Added: 02/02/2006 |
Biggie fries for the full pleasureWendy's is famous for its French fries. It is the dish served in every fast food restaurant in the world. However, there are some variations in the way of cooking and in size. Wendy's became more popular thanks to its biggie fries. The big red box, in which Wendy's biggie fries is served, is very noticeable. Recently the size of the fries' portion has changed. It was reduced. Is it good or bad step of Wendy's managers?
Every type possesses certain degree of exclusiveness. Among them there are Crinkle-Cut Fries, deemed as outstanding by some customers because of ?the perfect batter-to-potato ratio?. Steak fries. It is usually used as a garnish to steak and is likely to be served in better restaurants. Waffle Fry is offered only by one fast-food chain and is not widespread sort of French fries. We can mention curly fries and spicy or seasoned fries, but they are really odd and didn?t gain much popularity.
Wendy?s offers the average standard for French fries, used in the majority of fast-food restaurants. Shoestring fries are also the most popular time due to this fact. Though you can never guess whether this day French fries are good or not. Another variable parameter is the size of potato. Wendy?s has a thicker cut fry than the standard shoestring, they also served biggie fries. However, actually the thinner-cut fries are usually better.
Wendy?s special meal known as biggie fries should be mentioned apart from others. It is served in big red box and looks seriously. Though, it is so tasty, that you will never let anything to stay in your box. Bad thing is that all the French fries, biggie and medium, waffle and crinkle-cut, contain too many calories and, that is far more dangerous, big amount of saturated fat in it. The amount of saturated fat in French fries can be compared with the same in chips. It was proved by scientific researches that saturated fats pose a great risk on human?s health. It influences heart and blood system. Great consumption of saturated fat can easily ? and usually it DOES ? lead to obesity and another problems with hormonal balance in the body. Such thing as French fries should appear in the menu of average person no more than one time a week or even less. We realize that it is hard to avoid this dish at all, because of it delicious taste and bad eating habits of today?s society. Bad habits, as you know, die hard, so it is item for the personal choice.
For a long time Wendy's biggie fries were that fine line that separated Wendy?s and Burger King or McDonalds or another fast food restaurant. Now in fact it seems like there is no more biggie fries. Dish served at Wendy?s can be named just a medium fries, not biggie fries.
According to the official sources, Wendy?s simply changed the size of fries goes with each combo meal. Earlier a ?medium? combo meal at Wendy?s contained the biggie fries and medium soda. Consequently what was named as ?biggie size meal? meant ?great biggie fries? and the "Biggie" drink.
To make everything clear we should recap the things. Today the medium combo meal includes medium fries and the medium soda. On the other hand, Biggie Size of the meal means that you get the Biggie fries that used to come with a medium meal, plus mega soda as before.
If we think thoroughly, may be with reducing the size of French fries in the meal Wendy?s managers save our life. Smaller the portion - smaller the amount of calories and saturated fats presented. Consequently, fewer diseases and reasonable compromise between taste and profit.
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