Arizona schools serve fake fries

by Sarah J. Gim (Subscribe to Sarah J. Gim's posts)
Posted Aug 14th 2006 6:01PM
Filed under: Lunch, Snacks, Vegetables, Culinary Kids, Southern States, New Products, America, Health & Medical

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It sounds horrible - fake fries - because "fake" anything just has a negative connotation. However, in the case of Arizona public schools, which are now faced with strict state laws banning junk foods, educators are getting creative with school lunches. Acknowledging that potatoes are a staple in may children's diets, they have come up with lowfat, non-fried versions of French fries which are baked. The schools are calling them "oven wedges," "oven fries," and "potato sticks."

They aren't really fooling the kids, but the kids don't seem to mind.

Tags: french fries, FrenchFries, potatoes, school lunches

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8-15-2006 @ 4:17AM

Bob said...

Arizona isn't actually the first state to do this--my old school in Texas had the same restrictions, so we got french fries that THEY called "french fries" but I called "bakes". These were one of two things: crinkle-cut "fries", or "Potato logs", aka potato wedges. They didn't taste TOO bad most of the time, but they never tasted very good.

8-15-2006 @ 7:43AM

Hawk said...

I make these kind of things all the time, although I do splatter them with EVOO (egads, I said a RR-ism!) .... it's a bit tricky getting the outside to be crunchy (ahem, olive oil) but I don't really see why anyone would reject them. Ultra tasty.

8-15-2006 @ 10:57PM

Baron said...

What's wrong with baked fries? I bake them all the time, as did my mom, and we have always found them to be exteremly tasty. The trick to get them crunchy, other than using a convection oven, is just to make sure the oven isn't too hot (then you get the outside done, but not the inside).

8-15-2006 @ 11:05PM

Baralong said...

Here in Perth, Australia, there's a new chain called "Fit Chips" that sells these, quite popular, very tasty. My kids loved them.

8-16-2006 @ 3:24AM

Gabriella said...

sort of scary that it took this long

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