Fry Day #2 Hardees

September 28, 2007 · Posted in Fry Day · 4 Comments 

Who loves Fry Day? I do, I do.

I don’t know where that came from, let’s get down to business! Our establishment of choice this week is Hardees, that purveyor of all things excessive.

Info:
Hardees
Franklin, IN
Time of day: 12:00pm

Hardees new Natural cut fries are a skin on slightly wider than most fry.

All ratings except hot are a 1-10 scale. Hot is how long they remain warm.

Taste: 9
Appearance: 8
Saltiness: 10
Crispiness: 6
Hot: 13 minutes
Quantity: 145g
Price:$1.49
Value: $.01027 per gram

First let’s say something about the quantity. The stated quantity is 166 grams, what I got was around 145. I am blaming that at least in part for the fact that they weren’t served in a fry box. Thumbs down on the stupid basket. With all the wrapping paper they used they didn’t save any trees by skipping the box!

The taste was very good. No underlying tastes from other deep fried foods. Of course that led me to wonder if it was a fresh fryer or if they don’t cross cook. I worked at Hardees years ago and unless they have changed policies they do indeed cross cook. But that is neither here nor there, these are some darn tasty fries. There was an even distribution of seasoning, kudos for stirring before serving!

I was hoping the extra thickness would have held heat longer but they cooled slightly faster than last weeks. Maybe it is because of the open serving in a basket instead of shoving them in a box, I see another experiment in the making there!

Oddly enough the price is the same here, although their stated quantity would make up for that since they give more for the money. $1.49 for a medium, that is pretty much standard here now.

And a couple of quick photos for the voyeurs out there:


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Sorry

September 26, 2007 · Posted in Blog · 1 Comment 

I haven’t been much company lately. I have bronchitis and I am trying really hard to not let it get me down! I hate being sick and it seems like I am sick more often than not!

At any rate. I plan on doing my Fry Day Friday whether I feel good or not. Of course I probably won’t be able to taste them so this might be a good time to try out those cold nasty things at McD’s.

Na, I’ve already got somewhere else picked out. I am looking forward to it!

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(Book Review) The Gospel and Personal Evangelism.

September 25, 2007 · Posted in Books, Reviews · 1 Comment 

I have a lot of books on evangelism, a lot! Why you may ask, because I can. The book The Gospel and Personal Evangelism falls into the easy to read easy to understand category. Some books tend to take it too far, so the layman can’t really understand what they are talking about. Mark Dever, has kept it simple without taking any shortcuts. Just the facts, that seems to be what his idea was when writing this book and if it was he succeeded.

Mr Dever covers all the bases with this book from who should evangelize(everyone) to why. What stuck with me the most you ask? Alright you didn’t ask but I will tell you anyway. My favorite quote from this book would be

“We don’t fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not converted; we fail only if we don’t faithfully tell the gospel at all.”

He also has a chapter called “Why don’t we evangelize” Which effectively destroys most of the reasons we tend to have to not share the gospel. Jesus made it simple for us too, in Matthew 28:18-20 He gave us the Great Commission. When you think about it it really isn’t that much to ask. He could have told us we had to jump through flaming hoops while dowsed in gasoline or cover ourselves in honey and lie on a fire ant hill, but He didn’t. He asked us to go and make disciples of all nations. And as usual I have gotten sidetracked. This is about Mark Dever’s book and not my personal opinions on what we should all be doing.

Getting back on track. The Gospel and Personal Evangelism is a good read and very concise, he doesn’t go off track like I tend to do. This would be a useful read for all Christians and their pastors too.

I am giving this book five stars. If I could afford to I would get a copy for everyone in my church. I may approach the pastor with this idea and see if he could meet me halfway.
Rating: ★★★★★

The book, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, was provided to me at no cost by Active Christian Media and Crossway Books for review purposes. To become a reviewer for ACM you may click here.

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Fry Day #1 Wendy’s

September 20, 2007 · Posted in Fry Day · 2 Comments 

First off, happy Friday and secondly happy Fry Day. Every Friday I will add a review of someones fries. I have access to quite a few establishments here that have fries on the menu. After that I may stat in on the store brands and review them too. If you have a favorite place to get fries, let me know. Maybe someday I will get to try them out too as long as I don’t have to travel too far!

Our first victim for Fry Day will be Wendy’s. Those catchy ads with the red hair just make it a prime candidate! That and my wife wanted to go eat too so I had to go somewhere she liked.

Info:
Wendy’s Restaurant
Franklin, IN
Time of day: 1:00pm
Wendy’s fries are cooked in 0 trans fat vegetable oil.
All ratings except hot are a 1-10 scale. Hot is how long they remain warm.

Taste: 4
Appearance: 7
Saltiness: 5
Crispiness: 5
Hot: 14 minutes
Quantity: 140g
Price:$1.49
Value: $.01 per gram

Lets talk about the taste first. I could taste the potato but there was an underlying taste that I couldn’t quite place. The problem with rating fries is that they are usually cooked in the same fryer that they make the fish and the chicken sandwiches in. I didn’t detect either of those in the taste. Maybe I was just tasting the oil?

The appearance was very nice. Nice even browning with very few of the dark spots.

I gave the saltiness a 5 because there was a slight problem. Some of the fries had no salt at all and others had so much it was overpowering. Someone was not stirring their fries!

The crispiness was off a little too. I think mine had been sitting for a little bit in the pan so they weren’t as crisp as they usually are but they weren’t as bad as some i have had, we will cover those later.

Because they are a thin cut fry they didn’t stay hot very long. I have always hated that but usually I can eat them fast enough that I don’t get too many cold ones.

The quantity was 140 grams of fries which is close to the stated weight of 142 grams on their website. I won’t quibble over 2 grams.

That leaves the price. $1.49 for a medium order of fries. I guess everyone is on the price hike bandwagon for fries now. At any rate it works out to be .01 per gram. I may have to revise the value rating in the future and not round it out as much as most places are going to be very similar in the value price.

A couple of quick photos:

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Why I am beginning to hate shopping.

September 19, 2007 · Posted in Blog · 3 Comments 

I was on a quest today. A mission so to speak. Since I am going forward with the Fry Day idea I realized there were a few things I needed. Without getting into too much detail on what Fry Day is yet let me just say there are a few minor needs in order to do this right.

First I went to the small players, the dollar store and a dollar general. While I have no delusions of grandeur, I was pretty sure my quest would end with these two stores! I was wrong, apparently a small kitchen scale and a ruler are too much for these types of stores.

Next up, my love to hate it store whose name starts with a w and ends with almart. Let’s just forget that they recently remodeled and moved everything in the store to some remote location that no one seems to be able to find. The big problem was that I could not, for the life of me, find a ruler there. I looked in school supplies and office supplies and even the hobby aisle, nada. To say that I was getting irritated would have been a serious understatement. My kids got their school supplies from there just a scant few weeks ago and now they are all out of rulers?

Same story with the small scale. That slot on the shelf was conveniently empty. But they did have a major brand digital scale that could apparently solve all the worlds problems too. I mean considering how much they wanted for it, it must be made of gold!

So today was not a success but hey, theres always tomorrow!

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