Gimme some of those tots
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8-1-ill order something else
From best to worst - 2,8,4,3,7,1,5,6
Wedges, winners
Onion rings second depending on their quality
Then sweet potato fries
[paja] (a Spanish variety that's amazing)
Shoe stings
curly
Zigzag
tots
Waffles
5,3,8,4,7,2,6,1
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What? No Mojo's??
3 2 1 4 7 6 8 5
I love my thick wedges! Shoestring always disappoints me for some reason
1 6 8 4 3 2 7 5
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Yes. Also yes... And yes...
I would like onion rings but shaped like curly fries #2
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8, 1, 6, 7, 4, 2, 3, 5
2, the rest of the list.
I love all of these, not gonna lie.
Onion rings top, then tots, then everything else
Curly, shoestring, sweet potato. The rest are unappetizing, either too greasy to bear or not crunchy enough. Swap hash browns in for onion rings and we have a contender.
Waffle fries > onion rings > wedges
8, 5, 7, 1, 6, 4, 3, 2
3, 4, 2, 8, 6, 1, 7, 5. Because tots are absolutely immaculate, and sweet potatos (tho good when roasted) are simply not the same kind of satisfying guilty pleasure as the rest.
wedges, waffle, tots, onion rings, curly, shoestring, crinkle (never heard them called zigzag), sweet potato
I have had really good sweet potato fries that rank much higher, but they're a gamble. Seem to have greater variation in quality than the other options.
Shoestring, Onion Ring, Waffle, Tots, Curly, Wedges, Zigzag, Sweet Potato
Onion rings, sweet potatoes, and you can have the rest.
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Starting with the best: 8,2,3,4,6,7,5,1
1 > 2 > 5 > 8 > 4 > 3 > 6 > 7
Never had curlies, tots (not even sure what they are) or waffle fries.
After reading the comments I think I've never had good onion rings or sweet potato fries. Those are a no from me. Onion rings were just deep fried batter and sweet potato was sweet and soggy. Both didn't leave an impresion.
Now my potato of choice is wedges (especially if cooked in an oven). Then whatever is left. Not sure why everyone is hating on zigzags. The thickness is similar to straight fries so it should cook similarly and without seasoning everything will taste bland.
Zigzag?? Bitch you mean crinkle cut?!?!
Posting such a controversial question and putting in onion rings on this list is bordering on rage bait
Edit: I can't type
"Sides you dip in ketchup" covers everything in the image!
One is not like the others.
two are not like the others
They're all fried tubers. I'll let it slide. The real travesty is no fried yuca on the list.
I don't believe onions are tubers..
I had to look it up -- allium
Sweet Potato is at least a potato.
Is it? In that case, potatoes are apples by French standards. (Because it's in the name.)
Most of them pictured aren't even French cut.
They are at least relatives.
They’re as closely related as a human and a lemur.
The Spanish just got confused between the names batata and papa and called them similar names. Yams are even further away from both sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Sweet potatoes are more potatoes than onions are potatoes.
What are yams though?
They’re fucking monocots, so way the hell removed (like onions). But none of these plants even share a family, order is the closest it gets.
What do you mean, potatoes are closer to tomatoes than to sweet potatoes or onions?
Botany is a scam.
Well you are looking at the wrong part of the plant. Potatoes are roots. Have a look at the fruits of the potato plant, they look very much like tomatoes.
I was super proud of myself last month, because I saw the leaves of a potato plant for the first time and my first thought was that it looked like tobacco. Turns out, tobacco’s also a nightshade!
Botany is fucking weird, but especially nightshades: staple carbs, deadly poisons, fucked up psychotropics, nicotine, capsaicin, a bunch of semisweet edible berries (from physalis to tomatoes to eggplants), and of course, peanuts.
can't taters be poisonous
Yes, though you mostly need to watch out for raw/green potatoes, and most cases of potato poisoning are not fatal.
I think most of the nightshades can be poisonous/deadly in some way- eggplants can be bitter enough to upset your stomach if you don’t prepare them right, tomatoes are just a mutation away from being poisonous, and peanuts are highly allergenic. AFAIK, only one person has died from capsaicin, but he had a heart condition. That one will still definitely fuck your digestive system up though.
Potatoes are a member of the Nightshade family.
Sweet "Potatoes" are from the Morning Glory family.
Completely separate genus. Even though they can be mostly cooked and prepared similarly, they are not related.
Zigzag
Uh, it's crinkle cut and someone will die on my hill.
They are orthogonal to the potato axis.
I've tried onion rings at at least 5 different resteraunts. All of them just tasted like heart failure. Don't know how they are popular.
... are the wedges the only non fried food in this picture?
How about boiling them tatoes?

Or simply pan fry them with some butter?

Anyways; 1. Wedges, 2. Waffles, 3. Shoestring with surprise sweet potatoes > The rest.
Wedges are fried often times. At our nation-wide supermarket for example, at the ready-made counter, wedges are definitely fried. Same with the mom and pop chicken shop down the street.
I think the OP was originally about fried preparation of potatoes. Wedges at least in North America are usually fried, I think the only non-fried ones I've seen are in the UK.
Also if we're talking about the best preparation of potatoes in general, it's mashed and there's no argument there.
This

With Belgian mayonaise!
And I'm Dutch so I'm not even biased.
Is that the same thing sold as "frite sauce"? That stuff is the food of the gods
Yes. Vlaamse frieten zijn superieur.
Why Vlaamse? Good fries also in Brussels and Wallonia
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Tater tot: A good tater tot is like butter. Pure salt and crunch then melt in your mouth deliciousness.
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Onion Rings: Good onion rings is technically better than tater tots, but the spectrum of bad to good onion rings is very wide.
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Curly Fries: Curly Fries are hard to fuck up. I don't even think I've had a variation of curly fries. They're all the same to me, but they're so good.
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Wedges: Wedges have a smaller spectrum than onion rings, but the ceiling is lower and they're hard to rank better than the ones ahead of them.
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Shoestring: McDonalds
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ZigZag: These can range from heavenly to straight fucking trash. Unfortunately they're too easy to turn into straight fucking trash. By that I mean you have to put more work into them to make them good as opposed to just salt and oven/fried. Might as well just try to fry some snow at that point.
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Sweet Potato: I've had good sweet potato fries but I rarely get good sweet potato fries.
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Waffle: I don't get these. They're ass. The only place that makes them kinda tolerable is Chik-Fila, but even then they're still ass to me. Can't even make them good at home without drowning them in salt and ketchup. I can slice up a potato and chuck them in the oven and get better results most of the time.
Edit for formatting. Apparently piefed, doesn't honor your numbering and turns it into 1, 2, 3, etc even if you go 8, 12, 3.
I nearly dismissed your review until you qualified your assessment of onion rings. I have transposed the order on those first two myself
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