McD's fryers overwhelmed by silly deal for cheapo French fries

Planning a trip to Japan? You’d better bring your appetite — “Potato Parties” are all the rage thanks to a supercheap McDonald’s offer there: any size fries for just 150 yen, or about $1.88. In ultrapricey Japan, that’s seriously cheap. So how do you throw a Potato Party? Gather your friends, order masses of large fries, dump them out and eat. Oh, and most importantly, tweet lots of pics like this one of you and your friends gorging. In hyperpolite Japan, this isn’t going over well. Not only are the wild, French fry-chomping youths occupying valuable table real estate for hours, but they’re overwhelming the restaurant’s deep fryers, which hopefully won’t conk out before the sale ends on Nov. 2. [Source]

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