French fries have been the sidekick of meals at fast food restaurants since World War II. Whether it is waffle fries, curly fries, crinkle fries or straight fries, people love the light golden brown crispy exterior french fries with a soft interior that you can find at most fast food restaurants.
It isn’t fair to rank fast food french fries straight up because of all the different styles of french fries. While some restaurants dominate unique fries and others choose more common fries that have more competition.
The best style of french fries are waffle fries according to a survey that included 106 Mount Vernon highschoolers. The best waffle fries are easily the Chick-Fil-A waffle fries that have been around since 1985. When you think about getting waffle fries on the road you probably think about Chick-Fil-A and their signature Fries. When Mount Vernon High school students were asked what their favorite waffle fries were, 98 out of the 106 students said Chick-Fil-A. With that being said most fast food places don’t sell waffle fries because of the difficult shape leaving Chick-Fil-A with little competition. Chick-Fil-A has some of the best fries with a good ratio of salt and good texture.
Another unique french fry is the Curly fries. According to Mount Vernon students curly fries are the second most popular. Arby’s has the best curly fries according to the 106 students, 87 thought Arby’s has the best curly fries and 13 thought Hardee’s was the best.
The most common french fries, the straight fry, was the third favorite in Mount Vernon high school. About every fast food restaurant serves straight cut fries. The most popular straight cut fry is from McDonald’s according to 61 of 16 students. The rest of the students had different opinions on what the best straight fries are. Freddy’s has the second favriote fries. Burger King and Wendy’s are tied for the third best fry. Dairy Queen had the fifth best straight fry and there were a lot of other fries like Taco Bell and Five Guys, even KFC and Popeyes.
The last french fry is the crinkle fry. Culver’s was the majority favorite with over 50% of the students saying they had their favorite Crinkle fry. The next favorite was Raising Cane’s crinkle fry with a little over a quarter of the students saying they had the best crinkle fries. Sonic was the third favorite then a close fourth and fifth was Shake Shack and Five Guys.
Andrew Errington is a kitchen assistant at Scorz. Errington explained how the fries are made at Scorz. First thing he does is get the premeasured french fries and put them in the basket before dropping it in the fryer. He fries the french fries until the texture and color is right. Although Errington works at Scorz his favorite french fries are Culver’s crinkle fries. He likes to drink a shake then dip one to two fries into ketchup and eat it.
In the Mount Vernon area there are a lot of restaurants and fast food places that serve french fries. The Dairy Queen straight fries are the favorite local fry according to 28 students out of 106. A close second and third favorite is Whitey’s and Scorz that serve crispy straight fries. The fourth favorite french fries according to Mount Vernon students are curly fries from Hardee’s.
French fries can be dipped in many different sauces. In the survey there were 13 sauces that people said was their sauce of choice for dipping fries. Ranch was the favorite of 27 of the 106 students. It was a little over a quarter of the students being the favorite. Other favorites were ketchup according to 21 students as well as Chick-Fil-A sauce by 15 students and Cane’s sauce to eight high schoolers.
