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[edit] Pictures

Pictures is needed... Don't tell me that taking a pic of a curly fry is illegal... Ran4 03:12, 24 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Arby's

Deleted the Arby's bit. this is an encylopedia, not an advertisement board. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.184.204.141 (talk • contribs) 22:02, 22 April 2006

That's silly. When I think curly fries, I think Arby's. It's hardly advertisement in my opinion. -Shai-kun 22:59, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How are they made?

How are they made?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.211.217.40 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 13 September 2006

Offhand, my guess is this: If you look at your average set of curly fries you'll see they don't come in random sizes but in around 3 different sizes. Imagine taking a large potato and slicing around it in a spiral fashion, going only as far as the center of the potato. At this point the potato should hold together because it is still one piece, a closely wrapped spiral. Now if you just cut circular sections through the potato perpendicular to the slices, you'll end up with very long curly fries that just have to be cut down to size. To try to make that more clear, suppose the Earth is a potato. Start at the north pole, cutting a spiral down in the direction of lines of latitude, cutting only down to the axis from the north pole to the south pole. You'd start circling near Canada and Russia, spiralling out down through the US and Europe, out around the equator and eventually down to the south pole. Now you turn Earth so the north pole is facing you and cut out a cylindrical chunk that contains both the north and south poles, resulting in a tighly wound curly fry. Now you cut out another cylinder even farther out, so you now have a less tighly wound fry that the first one could fit perfectly inside. If you made the first two cuts the right size, you're left with one giant fry that is the rest of the Earth. Yum! digfarenough (talk) 18:00, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. Terms

I live in Florida, and I have never seen McDonald's do curly fries. Maybe whoever wrote that lives outside of the US? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.8.145.76 (talk • contribs) 13:02, 27 January 2007

And the problem with that is? Wikipedia is NOT just for U.S. users —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.139.133.118 (talk • contribs) 02:07, 30 March 2007

[edit] Source needed

Where exactly is the source for the bit about how they are made. I highly doubt curly fries are made from "extruded mashed potatoes." If you look at curly fries they have large bits of potato skin on them - you could never replicate this with mashed potatoes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.13.150.10 (talk • contribs) 21:52, 6 May 2007