Chips all the way. Not only do you avoid scalding your mother on nuclear hot pickle spears (and waiting for a spear to be cool enough to eat safely means the breading will be hopelessly soggy) but you also avoid biting down on the spear and pulling the whole thing out of its breading sleeve. Yuck!

Chips by a country mile. The lower surface-area-to-volume ratio of a spear means I don’t get nearly the amount of oily, crispy, golden-brown breading that I’m looking for when I order a fried food. You could probably engineer a thicker batter that would give a spear everything I’m looking for in my junk food, but the…

She's the lady that drives the Magic School Bus right?

Anyone who still calls that game the Bartman Game needs to be hit with a rake. It’s the Alex Gonzalez Game, period. 

Anyone who thinks spears are better is a goddamn lunatic. Too much pickle. The breading falls off before you finish it. Invites double (and triple)-dipping. It’s supposed to be a shared appetizer. Serve it like a goddamn shared appetizer.

Sure, Gabe, but if you don’t wash the coconut oil off your hand, you’re still going to have problems fielding a proper throw. 

This is going off on a slight tangent, but has anyone tried to fry up a batch of little dill gherkins? They would be like popcorn pickles or something?

Chips all the way. More crunchy fried goodness per square inch. Plus, in my experience with spears, the batter/breading always falls off the minute you take a bite.

You’re the only person who has ever said “frickle”.

Chips are better than spears, mostly due to the breading to pickle ratio.

As much as I love that crispy fried exterior, and could probably eat the fried breading as a snack all on it’s own, you are 100% correct. I don’t much care for pickles but just like when I order onion rings, I want the batter/breading and the onion, not one then the other. Slimy fillings being separated from their…

I agree completely. I hate the pickle-batter separation of spears. The best one are when they use the ridge-cut chips (like the ones in the photo). All that surface area really holds the batter.

Chips.  Non-negotiable.  Spears don’t have a good texture.  I have learned to ask if a menu doesn’t specify chips or spears because spears are always bad.

Chips all the way. If you’re going to fry something, you might as well maximize the fried surface area. Plus, spears are multi-bite, so you’re radically increasing the likelihood of pickle-breading separation. Which would be sad and illegal in 12 states.

Of COURSE our taxes would go up ... BUT they go up less than than the cost of our out-of-pocket contributions to our current medical plans.

Anyone who thinks the “Pocahontas thing” is even a scandal is either a flipping idiot or a misogynist grasping straws. 

These stories from Warren’s life -and the simple manner she tells them in- just further cement my admiration for her.

For real, I feel like hope is 100% lost if we’re even equating “I’m 16% Native American” with “F*ck immigrants, women’s reproductive rights, trans rights, etc. etc. etc. Also I’m unqualified for this job.” By that logic, every white person on a first date should be drawn-and-quartered but every white person drunk on…

I always thought her appeal was being a goofy grandma who just found instagram.

There’s something so authentic and compelling about Warren. This story reminded me of a Medium article which described something similar about her persona: “The praxis of Elizabeth Warren” https://link.medium.com/hThzMKOw10