Zigzag?? Bitch you mean crinkle cut?!?!

Posting such a controversial question and putting in onion rings on this list is bordering on rage bait

Edit: I can't type

One is not like the others.

Zigzag

Uh, it's crinkle cut and someone will die on my hill.

... are the wedges the only non fried food in this picture?

How about boiling them tatoes?

Or simply pan fry them with some butter?

Anyways; 1. Wedges, 2. Waffles, 3. Shoestring with surprise sweet potatoes > The rest.

This

With Belgian mayonaise!

And I'm Dutch so I'm not even biased.

1. Tater tot: A good tater tot is like butter. Pure salt and crunch then melt in your mouth deliciousness.

2. Onion Rings: Good onion rings is technically better than tater tots, but the spectrum of bad to good onion rings is very wide.

3. Curly Fries: Curly Fries are hard to fuck up. I don't even think I've had a variation of curly fries. They're all the same to me, but they're so good.

4. Wedges: Wedges have a smaller spectrum than onion rings, but the ceiling is lower and they're hard to rank better than the ones ahead of them.

5. Shoestring: McDonalds

6. ZigZag: These can range from heavenly to straight fucking trash. Unfortunately they're too easy to turn into straight fucking trash. By that I mean you have to put more work into them to make them good as opposed to just salt and oven/fried. Might as well just try to fry some snow at that point.

7. Sweet Potato: I've had good sweet potato fries but I rarely get good sweet potato fries.

8. Waffle: I don't get these. They're ass. The only place that makes them kinda tolerable is Chik-Fila, but even then they're still ass to me. Can't even make them good at home without drowning them in salt and ketchup. I can slice up a potato and chuck them in the oven and get better results most of the time.

Edit for formatting. Apparently piefed, doesn't honor your numbering and turns it into 1, 2, 3, etc even if you go 8, 12, 3.

2, 3, 4, 6, 1, 7, 5.

Onion rings are either at the top or bottom of the list depending on the batch.

Okay, two of them aren’t even the same vegetable.

They're all tied for number 1, except sweet potato, which skips all the empty spots below and goes straight to number 8. Sweet potato fries suck.

• 3 (tots)
• 2 (curly)
• 6 (zigzag crinkle cut)
• 4 (waffle)
• 7 (wedges Jo-Jo’s)
• 5 (sweet potato)
• 8 (onion rings) - tied with sweet potatoes; they’re both lost and in the wrong part of town
• 1 (shoestring) - potato chip sticks with more steps

Missing: coniques.

1. Cheese curds

No. I refuse to rank my children as well.

My only strong opinion on the whole chart is that crinkle cut fries are the worst thing shown and thus take last place no matter what

Eh I'm English, all beige food is top tier!

Jack in the Box curlies from 20 years ago before they switched to a different frying oil. I was just arriving in the states and that stuff was the best ever.

I think onion rings and tots need to be removed from the list as neither are potato based. Substitute latkes and hash browns in their places.

-Curly

-Onion Ring (isn't really tater but I love them)

-Waffle

-Shoestring

-Sweet potato

-Zigzag (crinkle cut)

-Wedges

-Tots

Honestly though if im only stuck with the last three I won't even eat them-

1. Everything else on the list
2. Onion rings

What can I say, I love tubers

Where the hell are the Cajun fries?

8, 5, 4, 2, 1, 7, 3, 6

Adding Cajun seasoning to 4, 2, 1, or 7 would raise it above the other 3 and make me unsure about whether to raise it above 5.

Doesn't matter which, if its done incorrectly its complete garbage.

Done right, each one, extremely delicious... except maybe sweet potato

5, 1, 8, 7, 3, 6, 2, 4

Sweet spud ftw!

Chip shop chips > roast potato > steak fries > everything on this list

Yes. To all of them.

1. Tater tots are basically an entire potential meal of their own. Not a French fry, but I may actually prefer them as a possible main dish.

2. The best French fries. They are the perfect side.

3. If you want to fancy it up a bit. Suitable for formal occasions.

4. Taking the one-dimensional line of the French fry and extrapolating it out to two dimensions. Still a good ketchup conveyance, but starting to get into the issue I'm going to bring up with...

5, 6, 7. Not a good enough ratio of crispy outer fried surface to gooey potato inner. I prefer crisp, but when I bite one of these, I have a good chance of just getting a mouthful of scalding hot potato napalm, or what's worse, cold potato cement. Not ideal.

'8. Yeccch.

5 - 8 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 3 - 7 - 6

I'm really not a big white potato fan but sweet potatoes and onions are delicious

1. Waffle fries (always crispy and delicious)
2. Curly fries (same)
3. Tater tots (surprisingly good)
4. Wedges, if properly spiced
5. Good onion rings
6. Shoestring, if not limp
7. Bad onion rings
8. Bad wedges
9. Crinkle cut (zigzag) (usually unflavored and soggy from a bag, but can be better than soggy shoestrings)
10. Bad shoestrings
11. Sweet potato fries (always soggy and I don't like sweet potato very much)

I'm not too fussy about my deep fried treats. They're all no. 1 in my book. Except sweet potato, they can fuck off. They taste fine, but why are they always soggy?

Why not #9?

Where are the cheese curds? Fucking profligates is deep fried cheese too good for ya?

My vote is on number 10: Röstis

Most of these are good, just for different things. I want waffle fries at the bar; I want shoestring fries at the burger place; I want wedges at the cafe on the corner.

Except the zigzags. I don't think I've ever had a good zigzag.

• Wedges
• Curly
• Zigzag
• Shoestring
• Waffle
• Tots
• Sweet Potato (not a potato but closer than an onion)
• Onion Rings (not a potato, would be 3 otherwise)

5 8 7 2 4 1 6 3

8, 2 4, 3, 1, 6, 7, 5

Assuming they onion rings are beer batter and the curly fries are from Arby's.

list is missing Fried Tofu

since we're apparently just including any random fuckin food you can fry

1, 7, 6, 4, 8, 3, 2, 5

What the heck kind of list is this?

Where are the steak fries?

I'm gonna have to lock in Onion Rings as my final answer.

Whatever as long as it's not sweet potato.

1-4, 6-8 YESSSSSSS 5 NO!

3,2,1,8,4,5,7,6 for quick first gut reaction

If we are rating the best type of fries then onion rings are last, being that they aren't even potato.

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Doesn't matter, is potato. And onion rings. All are awesome.

Best to worst:

• wedges (like a mini baked potato, but better!)

• shoestring (a tried & true classic)

• curly (the perfect blend of potato & seasoning)

• zigzag (sometimes can be a bit mushy)

• tots (sometimes give me heartburn for some reason)

• waffle (often don’t get cooked all the way, if they stick together)

• onion rings (a decent alternative to potato based side, but I can’t eat more than a few)

• sweet potato (they just don’t fry right. The texture gets weird and the taste is off)

Fuck that potato canoes FTW

Onions > sweet potatoes > potatoes

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Straight out of the fryer

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If it's been on the plate for 10m

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Zig zag/crinkle cut goes to the back and I think waffle deserves the #1 spot personally. I agree with the rest of the ordering otherwise.

When cooked well enough, I'd say 1 2 4 5 8 3 6 7.

Ain't no way I'd ever put wedges higher or shoelace lower. Those are always gonna be constant.

Seasoned fries for robbed

8,7,3,1,5,2,4,6

i do love sweet potato, but quite often it seems they dont fit.

6 is so low on the list, because I genuinely never had good ones. If someone serves crinkle-cut fries, they are always the most bland, soggy, frozen industrial ones they can find.

Similar goes for 2 and 4, although they usually dont taste as bland, they seem to have some seasoning on them.

I’ll just take whatever. I’m not picky.

1,5,7,8,3,4,2,6

The top three are Shoestring, Curly, and Wedges, though not necessarily in that order. I still have not managed to figure out how the fuck restaurants make their shoestring (and steak) fries so fucking good.

Next are waffle fries and onion rings. They're okay.

Sweet Potato fries and tots after that. Just not my thing.

Whoever likes zigzag/crinkle-cut fries is a monster. May god have mercy on their twisted souls.

The secret winner though is zucchini fries, which are mana from the heavens.

Anglosphere ah ah list

I need more popcorn for parsing these comments

Onion rings > tots > sweet potato > everything else

And fuck ketchup, combine one part mayonnaise and one part BBQ sauce to dip that shit in

Ok there's another factor here and that's taking into account the dipping sauce if any.

Crinkle cut without sauce? Bland. With a good sauce? Those little accordion fucks hold way more than shoestring.

• Shoestrings
• Tots
• Wedges (but not the ones in this picture)
• Onion Rings (they'd be higher on the list but they're not potatoes)
• Waffle
• Curly
• Zigzag (why do they always suck so much? In theory they should be great. Also why are they always sold at public swimming pools?)
• Sweet potato

Anything in the list gets to move up +1 when chicken salt is added if the other contenders don't, except sweet potato or onion rings.

I love all of these, not gonna lie.

HOW DARE YOU, onion rings are awesome

1. Wedges
2. Sweet Potato
3. Onion Rings
4. Shoestring
5. Waffle
6. Curly
7. Zigzag
8. Tots

1 6 8 4 3 2 7 5

What? No Mojo's??

Gimme some of those tots

Wedges, winners

Onion rings second depending on their quality

Then sweet potato fries

[paja] (a Spanish variety that's amazing)

Shoe stings

curly

Zigzag

tots

Waffles

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Best to worst: 83752461

Shoestring, Onion Ring, Waffle, Tots, Curly, Wedges, Zigzag, Sweet Potato

8-1-ill order something else

Starting with the best: 8,2,3,4,6,7,5,1

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Onion rings, sweet potatoes, and you can have the rest.

Onion rings top, then tots, then everything else

3 >2>4>1>7>8>5>6

8, 5, 7, 1, 6, 4, 3, 2

8, 1, 6, 7, 4, 2, 3, 5

3, 4, 2, 8, 6, 1, 7, 5. Because tots are absolutely immaculate, and sweet potatos (tho good when roasted) are simply not the same kind of satisfying guilty pleasure as the rest.

I love my thick wedges! Shoestring always disappoints me for some reason

wedges, waffle, tots, onion rings, curly, shoestring, crinkle (never heard them called zigzag), sweet potato

I have had really good sweet potato fries that rank much higher, but they're a gamble. Seem to have greater variation in quality than the other options.

Steak cut. Home fries. Has browns

Don't cut my boys out

Curly, shoestring, sweet potato. The rest are unappetizing, either too greasy to bear or not crunchy enough. Swap hash browns in for onion rings and we have a contender.

Waffle fries > onion rings > wedges

2 - 6 - 3 - 4 - 1 - 8 - 5.
The wedges you can keep.

4, 6 (if super crispy), 1, 3, 2, 7, 5, 8

I love curly fries, but the ones depicted look pretty mid

!potatoism@lemmy.world

3>2>4>6…

1st: Curly

2nd: Waffle

3rd: Shoestring

4th: Wedges

5th: Tater Tots

6th: Zig Zag

7th: Onion Rings

8th: Sweet Potato Fries

I genuinely love all of these, and struggled to rank them. Just a total potato gremlin.

These rankings also depend a lot on the source. So I just went with the best I've tasted of each.

1 2 3 7 8 5 4 6

I would like onion rings but shaped like curly fries #2

3 2 1 4 7 6 8 5

From best to worst - 2,8,4,3,7,1,5,6

Best to worst:

1. Wedges
2. Shoestring
3. Curly
4. Waffle
5. Sweet Potato (love sweet potatoes, but as fries they're mediocre at best)
6. Tots (if filled with cream cheese they're #2)
7. Zigzag
8. Onion Rings (don't even belong on this list. Otherwise maybe #5)

Best to worst.

1
2
4
3
6
7
5
8

Never had curlies, tots (not even sure what they are) or waffle fries.
After reading the comments I think I've never had good onion rings or sweet potato fries. Those are a no from me. Onion rings were just deep fried batter and sweet potato was sweet and soggy. Both didn't leave an impresion.

Now my potato of choice is wedges (especially if cooked in an oven). Then whatever is left. Not sure why everyone is hating on zigzags. The thickness is similar to straight fries so it should cook similarly and without seasoning everything will taste bland.

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Yes. Also yes... And yes...

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Sweet potato Onion Rings Curly Tots Shoestrings Wedges Waffle Zigzag.

Tots might be lower on the list, but I found they can work surprizingly well in some lazy microwave meals I make, so they get extra points for ease and dependability.

5,3,8,4,7,2,6,1

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1 > 2 > 5 > 8 > 4 > 3 > 6 > 7

Chips?

2, the rest of the list.

8, 4, 5, 2, 3, 7.

The rest are not worthy.

2, 8, [1/6], [3/4/7], 5

So, shoestring and wedges have such a huge range of quality, there are so many ambiguities here!

Not zigzags though. Zigzags can get fucked.

Edit: But really. Trash shoestrings are tue most trash. If you can get the oil hot enough, or do the double drop trick, you get one of the best stand alone fries, but they arent good for dipping in much more than ketchup, and you cant, like, put cheese on them or anything. You need more substantial fries for that. Wedges are similarly niche in the other direction, and the quality of their preparation varies widely.

Edit: replace zigzags with fried zucchini or mushrooms or mozzarella sticks. Then that slot is back in contention.

3 –> 1 –> 4 –> 2 –> 6 –> 8 –> 7 –> 5

Edible tier:

• Sweet Potato      
• Onion rings        
• Curly     
• Shoestring + tots (tie)

Garbage Tier:

• Wedges       
• Crinkle cut ("zigzag")        
• Waffle fries (does anyone actually like these?)

Everyone else is wrong. Yes, even you.