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Beard Classic spells it ‘frys’ in Vermont

By Patricia Harris and David Lyon

 |  Globe correspondents  

  January 08, 2012

Cashiers at Al’s never have to ask “would you like fries with that?’’ since fries - or “frys,’’ as they are spelled here - are the whole point of eating at this fast food place on the highway east of town. Opened as a modest roadside stand on remote farmland in 1946, Al’s has expanded over the years even as strip malls have surrounded it. But lovers of french fries keep coming and in 2010 the James Beard Foundation recognized Al’s French Frys as one of America’s Classics.

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