"Anything can be french fries with a little innovation. Step 1: Take something that is not fries. Step 2: Make it into fries. Step 3: Profit.

That's how we ended up with two of the latest offerings at two of America's biggest fast food chains: donut fries at Dunkin' Donuts, and nacho fries at Taco Bell. On their surface, they seem like the kind of food that Europeans make fun of Americans for eating: unabashedly lowbrow and artificial, and highly portable, the kind of thing that harks back to mid-aughts blogs about ridiculous food mash-ups like This Is Why You're Fat.

But in the battle of the alternative fries, who wins?"

Read the full article by Maura Judkis here.