Another ten percent is ketchup

All the people who say this critical darling (above) is just a laundry list of statistics alternating with anecdotes about the author's 97-year-old father: yeah, that's true, but as usual, what matters is how you do it, and Shields is falling with style. It's a marvelous read.

The statistic, though, that got me up out of my chair, walking around the house barking it at everyone (including the confused four-year-old Boy, who didn't deserve that): according to Shields, one-fourth of all the vegetables consumed in the United States are French fries.

Does that leave you as gobsmacked as it does me? Why or why not? Discuss.