, I mean smallish mushrooms, totally encapsulated in the breading such that the heat from the deep fry both gets the breading golden brown and also the moisture heated out of the mushroom stays inside the breading, ready to gush out at you in a little heat tsunami when you bite in.
Added bonus is that they stay hot for a long time, so you can enjoy one now and again as you eat the burger, and still have a few warm ones left at the end. I always feel like I need to rush the French fry eating because I donât like them cold.
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Oh yeah. We vaguely remember a Dairy Queen in another Millennium slinging such a delicacy.
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When I was about 10 my small-town Dairy Queen finally expanded and converted to a Dairy Queen âBrazierâ and began offering burgers, fries, and yes the fried mushrooms. Before that it was cold treats only.
But A&Wâs mushrooms were always better. Or maybe it was the combo with their root beer. A friend and I would go rake lawns or whatever and once weâd scraped up a few bucks each, weâd bicycle over to A&W for root beer and mushrooms.
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I havent seen fried mushrooms on a menu I didnât think about them.
The Frog Tavern on the shore of Lake Wawasee in Syracuse, IndianaâŚbest fried mushrooms evar.
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Sheesh â you didnât mention pickle spears and green beans get the treatment:
Canât say Iâve ever had these. Are they just raw shrooms, battered, fried, and seasoned?
Fried green beans are nice, but the fried battered mushroom sounds very interesting.
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