Fry Count

I am strangely curious about the number of french fries I have eaten throughout my life, so I will now estimate that figure. To begin, I will stop at a fast food restaurant (I will not reveal which one exactly, but here’s a McHint) and order up some fries. Since estimations are all about averages, I will order the medium size since it has a pretty average vibe going on. How many fries are in this serving? 56. All fries longer than one inch were included in the tally, while all fries under one inch were excluded yet still consumed. Now for the magic number: how many times a week do I throw a batch down the hatch? Well, I ate a lot of fast food as a kid, and as a teenager, and as a young adult, so I am going to say that I have a lifelong average of about 4 orders of fries per week. Multiply that by 56 fries per order, times 52 weeks in a year, times 24 years (my age minus the years of infancy when I was only eating tater tots) and we get 279,552. Wow, a quarter-million french fries. Glad I figured that one out.