My So Charmed Life

A Photographic Essay on Jersey Shore Cheese Fries. In Reverse. Or, How to Feed Five Hungry Children a Nutritional (Remember, Potatoes ARE a Vegetable and Are You Questioning My Parenting??) Lunch (Breakfast & Dinner Too!) for Under $5!

07.08.07

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7 minutes and 45 seconds into today’s cheese fry experience (yes, this is daily, sometimes twice daily) we have evidence of total decimation. Now let’s back up shall we, and see what happened. Who is responsible? How did they do it?!

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For Ethan, it’s all about quantity, dude.

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Bess, a bona fide cheese fry connoisseur, takes a serious approach to savoring the cheese. And the fry.
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Alex, youngest but possibly boldest cheese fryer of the bunch, mixes a little sand in (see chin for details) for that truly optimal beach cuisine experience.
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The olfactory angle must not be ignored, as shown by Molly. Remember, sniff your fries!

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Jake, a Jersey Shore cheese fry expert, knows that licking the grease and salt from one’s fingers is mandatory.

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With 5 hungry kids on deck (you’d be hungry too if you were digging giant holes in the sand all day), you can’t grab those fries fast enough.

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Ahhhh, the goods. A gooey box ‘o fries (the CHEESIEST ), piping hot and fresh from the Snack Shack, Ocean City, NJ. Yum yum!