 Smiley fries on a plate | |
| Alternative names | Smiles (from McCain Foods), Potato smiles |
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| Type | French fries |
| Place of origin | Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Created by | McCain Foods |
| Main ingredients | Potato |
Smiley fries or Smiles from McCain Foods is a type of fried potato that is round shaped with eyes and a mouth with a smiling expression. This has since become a childhood staple.
In factory manufacturing, Smiley fries are highly automated, multi stage process to shape and make the potato fragments which are Molded to make the smile on the cut potato. Most smiley fries are made from leftover potatoes that were made into French fries which are used so they do not go to waste.
Smiley fries are typically made out of cornstarch or breadcrumbs to hold the shape of it and uses mashed potatoes.
McCain Foods invented Smiley fries in the 1970s to reduce potato waste from French fries and repurposing the potatoes that were thrown out which were then molded into crispy potato circles with a smiling expression on it. Since then, they had made it into school cafeterias which has made smiley fries a childhood staple.
In 2015, McCain foods Smiley fries disappeared from supermarket refrigerators in Australia due to poor sales, but it returned in 2020 due to nostalgia backlash and returned to supermarket refrigerators.
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