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, returning to Crab Fragment Labs in 2026. This page is still very much under construction.
You will also find info for Meat on Swords, a new Lord of the Fries card game, blow.
Soon we will provide links to buy every Lord of the Fries deck and menu at DriveThruCards, as well as print-and-play menus for those who prefer to print their own. These links are coming in Q1 2026.
These decks will be the same as found in the 2015 Kickstarter campaign, and will include:
Friedey’s (The Original)
McFrye’s Coffee Shop
Las Cabezas (Mexican)
Long Wok (Chinese)
McPubihan’s (Irish)
Ghicciaroni’s (Italian)
The how-to-play video for Lord of the Fries, from the 2015 Kickstarter campaign
Meat on Swords
Meat on Swords is a new press-your-luck game set at Carnespadas, the Brazilian Steakhouse of the Damned. This game features new Friedey’s artwork from the same artists, Brian Snoddy and Nate Taylor. The game shipped to our Coconut Crabs in December, and will be available to the general public in January 2026.
Meat on Swords Rules (V 1.0, 12/19/25)
DriveThruCards link coming in January!
Related Game: One interesting fact about Meat on Swords is that it uses, essentiually, the same deck as another of our games, Whispers. Whispers was actually a side-trip on the road to developing this game, and although it is described as an eight-suited deck, there are also six whisper cards that effecively act as the ninth suit. Whispers can be used as the Bacon (the non-pairing suit), while one of the other suits (your choice) can be the negative suit. It’s not quite the same, but it’s so very close.
If you like one deck over the other, you can play all the related games with either deck. We hope you’ll try them all!
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