Who Has The Best French Fry? BLIND TASTE TEST

You might not realize this about me, but if you watch the show enough, you do know that I'm something of a culinary expert and critic, especially when it comes to fast food and especially when it comes to french fries. I consider myself to be kind of an aficionado of french fries and I have said on the show many times when it has come up that Arby's has the best french fries. Arby's has the best french fries, hands down, no question about it. The worst are McDonald's and McDonald's french fries have actually gotten worse over time. It's not just that, but it's the best fast food chain of all of them. Have you lost your mind? It also has the best french fries and so today I've been challenged to rank french fries from a without being told what chain has produced each individual fry and I'll rank and then I guess we'll see if I'm as good at judging french fries as I think. Our intern, I'm told, spent an hour and a half going around buying french fries. Okay, so we'll start here and we'll go down the list. That's a solid french fry. Very soft. It's got enough firmness, which I like, but it's got the soft center, which you need. Not undercooked. A little bit on the salty side. A little bit too much salt, but still pretty good. Now see, these are undercooked. These are pretty offensive to me. These are not just undercooked, but there's no seasoning. This tastes like, it's like if you get a bag of frozen french fries that you pull out of your freezer and you just throw them in the oven and feed them to your kids because they don't know what's good and what's not. Those are very bad. Those are terrible. Okay, so these are an abomination. This is, this is a truly disgraceful. How do you not even put salt? There's no, look at this, there's no salt on the, on the french fries at all. So we've got like pretty good, uh, a human rights violation. Let's see what happens next. Also, we've got another salt problem here. We've got a salt problem and that there's none somehow. A little bit undercooked. You know, I have this theory and I can't prove it, but I think the quality of french fries nationwide in really every context has declined rapidly. This is an epidemic nobody's talking about, but even at like a sit down restaurant, french fries just aren't what they used to be. I don't know why. I don't know what that is. I don't know if they're getting the potatoes from someplace different. I don't know. I don't know how to explain it, but this is another, that's a poor showing. That's bad. That's not good. There's no salt. You can't, I mean, you got to season it. And if the french fries are properly, you notice something, you notice what I don't have when we're doing a french fry taste tasting. I don't have ketchup. I'm not a child. Ketchup is for children. And if your french fries are properly seasoned, you shouldn't need ketchup. You shouldn't need any dipping sauce at all. Okay. I got news for you. These two suck. I would still eat them all. I mean, don't get me wrong. If I went to a place and they gave me this, I'll eat the whole thing, but it's bad. There's a little more salt still not. Okay. Here we've got, we've got the salt, but the crispiness, look at this. You see how that, you see that, how it's kind of like it's flaccid. I hate to use that phrase for something I'm eating, but it is like, it just, it's wilted. You see that? That's not now like you see that there, that french fry. Yeah. It's got some give to it, you know? Okay. When you do that, but it's, it's firm enough and you want that firmness in your french fry. And this is just, it's just hanging. It's pathetic. You give this to me, I'm gonna throw it back in your face. So that's not good. We've only had one good one so far. And here I could already tell these are barely, these are like not cooked at all. This is not, this is, look at this. This wasn't even cooked. It's greasy. So these were just doused in grease. They took it out of the freezer. They doused it in grease and they let it just sit on a countertop and they're serving it to me. I don't even have to eat. Look at that. There's no, there's all the grease. There's plenty of grease. There's no, there's no salt. There's no seasoning. And it's just, it's just laying there like that. It's like a worm. Oh no. That, that, that just, that's pure grease. It just tastes like grease. It's congealed grease. Wow. This, this went worse than I expected. I didn't go into this planning on hating all of them. I really didn't. I thought that, you know, how could this, it's a YouTube video where I'm eating French fries. I don't know how enjoyable the YouTube video is going to be for you. I thought it'd be, it would be enjoyable for me. But really, this is the only, this is not perfect. This is about an 85. I give about 85 points out of a hundred. This is about a 72. I give this about a 72, maybe a 72.5 out of a hundred. Um, this is a zero. That, that you get nothing. And then these two are right around the 50%. Not quite a passing grade. Um, uh, this passes and this, you know, is a good B plus. So that tells me I'm going to guess that's a number one. That's our Arby's. So Arby's was number two. Well, I was pretty close then. That's not bad. This was my second best one. These are an abomination, truly disgraceful. I called it an abomination, but I, you know, I don't even believe this. This is not, this is not legitimate. This is, this has been rigged. Like you get, you told them to give me undercooked fries. Don't you, how do I know that you didn't tell them, Oh, I don't want salt on it. Don't give me unsalted fries. There's no salt on these fries. This, you found the one bad, like I know Arby's. Okay. I've Arby's all over the country. They found the one bad Arby's location, which is apparently right near the studio. And, uh, and they managed to produce these subpar fries, but so Arby's let me down.