The Great French Fry Debate: Same Oil as Chicken Fingers?
Here is an entertaining, recent conversation between myself and two men working at a local bar. I am friends with both, so my sass was not received and met with spit in my salad.
Me: I’m hungry.
Supervisor: I’m sure we could rustle you up something to eat.
Me: Hmm … do you cook your french fries in the same oil as the chicken fingers?
Supervisor: Yea.
Me: Okay, well, actually you know there are health codes against doing that, right?
Supervisor: Really?
Me: Yup. Not for me, per se, more so for allergies and whatnot.
Cook (walking in mid-way into convo): Oh, it’s vegetable oil that we fry the stuff in.
Me: But you put the fries in the same vegetable oil as the chicken?
Cook: Right, it’s vegetable oil.
Me (using my hands): Okay … follow me. This is the oil. Chicken in; fries in. Yes? No longer vegetable oil.
Cook: Yea, but the chicken is breaded so the meat doesn’t touch the oil.
Me: Nice try.
Cook: I suppose we could heat up some oil on the stove for you and make you a batch of french fries.
Supervisor: Yea, that sounds good!
Me: Thanks, but I’ll just go with a house salad. Hold the cheese, please. And I do appreciate your offer.
Cook: What kind of dressing - ranch, Caesar …? Are you sure you don’t want the fries?
Me (forehead hits bar): …
October 6th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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