Whatever anyone’s opinion on this, ONION RINGS DO NOT BELONG HERE, they are NOT POTATOS
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I've tried onion rings at at least 5 different resteraunts. All of them just tasted like heart failure. Don't know how they are popular.
You must not have had them with barbeque sauce
OK. I'll try ONE more time...
doctors hate this one trick...?
Sweet potatoes aren't potatoes either.
they're fried
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This
With Belgian mayonaise!
And I'm Dutch so I'm not even biased.
Yes. Vlaamse frieten zijn superieur.
Why Vlaamse? Good fries also in Brussels and Wallonia
Yes but they refuse to learn Dutch and nobody should be force to order in French
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Okay, two of them aren’t even the same vegetable.
- Wedges
- Curly
- Zigzag
- Shoestring
- Waffle
- Tots
- Sweet Potato (not a potato but closer than an onion)
- Onion Rings (not a potato, would be 3 otherwise)
They're all tied for number 1, except sweet potato, which skips all the empty spots below and goes straight to number 8. Sweet potato fries suck.
I wonder if they could be made better by doing that parboil-freeze-deepfry trick that makes mcdonalds fries so good
No. I refuse to rank my children as well.
Where the hell are the Cajun fries?
8, 5, 4, 2, 1, 7, 3, 6
Adding Cajun seasoning to 4, 2, 1, or 7 would raise it above the other 3 and make me unsure about whether to raise it above 5.
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My vote is on number 10: Röstis
5 8 7 2 4 1 6 3
- Shoestrings
- Tots
- Wedges (but not the ones in this picture)
- Onion Rings (they'd be higher on the list but they're not potatoes)
- Waffle
- Curly
- Zigzag (why do they always suck so much? In theory they should be great. Also why are they always sold at public swimming pools?)
- Sweet potato
Anything in the list gets to move up +1 when chicken salt is added if the other contenders don't, except sweet potato or onion rings.
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2: Top tier. I would suck a curly fry-wrapped dick as a side dish to my communion.
8: As pictured, yes. With their typical batter style that allows the onion to slide out? Fucking garbage. 1: A solid choice that reheats well and consistently delivers the yum.
7: Tasty and a fun puzzle as you try to reconstruct the potato.
3: Plain tots? Fuck outa here. Bump that shit up with some totchos.
4: Good in theory, dry as fuck in practice. Texture is inconsistent and offensive to autism.
5: What the fuck is wrong with you? Deadass. Explain your trauma to me.
6: Somehow chalk that reheats into more chalk. Your mom said not to fast food and then pulled these out the oven. Worse than a sweet potato fry.
Ok there's another factor here and that's taking into account the dipping sauce if any.
Crinkle cut without sauce? Bland. With a good sauce? Those little accordion fucks hold way more than shoestring.
Where are the cheese curds? Fucking profligates is deep fried cheese too good for ya?
I'm gonna have to lock in Onion Rings as my final answer.
Onion rings > tots > sweet potato > everything else
And fuck ketchup, combine one part mayonnaise and one part BBQ sauce to dip that shit in
ketchups good with an equal amount of chili pequin sauce mixed in. I learned this at a mexican restaurant that also served burgers and fries for some reason, and haven't been able to go back to any other fry sauce since
I need more popcorn for parsing these comments
I'm loving how passionately people feel about it
Shoestring, Onion Ring, Waffle, Tots, Curly, Wedges, Zigzag, Sweet Potato
1st: Curly
2nd: Waffle
3rd: Shoestring
4th: Wedges
5th: Tater Tots
6th: Zig Zag
7th: Onion Rings
8th: Sweet Potato Fries
I genuinely love all of these, and struggled to rank them. Just a total potato gremlin.
These rankings also depend a lot on the source. So I just went with the best I've tasted of each.
I love all of these, not gonna lie.
Rank is less important than the presence or absence of chicken salt.
5,3,8,4,7,2,6,1
Sweet potato Onion Rings Curly Tots Shoestrings Wedges Waffle Zigzag.
Tots might be lower on the list, but I found they can work surprizingly well in some lazy microwave meals I make, so they get extra points for ease and dependability.
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