re: Guide to Austin: Texas being fantastic hosts

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With fresh potatoes?

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Yep.

Good french fries are blanched. It removes the excess starch and gives you that really soft inside and the crispy outside. The fries at Milo's and basically anywhere else you buy french fries are blanched. McDonalds fries are blanched, etc.

You don't have to, but freezing them makes them taste better when it comes to cooking them IMO.

In-N-Out fries are just all around mushy starch bombs.

Just because it's "Fresh" doesn't mean it's better. Far from it in the case of french fries.

Now if they want to go through the entire process of blanching the fries on the same day and/or something like that - probably be really good. But shoving a potato through a slicer and claiming it's better because it's fresh is just marketing.

Look up how to blanch fries, it's not a hard process. Try it for yourself, my wife makes them every now and then. Really good.