Would you like fries with that brick in the wall

 Would you like fries with ....another brick in the wall?

Well yesterday or July 13th which could be one and the same depending upon when you’ve exposed yourself  to this digital debris was National French Fry Day in the good old US of A.  That makes today Bastille Day.  Now  there’s some debate  regarding. The matter of “French fries originating in France, however Bastille is undisputed as a great triumph of the French people against the tyranny of the monarch—right...  Okay let’s take a closer look.  A mob. Stormed the prison and claimed a great victory and in the history books it sounds great and yet the facts—since when have we worried about facts in history books?  About 100 common folks/revolutionary citizens died in the storming of the prison while only 1 guard  lost his life.  Oh and the prison didn’t have a lot of  people. To free.  How many you ask?  Not thousands....not hundreds...no not even 10.  The actual. Number of prisoners freed was seven.  We’re these significant political  figures—-hmm?  Well you be the judge...it was four forgery  convicts, one person convicted of incest, and two people being detained due to “lunacy.”  So maybe this Bastille thing was more symbolic  than anything...Okay it would appear that the French claim the method of cooking  these fries, yet the people of Belgium have the world fry museum and the Canadians take the cake when it comes to super  coating fries as they use gravy.  

All that  being said Americans  take the crown when it comes to this food product and here are some amazing bits of info.  

Americans consume fries. At a staggering  30 pounds per man woman and child.  Yep we chow down 9 Billion 900 Million pounds of these things a year. The Golden Arches started selling an order of fries at a dime a pop and they. Well caught on.  In fact &% of all potato’s grown in the US wind up being sold as fries at the big M supper club.  Now if your head is swimming. In grease and salt let’s try to provide some perspective on how many  fries  this is.  If you took all these fries and laid them end to end they would stretch. For over 4 million miles.  Breaking that down further  we have 9 and a half round trips to the moon or you could circle the globe at the equator 188 times.  Oh and if it’s too hard to  fathom this let’s covert fries to something more substantial ...let’s say  building bricks.  If you took  the weight o the fries and converted them to bricks, Americans eat enough to circle the globe  once with 3000  miles worth of bricks left over.  Taking this further. We eat enough Brick/fries to build  26,900  houses per year.  

Are you starting to get the picture?  

Now let’s turn to the question—“would you like fries with that?”  

It would appear  that lot’s of people regardlesss of any characteristic—race, gender, religion, disability, eye color, toilet selection, shoe size, taste great or less filling.... say YES!  To the question.  This makes me wonder  if there aren’t other questions  that fit into seeking peace and joy that we could ask and that lot’s of people would either say yes or no to more often than not.  Let me toss out a few.

Would you like a living wage with that 40 hour. A week job?  Would you like to insure  safe and high quality educational environments for our future...otherwise known as children and young adults?  Would you like to wake up each day and see  one or more of your neighbors smile?  Would you like. To supersize  any of these?    Okay... that’s enough ... please pull ahead and pick up  “your order”.