What has happened to the French Fry?

What in God's name has happened to the single most important side dish(at one time) in American cooking? Heck, in some circles it might have been considered above side dish. Didn't everyone order a Hamburger and Fries or a Cheeseburger and Fries. It was if you could not have one without the other.

What in God's name has happened to my major craving as an 8 year old boy? Craving, so much so, that my parents had to me bring to a Doctor (it was a set up, of course) who told me that if I continued to eat the fried potatoes that it would not bode well for me for my physical well-being in the future? He then ordered me off the french fries!!!!

Here it is in a nutshell.........Fries were Commercialized. Huh? Because they were not the "main" dish they have been tinkered with, toyed with, and basically ruined. The burger became the "be all to end all". Restaurants, fast food places, and the cooks at home began building a better mousetrap, oops, burger. Everyone wanted to cook the best burger and so all the attention went to the burger. Big, small, square, sirloin, steak, etc., etc., etc. French fries fell by the wayside. Until the better burger quest eased and some fast food idiot decided to tinker with the fry.

Lets see they crinkled them, they steak sized them, they put bumps on them (Burger King's fuck up), they made them thinner, they made them fatter, they made them so they were not all potato, they made them so they would cook faster, they put creole seasoning on them, they put old bay on them, they put a lot of shit on them, they up sized them, they biggie sized them, they made them out of sweet potatoes, and we basically ruined them. A telling tale that things were going South for the French Fry occured when someone came up with the brilliant idea to put chili, cheese, and onion on them and thereby smothering the taste of the F. F.. It was if the F.F. could not make it alone. I want to believe that someone was just trying to help the poor F.F.

So I say (read sarcastically) -Thanks to each and everyone that participated in or contributed to the demise of the French Fry.

Where can you get a good F. F. these days? Help me out people, WHERE?
Somebody please help me!!!!!!

My only hope is that all these fancy restaurants that are now touting "frites" will do honor justly to the French Fry. This is my prayer.
Peace Out