The “no salt fries” customers ruined fries. In their gambit to get fries slightly hotter they fucked everyone else. Many fast foods joints barely salt them at all now to dodge these cretins.
My tinfoil conspiracy theory is also that they started using lower temps in frying oil (to save money between replacement of the frying oil) made the fries slightly less crispy and greasier.
Of course the realities of fast food business means the 16 year old kid running the store practically by himself for $9/hr is a bad recipe for quality food to begin with.
Crinkle cut are all uniformly trash…yeah I said it. So are potato wedges.
Shoestring style are dope but they lose heat immediately. Curly fries are the only reason to ever walk into an Arby’s.
McDonald’s fries, when hot and well salted, are sublime. Everything else is secondary.