Lord of the Fries
Welcome back to Friedey’s, the Fast Food Restaurant of the Damned.
This is the landing page for Lord of the Fries, a classic card game by James Ernest. Below, you will also find Meat on Swords, a new Lord of the Fries card game.
You can now buy all six Lord of the Fries restaurant decks from our friends at DriveThruCards. You can also buy a single menu pack, which includes all six restaurants, three bonus menus, and the complete rules. Here are links:
Friedey’s Restaurant (The original fast food)
Ghicciaroni’s(Italian Buffet)
Las Cabezas (Mexican Restaurant)
Long Wok (Chinese Restarant)
McFrye’s(Coffee Shop)
McPubihan’s (Irish Pub)
Menu Pack Nine menus and complete game rules.
Print-and-Play Menus: If you’d like to print your own rules and menus (or read them on your device), here are the individual pages from the menu collection above. Note that all ten pages will shortly be available as a Menu Pack from DriveThruCards.
Friedey’s (Original Fast Food Menu)
Long Wok (Chinese Menu)
McFrye’s (Coffee Shop Menu)
McPubihan’s (Irish Pub Menu)
Ghicciaroni’s (Italian Menu)
Las Cabezas (Mexican Menu)
Ren-Fare Menu (Uses cards from Friedey’s and McFrye’s)
Halloween Menu (Uses cards from Friedey’s and Las Cabezas)
Holiday Menu (Uses cards from Friedey’s and McFrye’s)
The Black and White Version: Lord of the Fries (the original version) is available in our shop. Not much has changed in the new game, so if you prefer the black and white look, here are the files!
Related Games: You might also like these games from the same crazy cast:
Dead Money: You’re a Zombie at Friedey’s Saloon, trying to get knocked out of a poker tournament, in this madcap mix of poker and Give Me the Brain. We still have copies from the original print run!
Give Me The Brain: The original fast-food zombie game, this is a completely different card game where the Zombies are trying to finish their work, and they have only one brain to pass around. Black and white edition is at our web store; deluxe version will return in 2027!
The Great Brain Robbery: The Zombies of Friedey’s Restaurant have traveled back in time to rob a speeding train full of brains in this wacky board game from 2000.
Zombie Sophisticuffs: Colorfied art from the Great Brain Robbery decorates this 2025 deck of 60 Sophisticuffs cards. The “Back from the Dead” edition!
The how-to-play video from 2015
The 2015 Kickstarter campaign video
Meat on Swords
Meat on Swords is a press-your-luck game at Carnespadas, the Brazilian Steakhouse of the Damned. This game features all-new artwork from the artists of the 2014 edition of Lord of the Fries: Brian Snoddy and Nate Taylor. In fact, all this art was created in 2014, but for many years we were stymied on making a proper menu for these ingredients.
In Meat on Swords, you’re a customer at Carnespadas, eating as much all-you-can-eat meat as you can. Every round, the server pops by with some fresh tidbits. If you don’t like the first thing, there’s always thing number two. But if you overeat (collect any two cards of the same kind), then you go bust, and lose all your points for the round.
The deck has nine kinds of meat, each numbered 1 through 6, for a total of 54 cards. To add a wrinkle, two suits are different: Fruit cards are negative, and Bacon is unlimited. You can never have too much bacon.
Links to Buy:
Buy Meat on Swords in the Shop
Buy the deck at DriveThruCards
Links to Print Your Own:
Meat on Swords Rules (V 1.0, 12/19/25)
Meat on Swords Cards (6 pages 1/15/26)
Videos:
Watch the How to Play Video
Related Game: Whispers
Meat on Swords uses, essentially, the same deck as Whispers. As a matter of fact, Whispers was a side-trip on the road to developing Meat on Swords, and although it is described as an eight-suited deck, there are also six whisper cards that can act as the ninth suit. (Whispers are not numbered, except in the Papa Deck, but you can improvise if you need to.)
This means that if you prefer one deck over the other, you can play all the related games with either. So you can think of the Whispers page as hosting some pre-made variants for Meat on Swords. We hope you’ll try them all!
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