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Default Sweet potato fries


"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:23:16 GMT, l, not -l wrote:
>
>> On 17-Jul-2012, sf > wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:15:35 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Guess I'll still try the BK ones sometime soon to compare.
>>>
>>> You can buy them frozen at Trader Joe's too.

>>
>> There is also a McCain brand of frozen Sweet Potato Fries widely
>> available
>> in supermarkets here (STL)

>
> Alexia is the sweet potato brand I see around here, 3-4 different
> varieties/flavors. I picked up a bag today. And put it right back
> down. I've never had a sweet potato fry that was decent. They are
> always limper and lack the crispness of true french fries - even from
> the restaurants I've tried.


I bought those for my daughter. Although she liked them, she said the
restaurant kind are better. Perhaps the difference being that they fry
them. I bake them in the oven. No doubt they are probably the same brand.