The Lord speaks: on fry news, talking pictures, and literature

Not much going on these days out there in the fry world….unless you count all that crap about trans fats and acrylamide…which is all very boring in my opinion. French fries are bad for you…okay, WE GET IT. Consider this dead horse officially beat.
Not to worry, soon all this transfat stuff [...]

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Under the Heat Lamp – Reviews from Abroad

Noriko checks in from glorious Newfoundland to gush over the Hot Shoppe fries…

Hello Fry Fans, Noriko here, reporting from the Rock.. With the Christmas season coming up, I’d like to try to give a little christmas cheer from east island yonder of the treasure trove I stumbled onto as I hungrily foraged for food after [...]

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Fries fit for a King…or at least a Lord

So the Lord and Lady were out shopping in Cambridge on Saturday and we decided to try out the poutine at Harvest.
I blogged about these a while back and I am very glad we decided to finally try them out. Quite simply put, these may be the classiest fries you’ll ever have. Harvest [...]

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Under the Heat Lamp-Reviews from Abroad

Another hard hitting exposé from veteran fry reviewer Cuzzy.
Rogues Roost
located at 5435 Spring Garden Rd in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
French Fries $2.95, With Gravy $3.95
A generous basket full of our lightly seasoned, golden beefeater fries
I have to say that the fries at this place made up for everything it was lacking. I am not saying it [...]

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Under the Heat Lamp-Reviews from Abroad

Today’s Special Guest Reviewer: Cuzzy!
Bud the Spud, voted best fries in Halifax for 2006. Located on Spring Garden Road at Brunswick. It was also voted best restaurant on wheels. I have had these tasty fries a few times and I have to say they rock. Golden and crispy right out of the deep fryer [...]

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Boston’s Best Fries 2006

From Best of Citysearch Boston
as voted on by the people for the people…
2006 Winner: Boston Beer Works
Here’s a peak at their Fries, Fries, Fries menu:
FRIES, FRIES, FRIES:
Overflowing buckets of rough-cut, skin-on fries.
Classic Frie
Seasoned with a special blend of salt & spices. $3.95
Sour Cream & Chive Fries
Seasoned & served with ranch dressing for dipping. [...]

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The Boston Fry Tour

Not your traditional poutine, but I’d still eat the heck out of em.
From The Phoenix:

Poutine at Harvest
44 Brattle Street, Cambridge, 617.868.2255
$9
Keith Pooler, executive chef
Tell me about the poutine. It’s a bar-menu item? Yeah. I actually had a couple chefs come in last night and had it. It’s one of those chef kind of things. [...]

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Under the Heat Lamp – Reviews from Abroad

Featuring:
Boomers Gourmet Fries in Stratford, Ontario
Today’s very special guest reviewer:
Noriko!!
Here’s what she had to say about her Boomers experience:
It serves the best fries and poutine! and they also have yam fries, which is just incredible and amazing. The fries aren’t greasy, and even with the poutine cheese and totally homemade gravy, the fries are [...]

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Under the Heat Lamp – Reviews From Abroad

Fries reviewer: Cuzzy @ the local Wendy’s in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Temperature: Right out of the oven hot! This is key to pure enjoyment
Crispy-ness: Perfect, very little crusties at the bottom
Colour: Golden brown just like they should be
Taste: Mouth watering potato flavour. Always key in something claiming to be potato.
Enjoyed with: Four small cups of [...]

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Under the Heat Lamp

My pick for Best Fast Food Fry:

As frozen fast food fries go, you really can’t beat the Wendy’s fry. Relatively big and thick and full of (I think) actual potato these fries beat all those other “*sell out” fries hands down. I also like the powdery salt they use on these [...]

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