When I check to make sure everything I ordered is in the bag I am likely to pull out a fry and eat it. I have occasionally been hungry enough to eat half a medium fry on the way home, but that’s the exception.
it depends on how physically strenuous my day has been up to that point or, if at the end if the day, if I’ve eaten lunch that day.
Not strenuous and I’ve eaten lunch, I don’t eat the fries if I get them, Vaderling can have them. For the other two scenarios, somewhere after leaving the drive thru and the first stop light or sign. depends on how they’re packaged and how deep in the bag they are
I avoid to the extent possible the smell of food in my car. But I’m not as insane about it as I am about actually eating in the car. So you’re not a lone freak.
Which answer would I choose if they hand me the bag of fries, I send them back for extra napkins/straw/whatever, and by the time they get back, I’m holding out an empty holster of fries and asking if they offer refills?
This is a funny question. I don’t typically get drive-thru burgers but takeout food from restaurants quite a bit so that’s similar enough. I agree with the “edible fry half life” posters so I’ve taken to getting a side salad instead of fries when getting takeout. Takeout burgers aren’t that great either in my opinion but don’t deteriorate fast enough for them to be terrible.
My analogous situation would be takeout Mexican, and the answer to the question “how long until you’re munching on the side chips” would be “before I’ve left the parking lot”.
If I’m driving and I don’t have any front-seat assistance managing the food, I wait rather than allow myself to get distracted rummaging around in the bags.
If I have someone to do my rummaging around for me, I may take a pinch of fries on the road. (I always move out briskly from the parking lot so there’s no time to get into the food before the road, and I don’t like being distracted as I’m trying to manage getting out into traffic.)
Oh yeah, it’s a struggle to make it anywhere with the scent of fresh tortilla chips in your nose.
As far as the original subject, I can make it as far as the public road before I’m searching out the fries. But about half the time I’m consuming them before I leave the parking lot.
Between the first two. No need to hold up the line, but I might get a fry in before we have everything and can start moving. Actually getting the eat the fries while full on hot is just too much of a luxury. (Most of the time, someone just brings home fast food.)