Welcome to the Eat This Not That Podcast. I'm John Hammond and this is Megan Murphy.

Hello everybody. And Megan, do you know what July 13th is?

Enlightened me, John. I'm not sure. It's National Friday. Get it? Friday. It's not just Friday

the 13th. It's it's National Frye, as in French Frye Day. I love it. There's a holiday for every food, right? But, I mean, is there anything more addictive or satisfying than French fries? I do like a good French fry. What's your favorite? Do you have a favorite fry? Not necessarily. I wouldn't call one out over the other, but I like them really crispy. I like them perfectly salted.

And every once in a while, you know, make fun of me or not, I like a sweet potato fry.

I'm not going to make fun of sweet potato fries. I get them anytime I can. It's one of the things

that Dave, that DZ, our founder and CEO, of course, mocks me. Endlessly. If we're out and I order sweet potato fries, he's like, who gets sweet potato fries? I'm like, I'm like, lots of people do because they're on the menu. Totally. I like a sweet potato fry. Dave, back off. I know, right? He's probably never even tried a sweet potato fry. If he did, he'd probably be eating handfuls of them. What about you? Do you have a favorite, like, go-to? I don't have a go-to, like, fast food fry. Well, I don't have a go-to, but the one that just cripples me every time are five guys' fries. Five guys fries. Just as soon as I go and you're standing there smelling them and I get

the bag and the bag, it's sopping up the grease right away. I never make the car right home

without eating a handful, which is good because they just pour them like right in the bag. So there's

plenty. And when I get home, nobody realizes that, you know, half the bag is gone. But probably

one of the most amazing French fry experiences I've ever had, Natalie and I were on,

we're away. We were in San Francisco and we went out to, across the bridge into like Sonoma County.

We went to Healdsburg.

And we went to the Healdsburg Bar and Grill.

And we had the Parmesan truffle fry. It comes

out in like a little bucket, like a little metal bucket. And we're like, all right, I feel like this

is something we should order. It was one of the things where you immediately wanted to order a second

bucket, even though there were only two of us. It was just like so savory and delicious and

indulgent.

And nothing that you would do regularly, of course.

But, I mean, to this day, I mean, that was probably 10 years ago.

And I'm still thinking about those fries.

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