In theory, yes.

They are supposed to be thin strips of potato (a vegetable) fired in oil.

However, the McDonalds crap etc. you see these days are originally in liquid form with stuff in there were it\'s hard to tell where they came from. They don\'t taste of anything before they plaster them in salt.

They are meant to be potato, though, yes. (A potato is a vegetable, so yes.)

Well yes they are but once you fry them that way they lose all the nutrients and vitamin value of the original potato they were made from so it\'s kind of a \"yesno\":D

Or unless they are steam cooked or baked then they\'re still good to eat.

Depends on how it\'s made. If it still has starch in it somehow, still a vegetable.

There\'s some places with good fries that at least actually tastes like potato. Southeast carryout (local) and Barndard\'s (local) has them!

I\'ve never eaten Burger King\'s. McDonald\'s fries doesn\'t even taste like potato at all... just something different. Don\'t know what it is. Wendy\'s is decent, at least. It does have starch. :x

However. There\'s an excellent resturant that makes yummy baked potato (City Bites, yet another local resturant where I live!)

...hmm, local resturants seem to have better food... something about irony somewhere in there.

Well, if they are they are the best vegies I\'ve had :D.
I think they would be a vegetable, but that doesn\'t mean you should eat them in a salad. And usually vegetables aren\'t covered in grease. I got fries from McDonalds and they were covered in grease.

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Dietary Loophole!
so this means if a \"French Fried Potato\" is a vegetable since it has potato in its name, does this mean i can have carrotcake on my diet?
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but yes, i think Fries are vegetables. but i think fries where invinted by someone with to much time on his(her) hands. Any potato i eat is cooked and stuffed with sour cream, bacon, and other goods

Technically I would say yes but only to the specific question.

I wouldn\'t apply logic such as all vegetables are healthy therefore french fries are healthy or some other similar reasoning.

ugh.....this is annoying, potatoes are veggies, and fries are technically strips of chopped up, deep fried, potatoes, So I guess, yes.

mainly i\'lled say no fries are chips if you didn\'t konw

Fries and chips (not potato chips/crisps) are similar except fries are smaller and much crapper. Why would you eat McDonalds etc anyway?

But, Mcdonalds fries are tasty!


*mmmmmm salty goodness*

WELL technicly mcDonalds use potato paste so at in and out have fries made from fresh potatoes so MC. theyre not veggies but in and out theyre fresh fried baked veggies.
Rinder i agree with you MC\'s make me :sick:

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Yeah, I mean, I\'ve forgot how they taste but, they\'re really bas for you. Back on topic: they aren\'t vegetables because they were\'nt made from potatoes. MC will cut corners to make money. I\'ve been McDonalds clean for over two years...

yeah but in and out has fries made of real potatoes. mcs fries arent potatos:miam:

I consider\'d french fries to be that little group at the top of the food pyramid...

...wait...didn\'t they just change the food pyramid???

oh well, its still all preservatives.

Actually I never considered potatoes to be vegetables.. They\'re technically a root vegetable but, with the way they\'re usually prepared in the west, they\'re so unhealthy that they don\'t even seem to be vegetables to me. *shrug*

And someone\'s got a broken spoiler tag or something..woop woop woop.

yeehaw. Of course they\'re vegetables, just because they\'re deep fried doesn\'t mean they change food groups. That would mean 30 percent of all my food doesn\'t count.

its a veage thats still a junk food

Not necessarily. It is possible to fry chips and keep them healthy.

To be able to answer this question correctly, one must know first if POTATOES are vegetables.

But if they are, I can\'t say there are vegetables I have eaten I\'d prefer over them.

Just like everything else that comes from a fast food restaurant. If you make your own hamburger/hot dog, it\'ll be healthy.

Look. I don\'t trust the salads in a fast food resturant. In fact, when I\'m talking about whether food is healty or not, I never talk about fast food unless I specifically state that.

Yeah, Potatos are starchy no matter what this is just cooking them another way.

sorry God, no they arent.:( I wish they were though!:miam:

A chip (fry, whatever you want to call it) is a potato which has been cut up and fried. If I took a salmon and deep fried it, it is still a fish. Why should potatoes be any different?

fries!