A splash of vinegar helps, especially if the fries are really hot.

What is it about those middle of the night cravings? I made and ate an entire bag of movie-theater-butter popcorn when I woke up in the middle of the night last night... at about the time you were writing about french fries.

Omigosh how many grams of fat and sodium in THAT!?!

Vinegar... num.

Calories, fat grams and things like sodium don't count in the wee hours of the morning.

I only have the middle-of-the-night cravings after a night of serving food. I don't eat when I trick - it's just not appealing - but when I get home and wind down, my mind starts to wander.

I was craving french fries last night too, but thanks to having sleeping kids and a husband out playing Army, that craving died fast and hard. *sigh*

Yummmmm - we have a place in town - open 24 hours - makes the BEST fries - crinkle cut, served in waxed paper bags with a liberal dose of salt, pepper and doused in ketchup, completed with one of those wooden 2 prong forks - I must go and get some now! Thank goodness I live in NJ - Diner capital of the US :)

It was explained to me long ago in nutrition class that those of us who prepare food for living often don't eat until long after the workday is through.

The reason, other than the obvious, because we can't even take a breath, much less eat a dinner, during service, is that when you start to prepare food, your body starts the digestive process. It thinks, hmm, yummy smells, yep tasted something there, it's coming soon and starts releasing gastric juices and other stuff to convert the meal. After a while the body assumes that it must have been fed since clearly all this preparation is leading up to something and it's only until long afterward that the body wakes up and says, hey, wait a minute, I never actually got fed. And so we're staring at 2am.

Or so it was explained to me.

Let that read starving at 2 am please.