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Why exactly were McDonald's French fries so good back in the day?

Why did they change? And can the secret original recipe be recreated?

Plus, a new sort of post-post-punk subgenre is emerging in the post-Brexit United Kingdom,

and a completely pointless but wonderful website I discovered last week.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Everyone's got a favorite French fry. I'm a pretty big fan of Sonics French fries. I think they're a good classic staple, not too greasy, hold up pretty well structurally.

Burger Kings aren't bad either, and of course you can't go wrong with a waffle fry on occasion. My all-time favorite shoestring fries used to be from Bear Burger, an East Coast

kind of organic burger chain, but they changed them about eight years ago, and I have never

forgiven them. Because that's the thing. When you find your favorite fries, fries so good

that nowhere else comes close, it's gut-wrenching when that place changes the recipe,

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