America’s Favorite Fast-Food Fries? Not McDonald’s

If you had to pick one fast food fry to eat for the rest of your life, who would you ride or die for? McDonald’s? Chick-fil-A? Dairy Queen? (Sorry… “Dairy Queen” was a joke, obviously.)

Well, brace yourself: A new study just dropped the fry equivalent of a mic… and these results feel like a joke.

A restaurant supply company analyzed over 40,000 Yelp reviews across 21 major fast food chains, looking specifically at what people were saying about the fries. And the winner is… In-N-Out.

Yep. We’re not saying it’s wrong, but we are saying that’s a bold choice.

Here’s the Top 10 Best Fast Food Fries, according to the Yelp hive mind:

1. In-N-Out
2. Shake Shack
3. Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
4. Bojangles
5. Chick-fil-A
6. Raising Cane’s
7. Zaxbys
8. Arby’s
9. Hardee’s
10. Checkers / Rally’s

Now for the real chaos: McDonald’s — yes, THE McDonald’s, purveyor of the fry so iconic it has its own scent — came in 20th out of 21. Second. To. Last.

Only KFC fared worse, possibly because nobody’s ever voluntarily ordered fries there on purpose.

Here are the Bottom 5:

1. KFC
2. McDonald’s
3. Burger King
4. Church’s Chicken
5. Popeyes

Notably missing from either list? Sonic. Wendy’s. Probably because their fries fall somewhere in the middle, in that mysterious category of “technically edible, but no one’s writing home about it.”

At the end of the day, fry rankings are subjective, emotional, and borderline religious. But this list proves one thing: Yelp reviews are apparently the new democracy. And in this one, even the mighty can fall.