Most Fridays I have lunch at Shake Shack. I often order the Cheesy Fries – French Fries drenched with cheese sauce. So good! It comes with a wooden fork to spear ‘em with, but it doesn’t work very well so I bring my own stainless steel French Fry fork. It works SO much better! I bought it on Amazon. My Amazon fu is pretty good.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Love cheesy fries!

For some reason, I picture you like that one guy at the pool hall...


Walk into the joint with a leather case slung over your shoulder, and wearing fingerless gloves.

Unfurl the case with a flourish, retreiving your personal pool cue french fry fork. (Slow motion camerawork optional.)

Give the implement a good once-over to ensure it's still in perfect condition, perhaps giving it a quick buff in one particular spot with your sleeve.

Crack your knuckles, then set to work with your custom implement, while giving the side eye to the peasants who merely rely on what the establishment provides.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
French Fries drenched with cheese sauce. So good!

If you like that, try poutine. It's a whole 'nother level of goodness. Fries, cheese, and gravy.

Try fries with Bob Evans gravy on them!

Like w/ Jim Shugart, I knew who the poster was just by reading the subject title.

Hey! WTF! I dindunuffin'.

I'm lactose intolerant so I don't eat cheese. Except when I say fuck it and decide I'll pay the consequences but there are conditions to where I'll eat and pay those consequences.

To raise it up a level, go for some bacon on those cheese fries.

There was a place, right at the edge of the Pitt campus, called the "Big O," (sadly, taken down by Covid) that served the best cheese fries I can remember ever having. Mrs. A (she went to Pitt for a year, and was a Pgh native) told me "don't order the large." What cheese-blooded American male can resist a ploy like that? The large order arrived...an aluminum cafeteria tray heaped to overflowing with golden brown fries smothered in molten cheese of a richness you would be challenged to imagine. Maybe I'll encounter these again in Heaven (not that I have much chance of slipping past Gabe the bouncer, although I'm pretty sure his fingers will be a little greasy).

Gabes lost a step, you'll be fine.

I'll just leave this right here... But you can get them at Texas Roadhouse.

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Originally posted by Edmond:
I'm lactose intolerant so I don't eat cheese. Except when I say fuck it and decide I'll pay the consequences

I just had a recollection.....

1983, Syracuse University. If you had a dining plan you could eat at any of the dining halls on campus. A young chbibc and his friends frequently ate at Haven Dining Hall. That dining hall was attached to Haven Dorm - an all female residence hall. Aside from that attraction, Haven was the only dining hall that served cheesy fries. And they were excellent!

First time I got a wood fork like that was in England when I got some Curry fries from a street vendor.

Heisey's diner, North side of Lebanon PA, out by the dump. Best darn fries with homemade brown gravy.

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
Heisey's diner, North side of Lebanon PA, out by the dump

The ambiance of the mountains of trash adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the dining experience...

Well, my cholesterol just went up about 40 points.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
For some reason, I picture you like that one guy at the pool hall...


Walk into the joint with a leather case slung over your shoulder, and wearing fingerless gloves.

Unfurl the case with a flourish, retreiving your personal pool cue french fry fork. (Slow motion camerawork optional.)

Give the implement a good once-over to ensure it's still in perfect condition, perhaps giving it a quick buff in one particular spot with your sleeve.

Crack your knuckles, then set to work with your custom implement, while giving the side eye to the peasants who merely rely on what the establishment provides.

Wearing a T-shirt with his name on it and his hair is perfect.

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Originally posted by Edmond:
I'm lactose intolerant so I don't eat cheese. Except when I say fuck it and decide I'll pay the consequences but there are conditions to where I'll eat and pay those consequences.

To raise it up a level, go for some bacon on those cheese fries.

Many (most?) aged cheeses are naturally lactose free. In fact, most of the best cheeses offered by Cabot Creamery are lactose free!

https://cabotcreamery.com/blog.../lactose-free-cheese

https://cabotcreamery.com/pages/lactose-free-cheese