Food Theory: Never Order McDonald's Medium Fries!

Fries are one of the best foods, especially fast food fries. From McDonald's and Burger King to Wendy's and Arby's, there are TONS of options to chow down on our favorite fried potato treat. Today, I want to figure out how to get the MOST out of my order of fries. Which restaurant gives me the most fries for my money and are their order sizes a TRICK to make us spend more on less food? I volunteered to eat my way through to the answer!

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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Luke Barats
Editor: Dan "Cybert" Seibert
Assistant Editor: AlyssaBeCrazy  
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[drewwalls]

Theory: MatPat only created Food Theory so he could buy his lunch and file it as a business expense for the tax benefit

[samlong]

My professor had a friend at Georgia Tech who was getting his masters in operations research. For his masters thesis he decided he was going to find the optimal meal that you could get at McDonalds, with optimal meaning that you could meet your base nutritional needs for the day at the lowest cost possible. Hilariously after months of work he completed his model and ran it only to find that hundreds of ketchup packets was the “optimal solution” due to it having all the essential nutrients and being free

[noodleplanet]

I had a friend who worked at a McDonald's, and everytime I'd order the 10 piece large meal, he would "accidentally" put 11 nuggets in my box, and always shoved extra fries in there, and once even poured fries in the bag.

[coalrocks]

From working at Arby's, I did notice a few times that if I had enough to fill a medium to the max, I could fill a large. Whenever I saw that I felt bad so I stuffed a couple springs in there.

[coliniken]

As a former McDonalds employee I can tell you that we're told to underfill the fries so that they can make more money off of people, I've actually gotten yelled at in the past for filling them too much, but I didn't care and always filled them up with as many fries as I could when my managers weren't looking to give the customers what they were actually paying for.

[mattorso]

I'd just like to point out that Matpat has literally found a way to make middle school science projects profitable. Bravo good sir. Bravo!

[Some__Guy]

Dipping your fries in your shake makes perfect sense. Sweet and salty has always been a well known combination. It's why adding salt to chocolate or caramel works so well.

[sidnees]

I finally finished this episode right as you're leaving. Goodbye MatPat.

[plushienorton]

I can’t believe that this is the first video of a new Era of YouTube theory.. And we are here at it’s first moments. That’s insane.

[FrozenIce]

wendy's employee here: i like to fill the fry boxes as much as i can when managers aren't around

[galaxy_mew]

I love these videos- I am constantly telling my family about your channels and the conclusions you reach. Thanks mat

[PigeonDetective]

Worked at Arby's myself for a while, even as a manager, and can confirm that a large and medium curly fry are the same. If someone mixed up these two, a fairly common mistake, you could pour one into the other and it'll still be full. I can't however say if this was intentional or not.

[nam]

McDonald’s: Sees that they are using more fries because of the paper bags
Also McDonalds: *Changes small fry to cardboard box a week later*

[RogueVader-lrql]

"Do you even know that reference anymore?"
Don't worry Matt, we all remember this. It's an older reference, but it checks out.

[judahstringer]

At Arby's, when I worked there the fry scooper wouldnt fit in the container when fully loaded, so you had to pick up less. And when rushed you didn't have time to do multiple scoops

[ImUpToItOfficial]

I get (from McDonald’s)
A happy meal with a cheeseburger ketchup only, small fry, apple slices, medium coke, SEPERATE FROM THAT, I will get a double cheeseburger ketchup and lettuce only, then when I get it I will take the top bun off of the double cheeseburger and take the bottom off of the single cheeseburger, and put them together to make a triple cheeseburger. All of that costs less than just buying the triple cheeseburger, and you get more food! (Pro tip: feed SOME (not all) of the extra burger buns to your dogs)

[ethanfultz]

I'm just saying, small theorys should be called bite-sized

[nicorozner]

I can only imagine what an average dude in Matpat's town thinks of him.
On Monday, he walks into the movie theater and watches every showing of the same movie. And he takes notes while watching.
On Tuesday, he plays video games all day, and seems to repeat the same action over and over again, taking notes every time.
On Wednesday, he orders 1 of every kind of french fry order, and conts every last fry in each one, all while taking notes.
On Thursday, he strands himself on a deserted island and takes notes on how best to survive in terms of murdering companions.

[DanakarEndeel]

Over here in the Netherlands I used to order a supersized menu (Large) but always had issues with eating all the fries and also noticed that my 1 cup of sauce was not enough (but 2 cups of sauce was too much). So instead I went with a Medium menu and had found the perfect size. So for me at least they do have more fries in a Large than they do in Medium.

[tabithal]

6:26 missed opportunity to say "serving up jumbo fries, or jumbo lies"