{"id":7853,"date":"2018-12-18T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7853"},"modified":"2018-12-17T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:25:41","slug":"the-24-days-of-gluttony-day-17-herb-and-garlic-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7853","title":{"rendered":"The 24 Days of Gluttony : Day 18 &#8211; Herb and Garlic Fries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been combing the local fast food joints for seasonal specials, but&#8230; there aren&#8217;t that many. At least none that seem all that special. Today&#8217;s subject is no exception, but I was half-drunk when I ordered it, and it seemed so much more spectacular before it was actually in my hands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/images\/24days2018\/24201818.JPG\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are McDonald&#8217;s limited-time herb and garlic fries. They come in a fancy box, and taste pretty much exactly like normal fries. There&#8217;s a bit of a garlicky flavour to them, but it&#8217;s not nearly strong enough for me to be any more excited than I am. You&#8217;re also expected to eat them with a fork, what with all the garlic sauce and herbal bits that coat them. I dunno, man. Eating fries with a fork? I don&#8217;t dig it.<\/p>\n<p>I was honestly much more excited about the run-of-the-mill cheeseburgers that you can barely see off to the left of the fry box.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to say one nice thing about these fries, it&#8217;s that the tool they use to squirt the garlic sauce all over them is kinda neat. It looks vaguely like the Aerospray MG from <strong>Splatoon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I like Splatoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been combing the local fast food joints for seasonal specials, but&#8230; there aren&#8217;t that many. At least none that seem all that special. Today&#8217;s subject is no exception, but I was half-drunk when I ordered it, and it seemed so much more spectacular before it was actually in my hands. These are McDonald&#8217;s limited-time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7853\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 24 Days of Gluttony : Day 18 &#8211; Herb and Garlic Fries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodstuffs","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7855,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions\/7855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}