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Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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🍟 <<< Only one brand sells French fries / Chips in this format. And it's the super-size format.
Unicode Consortium decide which emoji should be included. It’s up to each vendor themselves to come up with how they should look like. I don’t think Unicode Consortium explicitly state it must look like McDonald’s fries.
No. But the description of the Emoji is French Fries in a red carton.
Now I can't be absolutely certain only McDonald's sells french fries in a red carton, nor do I know if red french fry cartons are trademarked (answers to these questions evaded simple websearches) but I have never seen french fries sold in red cartons outside of McDonald's.
If you do find non-McDonald's french fries sold in a red carton, please point them out.
Red carton is chosen because that’s how it’s commonly depicted in cartoon images.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=french+fries+cartoon&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
The red and white stripes are the generic 50's era diner fries. Flat red was introduced by McDonald's in the 1980s extra-large and super-size cartons. (Before that McDonald's fries were sold in white waxed-paper envelopes.
At KFC they’re in a red plastic box of the same format. Can’t buy them cuz of reusable packaging laws in France, but that’s what I thought first when I saw this emoji
That's fair. I had forgotten KFC made their own version of fries and boxed them in red.