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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Gimme some of those tots

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago
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    8-1-ill order something else

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    From best to worst - 2,8,4,3,7,1,5,6

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  • 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

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  • 5,3,8,4,7,2,6,1

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    What? No Mojo's??

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    3 2 1 4 7 6 8 5

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I love my thick wedges! Shoestring always disappoints me for some reason

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  • 1 6 8 4 3 2 7 5

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago
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    Yes. Also yes... And yes...

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  • I would like onion rings but shaped like curly fries #2

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago
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    8, 1, 6, 7, 4, 2, 3, 5

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    2, the rest of the list.

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  • I love all of these, not gonna lie.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Onion rings top, then tots, then everything else

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Waffle fries > onion rings > wedges

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    8, 5, 7, 1, 6, 4, 3, 2

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • Shoestring, Onion Ring, Waffle, Tots, Curly, Wedges, Zigzag, Sweet Potato

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Onion rings, sweet potatoes, and you can have the rest.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Starting with the best: 8,2,3,4,6,7,5,1

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    1 > 2 > 5 > 8 > 4 > 3 > 6 > 7

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 97 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Zigzag?? Bitch you mean crinkle cut?!?!

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It’s not worth respecting something that clearly belongs on the bottom of the list.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sweet potato is at the bottom. If you disagree with me, you're an idiot.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ok, but I'm an idiot with happy taste buds.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Posting such a controversial question and putting in onion rings on this list is bordering on rage bait

    Edit: I can't type

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    One is not like the others.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    They're all fried tubers. I'll let it slide. The real travesty is no fried yuca on the list.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don't believe onions are tubers..

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I had to look it up -- allium

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Sweet Potato is at least a potato.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Is it? In that case, potatoes are apples by French standards. (Because it's in the name.)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Sweet potatoes are more potatoes than onions are potatoes.

    What are yams though?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What do you mean, potatoes are closer to tomatoes than to sweet potatoes or onions?

    Botany is a scam.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It is not a potato.

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Zigzag

    Uh, it's crinkle cut and someone will die on my hill.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ... 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    This

    With Belgian mayonaise!

    And I'm Dutch so I'm not even biased.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes. Vlaamse frieten zijn superieur.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    Okay, two of them aren’t even the same vegetable.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    No. I refuse to rank my children as well.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)
    1. Tater tot: A good tater tot is like butter. Pure salt and crunch then melt in your mouth deliciousness.

    2. Onion Rings: Good onion rings is technically better than tater tots, but the spectrum of bad to good onion rings is very wide.

    3. 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.

    4. 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.

    5. Shoestring: McDonalds

    6. 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.

    7. Sweet Potato: I've had good sweet potato fries but I rarely get good sweet potato fries.

    8. 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.

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