<div dir="ltr">FYI, despite the irony that cooking them in beef tallow is much healthier than cooking them in an industrial vegetable oil (the change was made due to a very misguided "health" crusader named Phil Sokolof, not the cost at the time), McDonalds put a lot of effort into replicating the flavor results from using tallow. They actually still add beef flavoring to the canola oil that they now fry them in with the hope of capturing the essence of tallow.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 10:12 AM Gadersd via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">They changed in response to public pressure to something else. I wonder if they ever changed back?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>They are still using vegetable oil like every other fast food restaurant except perhaps Chick-fil-A which uses peanut oil. Why would they ever change back when vegetable oil is cheaper?<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 2, 2023, at 9:01 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Back in the old days - when I was a kid - Mcdonalds cooked their fries in beef fat (James Beard, the famous chef, said that beef kidney fat was the best). Chefs said that they could not cook a better fry than McDs. They changed in response to public pressure to something else. I wonder if they ever changed back? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 7:57 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If you read the story, it's no wonder that he lost weight. Nothing<br>
particularly wrong with McD food when you eat half of their servings<br>
or are an active teenager.<br>
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Early days of college I added up the intake of the four of us who<br>
lived at the Druid Student Center. On 4500 calories a day, none of us<br>
were gaining weight. Marching in ROTC and running to class plus<br>
weekend activities burned it off.<br>
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Yesterday, for the first time in 8 months, I got a large fries at McD.<br>
$6.01. Talk about inflation.<br>
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> Well then, OK. I personally like the tasty repast served up at McDonalds, but I never claimed the dreadful swill is health food. I like donuts too, but likewise, I don’t even attempt to fool myself that it is nutritious.<br>
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