My mother made the best “pommes frites” ever. She used peanut oil and some herbs I don’t remember, and sliced Maine russets. I can almost smell them decades later.
I’ve had fries made ‘live’ from a freshly julienned potato (”small, medium or large”, then the guy selected one that eyeballs to the right size) and I want a time machine sometime just to get some more. And I’m not particularly a fan of fries. :^)