{"id":86170,"date":"2025-10-17T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/86170\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:45:09","slug":"bill-linnane-my-kids-loved-wendys-but-it-had-the-two-things-i-hate-the-most-in-the-world-queues-and-disappointing-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/86170\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Linnane: My kids loved Wendy\u2019s but it had the two things I hate the most in the world \u2013 queues and disappointing fries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe internet has my children obsessed with US fries and square burgers when the best chips in the world are right on their doorstep\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"For the kids, eating in Wendy's was like being American. Photo: Stock\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/594a2865-fb53-4108-976b-15a6f69e1f5d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">For the kids, eating in Wendy&#8217;s was like being American. Photo: Stock\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I have a relaxed approach to nutrition. Like many dads, I figure that if the kids are eating, then all is well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It doesn\u2019t really matter if they are having a Nutella sandwich for dinner or a bowl of Skittles for breakfast, I just figure that, hey, if their tiny little maws are stuffed with something vaguely edible, they are less likely to be using those maws to screech at me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The internet has my children obsessed with US fries and square burgers when the best chips in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17711,72,61,60],"class_list":["post-86170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bill-linnane","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}