Okay, I’m a descent triathlete. In local races I usually place in the top 3 in my age group, but still need to improve a lot to even dream of getting to the top. I know I should only eat good foods, fruits and veggies and power bars etc, but dang french fries are so freaking good. They are my ultimate vice except for sweet tea. I only have them probably once a week at a local sub place just can’t say know. Who else out there just can’t say know to those salty fried potatoe wedges? I figure with all the working out what the heck!!! It just makes me work out harder to work them off!
Me. I do what you do, have them once a week. Every Thursday, me and a few co-workers hit the pub for a “Sick Bastard’s Lunch”, and I always have fries and beer with whatever else I’ve ordered. We eat food that is bad for us, drink a few pints, and no topic is off-limits. All good fun, makes training thru lunch all the other days easier to face.
I thought about that as I was typing… Call them what you wish. I will go with Mig’s Fries.(place of consumption) Great place to eat if anyone ever makes it around Greenwood, SC. It is even a chain!
The hell with this once a week BS…I shove those delicious slices of heaven down my gullet 5-6 times a week.
Salty fries 'n katsup are pure goodness. If they are washed down with a nice dark stout or two…I have to have a cigarette afterwards. Man o man.
You generally have two philosophies represented here on the boards:
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I do triathalons, so I need to eat healthy.
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I do triathalons, so I can eat what I want.
I subscribe to the second group.
Welcome to the FoodSlut ™ team! 
They really should be called “fat fries”. They’re great for raising your cholesterol levels off the chart depending on how they are cooked, and can be of no nutritional value whatsoever if skimmed and boiled in grease.
But damn, don’t they taste good once in awhile.
sweet tea…where are you ? GA?
Can I join?
If prepared properly, french fries contain very little oil. The problem is that cheapo fries are usually cooked so they soak up a lot of oil. If prepared right, the fries will soak up less oil that a salad with vinagrette.
Marisol does… the whole stock of french fries in downtown Tempe will be GONE after her race ends next saturday…
Can I remind you guys that they are now called Freedom fries!
and it’s a good thing, so that people may stop believing in a few years that these ‘things’ are french…they are not!
they are from Belgium…Wim, anything to add?
You have to be a “Normal” person once in a while…if you get too OC about the whole thing you’ll burn -out !
I have my fries fix the day before I do a brick, and just make sure I come close to burning it off. .which is not hard to do if you’re biking 50-60 miles and running 8-10 miles afterwards.
In fact, some of my best sessions have happened because of a pre-training meal of micro brew beer,steak,salad and fries.
I don’t do this often, but, when I have, the results have been excellent.
My friend is an elite runner.Stand alone marathon is 2:30’ish.
The guy lives on Pizza,Donuts,Diet Coke and Ice Cream 2 weeks of the month,and then the next 2 he switches to just Sushi,Salad,Water and more Ice Cream.
He’s been doing this forever.
No diet…just lots of miles.
So my feeling is,unless you’re a Pro getting paid to suffer, might as well have a good time being an age grouper.
Its all good! Right?
Anyone can join, as long as they love food, and train to eat ;-).
Not only do I like very salty french fries (Pommes Frittes) but I balance it in the morning with a little bit of coffee in my sugar and milk cup. 
Herbert
Litespeed/QR
Since they changed the name from french fries into freedom fries, the french seem to accept that they didn’t invent them. Very smart.
I’m in. Is there a T-shirt?
nah…the french never accepted having the name french attached to these things…
it’s like french toasts (called pain perdu, or literally lost bread), french vanilla (try to grow vanilla in France), croissant (from austria)…
OTOH, french kiss is from France
Let’s face it, everyone in marketing equated gourmet,good taste with the French. It suddenly takes on a different air when you add “french” to it.
I think the whole french fry name was some silly dude who wandered into Belgium got really trashed (on Stella Artois, no doubt), woke up, found a Pomme Frites stand, heard them speaking in French, and called them French Fries.
My favourite wife’s contribution of the French? The French Tickler, of course. ;^)
personally, I really do love good fries, but thankfully I feel as though they are really really bad to eat–so only a few times a year. I did them in mayonnaise, or tarter sauce…which only adds fuel to the fire. It’s good! I like them with a big cheeseburger. Damn!
french fries with gravy is the bomb. even better…french fries with gravy and mozzarella. hits the spot for post drinking munchies.