THE GREAT CHIP (OR FRENCH FRY, OR FREEDOM FRY) CONTROVERSY

We have just been polishing a light, low-fat lunch of cod, chips and mushy peas (or curry sauce for 1 hungover member of the team) from Mr Chippy in Central.

Genghis has just announced that he hates the chips (big, thick and chunky - the way god intended) as they are "too potatoey" (surely that's the whole point of making them from potatoes?). Apparently he prefers the fried bits of string that McDonalds serves up, which have never been near a potato in their lives.

I treated this with the disdain it deserved, only to discover to my horror that several others agreed with him!

How can this be?

Has the human race really sunk so low that McDonalds lowest-cost leave-no-corner-uncut approach to food is now the benchmark?

Please tell me this isn't so.