Chumley’s is a bar, a campus bar. Which usually means I’m not going there. But there’s always exceptions. And exceptions is why I went to this place. So, right. How was the fries at a bar with a ton of people on a weekend night? The answer is a definite, okay. The cut of the fries is a true shoestring, the second thinnest I’ve reviewed (I’ll be surprised if I find fries thinner than Steak & Shake’s),  with light/moderate salt, but the salt was very thick, likely the sea salt variety that some places now use. The taste of the salt on the fries was very noticeable. There was moderate seasoning of pepper on the fries. This didn’t augment the taste as much as the salt, but was still reasonably welcome. The negative here was the excessive amount of grease on the fries. I know, it’s a bar, and people get fries here to wash down the alcohol, but the amount of grease was simply inexcusable, especially considering how thin the fries were, the experience was dangerously close to drinking grease rather than eating fries. On the plus side, the fries were very fresh, which is good, because these fries if not fresh, would be disastrous. There was a little bit of skins visible on the fry edges, but nothing special or altering to the fry taste. The price was also high, at $4.95 for a bucket, but that’s to be expected at a bar. Gotta get a profit margin somewhere, all that alcohol isn’t gonna pay for itself.

Price: $4.95

Cut: Shoestring

Salt: Moderate, and thick salt grains, likely sea salt.

Seasoning: Moderate pepper.