The idea that "hand-made" is somehow better never made sense to me. I can understand it for a sculpture or painting where the feelings of the artist are supposed to show through, but for chopping food, picking fruit, sewing clothes, or assembling furniture? Either machines can't yet compete with humans so "hand-made" just means "normal" or the human is going to do more inconsistent and unhygienic job than a machine.
I've had hand- and freshly-cut fries at a lot of places that to my taste don't stack up to McDonald's. (To be clear, I mostly despise McDonald's but find their fries to be better than those at many both chain and non-chain places with far better burgers.
