{"id":8127,"date":"2011-01-03T14:47:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T00:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:01:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T02:01:57","slug":"review-jack-in-the-box-cheesy-fries-and-chorizo-cheese-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/03\/review-jack-in-the-box-cheesy-fries-and-chorizo-cheese-fries\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Jack in the Box Cheesy Fries and Chorizo Cheese Fries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/5319722552\/\" title=\"Jack in the Box Cheesy Fries by theimpulsivebuy, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5005\/5319722552_88dc9a277a.jpg?resize=500%2C455\" width=\"500\" height=\"455\" alt=\"Jack in the Box Cheesy Fries\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t enjoy Jack in the Box&#8217;s fries, because I find them to be sticks of golden brown boredom.   My palate thinks they&#8217;re not salty enough, not potato-ey enough and they somehow make me cry, like I&#8217;m watching <i>Toy Story 3<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>When I do end up at the box Jack built, I always order the curly fries instead.  But sometimes they mess up my order and I end up with their regular fries.  When this happens I get extremely angry, and, I swear, when it happens again I&#8217;m going to buy a gigantic white plastic sphere; cut a hole in it; draw a mouth and angry eyes on it; glue on a pointy nose; put it over my head; walk into the Jack in the Box that messed up my order; ask for the manager; then demand they switch my regular fries for curly fries; and, if they don&#8217;t, I&#8217;m going to threaten to fire all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Because I dislike Jack in the Box&#8217;s regular french fries, I wondered if they would be tolerable in the forms of Jack&#8217;s new Cheesy Fries and Chorizo Cheese Fries.<\/p>\n<p>Both fry varieties consist of a small serving of Jack&#8217;s regular fries, which are topped with either a cheese sauce or a cheese sauce with crumbled chorizo sausage.  Personally, I wish Jack in the Box called them &#8220;potato nachos,&#8221; but according to Urban Dictionary, the term has already been used in a different, and surprisingly, non-sexual way.<\/p>\n<p>The Jack in the Box Cheesy Fries look like what I imagine my arteries would look like if I were able to turn them inside out after eating the Jack in the Box Cheesy Fries, while the Chorizo Cheese Fries look like a Frankenfood made by a drunk guy at one in the morning that combines the seasoned ground beef and cheese sauce from Taco Bell with Jack in the Box&#8217;s crappy regular fries.<\/p>\n<p>The cheese sauce that&#8217;s dumped on top of the Cheesy Fries tastes like cheddar, and it surprisingly makes Jack&#8217;s fries a little more than tolerable. Although, I wish they were drowning in cheese sauce or at least waterboarded a few times with cheese sauce, because I believe Jack&#8217;s fries need to experience a cheesy death or, if waterboarded, near death. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/5319724558\/\" title=\"Jack in the Box Chorizo Cheese Fries by theimpulsivebuy, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5007\/5319724558_67e1895dd7.jpg?resize=500%2C457\" width=\"500\" height=\"457\" alt=\"Jack in the Box Chorizo Cheese Fries\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re planning to experience either of these new fries, I&#8217;d suggest coughing up the extra scratch to pick up the Chorizo Cheese Fries.  The slightly spicy flavor of the chorizo sausage is what makes these fries stand out.  It&#8217;s like eating chili cheese fries, except greasier, however, with the same level of guilt.  Just like with the Cheesy Fries, I wish there was a bit more cheese sauce, since the cheese flavor was a bit lacking, although not an amount that drowns or waterboards.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Jack in the Box Cheesy Fries and Chorizo Cheese Fries are extremely messy if eaten the same way one eats regular fries, Jack conveniently provides forks.  If they don&#8217;t provide utensils, might I suggest buying a gigantic white plastic sphere; cutting a hole in it; drawing a mouth and angry eyes on it; glueing on a pointy nose; putting it over your head; then walk into the Jack in the Box that didn&#8217;t give you forks; ask for the manager; demand they give you forks; and, if they don&#8217;t, threaten to fire all of them.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Nutrition Facts &#8211; 1 Cheesy Fries &#8211; 504 calories, 262 calories from fat, 29 grams of fat, 7 grams of saturated fat, 23 milligrams of cholesterol, 1145 milligrams of sodium, 511 milligrams of potassium, 50 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of fiber, 2 grams of sugar and 11 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><b>Other Jack in the Box Cheesy Fries and Chorizo Cheese Fries reviews:<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/animmovablefeast.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/fast-food-review-jack-in-box-chorizo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Immovable Feast<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/junkfoodbetty.com\/?p=1112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Junk Food Betty<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Item:<\/b> Jack in the Box Cheesy Fries and Chorizo Cheese Fries<br \/>\n<b>Price:<\/b> $1.99 (Cheesy Fries)<br \/>\n<b>Price:<\/b> $2.69 (Chorizo Cheese Fries)<br \/>\n<b>Size:<\/b> ???<br \/>\n<b>Purchased at:<\/b> Jack in the Box<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b> 6 out of 10 (Cheesy Fries)<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b> 7 out of 10 (Chorizo Cheese Fries)<br \/>\n<b>Pros:<\/b> Both make Jack&#8217;s fries more than tolerable.  Both need more cheese sauce.  Chorizo Cheese Fries are really good.  Spiciness of the chorizo sausage.  Pretending to be Jack Box.  Toy Story 3.<br \/>\n<b>Cons:<\/b> Jack in the Box fries.  Chorizo makes Chorizo Cheese Fries a little too greasy.  Jack in the Box messing up my order.  Jack in the Box forgetting to give you utensils.  Constructing a Jack Box head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t enjoy Jack in the Box&#8217;s fries, because I find them to be sticks of golden brown boredom. My palate thinks they&#8217;re not salty enough, not potato-ey enough and they somehow make me cry, like I&#8217;m watching Toy Story 3. When I do end up at the box Jack built, I always order the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1477,1559],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-fast-food","tag-jack-in-the-box"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46047,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/01\/jack-in-the-box-potato-wedges-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":8127,"position":0},"title":"LATE TO THE PARTY: Jack in the Box Potato Wedges","author":"Marvo","date":"March 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Update 9\/30\/21: It appears Jack in the Box's Potato Wedges have been taken off the menu. 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