# What is your favorite french fry shape? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 22, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273 "2003-01-22T19:25:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Broodha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Broodha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broodha)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/1 "2003-01-22T19:25:11Z")
**Crinkle cut, steak fry, curly fry, with skins/without…** What is your favorite kind of french fry and why? ---
**Author:** ![swingchick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@swingchick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swingchick)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/2 "2003-01-22T19:27:15Z")
crinkle cut. No skins. Lots of Ketchup and salt. WHY?? Well, why not! ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/3 "2003-01-22T20:13:12Z")
Hard to find, but I do love the “waffle-cut” style. Of the readily available types, though, put me down for steak fries with skins. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/4 "2003-01-22T20:22:37Z")
I am a “waffle cut” man too, Chick-fil-a is the king of fries, but in any other cut please leave the skins ON. unclviny 2 fry threads in a row now, are you trying to make/keep me fat? ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/5 "2003-01-22T20:33:55Z")
Do Tater-Tots count? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/6 "2003-01-22T20:33:58Z")
I love steak fries with peel still on. The kind you can get at the corner gas station. Each bit is substantial, not like those pussy shoestrings. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/7 "2003-01-22T20:37:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nineiron \* > \*\*Hard to find, but I do love the “waffle-cut” style. Of the readily available types, though, put me down for steak fries with skins. \*\* Ditto. Around here, steak fries are those thick slabs of potato (compared to ordinary fries) about an inch wide and 1/2 inch thick I love those, but I also like jo-jos, which are also called potato wedges. They are roughly equivalent to what you’d get if you cut a small potato into 1/4 sections and fried it. ---
**Author:** ![Basandre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@Basandre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Basandre)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/8 "2003-01-22T21:04:29Z")
mmm… seasoned curly fries… ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/9 "2003-01-22T21:32:09Z")
I like steak fries, but I am also a fan of waffle cut fries. ---
**Author:** ![Broodha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Broodha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broodha)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/10 "2003-01-22T22:01:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by unclviny \* > \*\* 2 fry threads in a row now, are you trying to make/keep me fat? \*\* UNCLVINY - I have really been in a french fry mood lately. It came to mind when I had a dream the other night that I owned a french fry restaurant. I sold only fried potato products and a variety of dipping sauces and toppings. MMMM. I’m not fat though. Yet… ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/11 "2003-01-22T22:15:56Z")
Waffle cut fries here too. Just the thought of them are making me hungry. Of course, not having eaten anything yet today could also be a factor… ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/12 "2003-01-22T22:37:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Carnage \* > \*\*I love steak fries with peel still on. The kind you can get at the corner gas station. Each bit is substantial, not like those pussy shoestrings. \*\* They are not fries, but don’t be talkin’ bad about my shoestring potatoes, I ALWAYS take a few cans camping as they are cheap, indestructible and oh so good! (with beer). unclviny ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/13 "2003-01-22T23:18:21Z")
With all the waffle fry fans, I’m surprised they’re not more readily available. I don’t eat fries often, but when I do my preference is seasoned waffle fries. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/14 "2003-01-22T23:42:29Z")
McDonalds knows how to make fries, if nothing else. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pencepon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@Pencepon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pencepon)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/15 "2003-01-22T23:58:26Z")
If the fries are slender and crisp like McDonald’s, I like them plain (hot and fresh, plenty of salt). If they are fat and fluffy, I want lots of ketchup, preferably Heinz. ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/16 "2003-01-23T00:36:11Z")
I like any french fries that are not made by Burger King. Whatever Burger King did a few years ago to their french fries ruined them forever. Sadly there seems to be a convention in Colorado Springs where french fries are rare as hen’s teeth outside of fast food restaurants and when one does acquire french fries from a fast food restaurant they are decidedly unsalted. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/17 "2003-01-23T02:15:52Z")
**crinkle-cut**. Braum’s is the only place I know of that serves them around here. ---
**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/18 "2003-01-23T02:37:28Z")
waffle cut. or curly with seasoning. but reasonably skinny, well-fried bordering on crunchy otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/19 "2003-01-23T02:50:54Z")
Gotta go with curly fries, but only if they are done right. Hate it when I get curly fry fragments, but love it when they are nice long spirals of crunchy, greasy goodness. If curly fries not available, then put me down for tater tots!! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273/20 "2003-01-23T03:47:44Z")
Cottage fries! From Ore-Ida. Difficult but not impossible to find. They are round, flat and corrugated, like very thick, unbaked ripple chips. My mom always used to think I meant **waffle** fries. I mean, even after I described them, in detail, she still showed me a bag and said, “But they **call** them waffle fries!” Fool of a Took! Does she not know the difference between corrugated and cross-hatched! On that note, I don’t like waffle fries. It’s hard to get enough ketchup on them, and they’re usually too crispy for my taste. Other than that, I like crispers (small rods with breading on them), tater tots, and Crispy Crowns (half-sized tater tots). I like crinkle-cut and straight fries equally. I just don’t like them, any of them, fried so fast and hot that they’re practically shells. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-french-fry-shape/150273.md?page=2)