The most fun you'll ever have with frys (sic)

why haven't more people heard of this place?

Last year, I started getting frequent Facebook ads for a restaurant that we weren’t entirely convinced was a real place. You know how it is. Sometimes the bots give you some really weird ads for stuff, services, or restaurants that don’t seem to have anything to do with you. But I kept seeing them and finally started clicking around. Just like the bots wanted.

The captions on the advertisements were charming and funny, however, and soon I’d clicked through to its main Instagram account to see what this place was all about.

It turns out this mysterious restaurant was real, and it happened to be in the Chicago suburbs. Not particularly close by; in fact it was about an hour away by car, but goddamn, did the ads chip away at me. The food looked good, and the owner of the place (who ran the social media account) sounded cheerful. Plus it didn’t hurt that this particular establishment served what seems like eight thousand varieties of one of my favorite foods ever.

One weekend, we had a day that was wide open, so we got in the car, and just went. Pandemic restrictions made it so that dining in wasn’t an option, but that was okay. I’d break my general rule of not eating in the car if we were on a little adventure. And oh man, it was totally worth it.

Can you guess what’s in the photo above? (Hint: it’s not exactly elotes.)