French Fry Diary

French Fry Diary 493: Cool Dog Cafe Onion Rings

2013-05-22T15:44:00.000-04:00

After seeing onion rings and crisps featured as part of various special hot dogs and sliders at Cool Dog Café, I was pleased to see on my most recent visit to my favorite dog place, that the onion rings had officially been added to the ever-growing and changing menu. What a pleasant surprise. We of course ordered them to see if they were as good as the other excellent fries products Cool

French Fry Diary 492: Perkins Restaurant & Bakery

2013-05-21T22:04:00.000-04:00

Flashing back to a few months ago when my friend Ken came into town for a few days, here is yet another Ken entry. As I've mentioned before, not many of my friends are non-health-conscious enough to go on FFD excursions with me, so these trips are usually rare or done solo. Ken, while on vacation, is unofficially also off diet, but don't tell his wife that, wink wink. We had one lazy day

Random Tater Pic of the Day #102

2013-05-20T15:22:00.000-04:00

From the On the Border menu - Avocado Fries.

Baked Tempura Potato Slices

2013-05-17T18:53:00.000-04:00

This one comes from the Facebook, from my friend and fellow writer Jerry Whitworth. These are Baked Tempura Potato Slices. Here's the goods, from Jerry himself, "Peel and slice some potatoes. Mix flour and water to make a batter. Spray some nonfat cooking spray onto a baking sheet (oven pre-heated to 450°). Dip the slices into the batter to a light coating and lay out the slices on the

Random Tater Pic of the Day #101

2013-05-16T15:06:00.000-04:00

Walmart meat chips. I got nothing.

French Fry Diary 491: T.G.I. Fridays Onion Rings Snacks

2013-05-15T14:30:00.000-04:00

I am always leery of onion flavored snacks. They are usually pretty bad and unflavorful. The good ones, like the ones from 7-Eleven, are few and far beyond. These T.G.I. Fridays Onion Rings Snacks are pretty average, and had a few things going against them from the start. I found them at Dollar Tree. No offense to Dollar Tree, but let's face it, food from dollar stores is, by

French Fry Diary 490: The Chips of West Virginia

2013-05-14T21:48:00.000-04:00

Usually it's my friend Marni who finds the odd and out of the way potato chips for me to write about on this blog. This time, she put her boyfriend/partner/common law husband, Bob, to work for me. He was hiking in West Virginia and picked up two different bags of WV-based barbecue flavored potato chips. Surprisingly both of these regional brands I had tried before, but not these flavors.

And the Winner Is...

2013-05-07T21:42:00.000-04:00

...Lay's Cheesy Garlic Bread Potato Chips! Details are here.

French Fry Diary 489: The Onion Chips

2013-05-03T18:58:00.000-04:00

There were some similar potato chips in the bag o' rare chips The Bride got me for Christmas from Anchor Food Finds. In this case, there were three bags of much the same theme - onions. Deep River Sweet Maui Onion - this would be my second bag of Deep River chips from the bag o' rare chips. These were really not as good as the first bag. No great aroma, no great flavor. All in all, a

French Fry Diary 488: NJ DIS Meet Weekend

2013-05-02T14:55:00.000-04:00

This past weekend The Bride and I attended the NJ DIS Meet Weekend. More details on that can be found here, but for the purposes of this blog, we're going to concentrate on the favorite fried food. On Saturday, the events came with a lunch. The meal consisted of Caesar salad, bread, steamed mixed vegetables, baked ziti, something that might or might not have been chicken francese, and

French Fry Diary 487: Arby's House Made Chips

2013-05-01T23:51:00.000-04:00

As part of their promotion for their King's Hawaiian roast beef sandwich, along with their Triple Berry Shake, Arby's has also introduced House Made Chips. The ads claim they are made fresh daily with Arby's sauce seasoning. A new fried potato product at Arby's? Guess where I'm going for lunch. When I first got to the restaurant, the counterperson was helping a handicapped lady to her

Hostess Potato Chips

2013-04-30T17:19:00.000-04:00

Does anyone else remember this? I'm drawing a blank, and I'm wondering if it's just me…

Random Tater Pic of the Day #100

2013-04-29T20:20:00.000-04:00

Today's Somebody Else's Fries come from my buddy Ray and his lovely wife, who recent had dinner at the Valley Forge Casino. They dined at the steakhouse there, Pacific Prime, and Ray took a pic of these fries. From what I hear, the rest of the dinner was pretty sensational too.

Random Tater Pic of the Day #99

2013-04-24T18:15:00.000-04:00

My ATF! Vidcast and Blog partner Allison sent this fry pic along to me via the Facebook. The Somebody Else's Fries in question are her mother-in-law's from a great restaurant in nearby Medford that I can't wait to try - Top Notch. Thanks, Allison!

French Fry Diary 486: New York J & P Pizza

2013-04-23T17:07:00.000-04:00

We had this for pick up and go dinner one night with the in-laws in Maryland. New York J & P Pizza is just a standard pizza place down by the brother-in-law's, but they're pretty good. I'm not big for pizza so I ordered the chicken tenders with French fries. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, but I just didn't feel like a burger either that night. The French fries were great

Random Tater Pic of the Day #98

2013-04-22T19:09:00.001-04:00

Here's another Somebody Else's Fries from Andrea on FourSquare, a double shot of onion rings and French fries at Friendly's.

French Fry Diary 485: Lay's Sweet Southern Heat Barbecue Potato Chips

2013-04-21T15:36:00.000-04:00

I love potato chips almost as much as I love French fries. And my favorite kind of potato chips are BBQ flavor. So when I see a new flavor like Lay's Sweet Southern Heat Barbecue, of course I have to pick them up and try them. And now I'm in tears. What can I say. Call me a baby, call me a wuss. Call me a Northerner who doesn't know what real barbecue is. Call me whatever you like,

French Fry Diary 484: The Wawa Hash Brown 2013

2013-04-18T17:12:00.000-04:00

Little has changed about the Wawa breakfast hash brown since the last time I reviewed it, one of my first actual reviews for this blog. While Wawa breakfast has expanded quite a bit and their ordering system for both breakfast and the entire deli area has become computerized and cutting edge, their hash brown remains pretty bad. The Wawa hash brown is probably frozen and heated via

Random Tater Pic of the Day #97

2013-04-17T20:15:00.000-04:00

Here's an image from the internet of those legendary tater tots from Tattooed Mom on South Street in Philadelphia. Man, I gotta get over there soon.

French Fry Diary 483: Authentic Irish Food

2013-04-16T15:34:00.000-04:00

Friend and fellow writer Patti O'Brien recently took a trip to Ireland, as chronicled in her terrific travel blog A Broad Abroad. Despite knowing what I write about here almost every day, she absolutely refused to take any pics of potato products, even though Ireland, as we all know, is all about potatoes and chips. She talks about the Irish chips, but we don't see them. She does offer up

Sarah at 6ix: A Bistro

2013-04-15T23:36:00.000-04:00

Today's Somebody Else's Fries come from my friend and fellow writer Sarah Hawkins Miduski. On a recent trip to Atlantic City she and her husband visited 6ix: A Bistro, a place I was not too fond of when I was there. They seemed to enjoy their meal, so maybe I was there on a bad night. Perhaps I'll give them another try. Don't forget to check out Sarah's Blog here, she's a terrific

French Fry Diary 482: Big Belly Burger

2013-04-12T20:52:00.000-04:00

Some time ago I wrote about some of the fast food chains in the fictional DC Comics universe. More than a few folks inquired about what kind of, and when I would be reviewing, the fries at Big Belly Burger. Watching "Arrow" recently I paused it, completely coincidentally, on this image of a basket of Big Belly Burger French fries. Yeah, it's like that. The fries seem to be natural

Free Tax Day Fries from Arby's

2013-04-11T15:54:00.000-04:00

My friend Ray hipped me to this item from Deal News: For the third straight year, the fast food chain is offering emotionally and financially taxed Americans a delicious freebie on Tax Day. Arby's is serving up patrons a choice of a free value-sized order of Curly Fries or a small order of Potato Cakes via this printable coupon. Not only is it a nice treat, it's also a great way to save

South Jersey Writers and Philly Fries

2013-04-10T18:55:00.000-04:00

From Nodding Head in Philadelphia, today's Somebody Else's Fries are from fellow writer and friend Krista Magrowski who went there for lunch recently with the equally talented James Knipp. Behold - rasta man chicken and Spanish frites. Thanks, Krista! And don't forget to buy "Tall Tales and Short Stories from South Jersey" featuring both of these terrific local writers as well as many

French Fry Diary 481: Burger King Loaded Tater Tots

2013-04-09T16:50:00.002-04:00

My good friend and she-who-watches-for-fry-and-chip-stuff, Marni, hipped me to these just yesterday. Burger King's Loaded Tater Tots - after they changed their fries, I haven't really been back to BK all that much. But, knowing how much The Bride likes cheese, bacon, and tater tots, I figured dinner at Burger King might be both a nice change of pace, and a FFD field trip. They were