The Correct Way to Eat French Fries

And there is only ONE correct way!

I don’t care what Julia Child said or what Martha Stewart says. I don’t care what Gordon Ramsey says. I don’t care what Jacque Pepin or James Beard say. I don’t care what Irma Rombauer or Laurie Colwin say. I don’t care what Fannie Farmer or Craig Claiborne or Alice Waters or Peg Brachen or Betty Crocker or Colonel Sanders or Mollie Katzen or Emeril Lagasse or Rachel Ray say. And I don’t care what your teenage nephew says….

There is only one correct way to eat French fries!

The most important factor is that the French fries and the ketchup remain utterly separate until that very last second before the French fry is dipped into the ketchup and then quickly placed in the oral cavity.

It is all about the contrast!

The joy of eating a French fry is in experiencing the contrast of taste, temperature, and texture. It is the sudden combining of a potatoey, hot, crispy French fry and tomatoey, cold, wet ketchup. The taste, temperature and texture are all in sharp contrast to each other and therefore simultaneously awaken the widest spectrum of oral sensations. Those sensations are both extremely contrasting and joyously complementary.