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Originally posted by spaniel

This possibly strays a bit from the usual connotation of "topping," but I used to get french fries with a vanilla milkshake and dip the fries into the shake. Surprisingly delicious. With a chocolate or strawberry shake, not so good.

Whoops, I missed the earlier post about fries + chocolate milkshake. I still think vanilla is the way to go.
But I definitely second the "dont’ knock it till you’ve tried it" opinion.

This is not so different from the commercially successful pretzel and ice cream combos like pretzel ice cream cones and Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby.

Except that whereas pretzels + ice cream = salt + cream + sugar,
fries + milkshake/ice cream = salt + *grease* + cream + sugar – all the better!