French fries around the world

"Anyone who's from the West Coast knows about In-N-Out's delicious mess of a creation referred to as animal-style fries. Grilled onions, special sauce, and cheese bring In-N-Out's famously average fries to a whole new level of tasty."

Why do restaurants keep saying "special sauce"? It's just freaking thousand island dressing.

R1 true

What a disgusting array of glop in that Insider.com piece. Fries should always have a degree of crispness, otherwise what is the point?

Belgian frites, twice or thrice fried can be truly wonderful, but the truth is that most are ordinary at best. Leaving it to chance is asking for trouble, like buying a curry at the first place you stumble upon n the UK.

It's much easier to find excellent fries in Paris.

Patatas bravas (image) in Spain are different enough in form, and when nicely crisped and with excellent sauces (alioli and salsa brava) are a perfect dish.

Keep your poutines, curry chips, and heavily sauced and gravied muck. Sauces (however broadly you want to term that) shuld always be on the side or applied directly with a moderation to insiure crispness.

Poutine is hog slop.

Poutine is crack cocaine.

We call them " Freedom Fires."

Don't laugh, but the best fries to me are Nathan's crinkly fries. Heavy potato over oil flavor, and they're even great cold, unlike many other fries which are only good right out of the fryer for about 5 to 10 minutes tops.