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.

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