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Testing: Chick-fil-A's sweet potato fries
Chick-fil-A has been lambasted for, among other things, its right-wing position against same-sex marriage, donations to anti-abortion groups and — worst of all — consistently denying the good people of earth Polynesian Sauce on the Sabbath.
Testing: Chick-fil-A’s sweet potato fries
Chick-fil-A has been lambasted for, among other things, its right-wing position against same-sex marriage, donations to anti-abortion groups and — worst of all — consistently denying the good people of earth Polynesian Sauce on the Sabbath. But no matter how you feel about the chicken chain personally, there’s no denying it knows its way around a nugget. The staff at our local outpost (2204 S. Columbus Blvd.) is alarmingly friendly and efficient, and the nutritional numbers support the fantasy in our heads that Chick-fil-A is the “healthy” alternative in the icky, nebulous realm of fast food.
Always hot and crisp, the salty waffle-cut fries are among Chick-fil-A’s fortes, so it stands to reason the sweet potato version Mémé chef David Katz’s Tweet tipped us off to the other day should follow suit. The company launched the orange spuds this spring as part of a roll-out of new items that will eventually include spicy chicken nuggets, which we can only hope will be as good as the ones served at Nifty Fifty's. We’ll have to wait a while for those, but the sweet potato waffle fries are already available in our area — in fact, 26 local Chick-fil-As (including South Philly's) will give out free orders tomorrow, May 13, from 3 to 6 p.m.
They taste ... like sweet potatoes, no small feat in this flavor-engineered industry. They’re lightly sweet and creamy inside, with rough crackles covering the exterior of each yam-like gaufrette — crunch insurance, perhaps, since sweet potatoes have a different starch DNA than their white relatives. Are they better than Chick-fil-A's excellent classic fries? We’d say no, but decide for yourself.
Photo: Adam Erace
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