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Re:How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries (2010) by stinos on Saturday December 28, 2013 @07:43AM (#6974874)
Exactly. The article was almost annoying as it talks about "perfect" fries like everybody on the whole planet has the same taste. There aren't many things more subjective than taste. Just saying a fry should be salty in order the perfect is already a mistake. Not everybody likes that taste. Which is why you get asked specifically if you want salt or not. At least in Belgium, where we like to enjoy the one and only true superior real fries. Lol.

Anyway, still appreciate the article, it just started with the wrong premises.

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Re:How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries (2010) by chaz on Saturday December 28, 2013 @10:18AM (#6975143)
Talk to anyone about food, and everyone will have a different opinion of what/who/where the "perfect" is: the perfect pizza, the perfect burger, the perfect sushi, the perfect pie, the perfect ____. Everyone obviously has different tastes and it's universally acknowledged to be a subjective, if not contentious, topic.

If nothing else, I appreciate that the author laid out his criteria for selection, and didn't just jump straight into it.

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Re:How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries (2010) by foobarian on Saturday December 28, 2013 @10:44AM (#6975195)
People may not agree on perfect, but I think a lot more people agree on what "bad" is. Bad pizza, bad fries, etc. At the very least it should be universally easy to avoid those.
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Re:How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries (2010) by maxerickson on Saturday December 28, 2013 @10:31AM (#6975180)
It literally starts off with the sentence "I'm gonna come right out and say something that I'm sure you won't all openly agree with".

That's a pretty decent acknowledgement that other perspectives exist.

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