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I live my life a Quarter Pounder at a time.

This is... wrong. In more than one level.

Worse yet, I instantly considered to purchase one.

I can imagine Leno's "You know, how fat are we getting..." monologue joke.

One more knife in my hope for America.

Yeah but then where do I put my beer?

It won't hold Del Taco fries? Pass...

@staircar: COTD nom!

If it was heated to keep the fries warm, this would be perfect.

God Bless America

What if none of your cars have cupholders?

Great, let's give these to all the minivan driving Mom's that sue McDonalds because their kids are fat while completely ignoring the fact that they are shoving 3000 calories down their kids pie-hole every day and the only excercise that the kid gets is a thumb workout while playing his Playstation 3 or the brief exertion of picking their motorized scooter up off the curb so they can go over to their friends house and have pizza dinners with them!

/rant

it's sold out sad. And I think the original of this circulated in 2006. this looks nicer though.
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@staircar: COTMF'nD!

I don't know. It makes sense in the 14 cupholder car world we live in. Like one for fries, an adapter for your burger and another for the big coke, make that a diet coke.

with the Saab dashboard cup-holder, they'd be in the passenger floorboard in no time, no-stick grip or not.

Looks like it would be good for soup too.

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This guy Bought 3 (Thanks Ash)

The indignity of this is not as potent as my home-made banana holder with the hands-free eating feature.

But Wendy's already gives their fries in a cup-shaped container, and it doesn't look like it'll fit the square-shaped container from Harvey's. I have little need for going anywhere else. Fail.

I'm going to order 2, one for the 4runner and one for my wheelchair when I'm too fat to walk. Maybe another for my death pallet, since I'll be too fat to get into a bed.

@staircar: Well played.

@teargas: Then the American thing to do would be to buy it anyway then sue the manufacturer when it "doesn't fit in my car"...

Clarkson is gonna have a field day with this.

Great news: It also functions as a CPAP machine mouthpiece at night!

OK, this is sad. I got to think about this stupid thing.

It's got the ketchup holder pocket on the side. What are you supposed to do with the ketchup? Do you squeeze it into the pocket? Do you open the pouch and put it in there? If so, how do you open it? I just tear the corner off of mine - this looks like it would require you to remove the entire end. How do you do that without squirting ketchup everywhere? Does soccer mom carry special scissors for just such a purpose? Will someone please stop me before I kill any additional braincells thinking about this abomination? Darn. Too late...

I hope when they make the English version, they remember to make it an imperial pint and not a wussy US pint.

@Grive: @FreeMan: (and Travis): Looks more like a french fry holder than a sign of the apocalypse to me.

Also, my experience is that french fry containers, robust though they are, are pliable enough to fit in the cupholder directly.

@seanz0rz: "death pallet"... HAHAHA

@bswinfor: That depends on which way you turn, they could be flung at the driver also.

Forget the 100mpg car, how about the 100lb-less-fat driver? Shadetree Mechanic on TNN taught me that 100 extra lbs in a car translates to 1 less MPG. If a family of 4 were to go from Morbidly Obese to just regular obese, their 12mpg SUV would instantly become a 16 mpg SUV...

Just saying.

@staircar: for those 5000 calories or less, I'm free.

Oh, and for all the COTD nominators, disqual:

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@boosted-lego-wagon: the last paragraph on that page is mind-bendingly funny...

@Chinese Knockoff Bento: That's truly disgusting.... and it looks like he's lovin' it!

Blingphiles should consider an oval-shaped exhaust tip - it'll do the same job and look twice as...shiny.

On th' other end of the spectrum, misers could wrap a sock around a vacuum attachment, which should hold the fries just fine...just make sure both are clean first!

that still won't stop kids or drunken friends from dropping them on the floor in the back seat only to be found 6 months later under the seat while cleaning out the car.

meh. BK makes their fry containers cup holder sized.

Big Ass Holder is the new name for car seat. The steering wheel has become "Eating Hand Rest" and GMC now come with a build in Kleenex disposer.

@boosted-lego-wagon:

Damn, looks like I missed that paraody. I should have remembered to check Da Gr8 Tim's Tempo and Topaz page before posting. Staircar has bad cotomer sevis.

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i heart french fry in car holding device

And to think, with minor mods it could probably hold a half-dozen Chicken McNuggets if desired... (or carrot and celery sticks, heaven forbid...)

well, there is now a use for the 4 cupholders per person you get standard in every minivan sold in america. i never understood what was wrong with one per person max, but i guess i just dont get it, as the marketing gurus would say.

I personally would appreciate something like this. Or anyone who had to dig out piles of petrified fries under the carpet of their newly aquired hoon mobile. I detest eating in the car but it would be nice for the people I buy cars from.

@OldeEnglishD: Man, you're one "Get off my lawn you damn kids!" from being one of those old guys who rants at strangers outside the grocery store.

That being said, I agree with your rant whole-heartedly.

I don't think that cup in the front of the fry-holder is for ketchup. I think it's so you can keep your Lipitor and nitroglycerin pills easily accessible while driving.

@FrankGrimes: Yeah, but they don't rot; they just petrify, so they're really easy to remove. Not even the burgers rot. I found one that was probably 2 years old and it looked a little faded, was hard as a rock but otherwise looked normal. We had to rack our brains to remember when we'd been to that burger joint. It truly was about 2 years.

In soviet America, fries hold french fry holder!

i only drink beverages in my car, and i even feel dirty doing that. the thought of eating, then touching the steering wheel and shifter, is horrifying to me.

Bah! I just pour them into the bag, chuck the cardboard sleeve behind the seat an munch away.

This is not as bad as the screw on nipple to turn a 20 oz coke into a baby bottle. At least I haven't seen one for sale in several years.

Every time I think I want fries I go park outside McDs and tell myself if I see one skinny person over 20 go in or out I'll go in and buy some. I never have.

Where do I keep my curried mayonnaise?

And:

My brain hurts now.

@TheTick247: Sorry, just really tired of seeing all the out of shape kids around. You are killing your own children people, wake up!

I used to eat fries in my Duster a lot. One morning, I opened the door and this giant cockroach (palmetto bug) was eating my almost-new Grant GT steering wheel. He/she/it ate the foam to the steel core overnight! So, no more fries for me in the car.