This is why you should never order a large fries at McDonald's
Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: This is why you should never order a large fries at McDonald's.
Difficult questions: does life have meaning, what role does the ego play, and do animals have a soul? But also: should I take small, medium, or large fries at McDonald's? Fortunately, that last question is easy to answer thanks to Snackspert, his expertise, curiosity, and kitchen scale.
No snack is too crazy for him, is the motto of Snackspert. And fortunately, he was brave enough to order a small, medium, and large fries at McDonald's – to bypass the whole fries-or-chips debate he consistently calls it fries-chips – and weigh them on his kitchen scale. Because measuring is knowing and guessing is missing, grandpa always says, so here we go.
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A maximum of six fries
The small portion is actually only ordered by children, let's be honest, or people who are on a diet and you can question what they are doing at McDonald's . 80 grams clean weight, Snackspert weighs. By the way, did you know that according to health experts you should eat a maximum of six fries because otherwise you consume way too much fat and salt for a healthy diet? Well, then you can treat the whole family with that mini bag, hooray.
And the difference is...
Medium portion: 116 grams. Large: 133 grams. The difference between the two: 10 fries. He calculated and counted them. That's why Snackspert tips us: never, ever order the large fries because it hardly makes a difference.
Math involved
Let's do some math and calculation power here, then Snackspert's statement will only be powerfully proven. The small portion costs €2.10, the medium goes for €2.25 in the brown bag with you, and for the large you pay €2.95. Hello Piet, that's 70 cents for 10 fries and that's absolutely not okay. Just converted to amount per gram of fries since we already have the calculator in front of us: for the small portion you pay €0.026 per gram, the medium comes to €0.019 and the large to €0.022. A settled case, right?
