Stories Short Story Brief Encounters (Doctor Who Magazine) Anti-Matter With Fries 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 1 Statistics Related Stories Quotes Overview Released Thursday, April 15, 1993 Written by Gareth Roberts Publisher Marvel Comics Pages 1 Time Travel Past Location (Potential Spoilers!) Perivale Synopsis Ace is working in a fast-food restaurant in Perivale when she encounters who she thinks is her friend Barry Groves dressed in a funny chicken costume. She gives "Barry" a box of fries but does not realise this is actually the Ergon scouting Earth in service of the Time Lord Omega. When he gets the fries, Omega complains about the lack of salt. She later tells the Seventh Doctor about this over table tennis in the Cloister Room. Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Seventh Doctor The Ergon Ace Omega Show All Characters (4) How to read Anti-Matter With Fries: Magazines Doctor Who Magazine 199 Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 1 review 6 March 2025 · 116 words Review by DarthGallifrey Spoilers This review contains spoilers! What did I just read? I get that Gareth Roberts is known for his more humorous stories, but this was just ridiculous. It's a little short story that sees the Ergon (the wierd alien chicken monster from Arc of Infinity) arrive on Earth on a scouting mission for Omega. It walks into what seems to be a KFC where a young Ace just happens to work. Ace thinks it's a guy in a suit and gives him an order of fries which he takes back to Omega who complains that they're unsalted. Author aside, this just wasn't very good and was just kinda dumb. Oh well, at least it only took a couple minutes to read. DarthGallifrey View profile Like Liked 0 Open in new window Statistics More Ratings Needed! 4 ratings Member Statistics Read 12 Favourited 0 Reviewed 1 Saved 2 Skipped 1 Related Stories Classic Who S20 • Serial 1 · (4 episodes) Arc of Infinity Rating: 3.13 Story Skipped Television Reviews(4) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Doctor Who Season 20 Set of Stories: Doctor Who (1963-1996) Set of Stories: Fifth Doctor Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote
