Regulation Poll 4

Also I'm with Eric

I'm on Gavin's side

Ok... So when somebody says French fries, do you think of fries in general or do you think of a specific type of fry like steak fries, curly fries, "regular" cut fries like McDonald's style, etc.

It comes from a potatoes

Man this crowd is so much more fun than the spotify crowd. Those people are gross

... it definitely is a specific style though? Do americans eat no other style of chip or something?

This gotta be Nick. I feel that French fries are a certain style that can have variation in size, seasoning, and texture. However, there are foods that I feel are mislabeled as "french fries" like steak fries, waffle fries, potato wedges, curly fries. Just went to a place that had the thickness and flatness of a steak fry but it was in a screw shape (they were awful, too much potato)

Fries is the general term. If someone offered me fries without me seeing them first and I got waffle fries, I wouldn't react at all. If someone offered me French fries and they gave me waffle fries, I'd think they were out of their mind.

If you asked someone if they have French fries and you get hose potatoes wedge; I’d be more mad at myself for not asking further. I think the ‘frying’ is what it comes down to, the French where just the ones who coin frying sliced potatoes.

I'm really struggling with this one because in my language we basically call all kind of fries "Frenchies". So Waffle Frenchies and Steak Frenchies, but Frenchies on its own is either "standard" fries or a general term.

Whoever is behind this, I supported as a specific style of fry, because to the point of there are many other different specific types of fried that are definitely not "french" fries. Example: curly fries, sweet potato fries, waffle fries, steak fries- just examples and those are definitely not "French" fries.

I guarantee this is about the potato draft and someone picked French fries while someone else picked curly fries or whatever.

You don’t call waffle fries “french fries”.

I voted for general term because that’s the correct answer but when I hear a french fry, I always think of a specific cut so I can see both

My only thought is Andrew considers French fries and smiles different because of the name

To my fury, it is a general descriptor that every menu uses while selling string fry or krinkle fry or curly fry or whatever. It should be specific, but it's not in the collective world we live in

Andrew I love you and idk what side of this you’re on… I just know you’re wrong

Fries is the general term. If I asked for french fries and you gave me waffle fries I'd be upset.

I love that my first thought was “what did Andrew do?”

French Fries are specific. As specific as waffle fries, or curly fries, or steak fries, or shoestring fries, you might be okay with it but it isn't what you ordered. If you ordered "fries" then sure. French (or frenched) fries are a specific cut.

when i ask for curly fries i dont say " cant i get french fries and can they be curly?"

It’s somewhere in between. McDonald’s fries, Five Guys fries, crinkle cut fries, waffle fries, and steak frites are all French Fries, but there are several fry-like potato products that are not French Fries such as potato wedges or oven fries.

It drives me up the wall now to think about which is the most Andrew answer so I don't pick that 🤣🤣

Simply saying "fries" is general, but "French fry" indicates a style. My example being that I've never heard anyone say 'Waffle Cut French Fry', but 'Waffle Fries' is common parlance. Saying French Fry means the straight style.

French fry is definitely the style. If I ordered french frys and they brought me wedges or waffles cut I'd think I got the wrong order.

I am abstaining from this Poll due to a recent episode of the pod. All further polls have been tainted due to Andrew’s lack of foresight and “context”.

I need context on whatever nonsense Andrew said that sparked this debate before I vote on anything.

If you order fries, that includes French, waffle, or steak. But no one says waffle French fries or steak French fries. I’m on Eric’s side.

Isn't "french" the style of cutting the fry. Where steak, crinkle, shoestring would all be different types of fries? If you asked for french fries and someone brought you crinkle cut you'd think "Well, that's not what I was expecting but I understand the mix up".

French fries are shorthand for French-cut fried potatoes; it refers to the style of cut and how they are cooked. However, as language changes over time, word meanings often shift dramatically. Look at the word 'Literally' and how it's used now... as a figurative expression...

Whose hill is “French” fry???

I refuse to vote on this

People are flaming Andrew for this but I sense Gavin is behind it.

The French fries Andrew is talking about are the “straight cut” variant of French fries. Sorry Andrew

If someone asked me if I want French Fries, and they brought out some Curly Fries I'd think they're a bit weird. If they just said "Do you want fries" and brought curly fries that'd be normal. I think "French Fries" is specific to a certain size/cut of fries - so more specific than general.

In my humble opinion. French fry is a category of fries but it doesnt apply to all fries. Shoestring, thick cut, and standard straight fries are all French fries, crinkle cut are a hybrid, and then you have waffle, and curly fries which are their own thing. Then you have other types of fried potato; tots, has brown, and wedges.

Y'all don't have Belgian fries?

I refuse to vote until i know the context, I voted last time and the context and the content of the vote was CLEARLY wrong.

French Fry means the skinny crispy kind you get at say McDonald's. The general term is chips. Don't @ me Americans, it's our language you're just borrowing it and abusing it.

I think "French Fries" is a general term in America. As a Dutch person French Fries has a different meaning as "Franse Frietjes" are the thin sliced mcdonalds style fries. With the general term just being fries.

Isn’t this the third “debate” poll? Not 4

I think this is region specific as in England where we call them Chips, French fry is a style of chips like crinkle cut or thick cut. Unless I’m defending Andrew then he’s wrong

If is see “French Fries” on the menu I’m going to anticipate getting straight cut fries, that’s why I would argue specific style of fries.

26% of respondents are English. Fries/frites and chips are different.

If I remember right , I think the "French" in French Fries originally referred to the French cut, but it's very much used as a catch-all general term (especially in the US).

Man I know I’m in the minority but my first thought was that it was a specific cut of fry. Can’t wait to hear the argument where ever it shows up.

As a regulation chef, that is a specific fry

As a Brit, I am mortally offended by this. As a comment leaver, I couldn’t give two shits.

French Fries are a specific variant of chips, you go to Maccas or Hungry Jacks and you get fries, but KFC does Chips, the wettest, soggiest, grossest chips, but chips not fries. Most non-franchise take-aways I've been to also specifically do chips, not fries. That said. I'm on [Insert Name Here]'s side.

French Fries are an American term and Americans are not to be trusted with fries. As Belgians we take fries seriously. We have specialized shops to sell fries. We have a museum for fries who have fries specialists. If you have questions about fries, you should ask the specialists, not Americans.

In Australia they would be “chips” in general and French fries as a specific type of cut.

I’m going to watch Gavin be right and everyone else be wrong, but he will still lose the argument because he can’t explain himself properly.

I thought it was general, but if I asked for French fries and got curly fries or sweet potato fries I would think that this is the wrong order

French fries are a type of chip. McDonald's chips are french fries, chips shop chips are not.

This may have regional differences. In Australia if a menu says French Fries they will 100% be what I am seeing people call shoestring fries. Chips is the general term here.

I guess now it's a general term, but I believe it's from a frenched (type of cut) then fried potato.

I do not appreciate that waffle fries are a subcategory of French fries, but I do accept it.

So anyway I was flipping coins..

This question is just “Are you American”. French fry as a term either doesn’t exist, or refers specifically to the thin mcdonalds chips in the rest of the world.

Fry is general French is the descriptor Waffle Steak Imagine going to chick fil a and ordering French fries, you will be corrected and reassured that you will be getting waffle fries

Andrew prolly thinks the Swiss invented French fries

French describes how the potato is cut. It's a specific term that's become generalized

At first I would say general term but of if I see a place has home cut fries I’m disappointed. So I guess in reality French Fries is a specific cut for me like waffle fries or steak fries.

The answer is different Outside of America

Instead of voting I just want to say that Andrew is wrong

Where are Regulation Polls 1-3?

People answering this poll are overlooking the french part. Fries is a general descriptor, french fry is a specific fry.

What we have here is a rectangle and square paradox, imagine it between potato wedges and French fries, while wedges technically qualify as a French fry variant, similar to the rectangle, they both exist equally. Just like the square and rectangle do in the shapes lab

I think the real question is: Would you consider Tater Tots French Fries? I mean, they are just fried potatoes like French Fries, and French fries arent defined by just skinny fries....there's waffle and steak fries that are thicker and bulkier....

If this is a Gavin question I think I might shit

curly, waffle, crinkle cut, wedge, thin, shoestring. These are all styles of french fries

Is this the poll era.

I genuinely don’t understand how I’m in the minority on this one and I’m sad that that means that I’ll likely be agreeing with Andrew, I imagine.

I thought these are regulation debates? Also this is the 3rd one or am I missing one?

I love these no context polls.

fries is the general term, french fries is the specific variety

When i am offered french fries, i always picture the mcdonalds fries. I feel like anything other than that needs to be specified. Waffle, curly, steak, etc

If someone told me French fries were a specific cut I'd litterly think it was some type of fries from france. Because French fry, is 100% just a general term for fries. But I feel like most people now just say fries .seems like more of a boomer thing to say French fries.

A French cut is style of cutting that is long with a thin, square cross section, therefore it is not a general term but is specific.

I can't wait for this to blow up in Gavin's face

French fry is a general term. I would say (and my wife is on the same page) that tots and wedges are different, but shoestring, crinkle cut, waffle are all under the french fry umbrella

a French Fry is a specific variety of fried potato. If I order french fries and you give me potato wedges, I'm gonna have some fukkin words for you.

Wow! 75% of people are objectively wrong. Interesting.

There are many fries that are French fries. All French fries are cut in the spirit of julienne with many variations. Cubed, wedged or rounds are very similar, but not French fries.

I can't wait to find out the context for this poll 😂

Is there any further context the audience should know about, or we gonna have to wait until next Wednesday to find out?

I see the potato draft went off without debate

I’m with Andrew on this.

A "French Fry" is your bog standard fry. Waffle fries, curly fries, and the like gotta be called out by name.

as of now i'm in the minority (25%), but like, when I think french fry, the image that comes to mind ain't waffle or curly, it's the straight ones. If you were to go to a restaurant and they gave you fuckin potato wedges or curlies, and you ordered French, youi'd be like "yo i didn't order this". if they're different items on the menu, "French" is not a general term! big fan of the big ass breakdowns people are doing. my people.

I'm on Gavin's side regardless

French Fry is the type of Cut, like steak cut and waffle cut, like French Style Green Beans. Source : Worked in a fancy restaurant, SIL is a chef

Andrew, don't piss on my chips

Rectangular cut potato = French fries. Waffle, wedge, curl, etc are varieties of "fry" but you wouldn't expect them to show up if you simply got a burger and fries

French fries are a specific type of fries, I'll die on that hill too. Home fries are still fries despite them being the worst type. If something was labelled as French fries and you get home fries, you're mad. It's a specific type of potato fries.

In Australia, French Fries are only the sort you find at McDonald's. They're not very common outside of that context. Anything else is a fry (if straight) or a chip (umbrella term incorporating fries, steak chips, waffle fries, but not wedges).

Wedges aren't French fries

So… which podcast or draft will this be from in 2-3 weeks?

Are French fries part of the regulation universe now so they can’t be drafted?

Yeah but curly fries exist.

I’m mad that yall think French fries are a general term, Americans !!!!!! 🙄

In New Zealand fries are deep fried potato of most kinds except wedges, FRENCH fries are McDonalds style thin fries

Fry is the General Term. French, Steak, Waffle, Paddlewheel, Crinklecut, Shoestrings are the Cuts. You would never call a waffle fry a french fry. You would call it a type of fry though because it's fried. Think about Green Beans. Whole, Trimmed, French cut, Italian cut, Romano Cut, etc. French is a style of cut just as a "McDonalds" Fry is 'French cut' Thus a French Fry vs Steak Fry

I see a lot of people don't know (and probably don't care) about the actual origin of the phrase "potatoes fried in the French manor."

General, because they the US tried calling French Fries “Freedom Fries” when they were mad at France, but the fries stayed the same

General term and also andrew would eat them on a plane

Look at all this context

See are we talking all types of, for want of a better term, dippable potato shaving? Because if we’re differentiating between fries and frites, sure. But calling a wedge or a think cut chip a French fry is madness

Technically it is a specific cut of fries, I believe. However, the common understanding has kinda changed the definition over time.

Curly fries. Waffle fries. It aint Waffle french fries. Chips for UK?

What happened to Regulation Poll 3?

Wait, isn’t this the third poll?

My Toyota Corolla is a car and my crinkle cut fries are french fries

These polls are a great teaser for the next argument coming up lol.

"French Fries" are fried potatoes encompassing straight cut, wedge, and even curly varieties. This is an Amercanism as far as I am aware.

You gotta stop making polls, Andrew. They're never going to go your way....

When I hear French Fry I think skinny like McDonalds, not a Steak Fry or Crinkle etc.

The general term should be just 'fries'. If a menu says French fries and they serve curly fries, the menu is wrong. I would allow any fries that are straight and flat as passable.

Chick-Fil-A has Waffle Fries. Arby's has Curly Fries. McDonalds , Wendys, Burger King, and Five Guys have French Fries. Ergo, French Fries are their own specific variant of the overall fry.

I'm on Andrew's side, zero context polls are fun.

I'm betting that this poll won't ultimately matter.

You wouldn’t call thick cut oven chips in the UK french fries, but the skinny McDonalds types are

I can't wait to hear the context for this!

I really enjoy these out of context polls. Andrew is on a tear lately. (Don't worry im on your side)

I can’t in good conscience vote on any more of these polls

Style because there are other things that end in “fry”. But those things might have an implicit French in them, so I’m not sure.

Depends on where you are from/fram. In the us i would imagine its a general term but here in Aus you would be talking about a specific cut.

The “French” part is in reference to the cut of fry. Julienne Fries. French Fries.

If you saw french fries on a menu and got curly fries or waffle fries would you be confused? I would be. French fries are a specific variant, but there are multiple types of french fries, too. It's like squares and rectangles are all shapes, and all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. There's a taxonomy at play here.

I need there to be an option for both, honestly.

I publicly want this to blow up in Andrew’s face but privately I don’t know

I feel like being on the 25% I'm siding with Andrew on this. Shiet.

Does this apply to potato wedges and curly fries

The specific type I assume one of them is talking about are pomme frite. I can see the argument, but French fries is just French fries

I hope I’m not helping Andrew “prove” Eric wrong because…. Eric is always right

People who are mad at the lack of context in the polls are 90% just mad they actually agree with Andrew. Live your truth fam, it's okay to agree with him hahaha

My vote was for specific style. While I know that society as a whole (myself included) uses it as a general term, it does make you think of a specific type of fry (I.E. McDonald's). Other restaurants denote different styles; Shoestring or Matchstick for Steak and Shake, curly for Arby's, waffle for Chick-fil-A. Side note, steak fries aren't real fries. Fight me

Like a car, French fry is the make. Waffle, steak, curly, garlic, ect are the models

I don’t know the context, but I do know that Andrew is wrong

Americans historically cannot be trusted to know the name of food products

Both. Is it both. If you deep fry a thinly sliced potato, it is a French fry, if you back or air fry it, it is still a French fry... however, a potato wedge, is not a fry, no matter how they're made. Same with puck hasbrowns, etc . It is a general term, a type, and a method of preparation. General term: thinly sliced potato side dish, fried in oil, can be baked (if you're a psycho) and generally understood to be a "fry". Variant: French fry its self, be it curly, shoestring, crinkle cut is a Variant of fried or baked potato dishes. i.e potato wedges, Pomme pavé, puck hasbrown. Preparation: this one should be obvious. You can blanch, freeze then fry, air fry, or bake them... but this coupled with the prior two qualifiers makes it a French fry. Edit: as for if it's a specific style of fry.. yes. Specifically a French fry is required to be deep fried in oil. However, generally we would still call a baked or air fried fry, a french fry. Conclusion: I just got off work as a private investigator in rural Ohio and finally got cell-phone signal. I am realizing, this was a waste of everyone's time.

Eh. I know I’m in the minority here because most Americans dont know the etymology of the words. Most Americans will say French fry is general. However, fry refers to the potato being fried. Frenching is a specific style of cutting that usually is akin to julienne but means long strips. That’s why there’s things like waffle fries, and steak fries, etc. they are different cuts/patterns

If I ordered French fries at a restaurant and they brought me sweet potato fries, home fries or potato wedges, I would be mad. But shoe string fries, crinkle cut fries, and even waffle fries I feel would fall under the French fry category.

Sorry Gavin you are wrong

No shit

This stumped me for awhile, but I think the existence of "Home Fries" means its closer to the later, a specific style of fry. That being said, it wasn't on the poll but I would say that the "French" in "French Fries" is not actually an adjective, but a part of the name which is together a noun. Another example is "New Year's Eve". Every word should be capitalized because it's all together the name of a specific holiday, even though "new" is typically an adjective.

This has to be a Gavin thing, and it will 100% be all the Americans (and maybe Andrew) claiming "french fries" are a general term, as a fellow Brit "French Fry" is specifically the thin style you get at McDonalds etc... using bog standard potatoes, there's multiple other styles, like thick cut, waffle or curly and then there's the different things they could be made from and that's before we even get started on the difference between a "fry" and a "chip".

French Fried is another term from the 1880s, just like Scrumping. I would hazard to guess this is Gavin saying French Fries are different in the UK from the standard Chips that are what American's call Steak Fries.

I think “fries” is a general term that can refer to waffle fries, curly fries, steak fries, shoestring fries, etc To me “french fries” specifically refer to the standard “baton-cut” fries like what you would get at McDonald’s

It's a general term until you introduce a curl to the fry

Can’t answer, need more context

We clearly don't know Andrew's fry set up

I feel like I'm leaning towards French Fries being a specific variant and or cut of fry. I would not call waffle fries "french fries", but I would refer to them both as "fries". That said, if I asked for "fries" with no context and got waffle fries I'd probably be confused, I'd be expecting standard shaped french fries.

French Fries is generic. It basically describes how the potato is cooked, i.e. being fried. Things like Waffle Cut, or Crinkle Cut, are just the adjectives that describe the shape of the French fry. At least that's how I see it.

It's frustrating when I order fries and get served regular chips.

I think only Americans would say it's a general term. French fries to me is specifically those McDonalds style fries. Belgian fries is where it's at.

This has Andrew or Gavin written all over it

If I ordered French Fries and got Chunky Fries I would be absolutely miffed

This is a weird one. Looking it up on Wikipedia it is a general term but if you said you had French fries and gave me like curly fries I would say those aren't French fries, they are curly fries. Definitely a strange one. Whatever the decision is though, I'm sure I will be against Andrew on it.

For whatever reason, when I hear "French fries" instead of just "fries" I picture just straight cut, bog standard, regulation fries, whereas "fries" can refer to all fried potato variants. I can't wait to hear how this is somehow the point Andrew was trying to make but unable to explain and I'm prepared to get lit up for this by proxy. Maybe it's because I'm Canadian too.

General Term 🫡🫡🫡🫡

My immediate thought was that French Fry being a general term, but fries is the general term and French Fries are a specific type of fries.

What’s the context?

It is called French Fries due to the method of the French cut. It is a classic culinary cutting technique.

This is gonna be an Americans vs the rest of the world thing

Somehow this poll is going to be about the origin of shoelaces or some shit in context

They're all chips. French frys are the Maccas style one because only yanks call them French frys and McDonald's is American

🪙🪙Fries are general. French is specifically the cut, like you would get at most fast food joints. However, much like Poptart being synonymous with Toaster Pastries, French Fries is synonyms with the generic term Fries.

It's obviously a specific term or the other styles of fry and chip would not have different names.

I want to say specific style of fries for this poll, if it was a general term at least for me I would say hey can you hand me those fries. At least that how I would interpret with the way the wording is here. Like capitals vs lowecase wording. Although that can backfire with French fries and Seasoned Fries, since they are almost the same style of fries but with different seasonings. Need more context in how it would be phrased.

If the podcast discussion here lacks both of “Belgian” and “pommes”, I’ll be mildly disappointed.

Can’t wait to listen to what random insane argument spawned this dichotomy. But I don’t think it’s Andrew, I think it was Geoff or Nick. Geoff was the one who thought Tatter-tots were a condiment or whatever.

We also definitely did not have enough context for the no scrumping poll. They did not specify that every regulation within Regulation is off limits before the draft. Like what if someone drafted the regulation of singing audio at the end of a long video? Is that also off limits because it's a Regulation regulation, even though other people do it?

they're chips

Any straight cut fry is a French fry, in my book. Crinkle or otherwise, shoestring or steak. All French fries. Waffle and curly are their own things.

This just caused a 15 minute argument between my brother and I to the point that we went down an etymology rabbit hole over the French term frites.

What is the context though

I mean as an Englishwoman I would say specific cut, cause they're long and skinny in my head. The general term for me is chips

Super out of context poll but I feel that while manufacturers and restaurants may have their own specific standards for their own fries, the term "French Fries" is used universally for a number of different cuts or variants, fried in different oil blends or made with different potato varietals, or fried for different amounts of time, salted with different salt blends from different global sources, all of which subtly change the end product of "French Fries."

Whatever this is about, Andrew is wrong

Don’t they have separate categories like crinkle cut fries or curly fries or waffle fries, so French fries seem like the bog standard

Taters tots and waffle fries are not french fries and I would go to war for that opinion.

I just know I’m on gavins side for this one

It's a fried potato that's been cut in one of the French styles. The cut gives it the name. Also, "No Scrumping" and "F**kface" are not Regulation, they're regulation adjacent. Not the same thing.

Hot chips = is general term.

I really don’t want to be used for more Andrew gaslighting

I mean it’s both isn’t it?

This might be an English thing. Waffle Fries, Curley Fries, etc are not French Fries. They're all examples of chips.

next week's episode should be interesting

This question is just "are you american or from literally anywhere else"

This adds such a fun dynamic to the podcast to see how wild Andrew's takes are out of context.

Frenching is a verb in food, and refers to slicing something into thin strips, like Julienning. So, French Fries can be any cut and fried strip of potato.

It would seem the US has a different way of describing fries 🍟

In the UK it's definitely a specific but from what I've seen in the US it's a general term

French fries are a type of chips ie they are the thin crispy ones Gavin is correct

Like I mean technically they are called that because they are French cut... But also if someone said my crinkle cut fries weren't French fries actually I'd 100% tell em to suck an egg I feel like this is a real Gavin argument and he's just wrong here

When did Chris Denamarais join Regulation?

This pole gives off Gavin vibes. He probably asked the question to the guys and ended with a hand shape.

My partner described French fries as the straight cut. Everything else has names Curly fries, waffle fries, etc.

I'm on Eric's side on this one.

This is entirely dependent on country. In the US fries are the general term although by saying french fries it does feel more specific. In Europe it specifically means a style of fries

Other fries always have a qualifier. I wouldn't order "curly French fries" or "steak cut french fries". If I order French fries and got something else (steak, curly, crinkle, etc.) I would be pleasantly surprised, but surprised nonetheless.

French fries are a variation of fry/chip, like how tiger loaf is varient of bread.

Context needed, me lord... Stronghold Crusaders reference lol

Pommes Pont-Neuf

The Venn diagram of French Fries and cuts of fries is one big circle

I think the definition is a frenched fry which mans a certain style of cut, but if your asking if a waffle frie is a fresh fry then yes it falls under the spirit of a French fry

Let's play a game called guess the context, I'll go first: Andrew is upset that he ordered French fries and got crinkle cut

It's absolutely supposed to be a specific type of fry (julienne cut) but some people just use it for literally every style.

I think this depends on who’s speaking. I think American’s would use French fries as a generic term, but being English I would use French Fry to refer to thinner fries and I would call chunkier ones Chips

If you drafted French fry , I could still draft waffle fry. Whatever option that is

There better be good context to this poll

It’s like asking for coke and being told they have Pepsi. I just want whatever cola you have. Just give me the potato. I’m sure Andrew is salad creaming this some how.

French fries are french-cut

This reminds me of a “ what makes a chip, a chip? “ Debate at my job 😂

We're in the Poll Era

I would have to say it’s a specific cut (i.e., “normal” fries; e.g. McDonald’s). Otherwise, they’d have a descriptor that’s not French (e.g., crinkle cut, waffle, steak, curly, etc.). One generally doesn’t look at curly or waffle fries & go, “Those are some tasty looking French fries.” Straight to the psych ward if they do.

Curly fries/waffle fries/smiley fries/etc can all be called french fries. However, if you say you're making french fries, and then show me anything other than straight-cut, shoestring, or crinkle-cut fries, I'm going to ask why you weren't more specific

All I know is that I’m on Eric’s side.

If this means what I think.... No Andrew, curly fries and steak fries are still french fries.

Just one ounce of context in these polls would be great, but I love getting these polls randomly 😂

I can see the argument for "specific style," but Ive literally never actually heard of anyone using "french fry" to refer to a specific style of fry. Ive always heard it used for everything from steak fries to shoestrings to curly, everything short of a waffle pretty much.

Someone's angry about shoe string fries

Everything is a "French fry" until you specify a type of cut

I don't know what this is about I just know Andrew is somehow wrong

As a Brit I think of french fires as thin while chips are thick

"Andrew, name ONE type of fry." ""Uuuhhhhhhh"

Any others need to be specified

Oh leaked potato draft content

I think this is a Gavin one since we brits 🇬🇧 enjoy tripple-cooked-chips as opposed to the French Fry. If youre 🇺🇸 I can understand calling everything French Fries.

I'm fuckin terrified to answer these now lest I support a cause I don't agree with

French fries are a general term, but they also tend to refer to shoestring fries by default unless specified or when discussing food broadly.

You can refer to a lot of different types of potato as fries. french fries is just a specific cut of fry which is skinny which is usually what McDonald's sells. For example if you were at a carnival you wouldn't ask for French fries. You would ask for a small medium or large fry maybe an extra medium if they have it LOL

Dont worry Andrew, I'm definitely on your side

The argument is going to be around 'standard' (shoestring) v all other types. Crinkle cut, curly, wedges, steak the deacriptiors are all used when you talk about those kinds of fry, but very infrequently does one say ' I'd like some shoestring fries ' because it's implied. #fryguy

I think we gotta stop voting in these until andrew stops weaponizing lack of context 😂😂

Contextless, just how I like my polls. But seriously, I think French fries are a group that includes shoestring, crinkle, straight, and steak fries.

Every French fry is a fry, but not every fry is a French fry.

If someone asked if I wanted French fries I would assume your regulation straight cut fry à la McDonald’s. But if they brought me curly or waffle, it wouldn’t be wrong

I’m on Eric’s side

General term, specific cuts may be certain people’s perceived default(usually shoestring or crinkle cut) but the fact that those cuts have names makes the answer obvious

French fry, waffle fry, log fry, curly fry, shoestring fry, etc Idk who is behind this but "general term" is so wrong its not even close

I'm on Andrew's side

French Fries is the general term. The cuts are; straight, curly, cris cut, steak, etc. Wrong again Andrew!

Im worried andrew is going to use this to justify calling two baked potatoes 'french fries' or something. I can not trust the poll...

I feel like this is a trap

I'm gonna be contrarian and say that this is Gavin being wrong here. This is very "are teeth part of the skull?" coded

Context?

Chips

It’s only a French fry if it’s from Champagne

This is a ridiculous question. When I think of French fries I think of straight cut so, to me, it's a specific term. You then have waffle fries, sweet potato fries, wedge cut fries, steak cut fries, crinkle cut fries, and so on. Whenever you get "French fries" from a restaurant, they're straight cut. So it's a specific term.

This is such an American thing

If someone drafted French fries in a potato draft, I should still be allowed to pick curly or waffle fries. If it isn’t a strictly potato draft, I shouldn’t be allowed to take those

Potato Draft type shyt, A French Fry is a general term. You can have crinkle cut or shoe string , but they're both French Fries

I think we’re past the point where “French fries” is like a description of a type of food that can then be divided into cuts. Like how tissue paper is a Kleenex or hot tubs are jacuzzis.

This is a Nick thing, not Andrew. Calling my shot

French Fry is the Make. Standard, Steak, Waffle, Paddlewheel, Crinklecut, Shoestrings are the Models.

I said style because they are long and skinny, generally. If you have steak fries, home fries, waffle fries, etc. those aren't french fries.

But are French fries part of the Regulation universe?

Ive literally never thought about this and I would have said general fry but I guess it is a style when I think about it. Its not French waffle fry.

General, implies but is not necessarily thin cut

It’s a straight fry - I have NEVER heard someone call a curly fry or a waffle fry a French fry. I would consider anything straight up and down (like crinkle or shoestring) a French fry but any other form factor is NOT a French fry

i don’t want to participate anymore…

Dear lord Andrew I can only have so many migraines in a week.

I always love participating in these no-context polls (genuinely)

I think in America it's a general term, 100%. But in the UK, chips would be the general term. French fry would imply like McDonald's fries. Interested to know who's behind this one 😂

Andrews takes are getting wild 😂

Not enough context, need more to change my mind.

Andrew definitely thinks this is going to be the deciding factor in his argument about baked potatoes.

You think they in the lab 🤔 , the fry lab.

It's like bread: the term is general, but deprived of context there's a regulation fry that comes to mind. I don't know if it has another name (like shoestring, wedge, etc), just as I don't know the regular loaf has a specific name.

Steak fries, Curly Fries, waffle fries, Crinkle Fries. And French Fries...

My head says this is an Andrew question but my heart wants it to be a Gavin question

Imagine making a living arguing about these kinds of questions with your friends.

“Crinkle cut” or “Shoestring” are descriptors of specific cuts. I would say the most common French fry you see is a straight cut

I love this show.

Worst thing when you go to a restaurant that says French fries and you get chips (English)

26% of people aren't very smart

Andrew stop

Waffle fries, sweet potato fries, crinkle cut fries, steak fries, french fries. Sorry y'all but Fries is the general term, french fries are just the most common subset

Was there a debate/poll 3?

Ok, so why would Andrew think a French fry is a specific type of fry?

It’s a general term, but also, I’m thinking of a long thin fry with “French fry”. Like I wouldn’t expect waffle fries if I ordered “French fries”

It’s both though. It’s a French style cut but also the general term used

Good ol' USA bias in the poll results here

My favorite part about this is that the last two were called Regulation Debate, and they skipped 3 entirely. I fucking love this show so much

I sense some British vs North American arguments in the near future

Andrew, knows he needs to stop making polls, right?... right?

This is absolutely a regional thing. French fries to me are thin McDonald's style. Thicker ones are chips. French fries are also chips.

I tell you what you say french fries and nothing else and there is only one style I’m gonna be thinking of

They’ve really been weaponizing the polls and I love it

If it was a specific style of fry, it would be called a “Frenched Fry”. French fry is a general term, Andrew

What? No fries are general term. If you asked if I wanted French fries and you gave me waffle fries I’d be confused but I’d eat them. If you gave me curly fries I’d be pleasantly surprised. If you gave me shoestring or even steakcut I’d be like “hey yeah!” As expect.

strickly speaking, the french part of french fries is the style of cut, but everyone uses it as a generic term these days...so im going generic

I think technically it was originally one specific thing but these days colloquially it means different types of fried potatoes

From an Australian perspective, it’s definitely a particular style here. You’d expect thin and crispy fries like you get at maccas

Fries is the general term, French fries is a specific type, but maybe that’s a British look at it

Specific style because general term is potato

"ah, is this a french-ed fry or something more generic?"

IMO "Fries," or, "a fry" would be the general term. "French" implies a style 🤔

This is instinct. You can’t teach this.

Just watched Andrew get bodied on a take similar to this. Can’t wait for Salad Cream part 2: the Creamening

Andrew cut it out

Someone needs to take away Andrew’s poll privileges

All I know is if someone said they were giving me french fries and then gave me potato wedges, I would be PISSED but crinkle cut and shoestrings are acceptable under "french fries"

This sucks

Tune in next time on next week’s episode of “What did Andrew say this time!?!”

Are Freedom Fries a different cut or is it just the lead in the water?

No context is just how I like to answer these babies.

I can see the bad faith argument that there are types of fries that aren't called French commonly (e.g., curly fries), but it's because we'd go crazy if we had to say Curly French Fries every time

Based on this context I have determined that regardless of choice, there isn’t context

Back to back 207 episodes potentially

I blame Eric

After today's episode I really debated answering this.

After today’s episode, I’m against Andrew no matter what i vote.

I can’t vote in this poll until I know what side Andrew is on

Andrew stop while youre ahead🤣

“Fries” is the general term. French Fries specifically refer to French cut fries

Definitely subject to location

French fries being a specific style HAS to be Gavin’s thought.

I mean….this isn’t that out of line.

Andrew loves using the word descriptor he is definitely behind this nonsense again

I'm scared to vote now....

I better not hear some bs about “Canada fries” or something stupid

After today's episode I know Andrew is back on his bullshit

Im ready to accept this new "poll era"

I don’t trust these anymore. I’ve already voted weirdly twice because I did not know the context of the last ones. My vote would have changed on them. I will just say from this specific context of fucking course it’s a general term.

I’m looking forward to this being a Gavin Andrew debate

It can be both

The audience is in it's paranoid era

French fries to me = bog standard fries

What’s the context?

Andrew please…. It’s getting increasingly difficult to be a part of the PDF (Panton Defense Force)

I can't wait to see how Andrew misinterpreted the situation to set up a good poll for himself.

fries = skinny. chips = thicc

Imma need some context next time buddy

This feels like a poll directed at Gavin this time

This poll needs more context

This was such a delight to see come through

General term, don't be insane

I can’t wait to see the context surrounding this and how someone tries to argue the point.

Andrew is definitely wrong again...

I just know Andrew is behind this

Can’t wait for this to be wildly out of context