My Take on Wendy's New Fries

I am very critical when it comes to fast food french fries...I am picky about fries in general, but since I eat fast food fries more often than any other fries, I keep my standards high.

Before Wendy's adopted these 'new' fries, my favorite fries were McDonalds at #1, Wendy's at # 2, Chick-Fil-A's waffle fries # 3, Arby's curly fries # 4, and as for Burger King...well, I never liked them anyway.

Last month or maybe two months ago, Wendy's decided that they wanted to do these 'natural-cut' made of 'russett potatos' and seasoned with 'sea-salt' fries that were radically different than their previous fries. The change was sudden and unexpected.

At first, I thought this sounded kind of interesting and figured that these would be in addition to the regular fries on the menu, but when I found out that these were totally replacing their old fries, I got worried...and for good reason.

When these fries made their debut, I went out of my way to stop by Wendys so that I could try them out. I found them to be a bit greasy and over salted. They weren't as bad as Burger King, but they weren't good. I tried them again about two weeks later with similar results.

Wendy's was attempting to emulate a 'boardwalk fries' taste with their sea-salt and natural cut, but alas, they are far from boardwalk fries and even further away from their original fries which were perfect.

I just don't get it... As far as I could tell, there wasn't anyone complaining about Wendy's fries. They weren't nearly as good as McDonald's fries, but they were pretty darn good. I can only hope that the public realizes these fries aren't good and demands that Wendy's brings back the original recipe, until then they are second to last on my list of favorite fries.



**Note** The word "fries" was used 20 times in the previous blog-post