The e-mails were flying fast and furious late this morning at the virtual Seattlest HQ about the new Dick's fries, which made us start thinking about lunch, naturally. Although our stomach is strong and we can put just about anything in it without losing it later on, we tend to stay away from Dick's simply because we always feel like we need a shower afterwards. After a night of heavy drinking, their fries are welcome,......

Whatever you want to call them, you know the french fry style we're talking about. They're the fries whose flavorlessness is only surpassed by their texturelessness. Dicks has em. Gimmie a Deluxe, a Spesh, an onion, a tiny bag of wet mush and a chocolate shake. Fucking everyone has em. These fries are the ultimate cop-out for restaurants that can't find a decent french fry supplier and opt for just buying potatos. French fries aren't......

When will they learn, those pretentious New Yawk snots? With the solemnity befitting the announcement of a cure for cancer, the NYTimes reports that three Gotham spots now serve Montreal's beloved junk food, poutine. Whazzat? Duh: french fries with cheese curds and gravy, dumbo. In Australia, where Canadian eating habits aren't automatically ridiculed, they've eaten poutine for decades. Aluminum to-go containers are filled to the brim with hot, glorious gravy so the fries stay......

People make a lot of excuses when it comes to deep frying. “I don’t have a deep fryer.” “It’s bad for you.” “I’m still missing a patch of hair on my arm where I burned myself with hot oil in 1985.” Whatever. Contrary to popular belief (we blame the Fry-Daddy), a designated deep-fryer is by no means necessary for deep-frying. A fantastic fryer can easily be fashioned out of a heavy pot, lots of oil,......

There's a sausage stand at Bumbershoot that is selling a gargantuan block of french fries, the lines for which increased exponentially throughout the day Saturday. Our picture of said block didn't work out, but imagine a three-dimensional brick of fries, like if you had a few hundred of the them you coulld build a french fry igloo. It's an excessive amount of fries. Blondie We're not sure Debbie Harry's outift yesterday was a function......