That guy knows how to dress like a billionaire.

Sad, though. I can't think of how many times I've been in a McDonalds post hangover and say out loud, to no one: "whoever invented these fries is a f*cking genius.

So long, fry-guy.

Every dimple in my ass is sad tonight

Thanks for fattening America so that many of us don't fit in small cars!

CtrlAltDelete: McDonalds post hangover

Those are the best meals I've ever eaten

My belly is drooping over my belt buckle with sadness.

This is really strange, considering McD's switched their fry grease to a "healthier" variety over the weekend.

If only there was a word that could describe this...

Enjoying story, but ultimately distracting by the change in verb tenses. It first started as past tense, becomes present tense and then went back to past tense.

Probably tried the new trans-fat free ones.

Ding, J.R. Simplot is done.

you see, reverend maynard, tomarrow was harvest day and to them...it was a holocaust. the spuds silently rejoice

At least they don't put Mayo on fries in the US.

you see, reverend maynard, tomarrow was harvest day and to them...it was a holocaust.

the spuds silently rejoice

A great man. Boise had better throw him one hell of a going away party.

Yup, those fries'll kill ya. Even if it takes until you're 99.

Anyone else catch the CNBC special, "Big Mac: Inside the McDonald's Empire" tonight?

It was actually pretty interesting. I can't cite anything I learned from it other than some McDonalds managers make 6 figures a year.

Got the great opportunity to hear Simplot address newly minted graduates at Boise State U a few years ago. Interesting speech -- he began by saying something along the lines of "You don't have to listen to me, I'm not an educated man. But I am a billionaire".

Most listened.

Tata tater guy.

If he died at 99 and invented French Fries, he had to have eaten a lot more of fries than I have. So that means that French Fries are good for you, right? Right?

As someone who lowered the flag to half-mast at the local plant I'm getting a kick.........etc. Seriously though he was atruly amazing person. If you get the chance read his biography. A Million the hard way I think it's called.

jpiekars: Enjoying story, but ultimately distracting by the change in verb tenses. It first started as past tense, becomes present tense and then went back to past tense.

I couldn't finish the story because of all the sentences containing hyphens. Where'd this person learn to write?!

I don't even eat fast food.

'Hello, I'd like one McFuneral.'

'Would you like to supersize that?'

didn't someone do an experiment once, put a bunch of food out in the open for a while, and after 30 days, the only food item, that not only was NOT spoiled but looked exactly the same as on day 1, was mcdonlads fries ? the conclusion was, it wasn't actually food at all, since it didn't get spoilt. Plus, don't they ADD potato flavoring to the fries ?

jpiekars: Enjoying story, but ultimately distracting by the change in verb tenses. It first started as past tense, becomes present tense and then went back to past tense.

Not to mention -- it goes without saying -- all those damn dashes.

FTA: A dispute over a spud sorter in the early 19030s with Simplot's partner at the time -- hinged on a coin flip -- and luck is on Simplot's side.


He came back from the future?

How many kilograms and packets of ketchup have you had? I have had enough to put a few McDonald's employees through University.

More recent photo:

"I wish I could have a whole back seat filled with McDonalds French Fries. Just reach back there while you're driving and grab a handfull"

So, are they going to deep fry him, roll him in salt and put him in a paper bag?

What's even more absurd is that the word "invented" would ever be used in a sentence with french fries.... Somebody had to invent french fries?

When McDonald's serves fries that can be eaten with vinegar like God intended, then I'll care.

/seriously, you ever try to put vinegar on McD's fries?
//it ain't pretty

No comment from Mr. Potato Head, although I heard that Heinz will read a eulogy and his casket will be sprinkled with salt.

Good night, fry guy!

just_dis_guy: When McDonald's serves fries that can be eaten with vinegar like God intended, then I'll care.

/seriously, you ever try to put vinegar on McD's fries?
//it ain't pretty

Isn't that potato salad?

Extruded potato starch paste never really caught on for me... regardless of how much powdered salt was put on it. Kinda sad that that's one of their flagship food products.

The salads are not too bad, tho.

When he heard the beep, he knew his time was up.

He won't be buried. He'll be kept under a glass case and never decompose.

The ones at Jack in the Box are better. Mmmm...skin.

It seems a (presumably anonymous) chemist working for him invented them, he funded and marketed them. Not sure marketing is the same as inventing.

Just sayin'

McDonald's fries are the worst of fast food fries.
Sad tag has been misused.

heavyw8t: What's even more absurd is that the word "invented" would ever be used in a sentence with french fries.... Somebody had to invent french fries?


What's more stupid is that the guy in the story is labelled as the 'Inventor of McDonald's french fries', like just how farkin different is it from the original 'french fries' - les frites?


/Oh, yeah, what happened to 'Freedom Fries'?
//I Love American Crazy

tomarrow

Did I miss the memo about adding an 'a' to this word?

pstudent12

Plus, don't they ADD potato flavoring to the fries ?

NO.

ElLoco

Extruded potato starch paste never really caught on for me... regardless of how much powdered salt was put on it.

You really don't know what you're talking about do you?

Hal Jalykakik: This is really strange, considering McD's switched their fry grease to a "healthier" variety over the weekend.

If only there was a word that could describe this...

That would be foreshadowing.
The creator dies after the original item is ruined. Just like 4th edition.

....And a part of J. R. Simplot's growing fortune (no pun intended) was contracts with the Feds during WWII.

And so a friend--and in-the-know lifetime Idahoan--remarked of Simplot decades ago: "he's the kind of conservative who made his money off of government $$$$ and doesn't want anybody else to."

But, hey, the frozen french fry did sure change things. And, hey, while we're saluting potato processing, Farkers might want to know about Miles Willard, another adopted Idahoan, who more-or-less invented the freeze-dried potato flakes, and a true patron of the arts and supporter of many a good cause:


http://www.infinibiz.net/aboutus.htm

[sorry, no linkie skills]



//former Idahoan who knows how good the potatoes taste at fall harvest time.......

McDonald's fries are good enough to eat without the ketchup. I can't say that about the other chains fries. In n out's fries are lousy.

simpsonfan: McDonald's fries are good enough to eat without the ketchup. I can't say that about the other chains fries. In n out's fries are lousy.

I concur. Wendy's fries, for example, are horrible. I like their burgers, but their fries plain suck. I guess that's why they started offering other things.

I thought the guy who created french fries was named David French or something similar, hence how they got their name?
/hence why the world laughed at the US, for associating 'french fries' with france and their lack of desire to kill brown people.

ironic_followup: simpsonfan: McDonald's fries are good enough to eat without the ketchup. I can't say that about the other chains fries. In n out's fries are lousy.

I concur. Wendy's fries, for example, are horrible. I like their burgers, but their fries plain suck. I guess that's why they started offering other things.

Oh man Wendy's fries suck hard. I mean how do you manage to screw up french fries?

I'm a potato/french fry junkie, so lousy fries are inexcusable for a fast food restaurant.

I just read about him yesterday in Fast Food Nation. As for him 'inventing' them, considering he was the guy who hired the team of guys and said 'make this a consistent product,' and they succeeded while in him employ, then I guess he gets credit for it. He didn't invent the French Fry, he invented the McDonald's french fry. The water potato gun would be a big hit at any Fark party. It steams the potato, then blasts the skin off, par-boils it and shoots it through a grate of blades to make the perfectly uniform fries. McDonald's only takes the long ones. They will also add or remove starch or sugar to make sure that the product is consistent throughout the growing seasons.