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Fry Day #1 Wendy’s

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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Now, where was I?

Oh yeah, I remember now!

I was reflecting on things from my youth when I got all caught up in complaining about the world in general and my work specifically! So anyway the town I grew up in was small, very small. It didn’t have much so what it did have had to be special or it would go belly up pretty quick. The trailer factory pretty much made the town. It employed most of the people it seemed like. We will leave the trailer factory and my experiences with it for another day though.

Today we will talk about what was my favorite place in town. The Tastee-Freez, it wasn’t much but I loved the place. Whenever I went there I always got either a raspberry or chocolate shake and a pizza burger, the good kind with the cheese in the middle of the burger that dripped out and stuck to you like blazing hot napalm. Oh but burning your lower lip was so worth it when it came to those bad boys.

Like all good things though it had to come to an end. As people started venturing outside the city limits to do their shopping they also started eating out somewhere else too. The building itself was always the home of some ice cream shop or another. Oddly I can’t remember the names of them. The last time I looked it was still there but I didn’t have the heart to go in. I was sure that it just wouldn’t live up to my memories of it and sometimes our memories are all we have!