for inga -- an explanation

Why we love fried foods! Inga and I wondered today why it is that, for nearly every food we can think of, we know someone who doesn't like it. Shrimp? Watermelon? M&Ms? Chicken? Beans? Sourdough bread? Corn? Apples? Cheese? Yup: we've got a hater for each and more. The exception is fried food. I have never met a person who didn't like, say, french fries.

Sure there are plenty of us who recognize that fried foods are relatively unhealthy, that they cause some folks some indigestion, that our moms tell us they cause pimples, and all sorts of things that make us reasonable around them. But who doesn't, in their heart of hearts, like french fries?