Behold the drive-thru of the California Highway Patrol: Fry me a river, has 'CHIPS' stopped working again?
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/11/30/bork/
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There's a saying in the Bork office, located deep within the bowels of Vulture Central: "It's not McDonald's. It can't be McDonald's…"
"It's McDonald's."
Today is no exception, as the patty pusher reveals that lurking at its heart is not a large portion of fries, but a generous helping of borked CHIPS.
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Spotted by Register reader Jamie at the McDonald's drive-thru in Preston, Lancashire back in October, the optimism of a promise that someone would be "right with you" is belied by what looks all the world to us like a Windows 7 app in distress.
While the dialog may be a reference to the disastrous movie adaption of the delightful US TV cheesefest [2]CHiPs , we suspect that whatever runs behind the scenes of the fry flinger's drive-thru screen has taken a tumble.
For those unfamiliar with the American television show, CHiPs was concerned with the adventures of a pair of California Highway Patrol officers named Ponch and Jon and ran for six seasons from 1977 to 1983. Best not mention the 2017 feature film of the same name and its sub header: "Chip Happens." Something did happen, but it wasn't good (in the opinion of this hack, at least.)
Sadly, not only is the operating system on which we suspect things are failing high up on Microsoft's naughty list, the service of CHIPS has stopped. A large chunk of the fast food outlet's raison d'être.
But what, we wonder, could CHIPS stand for, if not for chipped potatoes? Chewing Hard Indigestible Potato Skins, perhaps?
The comments section is available for anyone with a backronym suitable for a family publication like El Reg .
In the meantime, we await the next platter of bork to be flung from McDonald's. It seems to have rather a lot. ®
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Dan Quayle, is that you?
Commercial Hospital-grade Inedible ProductS
Crispy Hyper Incised Pattie Service.
Customer Health Improvement Prevention System?
Since it is McDonald's ...
Computer Helps In Preventing Service
Thus ensuring you are blocked from receiving a dose of mechanically recovery chlorinated chicken, fries like soggy blotting paper and milkshakes that should come with the warning, "Animal of origin unknown".
The Chips are down
Big Mac, you're on your own
Goodbye
Mr Chips
"Welcome to McBorkald's: Over 8 Billion Borked!"
Should be a headline on one of the next McBorkage's...
Chips Have no Implication of Potato Starch
So much processing applied that there is little remaining link to the original ingredients.
Re: Chips Have no Implication of Potato Starch
There are other things in there as well. If you look on the website the fries are not listed as gluten free. I strongly suspect they dip their anaemic scrawny potato pieces in flour to better crisp them up and of course allow the use of cheaper quality spuds.
I’ve done that with sweep potato fries. GF flour, sweet potato flour in fact, touted as a crisperising agent.
Chewing Hard Indigestible Potato Skins, perhaps?
I should be so lucky. I have gone off the place. One lukewarm undersized burger and half filled (if I'm lucky) pack of chips too many and, sorry, I'll take my intestines elsewhere.
No chips for you!
No fries either.
Common Hybrid Interface Protocol System (CHIPS) perhaps
Do you want fries...?
Those proper chips in your image look infinitely better than the horrible thin fries that Macdonalds serves. I'm feeling hungry just looking at them.
https://regmedia.co.uk/2015/06/05/chips_teaser.jpg
Re: Do you want fries...?
They used to be a hell of a lot better until a SJW named Phil Sokolof got to 'em and made McDonald's stop... well... actually frying them.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/original-mcdonalds-french-fry-recipe
Wikipedia doesn't say how Sokolof died, but I can only hope it was a slow painful lingering heart attack. I hates him, I does, my precious. I pray he's burning in hell in a pool of beef tallow.
CHiP's re-run on Forces TV
Crikey, I woke up at 3:00am this morning and CHiPs was on Forces TV. Season 3, episode 5.
The good old days, building my ZX80 and Maplin 5600s, while watching CHiPs.
Crikey, Hell is Probably Saltless
As they won't serve with salt any more..
CHefs Industrialized Potatoe Strips