French fries

Take me to the fries! "Little fry, who made thee?" In the beginning was the potato. How it found its way from the South American highlands into those little sacks of McDonald's fries is a long, adventurous tale, involving Conquistadors, Marie Antoinette, and Thomas Jefferson. Millionaires have been made and millions more have died from dependence on that simple, innocent potato. Here, then, is the story of the spud, which reached its crowning achievement only once it had been paired with oil

“French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.” Robert Kiyosaki explained clearly in the above sentence about the danger of french fries. French fries is a type of fast food where potato stripes are deep fried in hot oil. Some believe that it is from France, other believe it is from Belgium. People all over the world love to eat it with different condiments. Americans eat them with ketchup while Belgians dip them in mayonnaise. They got popular world-wide

Fries are one of the many trademark foods of McDonald’s restaurants, with millions of people flocking to their local McDonald’s every day to enjoy the delectable potato side dish. The fries are also quite cheap— only costing $1.39 for a small, or $2.29 for a large at McDonald’s in the United States (not including tax), making them a very desirable purchase. However, many may ask themselves if they are receiving an amount of fries that makes the low price actually “low,” especially when looking at

consumed in the United States. One of the most popular fried food is French fries. The average North American eats nearly 29 pounds of French fries per year (Sloam, 2014). According to statistics from the NPD Group, a global market research firm, 10.7 billion servings of French fries were ordered at restaurants and food service outlets in the 12 months ending May 2015 (Sozzi, 2015). Despite those high numbers, sales of French fries - a particularly profitable menu item - continue to decline, a trend

First, have you ever wonder what homemade French fries taste like? Well, for me it tastes like a memory that scar my taste buds forever. It all began when Lee was fifteen years old. She thought she was an amazing cook. She was learning how to cook rice, beans, chicken and mixing food together to see what science experiment will come out. Honestly, it all tasted somewhat... bad. But I still had hope that she would learn how to cook and that it tastes… well… good. But I should have listened to my gut

Supersize Me: The Rhetoric of French Fries The United States of America has long been considered a “big nation”, whether is has the biggest cities, houses, and on a negative note, biggest people. In 2003, Morgan Spurlock, a healthy-bodied film director, set on a quest to show America the detrimental effects of the fast food industry and raise awareness on the controversial issue. He produced the documentary “Supersize Me”, where McDonald’s meals were consumed for every meal of the day for thirty

In regards to the french fry cigarette artifact, the exigency exist as an implication of the dangers of fast food and how the issue with obesity has become an epidemic in our country. The intended audience can be seen as both the general public and consumers of fast food. The audience can be implied because french fries is seen as a symbol for fast food and the United States department of Health and Human services can be seen as the beacon of health to the American people. The invoked audience in

Obesity is a major personal issue currently in America, that is influenced by the public issue of an excessive amount of fast food restaurants. The passage “French Fries as a Contraband” by Kathy McManus explains the effects of fast food by location. The Los Angeles government is trying to have a control on what their citizens eat by limiting the amount of fast food restaurants there are in a neighborhood/ area. They are trying to ban any new fast food restaurants from opening in a 32 mi.² area of

Some people would argue that McDonald’s fries are the Holy Grail of French fries. Ray Croc, one of the founders of McDonald’s wrote in his autobiography that the French fry was “almost sacrosanct for me” (Schlosser 50). What was it that made their fries the leader in fast food? In the early years, it was the way they were fried that gave them this intriguing flavor. As time progressed, in the mid 60’s, they began to use frozen fries to cut cost, and people noticed. In the 90’s, consumers began

current obesity rates rising at a very high rate the government should be able to tell us what to eat The personal problem of weight gain and self control have transformed into a public issue that needs to be addressed by the government. The article “French Fries as Contraband” by Kathy McManus gives insight and information about a law passed in Los angles banning the creation of any new fast-food restaurants in 32 mile zone located Low income zone in South central LA, The Idea of this law is to attract