hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching welcome one and all to this newest edition of the running on empty food review series
i'm your host the report of the week thank you for tuning in so i hope everyone out
there is doing all right feeling all right here i am for another review
now i lied in the title you could obviously see that there's nothing in this plate i just have
this notepad here i'm just going to be eating the notepad in this video and uh you know that was
a bad joke i'm not actually going to be eating a notepad or any of that i i didn't even lie in the
title this is actually just a comparative analysis we're going to find out who has the best fries i
think that's a question that has existed in the world of fast food for a while certainly one that
has been asked many a time one thing that finally i think motivated me to try uh you know to really
try to find the answers that are to the questions that are keeping us up at night right i know we're
all just up at 3 a.m sitting there wondering to ourselves who has the best fries just just who
right but i think the thing that motivated me to do this was about a month ago
wendy's made an announcement saying that they're going to be redoing their fries and
these are going to be better than ever these are going to be the best fries and fast food
now many people granted let's just be real they kind of shrugged in there i guess so what i mean
who cares um so in and of themselves there wasn't a lot of interest
in the fries and that's just the reality of the situation that's just how people felt
i'm not trying to say that you know to disparage wendy's in any way shape or form that was just the
reaction of the public but still that kind of got the gears turning and i was thinking well
whether people care or not about these fries how do they hold up to mcdonald's and burger king so
i was able to acquire fries from all of these establishments and tonight we're just going to
be banging them out we're going to be trying one after the next after the next and we're going to
find out whose is the best first let's have a word about the wendy's fries and then we're just going
to compare them all so these fries are called the hot and crispy fries the name really took me by um
by surprise i thought these were going to be called the cold and soggy fries
but this really took the world by surprise they're called the hot and crispy fries
these are made from the same potatoes as their previous fries however they claim that these
fries have a light batter so they stay hot and crispy longer so obviously the main
selling point in these it's no hidden message or anything these are supposed to be hot and crispy
now again i got mcdonald's fries i got wendy's fries i got burger king fries
uh we'll talk about this in a minute but um with each one the price and uh
the amount that i received is actually a little different each time
so first and foremost let's try the wendy's ones first got the wendy's bag right there still kind
of rubbing it in saying your breakfast could have been free because they just can't let that go
here they are so wendy's here's an interesting thing um this is a small fries normally the price
for them is 1.69 for small fries uh interestingly enough the service at wendy's was very nice and
it's actually just nice to see these days you know just the way a lot of people are everyone
seems you know just very angry these days but it was just nice to actually have some nice service
the wait was a while and they actually gave these to me for free so take that for what you will
um just because of the weight they were apologetic and um
very nice service from wendy's and i'll just that does need to be mentioned
right so here's what they look like all right again you can see they are advertising the
hot and crispy guaranteed fries um that's what they look like again this is a small
so there you have it and now let's try them out again normally 1.69 for a small fry going in
that one broke in half
i think it's too small to focus on and that's okay
there you go had to focus on my hand which is a little bigger
um there you can see though good view of the fry it's firm that i do definitely notice
um
one thing that you can see about these fries is that they're not
you know they're structured to them
fresh still warm
light sprinkling of salt thereon um they don't come off as dry or anything and i definitely
notice in these fries is that again these have at least the impression that i'm getting is that
they do have more structure they're not crunchy but they do have a little bit of a crispness
to them and again as you could see i mean aside from the one that obviously was
structurally unsound uh all of them do seem to at least have a certain degree
of firmness there too so uh definitely a note right there about the the wendy's fries so
now what i'm going to do because like i said you know i just want to um kind of power through this
is we're going to put these back we'll just put them over here and i'm going to drink some water
and give a numerical square at the end next we're going to try out mcdonald's they're promoting the
mariah carey menu which is going to be coming out december 13th that's a series of meal deals
and uh that's something that i'll probably do a review on a little later on in the month uh
mcdonald's and this is a medium fry price for that was about three dollars and nineteen cents
price for a small fry from mcdonald's and at least these parts is around two dollars
so slightly more expensive than wendy's but mcdonald's certainly in my opinion has the most
iconic fries everyone says yeah mcdonald's you know they're the best um the best fries you know
back in the day a lot of people would say well we go to the mcdonald's for the fries we get all the
fries from mcdonald's they got the best ones let's try them out mcdonald's fry is going in
so
mcdonald's fries while being slightly pricier um do have a few qualities that might be slightly
superior to wendy's especially what i'm noting is that they still do have now here's the thing
with mcdonald's that you have to understand though mcdonald's can be very hit or miss
and um i think there's no denying that you know that mcdonald's there used to be a time you'd be
able to go there and it was always guaranteed or that the fries are going to be great time
and again and nowadays i think we could all probably collectively agree that mcdonald's
has this sense of variability to it you don't know if they're going to be good or not and
for their fries to always you know for their fries to be good you have to go there on a good night
many times i've gone to mcdonald's and the fries are just iffy these days
tonight the fries are actually pretty solid though um you could see that they still have this
firmness to them um they're not soggy they're not flopping around again they're still fresh
again they also have that degree of of crisp to them just like wendy's if anything however these
fries are more heavily salted than the wendy's ones and i think it's just the way that the oil
happens to just blend in with the potato the salt also definitely does a good job tying it
all together so um i think we caught mcdonald's on a good night these are definitely some solid fries
are these better than the wendy's ones it's gonna be real close i'll tell you that we're gonna get
to a numerical score toward the end but mcdonald's still maintaining the standards this time around
so that's something that needs to be taken note of all right let's cleanse the palette once more
take a sip of water
we'll swish this one around
i know that might not be perfect but it's better than just not even trying to cleanse the palate
all right on a final note we have the burger king
uh this one was a little strange um but again i can't really complain it was a it was a nice
gesture so price for a small is 2.39 actually the most expensive of all of them the employee
at burger king though was uh he seemed like he was trying to be very cavalier and was saying
i got you a large you know he mentioned that explicitly which again you can't really uh knock
them for that that was a nice gesture and good service and certainly you know even though in a
review like this of course you know you're trying to compare the fries really i'm just looking at
the product and that's why i outline the price um but service and fast food is of course an
important thing and good service these days it's uh it's i always try to acknowledge it where i can
and you can't you can't forget about the people that make the food you know it's very important so
there's burger king with um i don't even know what that's supposed to be did they change the logo or
well there you have it there's the burger king thing um i guess that's a fry maybe that's a fry
that's growing some sort of red thing on it
but anyway there's the fries again this is a large actually
a burger king fry
all right i'm gonna try them out now burger king fries going in
in terms of thickness burger king's fries are definitely definitely the biggest not
to the extent of like big wedge cut steak fries but definitely have the most substance to them
so one could argue
well they're the most expensive because there's the most to them
but i don't know
if there's one that's definitely lacking it would be burger king um even though the
fries are the biggest and they had some decent service what i noticed is that
yeah they might be big but they're just lacking in terms of flavor and any sort of substance
it's like yeah you could have a good quantity of something but if it's not good what's the point
and that's definitely something that i observe from burger king they just seem pretty dry bland
not a lot of salt to them either it's just like it's like flavorless matter that essentially
you're just kind of shoveling into your mouth um not a whole lot in terms of burger king so that's
just something that needs to be addressed there definitely not the best so you know
pretty flavorless not any salt that i'm noticing and yeah there might be a
good amount of them but like i said what's the point if there's just nothing to them
so let's take that into account and now let's give a final assessment
factoring in everything let's get to the numerical ratings so first we have burger king all right
now i don't think i need to repeat myself so we're just going to go right into the numerical ratings
out of 10 these burger king fries that i received i mean these are below average
quite frankly these would get i would say a four out of ten they're edible still but by no means
are they all that good so burger king comes in last place and uh gets a four out of ten rating
so that leaves us with mcdonald's and the wendy's new hot and crispy fries both of them have their
benefits again they might not be perfect but both of them do seem fresh they seem crispy
they seem pretty flavorful so it comes close all right wendy's fries
like i said there's lots of good things about them i enjoyed them i thought that they were pretty
solid uh they're definitely going to get i'd say 7.7 out of 10. so now comes mcdonald's fries
there's that variability to them right but if you get them how they're supposed to be
they could be pretty good and the fries that i tried in this three-way comparison
were solid so what does that leave us
mcdonald's i'm going to be giving a 7.9 out of 10. they just squeaked out that win in terms of the
fry quality but mcdonald's they're known for their fries they're known for having the best fries
at least of these three and um it was close it was narrow but i would say that mcdonald's didn't
narrowly take that lead in terms of quality so that's why they have the rating that they have so
all things considered mcdonald's are solid but wendy's they put their best foot forward i think
they still did a good job and uh something worth checking out so that's a comparative
analysis of the fast food fries uh trying out wendy's mcdonald's
and burger king so again mcdonald's has the best ones wendy's the second best and
in my opinion burger king has the worst of these three so i hope the video was helpful
until next time thank you for watching i'm your host the report of the week
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