mmm-yoso!!! is a blog. About "food". Sometimes we stretch the definition of "food" and "meals" we ate. This is one of those times.
Hi. Cathy here again, with a kind of "research" food post. All done with the purpose of informing you, our dear readers, about some sort of food item…
The following are ranked in ascending order.
It seems everyone is offering chili cheese fries as a side, or as a meal lately and I thought I would give you my take on this kind of meal or side dish. 
So, lets start out with the "original" in a sense…Weinerschintzel. As you can see, in order to fully enjoy the meal at "Der Schnitz", we indulged in corn dogs and a chili dog (the beef one: I went crazy with my tax refund this year and decided to spring for it) topped with mustard and onions. Let’s just say the chili is…um…’meaty’, with many chunks of the same shape and size of ‘meat’ in it….very manufactured. You can see the cheese is not melted (but that eventually happened) and the fries are…skinny and not crispy. Not my favorite. But, for $1.59, what should I expect? I do love the Tastee Freeze ice cream and shakes here, though.
Del Taco has jumped into the fray and is offering a $1 off coupon to try the Chili Cheddar fries, making the final price about $1.50. I do like the Del Taco quesedillas because they are made with Cheddar…and the cheese part of this meal was indeed excellent. The fries stayed crispy. The chili was OK, not too spicy ( I ended up adding some hot sauce after a while) and the overall effect was that I thought if I was at Del Taco, I should get something a bit more ‘Mexican’ in style to eat here…although, as you can see, I got a burger to round out the flavors…
Now, the most popular ad campaign going. Carl’s Jr and the Chili Cheese Fry extravaganza. Messy, sloppy, all over your face.
The fries stayed crispy, the cheese is real and good…and the chili- it is hot dog chili, Coney Island chili…*really* good chili. I could eat a bowl of this stuff with some oyster crackers and be *very* happy.
As a side order, $2.79- and worth it. But, I saw that you can substitute for an additional charge with any Combo meal. Lovely stuff.
I could not help but mention a similar "meal" based with fries that you can purchase for a mere $2.89 at In-N-Out. It is the only reason you get the hermetically sealed fork/salt napkin packet.
Yes.
Animal Fries.
Not on the menu you look at. You must know there is a "Secret Menu", right ?(Hint: Google "In-N-Out Secret Menu") 
Why do these fries taste superior? In-N-Out does not have a freezer. The potatoes are cut fresh- you can watch the people doing it before they dump them into the fryer.
The fries are topped cheese. It melts. Then topped with grilled onions. Crispy, burned grilled onions…so that sort of helps with a "chili" flavor, since onions are part of the base of chili…right??
Then all of it is topped with the sauce that is normally used on the burgers. Pretty much a nice, fresh Thousand Island-ish sauce…relish and that pinky-peachy salad dressing.
All good. Some better. Hope you are having a nice middle of the week.