[Bernard]

When I worked at a food stand in an amusement park when I was a teen, we called it a "gronker". Same oil for fries, onion rings, chicken, fish...

The chicken sort of tasted like chicken. So did the other stuff.

[Red Badger]

The restaurant that I worked in also had breakfasts. When the early morning crowd got going, the cooks would start cooking bacon in the deep fryer instead of the grill.

The fries started tasting like BACON!..................