Wendy’s revamped its fry recipe and method for the first time in a decade last year, swapping out its Natural-Cut Fries for its new and improved Hot & Crispy Fries. The California-based fast food joint’s Animal-Style Fries are a cult-fave secret menu item with layers of fries smothered in melted cheese, In-N-Out's secret spread, and grilled onions. Not that it could possibly keep us from the chain’s beloved starchy side. They sure are! Nacho Fries returned to menu in March 2022, but only for a little while. Of course, we got our hands on them right away and found that they're indeed hotter and crispier than before, thanks to an exterior designed to both act as a heat shield for the tasty tater interior and provide lasting crunch. Wendy's heralded the new fries as "a cut above the competition," saying they were completely reengineered to retain heat and crispiness, which made a lot of sense considering how people were increasingly turning to delivery options during the pandemic. The company rolled out its new fries towards the end of 2021, marking the first time in 10 years (wow, we can't believe it had been that long) since it tweaked its signature spud recipe. Then-as if Wendy's read what we said in the previous version of this very ranking-the pigtailed chain changed its fries. Our experience with those fries was the opposite-they weren't all that good you were better off dipping them in your Frosty than anything else. Wendy's made a bold move to "natural-cut" fries with "sea salt" many years back, possibly in an effort to convince patrons they were at a farmers market rather than a chain restaurant with thousands of locations. Also, to be considered, a chain had to land within our definition of fast food (sorry, fast casual folks!) and have either a national reach or a cult-like regional following to make the list. A place might do some amazing chili-cheese fries but that's for another day that involves more Tums. This is a discussion of potatoes, not condiments. This was the challenge we were born for, and thanks to more salt and oil than we're comfortably attempting to quantify, we did it.īut before we get into our scientific conclusions, a few ground rules. Then we remembered we'd get to eat said fries from more than a dozen fast food chains. While they're perceived as the cheeseburger's sidekick, they're often the chief substance a lonely soul idling through a fast food drive-thru is craving.Īt first, reviewing and ranking more than a dozen fast food chains' fries-from Arby's Curly Fries to Chick-fil-A's beloved Waffle Fries-seemed like a daunting, if not impossible, task. Few questions in American society are met with a resounding "yes" more often than "Would you like fries with that?" Partly because we have serious self-control issues, but also because fries-in all their shapes and sizes-are amazing.
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