Would you like frys with that?

I maintain that the French fry container is an engineering masterpiece.  Think about it; the moment you drive away from the drive-through window, what's the first thing you do?  You reach for a fry or three.  Sometimes a handfull, just to maximize the payload and reduce the extra travel time from bag to mouth.  If the frys were in any way encapsulated within the container, it would seriously impede the process.

I've also come to the conclusion that this act is not voluntary.  It's a reflex reaction that human beings have when in close proximity to a container of French frys.  But, you may ask, what if you actually want to eat some of your frys WITH your meal?  At the current rate of consumption, if your destination is any farther than five miles from the drive-through from where you picked up your vittles, there's only a 1 in 4,549 chance that you will make it there with any frys left over.

(I have the math that helped me come to those odds.  I'll post it at a later date.)

This dilemma is resolved with the engineering genius of the fry container.  The large, open-ended orifice both allows for on-the-spot consumption, but it also allows for release of a portion of your frys into the bag.  The released frys will find their way to the bottom of the bag and out of reach from the consumer, thus preserving an amount of frys for later consumption, presumably with your meal.  This act is facilitated when the restaurateur loads the fry container orifice down.  In a typical scenario, approximately half of the frys escape the container confines before either the consumer re-orients the frys in the bag, or a napkin plugs the orifice, thus preventing further fry egress.

FYI, Carls Jr. has a burger called The Big Carl.  It's supposed to be a competition to the McDonald's Big Mac (though since I'm not too keen on McDonalds, its difficult to compare).  I thought that the 'Big' in the title would be a marketing ploy.  As it turns out, the burgers are actually quite large.  Thought you should know.