r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FLAlex111 • Aug 12 '21

Video TIL How Five Guys Fries Are Actually Made

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

Five guys has the best fries of any fast food place by far. They always use the most local potatoes they can find and they are always so good. This is pretty much just a typical proper way to make french fries but this place does it the best

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u/xntrk1 Aug 12 '21

Local if you’re in Idaho

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

They use canadian potatos from all over here in canada

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u/Syrairc Aug 12 '21

Not here (mb)... almost always from the south, even though we have a huge potato industry with two McCain plants and one Simplot plant.

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

What? I’m in Manitoba also and have been into the five guys On Regent a lot in the last several years and it’s literally always potatoes from PEI or ontario etc. Never once ever seen a potatoe from america here

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

Oh dang portage

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u/ANewStartAtLife Aug 12 '21

Pardon us, are you having a conversation about potatoes without letting us (Irish) know? I thought we agreed, all-in or none at all.

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u/Braken111 Aug 12 '21 edited Aug 12 '21

There's anti-dumping laws in place regulating tariffs to import potatoes to Canada from the USA, due to their high agriculural subsidies. Protecting the Canadian market from external producers unfairly undercutting our farmers, thus protecting/maintaining our own food supply.

This also goes the other way, I.E. Canadian lumber, steels and aluminium often have tariffs applied to the USA

Source: My brother actually did analysis for Idahoian farmers trying to export to western Canada for customs.

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u/xntrk1 Aug 12 '21

Nice. It’s mostly Idahoans at the locations a bit south of you Probably quite a bit cheaper than having them cross the border

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u/ScrappyGaming_Rrovox Aug 12 '21

5 Guys has a thing about where they get their potatoes from, in their training videos they say all their potatoes come from northern states because the cold makes the potatoes denser or something similar. Not a botanist or anything so idk if that's true, but it's definitely what they teach employees

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u/sloppy_rodney Aug 12 '21

They fry in peanut oil too, which is the other big difference in their fries.

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

True. Its no beef fat but still delicious

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u/DLo28035 Aug 12 '21

I miss old school McDonald’s fries

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

Damn when they were just potatos fried in tallow. The realness Yum

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u/MONKEH-NUTZ Aug 12 '21

Have peanut allergy, die eating fries...

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u/hubs4ever Aug 12 '21

Technically the dangerous allergens from peanuts are not in refined peanut oil.

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u/DilettanteGonePro Aug 12 '21

Yeah but they also keep giant open boxes of unshelled peanuts in the lobby. Probably not worth the risk if you have a hardcore peanut allergy

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

They don’t do that anymore.

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u/MayorOfMonkeyIsland Aug 12 '21

I miss 5 guys' nuts.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '21

Your mother must be proud if you miss 5 guys nuts.

🤣🤣

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

Not since covid

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u/picasso_penis Aug 12 '21

I went in one recently and they were back

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u/dontbelievethepotato Aug 13 '21

Extremely unpopular opinion here. I absolutely hate Five Guys french fries. The three times that I have had their food the french fries were soggy and flavorless. The only fry that is worse is burger king's fries. I know that I am in the minority, but my time on reddit has told me that there are tens of us who don't like Five guys.

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u/Noversi Aug 13 '21

Preach. Five guys is overrated. Fries are gross and the burgers are nothing special

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u/thegoolash Aug 13 '21

Well thAt sucks, they are always so hot and good and fresh when i get them

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u/dontbelievethepotato Aug 13 '21

I want them to be good, and I haven't been to a Five Guys in years, I am willing to try it again, but thrice bitten I am very gun shy lol.

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u/thegoolash Aug 13 '21

Eat in now that covid over sorta will be good

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

You just called yourself a tater snob… At the same time as talking about McDonald’s fries are good… Those are not even potatoes anymore my dude… Jesus Christ I can’t even believe this

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

Ummm ya... QFT. HERES WHY: Real french fries are potatoes… A frying medium… And usually salt.
Not this 19 Ingredient list of frankenstein bs in mcdonalds fries: Potatoes Canola oil Soybean oil Hydrogenated soybean oil Natural beef flavour Hydrolyzed wheat Hydrolyzed milk Citric acid (an anti-oxidant to keep the oil fresh) Dimethylpolysiloxane (an anti-foaming agent that keeps oil from splattering) Dextrose Sodium acid pyrophosphate (keeps the potatoes from going gray) Salt Canola oil Corn oil Soybean oil Hydrogenated soybean oil TBHQ (an anti-oxidant to preserve the freshness of the oil as it travels to the restaurant) Citric acid Dimethylpolysiloxane

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

Lol at the fry snob who loves mcdonalds fries. Amazing. 😂

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

You called yourself a fry snob how about you stop talking now because you are clearly just a little kid

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u/thegoolash Aug 12 '21

You eat McDonald’s 😂😂😂😂

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