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Fact check fact boy. Potatoes used to be poison when unripe, it was (mostly) bred out long after they made their way to Europe and into common usage. People weren't wrong about potatoes being dangerous - they could be! This has been reduced over time through breeding and proper harvesting but it's still possible. There's about 50 cases reported a year with modern potatoes, some of which lead to death. It's thought there's many more as the symptoms mimic food poisoning.
Cant stand McDonalds fries. Greasy and fake tasting. Once you eat Checkers/Rallies fries youll never even eat at McDonalds again...even the burgers are better with real meat.
I worked as a fresh produce controller at the factory that supplies all the fries for McDonalds and Burger king (Yes they're made at the same factory) in Norway. The job was a temp job, consisting of taking samples of vegetables as they arrived at the factory, and determine the quality of each shipment. And I have to say, McDonalds had the strictest standards, and the best potatoes that entered that factory. I have also worked quality controlling potatoes bound for grocery stores. McDonalds had the best potatoes I've ever seen. In Norway they use a type of potato called Innovator. The innovator potato is a giant potato, and is a bit special in the way that it doesn't really change colour that much when you fry it.
its just a shame that they dont have the same standards when it comes to the people who cook them, in the part of america where i live its always the newest member of the kitchen staff that cooks the fries. In my experience mc'donalds fries are awful 9/10 of the time and amazing 1/10 of the time
Then it's absolutely an employee problem. French fries are like a wet noodle in two of three local McDonalds. The third is the only place I'll go. Fries get slightly brown, which creates a beautiful crispy texture.
@@tylerhorn3712that is a management/training issue. There are timers on every machine. It is literally fool proof if you are following all the standards that are in place. (Having worked in one and several different restaurants while younger) if the oil is not up to temp, management should know from having done their daily checks. If the employee is not leaving the fries in long enough, management should be training them better. Problem is the management is usually the worst example of management you’ve ever seen, even worse than retail.
@@aclstudios sure. Except he wasn't comparing Norway vs USA. He was comparing mcdonalds standards to other good company standards. Reading comprehension
0:00 Intro 1:13 The Origin of the French Fry 8:37 Creating Perfection- Inventing the McDonald’s French Fry 24:37 Fries AND MURDER ...or just violence WHATEVER. Got to keep you watching so I have money to feed my french fry addiction. Don’t judge. We all have our cross to bear 32:45 Bonus Fact
Cant stand McDonalds fries. Greasy and fake tasting. Once you eat Checkers/Rallies fries youll never even eat at McDonalds again...even the burgers are better with real meat.
@@thomasjones4570 McDonalds fries don't even break down. I've left some in a mop drain for a few days to see if anything happened to them and after days of scalding hot water and all sorts of different cleaning chemicals, they were still the same.
@user-ri5fe7ti6i the "good" parts in this situation are the ones which won't get you sick, which is basically the whole human body. Baring any parasites in the person, and even then with proper cooking, you could eat any part of a human being and it won't have any negative health effects. Well, any negative physical health effects anyway. Save one part. The brain. Eating a human brain comes with an incredibly high risk of contracting prion diseases. Which are not anything you want to mess with. They are basically different versions of mad cow.
G'day finekat, did you see the subtitles here? "But this doesn't mean the other parts of the human aren't good to nom when the mood strikes... as long as it's consentual. Don't be a Greg. Those poor potatoes...) 😂. Ps & then from 23:21
@@zogar8526 you're right outside of saying the risk is incredibly high. It's only incredibly high if that person already has a prion disease. The one you're thinking of only spread like it did because of ritual funerary cannibalism in a tribe contained within a small area. Tragically the women and children usually got the brain. The onset time of symptoms was also often years, making it harder to put together the symptoms with the cause themselves. Looking into prion disease is one of those things that cost me sleep at night, they're horrific.
@@TodayIFoundOut I came to the comments because I was losing my shit reading all the hilarious subtitles. Do I need to go back and rewatch them all with subs now? Have I been missing out!?!? I don't always have them on, but I will never watch y'alls videos without them again.
FUN FACT: In Australia when McDonald’s first opened up, they spent millions of dollars trying to get their potatoes to grow here, turns out they just would not, so in Australia our potatoes are a completely different type to those used in America, I’ve not tried American fries but I am addicted to the delicious ones in Australia 😁
in Belgium, even McDo does the frying in 2 sessions, as no respectable Belgian would like to fatty fries all baked in one go :) . to me, McDo fries are.. to thin like french fries.. gamble whatever fries place you like and there is probably about 80% chance the fries will taste better then in a McDo :-p i've never heard of someone just going into a McDo cause they just wanted fries, then we go to a frietkot ;-) , I am quite confused of the fries shown ar 19min, those look the thick really tasty once, NOT AT ALL the inferior onces from McDo.. but problably it was just a good image and the designer does not really spot the difference? :)
This makes sense. Usually when I eat a meal I start with the main part (ie burger) so that if I get full its the extra stuff that goes to waste. When I lived in USA for a year I had to eat the fries/chips first because they'd taste worse by the time I was done with the burger. I knew there was a difference but I thought it mightve been the oil.
Even the second recipe wasn't bad. Then they removed beef flavoring, because of Hindus. Then the third was so disgusting. Man that was like early or mid 2,000s. They removed trans fat. Then they changed again. I seen studies saying tallow isn't as bad as once thought. Especially compared to certain oils. It has to do with keeping the oil on the burner for long periods. Wish they'd go back to the 93% tallow.
@@shaneeslick ah from down under. Great people. Every time I meet an Aussie they were cool. Traded a cigarette for a patch when I was deployed in the desert with some.
McDonalds used to peel and slice the spuds, then put the loaded fry basket in a draft of warm air for 30 or so minutes. This made the starch in the cut cells of the potatoes to turn to sugar, which made for a very appetizing color on the fried product. This plus the beef tallow made for a GREAT tasting French Fry. Now all of that is gone, and the fries are not great.
If you do this with sweet potatoes, you will get some starch breakdown into sugars, because sweet potatoes have far more amylase - the enzyme which catalyses the starch into sugar reaction. Ordinary potatoes do have some amylase in them, but nowhere near as much, so 30 minutes of warming is nowhere near long enough to convert any significant amount of starches into sugars. Anyone who has tried to make a "fermentation mash" from potatoes will have come across this problem: While malted (sprouted) grains have a lot of amylase (which is how the starches in wheat or barley get converted into sugars for beer brewing), potatoes do not contain anywhere near enough on their own, so you need to add extra amylase, usually by adding some malted grains along with the potato starch - and even then, it takes many hours or even days to get a significant starch to sugar conversion. The colour created during cooking comes from the reaction between sugars and proteins at high temperatures, known as the Maillard reaction. This is responsible for the browning of bread during baking, of pancakes and similar products during shallow frying, and of potato fries during deep-frying. Sweet potato fries do this very nicely because of the relatively high proportion of sugars in sweet potatoes. Ordinary potato fries will do this to some extent, because there are always some sugars in the potato. But not all that much, which is why the modern McDonalds fries recipe (as well as most other fast food restaurant fries) includes some added dextrose (aka glucose) to enhance this effect. If the potato itself had enough sugars or if the sugar content could be boosted to any significant degree by just blasting some warm air at the uncooked fries, they wouldn't need to add extra dextrose.
Once they CHANGED the grease it was over. If your taste buds work then you know. I could get them with a meal or eat them alone. Once they CHANGED the grease the ONLY WAY I could eat them. Was with the Hot Mustard or Ketchup and even MORE $ALT than they already put on them . For that matter the nuggets don't taste the same either. Probably why I can't remember the last time I was in one.
The spongy chicken meat in the nuggets is just ground up, bleached, and washed chicken with some extra salt in it. The "breading" is where they snuck in a bit of "cellulose powder" made of ground up, bleached, and washed wood pulp. It's used as a filler in a lot of things. Makes them just a little more bland and dry, but there's no bad health effects. No good ones either. It just passes through without helping or hurting anything. It's not even fiber after what they do to it.
I live in a small city in Mexico. My local butcher sells ready to fry potatoes that are coated in beef tallow. They air fry wonderfully. So yummy, and no chemistry.
It used to be a McD's joke that most locations didn't have hot chocolate because the machines broke down so much it wasn't worth the money to buy them. Now it's milkshakes.
The is a web ite that reports which mc donalds has ice cream (not associated to mc d )and milk shake or just check their app. Both are reasonable right. Except if they are deep cleaning it or the machine (so cleaning and refrigeratoring shaie and sandue mix) e is self cleaning ( heating mixes to 100 degree than cooling)and the manger for to make it unavailable on the POS system. Self clean is every 24 hours deep clean every 7 days. Also daily clean takes 30-60 mins if you know how to take it apart.
McDonald's fries are horrible now, not because of the recipe, but because they are always dry and cold, and feel like they were cooked an hour before I ordered them
Order them without salt, they will be hot and fresh, and still pick up enough salt when they dump them into the tray from the constant oversalting of the reg fries.
Just ask for your fries with no salt. They pour enough salt on them to kill a deer. For "No salt fries" they'll cook them fresh and you'll get them hot and fresh and you can then add salt or pepper or both. Try them with neither one then try them with only pepper. You might like them better with no salt.
That French guy was a genius, having guards guarding his potatoes & telling them to accept bribes... People want things more, when they're told they can't have them, & even moreso if they feel like they're getting away with something by obtaining them...
I normally turn UA-cam subtitles off as they tend to be super inaccurate. I've been denying myself Simon subtitles and ur telling me they're brilliant 😭😂
Very funny, but I do wish there was a non-comedic version as I like having subtitles on but when they don't match what is being said it's extremely distracting, especially when it's inconsistently inconsistent.
When I was a child we went to an early Mc Donalds that had glass all around, allowing a clear view of the kitchen. I remember watching them take large (russet?) unpeeled potatoes, slice them with a manual slicer, and then fry them. Sometimes I would get several fries that were easily 6 inches long!
The way Simon describes current McDonald’s recipe really says it all. If I can’t understand half the words in the ingredients, I don’t want it inside my food
I'm losing my hearing gradually, so I watch your videos with sound and captions. I gotta say, your captions just add so much! Whoever does them, I love the little jokes they sneak in here and there.
I think several states has made that illegal. New York.. California. The usual suspects. Something about not being good for your. Come get your freeeee donut with your Fauci sauce. What are we on? 18?? lol. Remember when you had to show your medical history to get a hotdog in new York? Lolol
15:35 -- 1980s teenage me, working at McDonald's and opening up those frozen bags of Simplot cut potatoes to pour into the baskets to fry, assumed that the company name on those bags was some cutesy corporate combination of "simple" and "plot" -- as in "here are **simple** sticks of potatoes grown on our **plot** of land" And even the much older 2020s version of me didn't realize Simplot was actually somebody's last name until UA-cam brought me here.
I still like the way the fries taste, but IMO these days fries at most places aren't worth the cost. For the cost and calories, I'd rather skip the fries and just grab a burger only.
I don't understand why their potato sticks are so dang expensive. It's like $4 for some dang fries here. I understand prices have to go up, but I miss the small for a dollar.
I'm all for religious observance and all but McFries did lose something when they switched away from beef tallow to vegetable oil. Five Guys (just had some yesterday) uses peanut oil though and their fries are pretty good.
Quite a few years ago, some wealthy guy decided that McDonalds was giving people heart attacks because of the tallow they were fried in. This had the reverse effect from the well-meaning idiot was trying to get. Now, we have learned that saturated fat is good for you and poly-unsaturated oils are really bad for you...a really ironic result. They have not switched back to tallow, to my knowledge.
@@jameswest4819Thank you! Even my current job in wellness wants me to promote poly-unsaturated oils as preferrable to saturated and unsaturated fats! These oils are terrible for you. They may as well age you physically because that's practically what they're doing to your protein structures!
I'm pretty sure I haven't taken anything tonight. But, man. If you haven't watched this episode with subtitles yet. DO IT. Thank me later. Good work whoever edited those in.
Simon, I just had McDonald's two days ago because I'd been undereating the day prior, then yesterday because I'd neglected to get a shamrock shake (and a buddy had to pick me up from work), and now you're making me want more McD's again. 😮
the subtitles were absolute legends on this vid, not sure if it was script divergence or the person doing subtitles likes improv the legend of Greg will live on
Simon does read the Scripts as written but the Subtitles are done by the writers & often deliberately vary from the script that Simon reads to add more humour & Jibes for those in the know
Amazing how McDonalds is screwing us over today. Fries were $0.10 - today that’s $1.14. Cheeseburgers were $0.19 - today that’s $2.17. A Coke was $0.10 - today that’s $1.14. That total for a meal today would be $4.45. And the portions were larger with real beef. Just remember that next time you spend $12.99 on a Big Mac.
Burger king Big kahuna burger Wendys Going to costco buying a rissole pack and loaf or burger buns Frying the meat yourself using coconut oil Sigh. Doesnt anyone study home ec anymore?
It’s like Parmentier had brought not only the idea to plant potatoes from Preussen to France,but also the „lifehack“how to make the potatoes seem more valuable. The story with solders guarding the fields reminds me of the strategy Friedrich the Great used for the same purpose…;)
Says someone who was just literally told how to make them themselves,for literally pennies on the dollar,and couldn't be bothered to put in the miniscule amount if effort required to do so lol ...Or do you just complain about high prices,even though you don't pay those high prices? Either way,I'm not really sure what you gained here.
You say that, but you don't apparently know what I learned from working at McDonald's. Namely, they come in boxes. Each box contains 6 bags. Each bag has enough frozen fries to make 2 Larges and a Medium....and the entire box is paid for just by selling 2 Mediums.
You MUST watch this with the closed captions on.....I can't stop laughing!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Totally not the same as what he's saying!!!!! 23:50 with the description of how they mass murder the spuds........I'm gasping!!!!!! LOLOL "The previous living potatoes are first stripped naked, in this case via having their flesh peeled from their bodies via steam peeler. They are then subjected to high pressure water spray on their now exposed innards, during which the 65 mph or so water cannon they find themselves in forces the tubers through a cutter grate for maximum potato mutilation. After this Byron Hadley insults them and their mothers for maximum psychological damage.
I have always found funny that while in the US fries are associated with France while in France they are associated with Belgium. In fact, this debate is both friendly and purely academic: the cuisines of Belgium and northern France are identical, so what we can say with relative confidence is that fries probably originated from somewhere in this larger region, spread to France and from there to the rest of the world
You should try researching and writing this one over the course of several days... Sooooo many McDonald's fries runs. My kids enjoyed that part at least. :-) -Daven
As someone who managed a McDonald's for more than half of the the 80s, the fries cooked in beef tallow were the best. Actually, the best fries were the ones fried at least 8 batches after the tallow charge. The tallow is too clean when it's fresh and needs some carbon to add flavor and color.
Sad but true... This is why those street vendors in China know they win over customers with re used street grease Mmmm thats street-ey goodness with a half crook smile ga-ron-teeeeee
They are cut thinner and they use a more finer salt. Oil it’s fried isn’t important. All u really need to make the same McD fries is a mortar to grind regular salt more fine. Making the fries thinner means it’ll crisp more without burning the entire stick.
You're factually incorrect. Fat is flavor. Any chef or good home cook will tell you that. Canola/rapeseed oil is popular right now because IT DOESNT have a flavor. Beef fat does have a slight umami flavor, as does lard (pig fat). Any county farmer whos rendered lard can tell you how much flavor is in the stuff...as well as how hard it is to wash off!
I was a McD's manager when the change was made to remove beef tallow. It was disastrous. Customers complained nonstop and so did employees. Managers were required to do weekly evaluations at one McD's and one competitor and ur fries suddenly didn't compare as well. Lots of franchises complained to corporate to switch back to beef tallow but corporate said the optics weren't right. 🙄. Every time they choose something like optics over quality it bit local franchises in the arse. And honestly, every fast food manager goes home smelling of grease. It's in your clothes, on your shoes, in your carpets. I can honestly say that the partiality hydrogenated vegetable oil stinks worse than the beef tallow oil did. Ew.
In Canada we have a burger chain called Harvey's. That's where we went. When my kids started school, around late '90's they found their friends went to McDonald's so they of course wanted to go to. So we took them, they hated it and never wanted to go back. Not everyone loves McDonald's fries.
Ah geeze...Harvey's,is the equivalent of Arby's...They're both f-tier trash.True Canadians know how to cook their own food anyhow lol Meals begin with opening boxes of kraft dinner.
Belguim here, nobody (at least native) goes to McDo just for fries, the fries are on the menu cause .. if you don't order a menu you haven't filled up a real meal.. I've probably been in a McDo about 4 times in the past 15 years ? :) , I feel the fries are no different, very predictable and uniform ... and ... never special, but always quite okay.. In Belguim, just getting fries somewhere at random would give you 80% chance to get something better the McDo, in Spain or so, i would say the opposite :), but just don't order fries in Spain, although they brougth pototoes over to europe, they actually only really seem to have real good spanish dished that don't seem to use potatoes :), Paella and such , .. pretty ironic actually, Spain is about the last place i would consider ordening French fries.. unless.. it's from a Belguim frituur.. there are actually a couple of dozen of those now, from Belgians wanting to move to a warmer country and seeing a real lack in good fries for sale there :),
A round of applause to the editor for using the more correct "psyke" instead of the current abomination of "sike". Though it really should be "psyche".
I felt offended by the title itself, i'm french, and idk if it's the case in other countries, but i always choose potatoes, their fries are horrendous, litterally the worst... Sorry, but those who likes them must have Covid and therefore no taste... Sorry if it offended everyone, but really...
@@miltonbates6425 Oh, i didn't knew they were cooked in beef tallow before, now it makes sense... sadly nowadays you mostly only find fresh french fries fried in beef tallow if you cook them yourself ( which is far better ).
The beef "flavoring" is enough to cause the numbers of someone allergic to beef, to fluctuate and go up. I know a woman who was bitten by a lone star tick and cannot eat red meat or pork of any kind. Sometimes she would treat herself to a McD fry, but her doctor kept complaining that she was eating red meat somewhere. When they finally, painstakingly, narrowed it down, she cut the fries from her diet completely and her levels regulated again. This has been within the last ten years.
Yep, this is me. It's called Alpha Gal and it sucks. Eating a seemingly harmless fry can have me sick for the rest of the day. I can take immodium and other meds to help, but the side effects aren't worth eating red meat intentionally...that should be my choice, though.
@@miltonbates6425 I agree. To please India everyone suffers I reckon. They should use the veggie oil there and leave them alone for everyone else. Cheers from Tennessee
If someone has strict dietary restrictions or preferences, it is upon them to make sure the food they consume is appropriate, not the establishment that provides said foods… As long as the ingredients are readily available to the public…the restaurant shouldn’t be held for those who have mistakenly consumed foods that are not acceptable to their particular dietary standards.
I have Alpha Gal syndrome. The enyzymes in red meat make me sick. Whether it is the actual meat or meat proteins, I'm still likely going to get sick and I have a right to know ahead of time that the food I'm ordering is going to make me sick. They put so much effort into labelling for peanut, tree nut, and gluten allergies, they should be required to list all ingredients that are a known allergy and that includes red meat. Alpha Gal is highly underdiagnosed but is getting diagnosed more finally. So yes, they should have to list that there is beef in their fries. I no longer eat McDonald's, but I wasn't aware that Hardee's fries also have beef flavoring and so I got sick from eating them. If I had known, I could have avoided them or taken my medicine.
FYI, sliced potatoes can be prevented from discolouring for some time if they're kept in a bowl of cold water -- just cold tap water; it doesn't need to be icy. Also, home made French fries, if made from the right varieties of potato, are way better than any restaurant fries.
The common french fry was actually a Belgian invention. It was created by french-speaking Belgians. And there was some confusion whenever the french fries are being served to some people and they thought they were French. This is how the name was created. It wasn't specifically a French man from France that created them. Rusty on the details but I think you can kind of understand the point. Hopefully there will be a person to further define this for me
No more special than any other restaurant fries. They are all coughed on by strangers with dirty hands and waaaaaaay over priced. McD's med fries at $3.89 + tax vs. homemade at 20 cents and still hot.
My dad was a good scientist and helped develop the current McDonald’s fries based on McDonald’s new parameters. One of the best years of my childhood. Loved going to visit him at work haha
There aren’t many of us around that remember the old fry. You would think that once we found out that oil ain’t great they would have gone back. We should all protest outside our local McDonald’s “what do we want? Lard! When do we want it? Now!
McDonald's fries USED to be incredibly delicious before they switched from cooking them in beef tallow to the frankenfood seed oil concoction that they use today. Now they are absolute t r a s h.
I personally wouldn't call them trash-just not top tier any anymore. I still enjoy them, but they went from the top 0.01% of french fries to the top 30-50% imo.
Personally, I prefer Burger King fries over McDonald's -- they're thicker and not as salty, so I can better taste the potato. If I can find them, I REALLY prefer the chonky potato-wedge style fries -- sooooo gooood! ^_^ But all of the fast-food fries seem to need to be eaten almost immediately, as they dry out quickly and become almost inedible when you try to reheat them.
Huh. I remember the beef tallow removal story very differently. I remember reading in the late 90s/early 00s McDonald's switched from beef tallow to something else to make more money off of people who don't eat beef, like vegetarians and Hindus. I was a tween at the time and remember this very clearly. Mandela effect? Edit: I hadn't finished the video yet, I'm a dumb-dumb. Anyway, I've been eating McDonald's fries at least once a month for ~30 years and never noticed a major difference. I still think they're great. My Boomer Mom thinks there /is/ a difference but still thinks they're the best fast food fries. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you can`t beat a barties bag of chips, but i`m in cork ireland so you not gonna be able to try them unless you visit lol, almost worth the cost of the flight they are that good¬ add a cheese and onion pie and i`m in heaven lol
I am not sure why there is a debate about if the fries are vegetarian. Is any part of the fry or cooking ingredients derived from an animal? Yes so it is not vegetarian. Period. Not a difficult process. And they really did market it as an option for vegetarians or vegans. At least they used to so they did lie to consumers.
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Fact check fact boy. Potatoes used to be poison when unripe, it was (mostly) bred out long after they made their way to Europe and into common usage.
People weren't wrong about potatoes being dangerous - they could be! This has been reduced over time through breeding and proper harvesting but it's still possible. There's about 50 cases reported a year with modern potatoes, some of which lead to death. It's thought there's many more as the symptoms mimic food poisoning.
Cant stand McDonalds fries. Greasy and fake tasting.
Once you eat Checkers/Rallies fries youll never even eat at McDonalds again...even the burgers are better with real meat.
The Jain Dharma is not a Hindu sect. It's a separate religion that is arguably considerably older than modern Hinduism.
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I worked as a fresh produce controller at the factory that supplies all the fries for McDonalds and Burger king (Yes they're made at the same factory) in Norway. The job was a temp job, consisting of taking samples of vegetables as they arrived at the factory, and determine the quality of each shipment. And I have to say, McDonalds had the strictest standards, and the best potatoes that entered that factory. I have also worked quality controlling potatoes bound for grocery stores. McDonalds had the best potatoes I've ever seen. In Norway they use a type of potato called Innovator. The innovator potato is a giant potato, and is a bit special in the way that it doesn't really change colour that much when you fry it.
its just a shame that they dont have the same standards when it comes to the people who cook them, in the part of america where i live its always the newest member of the kitchen staff that cooks the fries. In my experience mc'donalds fries are awful 9/10 of the time and amazing 1/10 of the time
@@zynsilverblade3125 Also could be most European countries have higher standards in general.
Then it's absolutely an employee problem. French fries are like a wet noodle in two of three local McDonalds.
The third is the only place I'll go. Fries get slightly brown, which creates a beautiful crispy texture.
@@tylerhorn3712that is a management/training issue. There are timers on every machine. It is literally fool proof if you are following all the standards that are in place. (Having worked in one and several different restaurants while younger) if the oil is not up to temp, management should know from having done their daily checks. If the employee is not leaving the fries in long enough, management should be training them better.
Problem is the management is usually the worst example of management you’ve ever seen, even worse than retail.
@@aclstudios sure. Except he wasn't comparing Norway vs USA. He was comparing mcdonalds standards to other good company standards. Reading comprehension
0:00 Intro
1:13 The Origin of the French Fry
8:37 Creating Perfection- Inventing the McDonald’s French Fry
24:37 Fries AND MURDER ...or just violence WHATEVER. Got to keep you watching so I have money to feed my french fry addiction. Don’t judge. We all have our cross to bear
32:45 Bonus Fact
Cant stand McDonalds fries. Greasy and fake tasting.
Once you eat Checkers/Rallies fries youll never even eat at McDonalds again...even the burgers are better with real meat.
Hey, you're doing Ignition's job posting all these timestamps.
@@thomasjones4570 McDonalds fries don't even break down. I've left some in a mop drain for a few days to see if anything happened to them and after days of scalding hot water and all sorts of different cleaning chemicals, they were still the same.
I think the real question here is why Simon is putting a bear pelt on a cross.
@@ThaBeatConductorThat explains the fake taste. A checkers fry will break down fast with water running over it.
"Well, just like with humans, if you eat the wrong part of the human..."
"As long as it's consensual"
I DIED 🤣
I'm curious what the "good" and "bad" parts are 😂
@user-ri5fe7ti6i the "good" parts in this situation are the ones which won't get you sick, which is basically the whole human body. Baring any parasites in the person, and even then with proper cooking, you could eat any part of a human being and it won't have any negative health effects. Well, any negative physical health effects anyway. Save one part.
The brain. Eating a human brain comes with an incredibly high risk of contracting prion diseases. Which are not anything you want to mess with. They are basically different versions of mad cow.
G'day finekat, did you see the subtitles here?
"But this doesn't mean the other parts of the human aren't good to nom when the mood strikes... as long as it's consentual. Don't be a Greg. Those poor potatoes...) 😂.
Ps & then from 23:21
@@zogar8526 you're right outside of saying the risk is incredibly high. It's only incredibly high if that person already has a prion disease. The one you're thinking of only spread like it did because of ritual funerary cannibalism in a tribe contained within a small area. Tragically the women and children usually got the brain. The onset time of symptoms was also often years, making it harder to put together the symptoms with the cause themselves.
Looking into prion disease is one of those things that cost me sleep at night, they're horrific.
The bad parts have E. coli
3:03 I feel like Daven is just f**king with Simon when he writes those kind of lines in the script😂
Check out the closed captions. There were many more he wouldn't say. 😋 It's all good fun for us. 😋 -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOutFucking Greg, man. 😂🤣
How often is there more hilarious writing hidden in the CC??
Sometimes I think the writers have a competition going on to see who can get him to say the craziest lines.
@@TodayIFoundOut I came to the comments because I was losing my shit reading all the hilarious subtitles. Do I need to go back and rewatch them all with subs now? Have I been missing out!?!? I don't always have them on, but I will never watch y'alls videos without them again.
The writers must get bored all chained up in Simon's basement. I don't begrudge them a bit of fun!
FUN FACT: In Australia when McDonald’s first opened up, they spent millions of dollars trying to get their potatoes to grow here, turns out they just would not, so in Australia our potatoes are a completely different type to those used in America, I’ve not tried American fries but I am addicted to the delicious ones in Australia 😁
Chips lol
in Belgium, even McDo does the frying in 2 sessions, as no respectable Belgian would like to fatty fries all baked in one go :) .
to me, McDo fries are.. to thin like french fries..
gamble whatever fries place you like and there is probably about 80% chance the fries will taste better then in a McDo :-p
i've never heard of someone just going into a McDo cause they just wanted fries,
then we go to a frietkot ;-) ,
I am quite confused of the fries shown ar 19min, those look the thick really tasty once, NOT AT ALL the inferior onces from McDo.. but problably it was just a good image and the designer does not really spot the difference? :)
This makes sense. Usually when I eat a meal I start with the main part (ie burger) so that if I get full its the extra stuff that goes to waste. When I lived in USA for a year I had to eat the fries/chips first because they'd taste worse by the time I was done with the burger. I knew there was a difference but I thought it mightve been the oil.
Me too, in Melbourne
Back when the fries were made with beef tallow, they were unbelievably good. They've never been the same.
Same goes for the big mac
Even the second recipe wasn't bad. Then they removed beef flavoring, because of Hindus.
Then the third was so disgusting. Man that was like early or mid 2,000s. They removed trans fat.
Then they changed again.
I seen studies saying tallow isn't as bad as once thought. Especially compared to certain oils. It has to do with keeping the oil on the burner for long periods.
Wish they'd go back to the 93% tallow.
100%
I cook mine with duck fat. Mmmm
I wouldn't know, haven't tried them more that a dozen X this century. If cooked in seed oil they are extra toxic.
"However when a Mummy Human & Daddy Potato really love each other"😂
I almost choked on my chips thinking of Barbie & Mr Potato Head getting it on
I pictured an Egyptian mummy before realizing you must be a Brit.
@@AfricanLionBat Nope not a Brit 😁
G'day🙃👎
@@shaneeslick ah from down under. Great people. Every time I meet an Aussie they were cool. Traded a cigarette for a patch when I was deployed in the desert with some.
How much time does it take Mr. Potato Head to grow a potato "eye" before he can get it on? 🤔😉
McDonalds used to peel and slice the spuds, then put the loaded fry basket in a draft of warm air for 30 or so minutes. This made the starch in the cut cells of the potatoes to turn to sugar, which made for a very appetizing color on the fried product. This plus the beef tallow made for a GREAT tasting French Fry. Now all of that is gone, and the fries are not great.
Holy shit! Did we watch the same video? Lol Thanks for the recap chief!
If you do this with sweet potatoes, you will get some starch breakdown into sugars, because sweet potatoes have far more amylase - the enzyme which catalyses the starch into sugar reaction. Ordinary potatoes do have some amylase in them, but nowhere near as much, so 30 minutes of warming is nowhere near long enough to convert any significant amount of starches into sugars. Anyone who has tried to make a "fermentation mash" from potatoes will have come across this problem: While malted (sprouted) grains have a lot of amylase (which is how the starches in wheat or barley get converted into sugars for beer brewing), potatoes do not contain anywhere near enough on their own, so you need to add extra amylase, usually by adding some malted grains along with the potato starch - and even then, it takes many hours or even days to get a significant starch to sugar conversion.
The colour created during cooking comes from the reaction between sugars and proteins at high temperatures, known as the Maillard reaction. This is responsible for the browning of bread during baking, of pancakes and similar products during shallow frying, and of potato fries during deep-frying. Sweet potato fries do this very nicely because of the relatively high proportion of sugars in sweet potatoes. Ordinary potato fries will do this to some extent, because there are always some sugars in the potato. But not all that much, which is why the modern McDonalds fries recipe (as well as most other fast food restaurant fries) includes some added dextrose (aka glucose) to enhance this effect. If the potato itself had enough sugars or if the sugar content could be boosted to any significant degree by just blasting some warm air at the uncooked fries, they wouldn't need to add extra dextrose.
Once they CHANGED the grease it was over. If your taste buds work then you know. I could get them with a meal or eat them alone. Once they CHANGED the grease the ONLY WAY I could eat them. Was with the Hot Mustard or Ketchup and even MORE $ALT than they already put on them . For that matter the nuggets don't taste the same either. Probably why I can't remember the last time I was in one.
Agreed. They took out the beef tallow, it did make the difference.
FACT: McD's Chicken Nuggets are made using wood pulp as filler......
The spongy chicken meat in the nuggets is just ground up, bleached, and washed chicken with some extra salt in it.
The "breading" is where they snuck in a bit of "cellulose powder" made of ground up, bleached, and washed wood pulp. It's used as a filler in a lot of things. Makes them just a little more bland and dry, but there's no bad health effects. No good ones either. It just passes through without helping or hurting anything. It's not even fiber after what they do to it.
@@TheGrinningViking their chicken nuggets are horrible now.
While they still have the best nuggests I've tasted, the old dark meat nuggets were 5 times better.
I really hate the ones from Chick Fil-A.
I live in a small city in Mexico. My local butcher sells ready to fry potatoes that are coated in beef tallow. They air fry wonderfully. So yummy, and no chemistry.
You can't get milkshakes at McDonald's, the machine is down
😂😂😂 always!
Food Theory channel has a video about this.
I never ask anymore. I go across the street to Wendy's for a Frosty.
It used to be a McD's joke that most locations didn't have hot chocolate because the machines broke down so much it wasn't worth the money to buy them. Now it's milkshakes.
The is a web ite that reports which mc donalds has ice cream (not associated to mc d )and milk shake or just check their app. Both are reasonable right. Except if they are deep cleaning it or the machine (so cleaning and refrigeratoring shaie and sandue mix) e is self cleaning ( heating mixes to 100 degree than cooling)and the manger for to make it unavailable on the POS system. Self clean is every 24 hours deep clean every 7 days. Also daily clean takes 30-60 mins if you know how to take it apart.
McDonald's fries are horrible now, not because of the recipe, but because they are always dry and cold, and feel like they were cooked an hour before I ordered them
You have to ask for them “made to order.”
Idk, the old recipe was good any time you ate them. Now its only passable if you eat them minutes after its been fried.
@@Kittsuera The old recipe really was good any time. It was the beef tallow.
Order them without salt, they will be hot and fresh, and still pick up enough salt when they dump them into the tray from the constant oversalting of the reg fries.
Just ask for your fries with no salt. They pour enough salt on them to kill a deer. For "No salt fries" they'll cook them fresh and you'll get them hot and fresh and you can then add salt or pepper or both. Try them with neither one then try them with only pepper. You might like them better with no salt.
“It’s not rocket surgery”🤣🤣🤣 I first heard this decades ago on the Canadian TV series Trailer Park Boys👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Rocket appliances.
Sounds like a Rickyism
Seconding that the correct Rickyism is in fact: "It's not rocket appliances"
Omg such a great show. But very common saying in the USA
Rocket surgery and brain science are two of my go to comments when someone is trying to make something more complicated than needed.
Best side remark ever: "The past ... everybody (eye roll)" :)
lol ogbb iykyk
😂 Even me.
That French guy was a genius, having guards guarding his potatoes & telling them to accept bribes... People want things more, when they're told they can't have them, & even moreso if they feel like they're getting away with something by obtaining them...
Whoever did the captions for this episode is fucking hilarious. And if you don't watch with captions you are missing out on a bunch of jokes. 😂😂
Thanks! :-) -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut You sir are a Legend! Thanks for the laughs.
I normally turn UA-cam subtitles off as they tend to be super inaccurate. I've been denying myself Simon subtitles and ur telling me they're brilliant 😭😂
Well then, lemme go back to 0:00 and turn the captions on!
Very funny, but I do wish there was a non-comedic version as I like having subtitles on but when they don't match what is being said it's extremely distracting, especially when it's inconsistently inconsistent.
When I was a child we went to an early Mc Donalds that had glass all around, allowing a clear view of the kitchen.
I remember watching them take large (russet?) unpeeled potatoes, slice them with a manual slicer, and then fry them. Sometimes I would get several fries that were easily 6 inches long!
6 inches? Or six inches! Your wife will get that joke
The subtitles are pure gold, A++
Kudos to the writers, the number of perfect potato puns here is truly astounding 😂❤
Try watching with the closed captions on for more laughs. :-) -Daven
I HAD TO PAUSE AND SCROLL TO SEE IF I WAS GOING MAD! :"D @@TodayIFoundOut
@@TodayIFoundOut G'day Daven, I do just for this reason🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The way Simon describes current McDonald’s recipe really says it all. If I can’t understand half the words in the ingredients, I don’t want it inside my food
I'm losing my hearing gradually, so I watch your videos with sound and captions. I gotta say, your captions just add so much! Whoever does them, I love the little jokes they sneak in here and there.
The closed captions on this are brilliant. Thank you, whoever did that.
I am totally here for the smart-ass nature of the captions. If you're watching this video with the captions off... TURN THEM ON
If you don't like your French fries cooked with beef in the oil, then don't go there. Incredible idea.
Get out of here with your common sense! Clearly, every restaurant can only serve what I am allowed to eat!
My husband won't even go near the place because the beef tallow smell makes him sick. I can only go when he's not with me.
@@bjbear5202They don't use beef tallow anymore. They haven't for many years.
Bit different serving it to vegetarians without telling them there's beef in it
@@n0b0dy-- I understand being upset about it, but then don't go there anymore like an adult. Instead of throwing a hissy fit
Listen to Julia Child. Bring back the fry tallow! Bring back the deep fried tallow apple pies!
Frying food is for those people without the intelligence,or time to learn how to cook properly.I guess that tracks for the U.S.
Good LORD do i miss those . I had one every morning as a kid ( a fat one I might add 😅 )
I think several states has made that illegal. New York.. California. The usual suspects. Something about not being good for your.
Come get your freeeee donut with your Fauci sauce. What are we on? 18?? lol.
Remember when you had to show your medical history to get a hotdog in new York? Lolol
15:35 -- 1980s teenage me, working at McDonald's and opening up those frozen bags of Simplot cut potatoes to pour into the baskets to fry, assumed that the company name on those bags was some cutesy corporate combination of "simple" and "plot" -- as in "here are **simple** sticks of potatoes grown on our **plot** of land"
And even the much older 2020s version of me didn't realize Simplot was actually somebody's last name until UA-cam brought me here.
7:48 the “ vastly superior” line had me in stitches
I still like the way the fries taste, but IMO these days fries at most places aren't worth the cost. For the cost and calories, I'd rather skip the fries and just grab a burger only.
Checkers/Rallies is knocking at your tastebuds doors.
i couldn’t agree more.
I don't understand why their potato sticks are so dang expensive. It's like $4 for some dang fries here. I understand prices have to go up, but I miss the small for a dollar.
because they make all their money from drinks and fries vs the burgers @@kaldogorath
$4 for a double cheeseburger and small fries here in NYC
22:05 Haha. Brilliantly hilarious, sarcastic, and quippy dialogue, better than you get from Marvel movies today. Touche to Simon and Daven.
I'm all for religious observance and all but McFries did lose something when they switched away from beef tallow to vegetable oil. Five Guys (just had some yesterday) uses peanut oil though and their fries are pretty good.
five Guys' fries are 100% better than McDonnalds sawdust sticks
Quite a few years ago, some wealthy guy decided that McDonalds was giving people heart attacks because of the tallow they were fried in. This had the reverse effect from the well-meaning idiot was trying to get. Now, we have learned that saturated fat is good for you and poly-unsaturated oils are really bad for you...a really ironic result. They have not switched back to tallow, to my knowledge.
Five Guys fries are pretty soggy and bland imo. Once they expanded, their fries went downhill imo. Not a fan of their fries at all anymore.
Had Five Guys fries the other day, definitely the best at the moment.
@@jameswest4819Thank you! Even my current job in wellness wants me to promote poly-unsaturated oils as preferrable to saturated and unsaturated fats! These oils are terrible for you. They may as well age you physically because that's practically what they're doing to your protein structures!
I'm pretty sure I haven't taken anything tonight. But, man. If you haven't watched this episode with subtitles yet. DO IT. Thank me later. Good work whoever edited those in.
I love the captions which do not match all of the facts you talk about in the video. Thank you for the hilarious romp!
Captions are dark on this one! Brilliant script, and well done Simon.
Anyone else find that opening like a fantastic entry into The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Universe?
omg, the captions during the ingredients list!!😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes! I was hoping someone else saw the CC so I know I wasn't crazy.
Simon, I just had McDonald's two days ago because I'd been undereating the day prior, then yesterday because I'd neglected to get a shamrock shake (and a buddy had to pick me up from work), and now you're making me want more McD's again. 😮
McDonalds fries taste like cardboard. You haven't had fries until you've had them at a proper Belgian baraque à frites
The subtitle-writer has gone nuts in all the right ways during this video. I love it!
the subtitles were absolute legends on this vid, not sure if it was script divergence or the person doing subtitles likes improv the legend of Greg will live on
Freaking Greg. ;-) -Daven
Love the closed captioning text hehehehe
Subtitles make Simon even funnier with the scripts og wording he doesn't say.
Simon does read the Scripts as written but the Subtitles are done by the writers & often deliberately vary from the script that Simon reads to add more humour & Jibes for those in the know
The shade randomly thrown in has my dying.
Your subtitle writer deserves a raise.
That's Daven Hiskey.
I thoroughly recommend watching with closed captions. Some of what hasnt been said from script is brilliant 😂
Loved the video, textbook Simon presentation plus sarcasm cranked to 11 :)
Amazing how McDonalds is screwing us over today. Fries were $0.10 - today that’s $1.14. Cheeseburgers were $0.19 - today that’s $2.17. A Coke was $0.10 - today that’s $1.14. That total for a meal today would be $4.45. And the portions were larger with real beef. Just remember that next time you spend $12.99 on a Big Mac.
I'm imagining him tasting the fries like Tony Montana sampling a bag of blow, "My god thats good product!"
I'm extremely unsurprised that Daven wrote this script. He's got a unique style...
A compliment? Or... 😋 (If not, definitely don't read the subtitles. 😋) -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut LOL, not a dig at you my dude. Love your stuff. I was tipped off when Simon started talking about eating human parts.
Shame on McDonald's for forcing people to buy their food. If only they had a choice.
Burger king
Big kahuna burger
Wendys
Going to costco buying a rissole pack and loaf or burger buns
Frying the meat yourself using coconut oil
Sigh. Doesnt anyone study home ec anymore?
Yo, whoever did the closed captions did a great job. And slipped in a few extra fun bits. Well played.
"Hydrolized Milk, because you can't let Vegans have nice things" LOL 🤣
I'd rather be a vegan than eat at McDonald's and I would rather die than never have steak again so that is saying a LOT.
It’s like Parmentier had brought not only the idea to plant potatoes from Preussen to France,but also the „lifehack“how to make the potatoes seem more valuable. The story with solders guarding the fields reminds me of the strategy Friedrich the Great used for the same purpose…;)
One indisputable fact about McD's Fries is they are way too fargin' OVERPRICED.......
The Price of Fries are 2 Damn High.
Says someone who was just literally told how to make them themselves,for literally pennies on the dollar,and couldn't be bothered to put in the miniscule amount if effort required to do so lol ...Or do you just complain about high prices,even though you don't pay those high prices? Either way,I'm not really sure what you gained here.
You say that, but you don't apparently know what I learned from working at McDonald's. Namely, they come in boxes. Each box contains 6 bags. Each bag has enough frozen fries to make 2 Larges and a Medium....and the entire box is paid for just by selling 2 Mediums.
Yeah I like them and all but I’m not about to pay $2.77 for a small order of fries when I could buy 2 hot and spicy sandwiches for $2
I knew I shouldn’t watch this… just ordered fries for dinner 😂
Rocket Surgery ... love it!
The subtitles during the ad were insane. 🤣
You MUST watch this with the closed captions on.....I can't stop laughing!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Totally not the same as what he's saying!!!!! 23:50 with the description of how they mass murder the spuds........I'm gasping!!!!!! LOLOL
"The previous living potatoes are first stripped naked, in this case via having their flesh peeled from their bodies via steam peeler. They are then subjected to high pressure water spray on their now exposed innards, during which the 65 mph or so water cannon they find themselves in forces the tubers through a cutter grate for maximum potato mutilation.
After this Byron Hadley insults them and their mothers for maximum psychological damage.
I have always found funny that while in the US fries are associated with France while in France they are associated with Belgium. In fact, this debate is both friendly and purely academic: the cuisines of Belgium and northern France are identical, so what we can say with relative confidence is that fries probably originated from somewhere in this larger region, spread to France and from there to the rest of the world
Actually, the French in french fries refers to the cut.
Are you referring to "Freedom Fries"?
Screw you, Simon! Now I have to go get a basket of fries at Mickey D's!
You should try researching and writing this one over the course of several days... Sooooo many McDonald's fries runs. My kids enjoyed that part at least. :-) -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut Daven! Great episode as always! But screw you too! /jk Love you man and I can't imagine writing this.
As someone who managed a McDonald's for more than half of the the 80s, the fries cooked in beef tallow were the best. Actually, the best fries were the ones fried at least 8 batches after the tallow charge. The tallow is too clean when it's fresh and needs some carbon to add flavor and color.
Sad but true...
This is why those street vendors in China know they win over customers with re used street grease
Mmmm thats street-ey goodness with a half crook smile ga-ron-teeeeee
What's so special? They're soggy and gross? Everyone knows McDonald's fries are bottom tier, heck, BK fries are better. 😆
They used to be awesome when the were cooked in beef tallow. Now they're cooked in seed oils which really does make them gross and cumulatively toxic.
Euroncrack.
Rocket surgery? I guess he mixed rocket science and brain surgery into one conjunction. Lol
They are cut thinner and they use a more finer salt. Oil it’s fried isn’t important. All u really need to make the same McD fries is a mortar to grind regular salt more fine. Making the fries thinner means it’ll crisp more without burning the entire stick.
You're factually incorrect. Fat is flavor. Any chef or good home cook will tell you that. Canola/rapeseed oil is popular right now because IT DOESNT have a flavor. Beef fat does have a slight umami flavor, as does lard (pig fat). Any county farmer whos rendered lard can tell you how much flavor is in the stuff...as well as how hard it is to wash off!
I was a McD's manager when the change was made to remove beef tallow. It was disastrous. Customers complained nonstop and so did employees. Managers were required to do weekly evaluations at one McD's and one competitor and ur fries suddenly didn't compare as well. Lots of franchises complained to corporate to switch back to beef tallow but corporate said the optics weren't right. 🙄. Every time they choose something like optics over quality it bit local franchises in the arse.
And honestly, every fast food manager goes home smelling of grease. It's in your clothes, on your shoes, in your carpets. I can honestly say that the partiality hydrogenated vegetable oil stinks worse than the beef tallow oil did. Ew.
In Canada we have a burger chain called Harvey's.
That's where we went. When my kids started school, around late '90's they found their friends went to McDonald's so they of course wanted to go to.
So we took them, they hated it and never wanted to go back.
Not everyone loves McDonald's fries.
Ah geeze...Harvey's,is the equivalent of Arby's...They're both f-tier trash.True Canadians know how to cook their own food anyhow lol Meals begin with opening boxes of kraft dinner.
Harvey's fries (and everything else they make) are sooooo good xD, when I went to high school there was one across the street, we'd go there so often.
Belguim here,
nobody (at least native) goes to McDo just for fries, the fries are on the menu cause .. if you don't order a menu you haven't filled up a real meal..
I've probably been in a McDo about 4 times in the past 15 years ? :) ,
I feel the fries are no different, very predictable and uniform ... and ... never special, but always quite okay..
In Belguim, just getting fries somewhere at random would give you 80% chance to get something better the McDo,
in Spain or so, i would say the opposite :),
but just don't order fries in Spain, although they brougth pototoes over to europe, they actually only really seem to have real good spanish dished that don't seem to use potatoes :), Paella and such , .. pretty ironic actually, Spain is about the last place i would consider ordening French fries.. unless.. it's from a Belguim frituur..
there are actually a couple of dozen of those now, from Belgians wanting to move to a warmer country and seeing a real lack in good fries for sale there :),
Did he say "rocket surgey" ? 😂😂
Their fries are actually very mediocre. But it helps that most fast food fries are terrible.
A round of applause to the editor for using the more correct "psyke" instead of the current abomination of "sike". Though it really should be "psyche".
I felt offended by the title itself, i'm french, and idk if it's the case in other countries, but i always choose potatoes, their fries are horrendous, litterally the worst... Sorry, but those who likes them must have Covid and therefore no taste... Sorry if it offended everyone, but really...
Americans have no taste, it's not our fault but it is definitely our loss
Well you are French so being a prick just goes with the territory doesn't it?!?!
They used to be awesome when the were cooked in beef tallow. Now they're cooked in seed oils which really does make them gross and cumulatively toxic.
@@miltonbates6425 Oh, i didn't knew they were cooked in beef tallow before, now it makes sense... sadly nowadays you mostly only find fresh french fries fried in beef tallow if you cook them yourself ( which is far better ).
0:00 Simon giving his best Orson Welles impression.
The beef "flavoring" is enough to cause the numbers of someone allergic to beef, to fluctuate and go up. I know a woman who was bitten by a lone star tick and cannot eat red meat or pork of any kind. Sometimes she would treat herself to a McD fry, but her doctor kept complaining that she was eating red meat somewhere. When they finally, painstakingly, narrowed it down, she cut the fries from her diet completely and her levels regulated again. This has been within the last ten years.
yay lets get them to change the grease again for one person, really make them inedible. Cause the minority rules in this country lately.
Beef bouillon is also used to add umami to rice in some restaurants, so she'll need to watch out for that too.
Yep, this is me. It's called Alpha Gal and it sucks. Eating a seemingly harmless fry can have me sick for the rest of the day. I can take immodium and other meds to help, but the side effects aren't worth eating red meat intentionally...that should be my choice, though.
That sounds like a personal problem lol
So, some people want menus to read like a medication warning label...
Would those same people ever eat anything ever again?
They kinda lost something when they started using vegetable oil. Cheers from Tennessee
They used to be awesome when the were cooked in beef tallow. Now they're cooked in seed oils which really does make them gross and cumulatively toxic.
@@miltonbates6425 I agree. To please India everyone suffers I reckon. They should use the veggie oil there and leave them alone for everyone else. Cheers from Tennessee
Do we need a 37 minute video about McDonalds fries? No…am I watching a 37 minute video on McDonalds fries? Yes.
I am really enjoying each reference to *plant murder*. Each new reference is more tasty than the last.😂
These fries are so overrated. To each their own
If someone has strict dietary restrictions or preferences, it is upon them to make sure the food they consume is appropriate, not the establishment that provides said foods… As long as the ingredients are readily available to the public…the restaurant shouldn’t be held for those who have mistakenly consumed foods that are not acceptable to their particular dietary standards.
I have Alpha Gal syndrome. The enyzymes in red meat make me sick. Whether it is the actual meat or meat proteins, I'm still likely going to get sick and I have a right to know ahead of time that the food I'm ordering is going to make me sick. They put so much effort into labelling for peanut, tree nut, and gluten allergies, they should be required to list all ingredients that are a known allergy and that includes red meat. Alpha Gal is highly underdiagnosed but is getting diagnosed more finally. So yes, they should have to list that there is beef in their fries. I no longer eat McDonald's, but I wasn't aware that Hardee's fries also have beef flavoring and so I got sick from eating them. If I had known, I could have avoided them or taken my medicine.
FYI, sliced potatoes can be prevented from discolouring for some time if they're kept in a bowl of cold water -- just cold tap water; it doesn't need to be icy. Also, home made French fries, if made from the right varieties of potato, are way better than any restaurant fries.
Bring back the original McDonald's fries! Nobody want this beany tasting, toxic seed oil stuff they put out today.
Did not expect this to be the most interesting visit ever!! Good work all!
Beef Talow is far more healthier than any seed oil.
The common french fry was actually a Belgian invention. It was created by french-speaking Belgians. And there was some confusion whenever the french fries are being served to some people and they thought they were French. This is how the name was created. It wasn't specifically a French man from France that created them.
Rusty on the details but I think you can kind of understand the point. Hopefully there will be a person to further define this for me
How are Mc Donalds fries special? ...I don't get it.
Most overrated fries ever. But as Zappa once posited, stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.
They are Nasty, they are garbage compared to Checkers/Rallies fries.
No more special than any other restaurant fries. They are all coughed on by strangers with dirty hands and waaaaaaay over priced. McD's med fries at $3.89 + tax vs. homemade at 20 cents and still hot.
Because they are really good, when they are fresh.
And you probably never had the REAL McD's fries that were fried in tallow. Overrated today, not by much. However, it was not nearly as great as before
My dad was a good scientist and helped develop the current McDonald’s fries based on McDonald’s new parameters. One of the best years of my childhood. Loved going to visit him at work haha
And now nutritionists are touting the health benefits of “good” fat of beef tallow and lard. It is better than all the chemical stuff.
@Concetta20
Yeah. I remember when doctors were touting the health benefits of cigarettes to pregnant women back in the 50s and 60s.
There aren’t many of us around that remember the old fry. You would think that once we found out that oil ain’t great they would have gone back. We should all protest outside our local McDonald’s “what do we want? Lard! When do we want it? Now!
Well, I guess McDonald's fries aren't gluten free!
I love how in English is "French Fries" while in South America's Spanish is "Papa Fritas", literally translating as "Fried Potatoes".
What the fuck was that about eating humans at 4:00? Does your writer need to confess something?
Actually thoroughly enjoyed the little vignette about surnames at the end. Well done
McDonald's fries USED to be incredibly delicious before they switched from cooking them in beef tallow to the frankenfood seed oil concoction that they use today. Now they are absolute t r a s h.
Cosign.
I personally wouldn't call them trash-just not top tier any anymore. I still enjoy them, but they went from the top 0.01% of french fries to the top 30-50% imo.
Truth!
Taters cooked in lard are even better. Blessed to grow up in South.
Absolutely true, whats strange about it is they know beef tallow is better for you than seed oils.
Personally, I prefer Burger King fries over McDonald's -- they're thicker and not as salty, so I can better taste the potato. If I can find them, I REALLY prefer the chonky potato-wedge style fries -- sooooo gooood! ^_^ But all of the fast-food fries seem to need to be eaten almost immediately, as they dry out quickly and become almost inedible when you try to reheat them.
They are probably some of the worst fries that I have ever had. Always small and hard.
Your location isn’t making them right.
Huh. I remember the beef tallow removal story very differently. I remember reading in the late 90s/early 00s McDonald's switched from beef tallow to something else to make more money off of people who don't eat beef, like vegetarians and Hindus. I was a tween at the time and remember this very clearly. Mandela effect? Edit: I hadn't finished the video yet, I'm a dumb-dumb. Anyway, I've been eating McDonald's fries at least once a month for ~30 years and never noticed a major difference. I still think they're great. My Boomer Mom thinks there /is/ a difference but still thinks they're the best fast food fries. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
McDonald's fries have been the best fast food fries during my entire lifetime.
then you must not have been to a proper chipper! i`m guessing you are not in ireland or britain lol
Limited experienced lifetime...they are Nasty, compared to Checkers/Rallies fries.
I now wanna try a beef tallow french fry
Thats a bit shallow, why not try something deep (fried)
I know I'm only one of a few, but I'm an in-n-out fries guy. Bring on the hate!
you can`t beat a barties bag of chips, but i`m in cork ireland so you not gonna be able to try them unless you visit lol, almost worth the cost of the flight they are that good¬ add a cheese and onion pie and i`m in heaven lol
@@jessgunn6639 this onion pie you speak of intrigues me
its a ball of mashed potato onion and cheddar cheese deep fried in batter, total comfort food lol@@sidequestcellars1056
I am not sure why there is a debate about if the fries are vegetarian. Is any part of the fry or cooking ingredients derived from an animal? Yes so it is not vegetarian. Period. Not a difficult process. And they really did market it as an option for vegetarians or vegans. At least they used to so they did lie to consumers.