What do you think? Is McDonald's the best, or do you have a different favorite? This is an ongoing CivicScience survey. You can respond to it yourself here on our free dedicated polling site.
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Fresh McDonald’s fries are probably the best. But I love Popeyes fries, and would probably choose them over McDonald’s
McDonalds does have the best fries, for all of 30 seconds out of the fryer, then they turn into concrete.
Five Guys fries can taste good for up to 15+ minutes.
46% is not a majority, it is a plurality.
Come to Belgium, I’ll let you experience the best fries.
Your link doesn’t work 🤦♀️
Just leads to the front-page of your site, where the articles are very obviously AI written, yucky
McDonald’s fries are pretty good. Steak n Shake moved to using beef tallow recently though for their and that’s made them a strong contender for me
Honestly, Arby’s curly fries are the best, but the rest of their food kinda sucks.
This is a popularity contest. Everyone has tried these brands’ fries.
Not everyone has a five Guys or steak N shake nearby. Maybe even a local place.
Depends on how fresh they are. If fresh then give me Burger King or Five Guys, but McD’s hold their (limited) quality better after those first few minutes.
McDonald’s fries are better outside the US.
It’s not appropriate to use digits after the decimal point for numbers that are rounded to the nearest 1%.
IMO I think McDonald’s is the worst they don’t have enough bite IMO. I always thought McDonald’s had crappy fries. Just wild this is the popular opinion.
5 guys is definitely better, Wendy’s and burger king. McDonald’s has my least favorite and their ketchup is too sweet.
46% =/= a majority.
Also, why show two decimal points when the data has been rounded to the nearest percent?
The correct answer is Checkers
best fries out of 4 FastFood chains listed.
Checkers/Rallys has best fries
Wtf is a brand affiliate post? So we’re just getting paid to post ads now?
Wonder if it’s the case globally since other countries have their own culture if “chips” that predate McDonald’s and fast food fries. In the UK and Australia they’ve done fish and chips and chip buttys for decades. More like soggy chips that are rich and oily but covered in vinegar, South Africa also has it’s own but similar thing with deep fried chips covered in chilli powder and but in a Kota or gatsby. There was a phase where I thought McD’s were the best but overtime I prefer our local style
Wouldn’t you have to weight the results by availability?
There was a period of my life I considered Burger King’s fries better than McDonalds’ but I haven’t tasted them in decades due to living in areas with no outlets present.
Checkers blows it out of the water.
Who the hell are these 11% of people that eat at Arby’s? I don’t know a single person who’s ever been there.
I mean, of the options there, of course…
I’ve never been to the US, but in Europe FIve Guys has alway the best fries, by far.
I guess thus in an unpopular opinion, but I think it’s nostalgia. I remember almost to the day when they fucked up the recipe.
Oh to be the king of a pile of turds.
I’m surprised that so many people rated McDonalds fires so highly. I’ve thought they were among the worst out of all fast food chains I’ve been to. Not uneatable, but rather skinny, tasteless, overly salty, and bland generally.
These ratings are relative, nothing compares to homemade fries so this is more of a rating of how close they get to those.
Out of the options presented here, here’s my rank for them:
1. Arby’s (8/10)
2. Wendy’s (7.5/10)
3. Burger King (6/10)
4. McDonalds (5/10)
None of these are the best fast food fries mind you. Here’s my ranking including all fast food restraunts I can remember trying the frries of.
1. Harvey’s (9/10)
2. Five Guys (9/10)
3. Wendy’s (7.5/10)
4. Taco Bell (7/10)
5. Burger King (6/10)
6. Pizza Hut (6/10)
7. Boston Pizza (5.5/10)
8. McDonalds (5/10)
There’s probably more, I just can’t remember them.
Five Guys, Hardee’s Curly Fries, Chick-fil-A waffle fries.
I will die on the hill that Rally’s fries are the best. For those that don’t join me, you are wrong.
Canadian here
But uh yea McDonald’s French fries are the bomb but I also wouldn’t call them true French fries like Wendy’s has
McDonald’s fries are very processed and made to be perfect
It just sucks the burgers are far from perfect so it’s always the dilemma of better burger or better fries