Fun fact.... on the matter of the use of tallow and lard in ammunition having played a role in the Indian Rebellion back in 1857, the British really learned their lesson come the First World War where British commanders took great pains to ensure that the Indian troops received fresh sheep and goat meat (instead of the standard issue bully beef that regular British troops received); with separate slaughtering areas to abide by jhatka and halal requirements for Hindu and Muslim soldiers respectively.
Thing is the tallow/lard on amo thing is actually a myth - agitators probably did try to use it to stir up resentment in troops, but the sepoys were all professionals who also could (and at times) did make up their own ammunition and as a result would have known the rumours were false. There were far greater issues with the way they were being treated that caused some of the units to join the uprising (it was also not all units).
@@dapprman It didn't matter whether it was true or otherwise. The perception, or concern of its possibility, was enough of a catalyst. Which was why the War Office made sure that the Indian soldiers were satisfied that their religious requirements were being adhered to.
Its partially true. Some of the wrong ammo was sent. It was caught fairly and was switched out. But the damage was done by then. Nothing goes through the military faster than rumor
Bonus Fun Fact: During the French rebellion they made their own gunpowder for ammunition production out of bodily waste, humans are truly resourceful and can do amazing things with no resources when their back is up against a wall.
@@StewardofAutumn "passively deceiving" because they didn't take the time to walk on a mile of eggshells to appease some archaic cultist ideas of how to still kill and eat animals. Go on. Split some more hairs.
@@BluePomchii doesnt matter of the archaic ideas, they (mcdonalds)do have a standard to uphold to their clients. Certain people cannot have certain things (at a medical level even), if they passively decide that it is not "important" it opens the door legally. That is a corporation regulating itself; but I'm sure you dont understand the negatives in that.
@@BluePomchii it's important because these cultists are the ones they want money from, so you do have to appease them or you don't make the money. And I think they should display all the information in regards to this regardless of whether the information is for non-health issues or for health issues.
As a brit, fries are the long, thin, skinny and crispy things, chips are the chunkier, softer and variably sized things, that's how I see it at least... :P
Tert-butyl hydroquinone is the only ingredient that really raised my eyebrow. The group of chemicals called quinones are widely used in organic chemistry because of their uncanny ability to oxidize and "deoxidize" (the proper term is to "reduce") themselves repeatedly back and forth, and in the process oxidizing or reducing something else in turn. This is how hydrogen peroxide is industrially made, for example -- a quinone is oxidized and then reduces itself by oxidizing plain water into peroxide (which is appropriately called "oxygenated water" in several languages). So, no doubt a reduced quinone would be very useful as an antioxidant, but the problem is, quinones vary a lot in their degree of toxicity and I don't know how toxic or not this particular quinone is. "Dimethylpolysiloxane" sounds scary, but it's one of the most chemically inert (and hence most harmless) substances known. It reacts with virtually nothing at usual temperatures. It's also known as "dimethicone" or "simethicone" for short, and it's a small-molecule type of silicone that's widely used in many things in modern life and is also widely taken by mouth as a medication for flatulence (remember, it's chemically inert, so it will go intact through your digestive tube without being absorbed, but on the way it will encourage gas bubbles to coalesce and be more easily eliminated, relieving flatulence). It's also widely used for its antifoaming properties in cosmetics, shampoo, toothpaste, medicinal syrups, you name it, with no ill effects. Nothing to fear from it. Citric acid is a natural constituent of all cells and it's being constantly produced and processed in all of them during cellular respiration --- you'd die without it, actually. All citrus juices contain a lot of it (hence the name) and you don't panic when you drink orange juice. In the stomach, sodium acid pyrophosphate turns into harmless phosphate and sodium that are natural parts of all foods (and the amount is too small to interfere with calcium absorption, which is a theoretical concern with ingested phosphates, never confirmed in practice, though). I'd be more worried about the nasty carcinogens that are formed in polyunsaturated frying oils at high temperatures (obviously not an exclusively McDonald's or fries problem), and with the fact that real ordinary fries (made from potatoes, oil, and nothing more) are gluten-free, yet McDonald's fries contain wheat and are therefore unsafe for celiacs, who may be unaware of that.
@@dommusilli3975, it's in the fries themselves, obviously. Wheat and all its derivatives are solid, and any solid particles mixed in the oil would quickly be fried themselves, probably burn, and make the oil very dark, messy, and bitter, with unpleasant results in the product.
@@Krieger-jo2kf, I don't know. Probably because wheat and flour are very good to agglutinate something --- exactly because of the gluten, which has that property. But this probably applies to North America only. In the U.S. (and to a lesser extent Canada) they have an industrial infrastructure and a supply chain that make such ultraprocessed ingredients more cost-effective. This is hard to replicate elsewhere and the plain natural ingredient may be cheaper. This happens with sugar, for example --- real sugar is relatively expensive in the U.S., so it's cheaper to use high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks and sweets, but the reverse happens in many, if not most other countries. Here (Brazil) McDonald's fries have those dark natural potato lumps (which should be avoided, as they contain a mild toxin), indicating that are made with real cut potatoes. Although McDonald's burgers are very popular and beloved here, everybody agrees that other fast-food chains' fries are better, McDonald's never got it right with our potatoes. They tend to be dry, hard, rough inside, and often too salty. Oh yes, and since we are a very large sugarcane producer with three huge crops a year (enough to supply the entire country with sugar, export a lot, and still make alcohol to fuel part of our car fleet with the rest), sugar is dirt cheap and high-fructose corn syrup is completely unknown.
@@l.scales7516 1:01 Simon's "flow" never said the word drawer. That's the point, is that he literally said "you will replace everything you have in your underwear". That's it. We all know what he meant, whoever typed the captions put what he meant. But the point is that it's not what was said.
@@l.scales7516 And btw, just checked the captions, even they don't have the word 'drawer'. I just thought it was funny, but you seem to really be bothered by it. My advice is to just move on with your life.
Lol, it makes life miserable slowly, it doesn't happen in an instant. Let alone the final years, if u gonna eat like that, effects will start appearing very soon and continue to worsen :D
I don't know, I love and hate both options either a consumer prospective or a worker one. There really isn't winning. I worked in a fast food place that mainly dealt in deep frying for the last few months we used actual tallow, and rotating the oil and filling the vats was absolutely disgusting. The food tasted a million times better, but I'll take pouring canola oil from a jug every day of the week, and twice on shrimp Sundays.
I have a strict diet which requires me to not eat certain things, and must also be prepared in specific ways because of religious and/or moral reasons! Decides to eat in a fast food restaurant where the suppliers and ingredients are mostly unidentified.🤔
@@ryno4ever433 "natural" can cover a multitude of things. Beef fat is natural. So is vegetable oil. Unless they have it posted it's a good idea to ask before you eat it. Like allergens.
Almost like religion is kind of a catalyst for massive dumbassery Man, some people just have feet for brains, you can't make this absolute nonsense up.
It’s like that Woman who sued Macdonald’s because she got burned by the spilled coffee she had on her car dashboard while driving. Suing Macdonald’s because she wasn’t warned it was hot. I mean, Isn’t that what hot coffee is supposed to be. Stupid people with scrupulous lawyers out to get some cash. Reminds me of a label to a jar of Peanut Butter "warning: contains Peanuts!"🤨
I mean, to a certain extent Hindu's should probably create their own kosher equivalent label like the Jewish commuity did if they want to be sure they are not consuming beef. I do think Mc Donalds should be clearer that their product contains beef, but it is ultimately up to the religious community to ensure their followers are informed about what is ok to eat and what is not. It is very simply a relgious groups job to police food items not a company that probably is not fully informed on your beliefs.
Show me that Kosher, vegan/vegetarian, changes- gloves- between- sandwiches Mcy'd's. Even if the followers of a certain sect "know" what they're supposed to eat doesn't mean the places they eat from are going to properly identify the taboo ingredients. I don't disagree totally, but when somewhere says "it's vegetarian!", we shouldn't be afraid to belive it.
The argument, as I read it, was that if McDonald's was going to make changes to cater to one group of people then they should do it for others as well. McDonald's chose to do the halal tag on their food for one community. But didn't want to do a similar tag for other, very large, communities
The best McDonald's fries I ever had was in Nagoya Japan. The burgers were good, too. I mean *REALLY GOOD*. I kept thinking "this tastes just like they did when i was a kid". Back then, a trip to McDonald's was an infrequent treat.
My friends and I all noticed the change in taste when it happened, but didn't know why until several years later. Felt as ripped off as when they shifted away from dark meat nuggets
@@stackflow343 the dark meat is likely less healthy, due to higher polyunsaturated fat content vs white meat. 100+ years ago this wouldn't matter much, but now days most chickens are fed a diet high in Polyunsaturated fats(PUFA), not their natural diet lower in PUFA These oxidize more readily, causing inflammation and many other toxic compounds. Of particular note is Linoleic Acid, which has lots of research. Linoleic acid can even lead to structural dage of cardiolipin molecules making up the mitochondrial membrane, causing metabolic dysfunction. There is compelling evidence as root cause for cancer, but more research isl needed. Of course since these are fried in vegetable/seed/bean oils, it's not like they were healthy in the first place... But every bit helps.
@@Unsensitive The problem with "every bit helps" is that it actually doesn't if it's not affecting the source while any benefits are are offset by everything else on the menu Safer farm sourcing, transport preservation, and responsible marketing/informing models have a far greater impact than just dropping an entire food option b/c 60yrs down the road you may or may not get cancer from irresponsibly consuming it.
They aren't allowed to "kill" plants either, just eat parts that won't kill the whole plant - grains that are harvested from the already dead plant, also fruits.
While I am not religious, the first time I was introduced to their religion... I was impressed. The discipline and dedication you have to have to follow that religion... is there a single thing in your life that you can honestly say you are that disciplined about?
@@darkermatter125.35 nice job with the red herring attempt and implicit ad hominem. /s There were Nazis who were just as dedicated to their beliefs..... Do you think that matters or deserves respect? Really.....
Chips were the best when they were chip shop deep fried in beef dripping. I'm old enough to remember. When chip shops switched to vegetable oil chips were never the same again.
If you want, you can find that stuff in stores and relive it. Basic fries are pretty easy, though you should look up the right temperature for the fat.
@@arisadefazio7885 ...yeah. I know bro. I am a chef and I can make both. You generally fry fries. But you need specific temperatures for the best outcomes when you fry anything. Do you even cook?
It's amazing how different US and UK McDonald's are. This is the UK fries full ingredients: Potatoes, Blend of Non-Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Dextrose (predominantly added at beginning of the potato season). Prepared in the restaurants using a non-hydrogenated vegetable oil. Salt is added after cooking.
For vegetarians motivated by ethical or religious beliefs, the issue isn't whether or not something is called "beef" but whether or not it came from a dead cow. If the beefy amino acids were synthesized artificially without any cows involved, I suspect even the Jains might be ok with it. But dead cow = not vegetarian.
@@DxBlack Considering the body can effectively lose the ability to digest anything meat based if you go without eating it long enough, it can be a genuine health hazard even if synthesized too.
@@katrionaverity9128 this is my case. I have to be very careful whenever I eat out. Recently I was throwing up for a few hours straight after accidental ingestion. It's disgusting when people try to sneak meat into my meals
@@katrionaverity9128 Really? I didn't know that. Interesting. Well, anyway, I just go to Burger King where the fries are meat-free on the rare occasions when I have no choice but fast food.
only time i like their fries is the first few minutes after they're made, when they're nice and soft and fresh. once they cool down even slightly they're no good at all
Silly question from someone who knows nothing about Jainism, but are they forbidden from successfully fighting off an illness because that requires killing off the pathogens?
I would suggest google. I'm guessing they have their own medicines withing tradition, but like I said, google. Not sure about hospitals. I have a feeling that they are, at the very least, better than scientologists or whatever, since John Travolta? just watched his kid die instead of giving him simple medicine
@@the_once-and-future_king. if it where up to you, we stille had leaded gas and complaining that "100% natural peanutbutter" contained no peanuts where seen as "unamerican"
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I have two pairs of boxer briefs from sheath and while the build quality is nice the in pouch design can be kinda uncomfortable if you sit wrong or are above a certain size x.x They're decent for running or just walking around on hot days though
Apparently the dumb lobbyist knew so little about medicine he thought it was fat that causes hypertension. _Shocking, that rich people can be the biggest shitbrains in society._
@@AiluridaeAureus Everything in medical science is more complicated than a one or two sentence explanation can cover, but... Can't saturated fat and high LDL cholesterol raise the risk of developing blood clots and constrict the arteries leading to the heart?
@@harringt100 Saturated fats are a healthier more readily-burned class of fats, not the heart-disease scapegoat as we were led to believe after decades of brand propaganda and misguided legislation based on rushed or improperly reviewed data. We have enough research now showing this, the notion that saturated fat leads to heart issues is as dated as the food pyramid, basically. Which imo this awareness also helped enable the organic market, but that story is a whole other....... bag of fries you could say
Meanwhile, grotesque amounts of sugar, and high fructose corn syrup are allowed in drinks. It's basically a slightly watered down syrup, but thats okay for the fact it's still around
Being upset that beef flavor is used takes away from the fact an employee uses the same gloves for a beef patty and veggie burger assembly. I'm not upset just pointing out potential hypocrisy..
yeah and ultimately it is up to the religious community to inform believers... like the jewish community did with the kosher lable... It is not the rest of the worlds job to keep track of your religious beliefs.
"if you're still buying your underwear from the same brand that makes your socks, undershirts, and sister's bra... maybe it's time to try something a bit more personalized" damn... i have no retort... that's a really good argument... you got me. i'm going to try a new sheath for my sword..
I've worn under Gear French cotton thongs for over 2 decades now. A place for everything and everything stays in place. After a week you don't notice the strip up your behind. Most women are shocked to see when you drop trouse
Another Bonus Fact im surprised he didn't include as it was in a previous video of his: The term "Bite the Bullet" came from the method at which the British paper cartridge rounds were loaded into the rifle.
Isn’t there a secret New Jersey-based outfit that does almost all of the natural flavoring for the big companies ? I think they are also the one responsible for the McDonald’s fries taste - maybe a video on this would be cool…
@@SimuLord I know that the coca leaves are used to make novacaine, and other such stimulant based anesthetics! I remember my biochemistry majoring friend explaining this, and other things! (Ever wonder why cocaine and novacaine both have that in their names?)
There isn't a "secret" outfit. It's just that 8 of the top 10 flavor and extract companies have their headquarters in NJ and the highest density of food scientists are in NJ.
Oh dear the myth of the beef fat on ammunition has once more been brought out. The sepoys were highly professional (though at times badly mistreated) soldiers and they would have known what the lubrication oil (not fat) was. It's long been shown that while agitators did try spreading the beef fat rumours to try and stir up support from the sepoy regiments, it would not have worked, however the general mistreatment of the men and the build up of resentment over their officers, meant that when the uprising/mutiny did start many units did join in, however not all.
My favourite part is "natural flavour." I caught that right away (and I know the story). Seems unnecessary doesn't it? Unless that natural flavour isn't potato. In this case, it's not potato. lol
@@ChunkyWaterisReal eerm... the rest of the world learns to spell English in the "Brtish" spelling; not the "American" one. AND..... the "Brits" were not beaten by the Americans, in WWII; they fought alongside eachother. And.... it's 'it's', not 'its', and I think it's 'y'all', not 'yall'. Even slang deserves a decent spelling...
I tried McDonalds fries once as a kid and determined they were trash compared to the fries I was used to from local (Canadian) chains available in my city like Harveys, Lick's Homeburgers (the location is now a Wimpy's Diner franchise), and New York Fries or the fries offered by various non-chain restaurants... or, for that matter, the fries at Costco. I think I also tried Burger King fries once and came to the same conclusion. ...which *is* consistent with studies I've heard about that showed Americans cared more about the appearance of fruit than its taste.
@@davidbass6780 Keeps them from needing to use the super powerful cleaning agents to get rid of the tar-like oxidized oil residue that cakes onto everything. So, I think it likely that they would be a bit safer. Seriously though, the much more heat-stable saturated fats should be used as the preferred frying oils as I doubt it is healthy consuming so much varnish.
@@nolan4339 it's not just for cleaning ease. The video did mention anti foaming agents are part of the ingredients list. That kind of job is already fast paced, no need to make it a hot oil splash hazard too. Less foaming means less air pockets that can burst and fling oil at the one frying.
The addition of the wheat means that people like me with Celiac disease can't eat them. No big loss for me as I hadn't had them for quite a while anyways, but I sure hope Celiacs check the ingredients before eating them.
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It's amazing how many people don't know about this. I'm always being laughed at or given condescending responses when I ask if a restaurant's fries are vegan, but knowing that Mcdonald's fries exist, I have to ask every time if I don't want my week to be spent in the bathroom. Ingredients in general just need to be listed more clearly and thoroughly so people don't keep getting sick, or at worst, dying, because something was hidden.
This video should note that the information contained within only pertains to McDonalds fried in the US, outside of the US, vegetable oil is used and the ingredients list is about 4 items instead of 17, meaning that only in the US are McDonalds fries a product that are not vegan friendly
It totally makes sense that the apparent most logical response to McDonalds serving food a group of people can't eat is rioting and destruction of property, rather than, say, *just not eating there*. Humans are so awesome.
...they made these people unknowingly break their beliefs, which are way more strict than more mainstream beliefs. This isn't a matter of future dining choices. This is like if someone was knowingly trying to sell your soul. From a religious standpoint, that is pretty fucked up.
@@darkermatter125.35 If your religion is so strict that violence against a company for using an ingredient you can't eat is something you can justify, then I would argue that you shouldn't have eaten their food without first ensuring with 100% certainty that it didn't contain forbidden ingredients, rather than just assuming it didn't. If such certainty was not possible, don't eat it.
@@mikesleftarm84 Maybe the giant corporation that thought it was ok to deceive close to a billion people should have thought about the repercussions of their deceit. McDonald's should have known better than to have done that. As a non-Hindu, pretty much the only thing I know about them is that cows are sacred. McDonald's screwed the pooch big time. Imagine if they tried to sneak pork products onto the menu in a Muslim dominated country. Heads would probably roll. My point is, there are consequences for fucking up and at least it was contained to vandalism and nobody really got hurt. McDonald's had to clean some shit off some statues and replace windows, while the folks that take their religion seriously can't take back the consumption of forbidden food. McD's suffered almost nothing compared to what would have happened in my bacon example in Saudi Arabia, for example. Edit to add: if your religion isn't strict, doesn't that make it just a casual hobby? Those people mean to follow teachings that have been around for thousands of years, and here you think you can decide what is too strict. You just don't get it, admit it.
@@Face2theScr33n I never said anything about it being too strict. I just said it is 100% the follower's responsibility to follow it as strictly as they see fit. That includes erring on the side of caution in situations of possible uncertainty. McDonalds didn't send a letter to billions of hindus saying "you can safely eat our fries because there are absolutely no beef or beef-derived products whatsoever in them, we promise" and then laugh sinisterly while sneaking in beef-derived ingredients behind a cloak. If I chose to follow teachings that were thousands of years old that required me to not consume something specific, it would be entirely up to me to make absolutely certain that anything I ate complied with that. Eating at literally any restaurant(let alone a global fast food chain) would be pretty questionable to me in that case unless they explicitly advertised that their food was ok for my specific restrictions.
@@mikesleftarm84 the government is made up of a lot (if not all) hindu people, so they also had to get it past the hindu government to be able to ne there. The government also spoke out against McDonald's, furious about the deceit. McDonald's straight up lied to everyone about something that was sacred to million and millions of people for the sake of capitalism. You cannot blame this on the people. All of the fault lies on McDonald's.
If McDonald's offends so much don't patronize their restaurants! Nobody is forcing anyone to eat something they don't want. You've called them out they fixed it. Don't eat at McDonald's.
It's a fact that beef fat (1st) and lard (second) make a superior french fry. I'm going to Montreal next week and I look forward to patronizing Frites Alores and enjoying fries and remoulade (fred in tallow of course)
What's funny is how many people complained about the change to cooking in vegetable oil..... BEFORE the change had happened! The news had reported McDonald's was GOING to make the change, but people thought they had already changed. So by power of suggestion, people thought the fries tasted different. Even though, the fries at that time were still fried in beef tallow.
"Bitter" is right... I have a rare allergy to beef protein. Enough of it, and I can go into anaphylaxis. As a young child, I used to have the worst stomach cramps, diarrhea, rash, and fevers, as well as two hospitalizations, because of McDonald's French fries...something we didn't know for a decade.
One would probably stop eating at mcdonalds after getting diarrhea and hospitalization after eating their french fries. At least one with an IQ over 10.
Most of it is actually to make the vegetable frying oil work properly. Aka, give it similar properties to lard. The only thing that raised my exebrow was the anti-oxidant. But i suppose replacing it with ascorbic acid would seriously impact on the flavor. All in all, it is A LOT less worrying than a common ready-made pudding or fruit dessert, really.
eh, it would be simplier if everyone could agree on what was trivial and what was not. oddly enough, people tend to believe that what they find important is important and what they find trivial is trivial and struggle to understand how others do not.
Current U.K. ingredients: Fries Potatoes, Blend of Non-Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Dextrose (predominantly added at beginning of the potato season). Prepared in the restaurants using a non-hydrogenated vegetable oil. Salt is added after cooking. Please note our Fries can be cooked in the same oil as the Red Pepper and Pesto Goujon. (From MaccyDs website).
Even though most religious groups aren't that hard to piss-off, listing the ingredients of your fried-potatoes so mysteriously that some "peaceful-" and "loving-" groups of people start threatening your establishment, is an achievement.
Many years ago, Australia made it illegal to fry food in animal fat. Chips have never tasted the same as they did when I was a kid. Ironically, many vegetable oils have been found to cause health problems, especially those cheaper oils favoured by fast food chains and margarine manufacturers.
This video reminded me why I stopped considering myself "Hindu"... food restrictions in any religion are fucking DUMB. EAT WHAT YOU WANT, just don't eat each other.
Vegetable oils derived from non-food plants like sunflowers and rapeseed have been implicated in serious health problems. Supporting and banning certain food items is a highly political activity and rarely reflects the real health benefits or dangers attached to the various foods in question.
@@angron2074 I'm not sure if you think I'm American but I can assure you I am not. However, even if I was American, that is irrelevant unless you believe that everyone should be judged by the group/race/nationality/sexual orientation they belong to.
It's nothing to do with forcing views, it's to do with mcdonalds secretly feeding beef fat to vegetarians and wheat to the 1% of people who eat gluten free who actually have a medical reason for it. If they had secretly been sticking cat piss in there would you be ok with that? Sure you could eat somewhere else but that wouldn't change what they had fed to you. Or what if they were secretly adding peanuts?
I wonder how many people point out that the guy was apparently fine with killing the yeast for his bread... or the plants for the wheat, sugar, etc etc.
A friends family always used beef tallow in their deep frier and it tasted so much better than vegetable oil in my opinion. It smelled much worse though.
Side-note: I looked up if Japanese McD’s fries used beef fat, and yes, they use a mix of tallow and palm oil, both of which are _concerning_ in different ways.
I don't see this as a matter of semantics. If the beef/bovine proteins come directly from a slaughtered animal, then its beef and should be declared as such (further clarification is fine, and should be incentivised). If they're synthesized or lab cultivated, IMO they're not, but they still needs declaration for allergen, dietary etc. Don't think it's just (an irrelevant) matter of semantics when it comes to lab-grown meat either. One requires the death of a sentient being, the other does not. As someone who loves meat and _definitely_ has an unhealthy amount of it in my diet - if (hopefully rather, _when)_ we get to the point where we can make lab-grown meat at scale, it's good quality and taste, and reasonably affordable - I'll definitely prefer that and make that switch for the meat products I buy. Heck it might also be distinctly less of a health risk, as the cultivation and growth conditions would most likely almost or completely eliminate the use of antibiotics and hormones/steroids. I feel that would be far more ethical, and be more sustainable / have far less of an environmental impact than our current scales of (industrial) animal farming. In terms of ethics, I think of it a bit like an organ. If I was in such a need, I would of course be incredibly thankful accepting of another, deceased person's or compatible animal's organ. But if I could have the choice of a cultivated and lab grown (or "3d printed", they can do that with certain organ tissues) organ - maybe even cultivated from my own adult stem cells - then I'd feel a lot more comfortable with that. Especially if the alternative was a kidney or partial liver transplant from another living person or being. This too wouldn't be strictly ethics either, and would likely would add benefits in similar nature of the antibiotics and steroid "perk" with lab meat. Because there would likely be *far* less risk of organ rejection. Especially if the organ was cultivated and grown from my own organ (stem) cells.
Jainism is definitely *not* a sub sect of Hinduism. In as much as they don't worship any Gods, but do revere Tirthankaras (enlightened people that can provide a path of enlightenment to others) . Also Jainism predates Hinduism by about 1000 years, with Jainism thought to have originated around 3000BC and Hinduism originating around 2000BC.
When I was young in the late 50s, our local McDonald's used to get fresh potatoes and customers could watch through a large window as the potatoes were peeled, washed, and sliced. Yup, absolutely fresh french-fried shoestring potatoes.
This is an example of why corporations should not bend to the will of some. They just need to worry about their core business as when you try to make everyone happy you make nobody happy. If someone does not like the way you make your food then they should go elsewhere.
If you don’t eat beef, what the hell are you doing going to McDonald’s? Is their lettuce made from beef too? Probably, but the burgers and fries taste so good.
@L.R. That’s good to hear. McDonald’s should’ve taken this into account before they even built their first restaurant in India. I hope they corrected, as you said, this controversy. Some companies say it’s been fixed, while in reality they have done nothing.
vegetarians interact with non vegetarians. occasionally, they end up at places that everyone else wanted to go to. there is no other option that appears to be made without dead animals other than fries. so they order them unknowingly.
@@LaciRae That is strange, using beef byproducts in their fries. And believe me, I have nothing against a person’s food choices. It comes down to personal choice.
They were soooooo good. And i'm not one of those people that thinks EVERYTHING was better back in the day. Those people are annoying and honestly incorrect on alot of things that they think were better years ago. But these French Fries were on another level. I can still remember the flavour. At least in Canada and the U.S. i've never been to one elsewhere. If i ever go to England or Italy or France or say Spain no way i'm going to a mcPuke's. Not when i can eat at great restaurants.
Here's an interesting view, people have the right to know what they're eating, healthy or not. health concerns are down to an individual and be it a freshly prepared chef grade beef wellington, or a quarter pounder with cheese from a fast food joint, they should be able to know what's in those items and be able to make a choice personally based on that information.
I agree with you. But I will say that it seems a little naive to think that if you order some fries from a restaurant that primarily sells burgers that they can guarantee that it never came into contact with beef.
@@ejr-mb8ty In India, where most of the points in the video were coming from, they don’t sell any beef products at all. So it’s reasonable to assume there’s no beef in the fries. they did do global adverts claiming they always used 100% one type of potato and nothing else. which is at best disingenuous
I'm just sayin', if you're vegan or vegetarian...for whatever reason...and you're eating at McDonald's or ANY HAMBURGER restaurant...don't be shocked and outraged that your food might contain some trace of "beef" or other meat.
Imagine getting paid millions of dollars because they had the audacity to serve you beef at a MacDonald's... It's not like their entire business is founded on decades of serving beef patties. It's like if I go into a dairy Queen and start complaining about them serving ice cream because I'm lactose intolerant. It's literally a place devoted to things I can't eat, why would I even risk it? Especially if hell is on the line. But this dude is perfectly comfortable giving money to a company that defiles his religion a million times over every year across the world.
It’s quite disturbing how industrial, super highly refined vegetable and seed oil is made, tons of caustic solvents and deodorizers are required to get any useful amount of oil and have it be palatable.
Tnere's a simple answer for all this insanity if the food ingredients are a problem for your region believe DON'T EAT THERE. Businesses can't win there's always someone who is offened by whatever. If I were in McD shoes I'd closed the franchises and move somewhere else.
I always find it hilarious when I hear that a vegetarian has a regular diet of McDonalds. I mean sure you can do it, but there are so many better options than a fast-food burger place to get a vegetarian meal.
There’s nothing in that ingredient list that alarms me; and yes I do know what all the difficult-to-pronounce ones are. The issue with them is that they are very dense with carbs and oil. Therefore, consume in moderation, and keep up your exercise.
The protection of cows symbolises the Hindus' non-violence against all life forms. Basically, they wanted to spread the "do not murder people" principle to all animals, but in the process, cows became more important than humans. We always find an excuse to kill humans if we have beef with them. 👍
That was interesting. I don't think the fries are as good as they used to be. KFC fries used to be the best, then they changed. Now Burger King have got rid of that awful coating the fries used to have, they are the best out of the 3 chains IMO. Could you do a video and how the regional accents of the country (UK) came about please? It's amazing how distinctly different they are in not just the cities but counties too.
Once again, great video Simon. I remember watching a video about this subject in the past. Uk fries ingredients are totally different. I won’t list the difference. See google.
Fascinating story. I would say that it was his individual responsibility and his alone to simply not partake of McDonalds foods once he discovered that there were minute ingredients that he coolant tolerate for religious or health reasons.
The restaurant should always be transparent about the ingredients. Period. People should not have to learn the hard or deadly way that they can’t eat a specific food that they normally can without issue.
McDonald’s fries in the UK have the “Vegetarian Society Approved” stamp on them, which also includes “Vegan” in the centre. The ingredients list doesn’t include “natural flavour” or milk, and they’re fried in separate oil to the oil that meat products are cooked in. So, I’m not sure why you’re making a sweeping statement that they’re not suitable for vegetarians and/or vegans when they appear to be in the UK, at least?
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I got the Hanes knock off and it honestly sucks. It works while standing but the moment I sit it just fails.
A lot of inaccuracy in this video.
Simon...
That's your banana hammock, isn't it?
You do know that SAXX Underwear have been around for a while right?
Fun fact.... on the matter of the use of tallow and lard in ammunition having played a role in the Indian Rebellion back in 1857, the British really learned their lesson come the First World War where British commanders took great pains to ensure that the Indian troops received fresh sheep and goat meat (instead of the standard issue bully beef that regular British troops received); with separate slaughtering areas to abide by jhatka and halal requirements for Hindu and Muslim soldiers respectively.
Thing is the tallow/lard on amo thing is actually a myth - agitators probably did try to use it to stir up resentment in troops, but the sepoys were all professionals who also could (and at times) did make up their own ammunition and as a result would have known the rumours were false. There were far greater issues with the way they were being treated that caused some of the units to join the uprising (it was also not all units).
@@dapprman It didn't matter whether it was true or otherwise. The perception, or concern of its possibility, was enough of a catalyst. Which was why the War Office made sure that the Indian soldiers were satisfied that their religious requirements were being adhered to.
Its partially true. Some of the wrong ammo was sent. It was caught fairly and was switched out.
But the damage was done by then.
Nothing goes through the military faster than rumor
Bonus Fun Fact: During the French rebellion they made their own gunpowder for ammunition production out of bodily waste, humans are truly resourceful and can do amazing things with no resources when their back is up against a wall.
@@Sandshark17 - Human and animal waste was the primary source of saltpeter used in black powder historically.
Hearing/watching Simon say "Oh, I see" made me laugh so hard, it brought tears to my eyes. Thank you, Simon. Thank you.
Me too! xD
I personally enjoyed him yelling "bra!"
@@jaymaxwell8645 I loved hearing him say "Willie"! 😆🤭
Just a quote. : "McDonald's can't force" Is completely true. They are not forcing anyone to eat at their food, whoever they are.
You are correct they are not technically forcing, but they are passively deceiving.
@@StewardofAutumn "passively deceiving" because they didn't take the time to walk on a mile of eggshells to appease some archaic cultist ideas of how to still kill and eat animals.
Go on. Split some more hairs.
@@BluePomchii doesnt matter of the archaic ideas, they (mcdonalds)do have a standard to uphold to their clients.
Certain people cannot have certain things (at a medical level even), if they passively decide that it is not "important" it opens the door legally.
That is a corporation regulating itself; but I'm sure you dont understand the negatives in that.
@@BluePomchii it's important because these cultists are the ones they want money from, so you do have to appease them or you don't make the money. And I think they should display all the information in regards to this regardless of whether the information is for non-health issues or for health issues.
That’s the best part!! Pease, show me the barrel of the gun that’s against your head forcing you to go to McDonald’s. SHOW ME.
I wonder how hard it was for Simon to say fries as opposed to "chips"
To be honest I cook chips at home and buy fries everywhere else
I'm forced to eat beef. It's too hard to get baby seal.
If Brits are anything like New Zealanders Shoestring fries and curly fries are fries and everything thicker is chips
@@RubyDoobieScoo They are fries in the UK as well
As a brit, fries are the long, thin, skinny and crispy things, chips are the chunkier, softer and variably sized things, that's how I see it at least... :P
Tert-butyl hydroquinone is the only ingredient that really raised my eyebrow. The group of chemicals called quinones are widely used in organic chemistry because of their uncanny ability to oxidize and "deoxidize" (the proper term is to "reduce") themselves repeatedly back and forth, and in the process oxidizing or reducing something else in turn. This is how hydrogen peroxide is industrially made, for example -- a quinone is oxidized and then reduces itself by oxidizing plain water into peroxide (which is appropriately called "oxygenated water" in several languages). So, no doubt a reduced quinone would be very useful as an antioxidant, but the problem is, quinones vary a lot in their degree of toxicity and I don't know how toxic or not this particular quinone is.
"Dimethylpolysiloxane" sounds scary, but it's one of the most chemically inert (and hence most harmless) substances known. It reacts with virtually nothing at usual temperatures. It's also known as "dimethicone" or "simethicone" for short, and it's a small-molecule type of silicone that's widely used in many things in modern life and is also widely taken by mouth as a medication for flatulence (remember, it's chemically inert, so it will go intact through your digestive tube without being absorbed, but on the way it will encourage gas bubbles to coalesce and be more easily eliminated, relieving flatulence). It's also widely used for its antifoaming properties in cosmetics, shampoo, toothpaste, medicinal syrups, you name it, with no ill effects. Nothing to fear from it.
Citric acid is a natural constituent of all cells and it's being constantly produced and processed in all of them during cellular respiration --- you'd die without it, actually. All citrus juices contain a lot of it (hence the name) and you don't panic when you drink orange juice. In the stomach, sodium acid pyrophosphate turns into harmless phosphate and sodium that are natural parts of all foods (and the amount is too small to interfere with calcium absorption, which is a theoretical concern with ingested phosphates, never confirmed in practice, though).
I'd be more worried about the nasty carcinogens that are formed in polyunsaturated frying oils at high temperatures (obviously not an exclusively McDonald's or fries problem), and with the fact that real ordinary fries (made from potatoes, oil, and nothing more) are gluten-free, yet McDonald's fries contain wheat and are therefore unsafe for celiacs, who may be unaware of that.
I wanted to comment something like this, but your chemistry kung-fu is stronger than mine. So I'm glad you did it first.
Do the fries contain wheat because of the fries themselves or the oil?
@@dommusilli3975, it's in the fries themselves, obviously. Wheat and all its derivatives are solid, and any solid particles mixed in the oil would quickly be fried themselves, probably burn, and make the oil very dark, messy, and bitter, with unpleasant results in the product.
@@goytabr why does McDonald's add wheat?
@@Krieger-jo2kf, I don't know. Probably because wheat and flour are very good to agglutinate something --- exactly because of the gluten, which has that property.
But this probably applies to North America only. In the U.S. (and to a lesser extent Canada) they have an industrial infrastructure and a supply chain that make such ultraprocessed ingredients more cost-effective. This is hard to replicate elsewhere and the plain natural ingredient may be cheaper. This happens with sugar, for example --- real sugar is relatively expensive in the U.S., so it's cheaper to use high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks and sweets, but the reverse happens in many, if not most other countries.
Here (Brazil) McDonald's fries have those dark natural potato lumps (which should be avoided, as they contain a mild toxin), indicating that are made with real cut potatoes. Although McDonald's burgers are very popular and beloved here, everybody agrees that other fast-food chains' fries are better, McDonald's never got it right with our potatoes. They tend to be dry, hard, rough inside, and often too salty.
Oh yes, and since we are a very large sugarcane producer with three huge crops a year (enough to supply the entire country with sugar, export a lot, and still make alcohol to fuel part of our car fleet with the rest), sugar is dirt cheap and high-fructose corn syrup is completely unknown.
As a former chemistry student I actually clapped when you said "tert-butylhydroquinone" correctly
He got it the second time
"Eventually you will replace everything you have in your underwear."
Sounds ominous.
underwear DRAWER! TURN ON THE CAPTIONS OR WATCH IN SLO MO IF YOU CAN'T KEEP UP WITH SIMON'S FLO!
@@l.scales7516 1:01 Simon's "flow" never said the word drawer. That's the point, is that he literally said "you will replace everything you have in your underwear". That's it. We all know what he meant, whoever typed the captions put what he meant. But the point is that it's not what was said.
@@l.scales7516 Dude, chill.
@@l.scales7516 And btw, just checked the captions, even they don't have the word 'drawer'. I just thought it was funny, but you seem to really be bothered by it. My advice is to just move on with your life.
I was going to make the same comment! Lol!
As Dennis Leary said “sure it takes years off your life. But those are the crappy ones.”
Yeah it only takes years off the END of your life. It's not like you jump from 30 to 50.
Lol, it makes life miserable slowly, it doesn't happen in an instant. Let alone the final years, if u gonna eat like that, effects will start appearing very soon and continue to worsen :D
personally i really miss the beef lard flavoured fries........beef molecule flavoured fried just aint the same......
Damn straight.
I fry my own fries in real beef tallow, and it is glorious.
@@godfreypoon5148 Agree. There is no chip like a beef dripping chip🧡
Yeah. Don't miss the smell though.
I don't know, I love and hate both options either a consumer prospective or a worker one. There really isn't winning. I worked in a fast food place that mainly dealt in deep frying for the last few months we used actual tallow, and rotating the oil and filling the vats was absolutely disgusting. The food tasted a million times better, but I'll take pouring canola oil from a jug every day of the week, and twice on shrimp Sundays.
I have a strict diet which requires me to not eat certain things, and must also be prepared in specific ways because of religious and/or moral reasons!
Decides to eat in a fast food restaurant where the suppliers and ingredients are mostly unidentified.🤔
Actually, if you watch the video, you'll hear that the ingredients are all stated except the sub-ingredients of "natural flavoring".
@@ryno4ever433 you have to look it up. They are not listed.
@@ryno4ever433 "natural" can cover a multitude of things. Beef fat is natural. So is vegetable oil. Unless they have it posted it's a good idea to ask before you eat it. Like allergens.
Almost like religion is kind of a catalyst for massive dumbassery
Man, some people just have feet for brains, you can't make this absolute nonsense up.
It’s like that Woman who sued Macdonald’s because she got burned by the spilled coffee she had on her car dashboard while driving. Suing Macdonald’s because she wasn’t warned it was hot. I mean, Isn’t that what hot coffee is supposed to be.
Stupid people with scrupulous lawyers out to get some cash.
Reminds me of a label to a jar of Peanut Butter "warning: contains Peanuts!"🤨
I mean, to a certain extent Hindu's should probably create their own kosher equivalent label like the Jewish commuity did if they want to be sure they are not consuming beef. I do think Mc Donalds should be clearer that their product contains beef, but it is ultimately up to the religious community to ensure their followers are informed about what is ok to eat and what is not. It is very simply a relgious groups job to police food items not a company that probably is not fully informed on your beliefs.
Show me that Kosher, vegan/vegetarian, changes- gloves- between- sandwiches Mcy'd's.
Even if the followers of a certain sect "know" what they're supposed to eat doesn't mean the places they eat from are going to properly identify the taboo ingredients. I don't disagree totally, but when somewhere says "it's vegetarian!", we shouldn't be afraid to belive it.
The argument, as I read it, was that if McDonald's was going to make changes to cater to one group of people then they should do it for others as well.
McDonald's chose to do the halal tag on their food for one community. But didn't want to do a similar tag for other, very large, communities
Like they force you to eat something. Kids these days don't realize how good the early 90s fries were.
Screw them all.
Also if you have a food allergy look it up.
If you break food into molecules what is meat and what is not or what is food in general?
I love how Simon reading a script and Simon not reading a script are 2 completely different and equally entertaining people
Simon- "It's just better."
Me- "He said it's just better. I need them."
The best McDonald's fries I ever had was in Nagoya Japan. The burgers were good, too. I mean *REALLY GOOD*. I kept thinking "this tastes just like they did when i was a kid". Back then, a trip to McDonald's was an infrequent treat.
This is why we bigfoots never go to McDonalds and just eat out here in the woods where it's more peaceful
I bet your on the McDonald’s WiFi Mr. Bigfoot hiding in the trees just in range.
Explains why I remember the fries tasting better than they do now. I thought it was a childhood nostalgia thing.
This is why I make fries at home, using 3 ingredients.
Potatoes
Clarified butter
Salt
They also used to salt them differently
My friends and I all noticed the change in taste when it happened, but didn't know why until several years later. Felt as ripped off as when they shifted away from dark meat nuggets
@@stackflow343 the dark meat is likely less healthy, due to higher polyunsaturated fat content vs white meat.
100+ years ago this wouldn't matter much, but now days most chickens are fed a diet high in Polyunsaturated fats(PUFA), not their natural diet lower in PUFA
These oxidize more readily, causing inflammation and many other toxic compounds.
Of particular note is Linoleic Acid, which has lots of research. Linoleic acid can even lead to structural dage of cardiolipin molecules making up the mitochondrial membrane, causing metabolic dysfunction. There is compelling evidence as root cause for cancer, but more research isl needed.
Of course since these are fried in vegetable/seed/bean oils, it's not like they were healthy in the first place... But every bit helps.
@@Unsensitive The problem with "every bit helps" is that it actually doesn't if it's not affecting the source while any benefits are are offset by everything else on the menu
Safer farm sourcing, transport preservation, and responsible marketing/informing models have a far greater impact than just dropping an entire food option b/c 60yrs down the road you may or may not get cancer from irresponsibly consuming it.
Who are those people who won't kill bacteria but will kill and eat plants? Do they think plants aren't alive?
Its just insanity, like all religions.
They aren't allowed to "kill" plants either, just eat parts that won't kill the whole plant - grains that are harvested from the already dead plant, also fruits.
While I am not religious, the first time I was introduced to their religion... I was impressed. The discipline and dedication you have to have to follow that religion... is there a single thing in your life that you can honestly say you are that disciplined about?
@@darkermatter125.35 nice job with the red herring attempt and implicit ad hominem. /s
There were Nazis who were just as dedicated to their beliefs..... Do you think that matters or deserves respect?
Really.....
@@kevinbooth- Its about cultural heritage not actual belief.
Chips were the best when they were chip shop deep fried in beef dripping. I'm old enough to remember. When chip shops switched to vegetable oil chips were never the same again.
If you want, you can find that stuff in stores and relive it. Basic fries are pretty easy, though you should look up the right temperature for the fat.
@@darkermatter125.35 he means fries bro
@@arisadefazio7885 ...yeah. I know bro. I am a chef and I can make both. You generally fry fries. But you need specific temperatures for the best outcomes when you fry anything. Do you even cook?
Also, sorry david, should have said chips. But the beef dripping can be found in stores.
you could make this at home? it’s very cheap and not that complex
It's amazing how different US and UK McDonald's are.
This is the UK fries full ingredients:
Potatoes, Blend of Non-Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Dextrose (predominantly added at beginning of the potato season).
Prepared in the restaurants using a non-hydrogenated vegetable oil.
Salt is added after cooking.
For vegetarians motivated by ethical or religious beliefs, the issue isn't whether or not something is called "beef" but whether or not it came from a dead cow. If the beefy amino acids were synthesized artificially without any cows involved, I suspect even the Jains might be ok with it. But dead cow = not vegetarian.
Ooooo I'm sure they'd still figure out a way to cry about it 🙄
True but since it said ''Natural'' flavoring it probably comes from real beef. Otherwise it would be artificial flavoring. As stated in the video.
@@DxBlack Considering the body can effectively lose the ability to digest anything meat based if you go without eating it long enough, it can be a genuine health hazard even if synthesized too.
@@katrionaverity9128 this is my case. I have to be very careful whenever I eat out. Recently I was throwing up for a few hours straight after accidental ingestion. It's disgusting when people try to sneak meat into my meals
@@katrionaverity9128 Really? I didn't know that. Interesting. Well, anyway, I just go to Burger King where the fries are meat-free on the rare occasions when I have no choice but fast food.
only time i like their fries is the first few minutes after they're made, when they're nice and soft and fresh. once they cool down even slightly they're no good at all
Silly question from someone who knows nothing about Jainism, but are they forbidden from successfully fighting off an illness because that requires killing off the pathogens?
or lice/tapeworms/parasites?
They kill fruit and vegetables so I'm guessing bacteria and viruses are fine.
Wondering the same
I would suggest google. I'm guessing they have their own medicines withing tradition, but like I said, google. Not sure about hospitals. I have a feeling that they are, at the very least, better than scientologists or whatever, since John Travolta? just watched his kid die instead of giving him simple medicine
Self defense argument?
Gotta love respecting one person's rights so much that you shit all over everyone else's rights in the process.
Or or maybe be transperant from start.
Welcome to the wonderful world of inclusivity & cancel culture.
@@the_once-and-future_king. if it where up to you, we stille had leaded gas and complaining that "100% natural peanutbutter" contained no peanuts where seen as "unamerican"
@@solesoul3848 then don’t expect McDonald’s to change at all.
Transparency is one thing. Demanding the recipe change for your diet is another.
@@Ceece20 if they had been transperant I don't think changing would be necessary. You don't hear people asking to make Butter chicken without chicken.
'Where's the beef' of the 2000's just made a whole lot of sense,
This just makes me want fries more
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Ok just started and the sponsor is so wild I now want to try this.
I have two pairs of boxer briefs from sheath and while the build quality is nice the in pouch design can be kinda uncomfortable if you sit wrong or are above a certain size x.x
They're decent for running or just walking around on hot days though
I’ve tried something similar, they don’t work.
"Mypackage" is an older brandname of same concept
Guess what, it wasn't the beef tallow that caused the heart attack.
Apparently the dumb lobbyist knew so little about medicine he thought it was fat that causes hypertension. _Shocking, that rich people can be the biggest shitbrains in society._
@@AiluridaeAureus Everything in medical science is more complicated than a one or two sentence explanation can cover, but...
Can't saturated fat and high LDL cholesterol raise the risk of developing blood clots and constrict the arteries leading to the heart?
@@harringt100 only if you over eat it.
@@harringt100 Saturated fats are a healthier more readily-burned class of fats, not the heart-disease scapegoat as we were led to believe after decades of brand propaganda and misguided legislation based on rushed or improperly reviewed data. We have enough research now showing this, the notion that saturated fat leads to heart issues is as dated as the food pyramid, basically. Which imo this awareness also helped enable the organic market, but that story is a whole other....... bag of fries you could say
Meanwhile, grotesque amounts of sugar, and high fructose corn syrup are allowed in drinks. It's basically a slightly watered down syrup, but thats okay for the fact it's still around
My high ass thought you were gonna ACTUALLY talk about meat fries lmfao
Also high, and same.
Can we get some more sober people for a control sample?
Sober... Thought the same thing. Sounds good!
Sober and thought the same
Somebody needs to get the FoodTubers onto this, pronto.
Being upset that beef flavor is used takes away from the fact an employee uses the same gloves for a beef patty and veggie burger assembly. I'm not upset just pointing out potential hypocrisy..
But fries aren't at the same station. Just pointing out this is about fries, not veggie burgers.
yeah and ultimately it is up to the religious community to inform believers... like the jewish community did with the kosher lable... It is not the rest of the worlds job to keep track of your religious beliefs.
Where's that? In the US we don't even have veggie burgers at McDonalds.
"if you're still buying your underwear from the same brand that makes your socks, undershirts, and sister's bra... maybe it's time to try something a bit more personalized" damn... i have no retort... that's a really good argument... you got me. i'm going to try a new sheath for my sword..
I've worn under Gear French cotton thongs for over 2 decades now. A place for everything and everything stays in place. After a week you don't notice the strip up your behind. Most women are shocked to see when you drop trouse
Another Bonus Fact im surprised he didn't include as it was in a previous video of his: The term "Bite the Bullet" came from the method at which the British paper cartridge rounds were loaded into the rifle.
Isn’t there a secret New Jersey-based outfit that does almost all of the natural flavoring for the big companies ?
I think they are also the one responsible for the McDonald’s fries taste - maybe a video on this would be cool…
@@SimuLord I know that the coca leaves are used to make novacaine, and other such stimulant based anesthetics! I remember my biochemistry majoring friend explaining this, and other things! (Ever wonder why cocaine and novacaine both have that in their names?)
There isn't a "secret" outfit. It's just that 8 of the top 10 flavor and extract companies have their headquarters in NJ and the highest density of food scientists are in NJ.
The secret is out New Jersey! This youtube channel is now watching you.
Yup on the Turnpike
@@SimuLord novocaine for cattle used to numb the horns before calves are dehorned
Oh dear the myth of the beef fat on ammunition has once more been brought out. The sepoys were highly professional (though at times badly mistreated) soldiers and they would have known what the lubrication oil (not fat) was. It's long been shown that while agitators did try spreading the beef fat rumours to try and stir up support from the sepoy regiments, it would not have worked, however the general mistreatment of the men and the build up of resentment over their officers, meant that when the uprising/mutiny did start many units did join in, however not all.
My favourite part is "natural flavour." I caught that right away (and I know the story). Seems unnecessary doesn't it? Unless that natural flavour isn't potato. In this case, it's not potato. lol
The only thing I know about "natural flavor" when I see it, is it isn't.
I saw this comment during the underwear ad and was confused.
Its flavor. We beat yall Brits in ww2, dont make us do it again to teach you spelling this time.
@@ChunkyWaterisReal eerm... the rest of the world learns to spell English in the "Brtish" spelling; not the "American" one.
AND..... the "Brits" were not beaten by the Americans, in WWII; they fought alongside eachother.
And.... it's 'it's', not 'its', and I think it's 'y'all', not 'yall'. Even slang deserves a decent spelling...
@@ChunkyWaterisReal Canadians spell it flavour. Don't make us burn your White House a second time.
I tried McDonalds fries once as a kid and determined they were trash compared to the fries I was used to from local (Canadian) chains available in my city like Harveys, Lick's Homeburgers (the location is now a Wimpy's Diner franchise), and New York Fries or the fries offered by various non-chain restaurants... or, for that matter, the fries at Costco. I think I also tried Burger King fries once and came to the same conclusion.
...which *is* consistent with studies I've heard about that showed Americans cared more about the appearance of fruit than its taste.
I'm dying "willy" havnt heard that for manier of years 😂
So which continental plate is the 'rock' you've been living under, then?
@@Galiant2010 ur mom
Damn. Why can’t I ever be ever so slightly wronged in such an undetectable way that can bet me millions of dollars?
The fries would probably be more healthy if they just ditched the additives and went back to using their beef tallow.
Beef tallow won't help keep the workers safe when preparing so many fries so often?
@@davidbass6780 Keeps them from needing to use the super powerful cleaning agents to get rid of the tar-like oxidized oil residue that cakes onto everything. So, I think it likely that they would be a bit safer.
Seriously though, the much more heat-stable saturated fats should be used as the preferred frying oils as I doubt it is healthy consuming so much varnish.
@@nolan4339 it's not just for cleaning ease. The video did mention anti foaming agents are part of the ingredients list. That kind of job is already fast paced, no need to make it a hot oil splash hazard too. Less foaming means less air pockets that can burst and fling oil at the one frying.
They absolutely would be. As unhealthy as beef fat might be, hydrogenated oil is a zillion times worse.
Expecting anything truly healthy from a fast food restaurant is a delusion....
The addition of the wheat means that people like me with Celiac disease can't eat them. No big loss for me as I hadn't had them for quite a while anyways, but I sure hope Celiacs check the ingredients before eating them.
Have a great week y'all. What a great video to start it off with.
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That part of the Sheeat ad at the beginning made me laugh harder than I probably should have 😂 🤣
It's amazing how many people don't know about this. I'm always being laughed at or given condescending responses when I ask if a restaurant's fries are vegan, but knowing that Mcdonald's fries exist, I have to ask every time if I don't want my week to be spent in the bathroom. Ingredients in general just need to be listed more clearly and thoroughly so people don't keep getting sick, or at worst, dying, because something was hidden.
This video should note that the information contained within only pertains to McDonalds fried in the US, outside of the US, vegetable oil is used and the ingredients list is about 4 items instead of 17, meaning that only in the US are McDonalds fries a product that are not vegan friendly
It totally makes sense that the apparent most logical response to McDonalds serving food a group of people can't eat is rioting and destruction of property, rather than, say, *just not eating there*. Humans are so awesome.
...they made these people unknowingly break their beliefs, which are way more strict than more mainstream beliefs. This isn't a matter of future dining choices. This is like if someone was knowingly trying to sell your soul. From a religious standpoint, that is pretty fucked up.
@@darkermatter125.35 If your religion is so strict that violence against a company for using an ingredient you can't eat is something you can justify, then I would argue that you shouldn't have eaten their food without first ensuring with 100% certainty that it didn't contain forbidden ingredients, rather than just assuming it didn't. If such certainty was not possible, don't eat it.
@@mikesleftarm84 Maybe the giant corporation that thought it was ok to deceive close to a billion people should have thought about the repercussions of their deceit. McDonald's should have known better than to have done that. As a non-Hindu, pretty much the only thing I know about them is that cows are sacred. McDonald's screwed the pooch big time. Imagine if they tried to sneak pork products onto the menu in a Muslim dominated country. Heads would probably roll.
My point is, there are consequences for fucking up and at least it was contained to vandalism and nobody really got hurt. McDonald's had to clean some shit off some statues and replace windows, while the folks that take their religion seriously can't take back the consumption of forbidden food. McD's suffered almost nothing compared to what would have happened in my bacon example in Saudi Arabia, for example.
Edit to add: if your religion isn't strict, doesn't that make it just a casual hobby? Those people mean to follow teachings that have been around for thousands of years, and here you think you can decide what is too strict. You just don't get it, admit it.
@@Face2theScr33n I never said anything about it being too strict. I just said it is 100% the follower's responsibility to follow it as strictly as they see fit. That includes erring on the side of caution in situations of possible uncertainty. McDonalds didn't send a letter to billions of hindus saying "you can safely eat our fries because there are absolutely no beef or beef-derived products whatsoever in them, we promise" and then laugh sinisterly while sneaking in beef-derived ingredients behind a cloak. If I chose to follow teachings that were thousands of years old that required me to not consume something specific, it would be entirely up to me to make absolutely certain that anything I ate complied with that. Eating at literally any restaurant(let alone a global fast food chain) would be pretty questionable to me in that case unless they explicitly advertised that their food was ok for my specific restrictions.
@@mikesleftarm84 the government is made up of a lot (if not all) hindu people, so they also had to get it past the hindu government to be able to ne there. The government also spoke out against McDonald's, furious about the deceit. McDonald's straight up lied to everyone about something that was sacred to million and millions of people for the sake of capitalism. You cannot blame this on the people. All of the fault lies on McDonald's.
If McDonald's offends so much don't patronize their restaurants! Nobody is forcing anyone to eat something they don't want. You've called them out they fixed it. Don't eat at McDonald's.
It's a fact that beef fat (1st) and lard (second) make a superior french fry. I'm going to Montreal next week and I look forward to patronizing Frites Alores and enjoying fries and remoulade (fred in tallow of course)
What's funny is how many people complained about the change to cooking in vegetable oil.....
BEFORE the change had happened!
The news had reported McDonald's was GOING to make the change, but people thought they had already changed.
So by power of suggestion, people thought the fries tasted different.
Even though, the fries at that time were still fried in beef tallow.
"Bitter" is right...
I have a rare allergy to beef protein. Enough of it, and I can go into anaphylaxis. As a young child, I used to have the worst stomach cramps, diarrhea, rash, and fevers, as well as two hospitalizations, because of McDonald's French fries...something we didn't know for a decade.
Then sue them, or don’t eat at McDonald’s.
@@NeonZX4 lol he was a child the damage is done and he said it was not known for decades dumbass
One would probably stop eating at mcdonalds after getting diarrhea and hospitalization after eating their french fries. At least one with an IQ over 10.
and this is a good reason to force companies to list their ingredients, not some random arbitrary religious bs
Fos
Are we sure the guy suing McDonald's in the 90's didn't have a stake in vegetable oil sales?
Vegetable oils are one of the worst shits in our diet...
@@btudrus Fruit oil....olive and avocado are better.
@@JohnAdams-vd5dc Sure - why don't you fry potatoes in 4 liters of olive oil?
goddamnit, now I gotta go get McDonald’s fries
Seeing that ingredients list made me happy that I recently found out making fries from scratch isn't that hard.
"Just prepare you Dextrose, and small quantities of *Redacted*"
Me: 😅
Most of it is actually to make the vegetable frying oil work properly. Aka, give it similar properties to lard. The only thing that raised my exebrow was the anti-oxidant. But i suppose replacing it with ascorbic acid would seriously impact on the flavor.
All in all, it is A LOT less worrying than a common ready-made pudding or fruit dessert, really.
@@paavobergmann4920 or basically anything shelf-stable that comes in a packet, bag or tube.
@@sixstringedthing or plastic cup with aluminum foil lid.
The secret to making crispy fries is frying them for a longer time at a bit lower temperature so the whole fry is cooked inside and out.
Humans sure do love complicating their lives over meaningless trivialities, don't they.
eh, it would be simplier if everyone could agree on what was trivial and what was not. oddly enough, people tend to believe that what they find important is important and what they find trivial is trivial and struggle to understand how others do not.
Current U.K. ingredients:
Fries
Potatoes, Blend of Non-Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Dextrose (predominantly added at beginning of the potato season).
Prepared in the restaurants using a non-hydrogenated vegetable oil.
Salt is added after cooking.
Please note our Fries can be cooked in the same oil as the Red Pepper and Pesto Goujon.
(From MaccyDs website).
And they are certified vegan here currently.
"You serve their meat but not ours? Unforgivable. Shut it down." ...This a whole new level of petty 😐
"Pressurizing them into cooked potatoes!" 🤣 🤣
Because, 'pressurizing them into'...
Oh, how I love me sum Saimahn!
When an establishment states "It's Vegan!", we shouldn't have to worry if it's a true statement.
Keep talking Blaze Boy ❣
they never stated that
@@seanosborn3272 Mcyds may not have, but other places did.
"crispy golden brown on the outside" not a great opener right after talking about underwear lmao
I brought my lunch to work and now I’m in the McDonald’s drive through.
is that because you work at McDonalds? :)
Lol no I can’t even use that as an excuse. The talking about fries made me want some
Even though most religious groups aren't that hard to piss-off, listing the ingredients of your fried-potatoes so mysteriously that some "peaceful-" and "loving-" groups of people start threatening your establishment, is an achievement.
I remember then being cooked in beef fat, they were sooooooooooooooo damn good.
Many years ago, Australia made it illegal to fry food in animal fat. Chips have never tasted the same as they did when I was a kid. Ironically, many vegetable oils have been found to cause health problems, especially those cheaper oils favoured by fast food chains and margarine manufacturers.
@@andymanaus1077 I wish the beef fat option was still available.
Yep. After they made the change, they were no better than any other fries.
This video reminded me why I stopped considering myself "Hindu"... food restrictions in any religion are fucking DUMB. EAT WHAT YOU WANT, just don't eat each other.
@@natsune09 there's the grocery store
Whereas in the EU McDonald's Fries ingredients are: Oil (sunflower, rapeseed), Salt and Potatoes.
you can thank EU law :)
Vegetable oils derived from non-food plants like sunflowers and rapeseed have been implicated in serious health problems. Supporting and banning certain food items is a highly political activity and rarely reflects the real health benefits or dangers attached to the various foods in question.
@@andymanaus1077 Sunflowers are a "non-food" plant? You've never snacked on sunflower seeds?
@@andymanaus1077 Says an american. The healthiest nation on earth.
@@harringt100 They are food if you are a parrot. Or a vegan, I guess.
@@angron2074 I'm not sure if you think I'm American but I can assure you I am not.
However, even if I was American, that is irrelevant unless you believe that everyone should be judged by the group/race/nationality/sexual orientation they belong to.
Instead of suing they should just go somewhere else instead of trying to force their views on everybody else.
It's nothing to do with forcing views, it's to do with mcdonalds secretly feeding beef fat to vegetarians and wheat to the 1% of people who eat gluten free who actually have a medical reason for it. If they had secretly been sticking cat piss in there would you be ok with that? Sure you could eat somewhere else but that wouldn't change what they had fed to you. Or what if they were secretly adding peanuts?
I wonder how many people point out that the guy was apparently fine with killing the yeast for his bread... or the plants for the wheat, sugar, etc etc.
A friends family always used beef tallow in their deep frier and it tasted so much better than vegetable oil in my opinion.
It smelled much worse though.
Side-note: I looked up if Japanese McD’s fries used beef fat, and yes, they use a mix of tallow and palm oil, both of which are _concerning_ in different ways.
I don't see this as a matter of semantics. If the beef/bovine proteins come directly from a slaughtered animal, then its beef and should be declared as such (further clarification is fine, and should be incentivised). If they're synthesized or lab cultivated, IMO they're not, but they still needs declaration for allergen, dietary etc.
Don't think it's just (an irrelevant) matter of semantics when it comes to lab-grown meat either. One requires the death of a sentient being, the other does not. As someone who loves meat and _definitely_ has an unhealthy amount of it in my diet - if (hopefully rather, _when)_ we get to the point where we can make lab-grown meat at scale, it's good quality and taste, and reasonably affordable - I'll definitely prefer that and make that switch for the meat products I buy. Heck it might also be distinctly less of a health risk, as the cultivation and growth conditions would most likely almost or completely eliminate the use of antibiotics and hormones/steroids.
I feel that would be far more ethical, and be more sustainable / have far less of an environmental impact than our current scales of (industrial) animal farming. In terms of ethics, I think of it a bit like an organ. If I was in such a need, I would of course be incredibly thankful accepting of another, deceased person's or compatible animal's organ. But if I could have the choice of a cultivated and lab grown (or "3d printed", they can do that with certain organ tissues) organ - maybe even cultivated from my own adult stem cells - then I'd feel a lot more comfortable with that. Especially if the alternative was a kidney or partial liver transplant from another living person or being. This too wouldn't be strictly ethics either, and would likely would add benefits in similar nature of the antibiotics and steroid "perk" with lab meat. Because there would likely be *far* less risk of organ rejection. Especially if the organ was cultivated and grown from my own organ (stem) cells.
Jainism is definitely *not* a sub sect of Hinduism. In as much as they don't worship any Gods, but do revere Tirthankaras (enlightened people that can provide a path of enlightenment to others) . Also Jainism predates Hinduism by about 1000 years, with Jainism thought to have originated around 3000BC and Hinduism originating around 2000BC.
When I was young in the late 50s, our local McDonald's used to get fresh potatoes and customers could watch through a large window as the potatoes were peeled, washed, and sliced. Yup, absolutely fresh french-fried shoestring potatoes.
This is an example of why corporations should not bend to the will of some. They just need to worry about their core business as when you try to make everyone happy you make nobody happy. If someone does not like the way you make your food then they should go elsewhere.
Yeah if someone pisses in your soup every day for a year you shouldn't kick up a fuss, you should just start eating elsewhere.
If you don’t eat beef, what the hell are you doing going to McDonald’s? Is their lettuce made from beef too? Probably, but the burgers and fries taste so good.
Most vegetarians only take half measures it's ridiculous
Exactly!
@L.R. That’s good to hear. McDonald’s should’ve taken this into account before they even built their first restaurant in India. I hope they corrected, as you said, this controversy. Some companies say it’s been fixed, while in reality they have done nothing.
vegetarians interact with non vegetarians. occasionally, they end up at places that everyone else wanted to go to. there is no other option that appears to be made without dead animals other than fries. so they order them unknowingly.
@@LaciRae That is strange, using beef byproducts in their fries. And believe me, I have nothing against a person’s food choices. It comes down to personal choice.
Loved the part about Indian troops being forced to ingest bits of Tallow/lard soaked paper in order to muzzle-load rifles. 😂
They were soooooo good. And i'm not one of those people that thinks EVERYTHING was better back in the day. Those people are annoying and honestly incorrect on alot of things that they think were better years ago. But these French Fries were on another level. I can still remember the flavour. At least in Canada and the U.S. i've never been to one elsewhere. If i ever go to England or Italy or France or say Spain no way i'm going to a mcPuke's. Not when i can eat at great restaurants.
people getting upset and blaming someone else because they didn't do their own research. classic.
I have a brilliant idea… don’t eat at McDonalds or for that matter any fast food if you are so worried about the foods you eat.
agreed. if someone has this level of concern and interest in what they eat, mc donald’s is the last place on the list to eat
Here's an interesting view, people have the right to know what they're eating, healthy or not. health concerns are down to an individual and be it a freshly prepared chef grade beef wellington, or a quarter pounder with cheese from a fast food joint, they should be able to know what's in those items and be able to make a choice personally based on that information.
@@smahhah agreed.
I agree with you. But I will say that it seems a little naive to think that if you order some fries from a restaurant that primarily sells burgers that they can guarantee that it never came into contact with beef.
@@ejr-mb8ty In India, where most of the points in the video were coming from, they don’t sell any beef products at all. So it’s reasonable to assume there’s no beef in the fries. they did do global adverts claiming they always used 100% one type of potato and nothing else. which is at best disingenuous
I finally understand the recurring Simpsons joke: “Where’s the beef?”
I'm just sayin', if you're vegan or vegetarian...for whatever reason...and you're eating at McDonald's or ANY HAMBURGER restaurant...don't be shocked and outraged that your food might contain some trace of "beef" or other meat.
“It depends how you define beef” 😂😂😂
Yeah. Odd statement. Like, no. If its made from beef no matter what is done to it, it contains beef.
Imagine getting paid millions of dollars because they had the audacity to serve you beef at a MacDonald's... It's not like their entire business is founded on decades of serving beef patties. It's like if I go into a dairy Queen and start complaining about them serving ice cream because I'm lactose intolerant. It's literally a place devoted to things I can't eat, why would I even risk it? Especially if hell is on the line. But this dude is perfectly comfortable giving money to a company that defiles his religion a million times over every year across the world.
It’d be like someone with a peanut allergy eating something packaged in the same place peanuts are packaged.
Switching from beef tallow to vegetable/seed oil is way more unhealthy.
It’s quite disturbing how industrial, super highly refined vegetable and seed oil is made, tons of caustic solvents and deodorizers are required to get any useful amount of oil and have it be palatable.
wait until simon learns about what Ronald did to Tim Hortons Coffee
You mean buying out the contract for the coffee right as it expired??
A person has to wonder if their ice cream machines are down too
Always
No their ice cream machines aren't "broken". Cleaning them is just a shitty job so most locations pretend they're broken instead.
Very religious, won’t kill bacteria.
But also performs violent riots 😂
i spot my drink out when he said “GOD DAMN” 😂😂
All of this explains why Mickey D's fries used to taste so good, but now don't even make my top ten.
Damn. I want some fries now...
I cackle whenever I hear an Englishman say, "willie."
Tnere's a simple answer for all this insanity if the food ingredients are a problem for your region believe DON'T EAT THERE.
Businesses can't win there's always someone who is offened by whatever. If I were in McD shoes I'd closed the franchises and move somewhere else.
It's literally a burger fast food place. Why would they even buy food from a place that's main food is beef ...
W-why did Simon just yell "bra" at me? ....Thats what I get for actually sitting through an ad. I'm sorry, I won't do it again. 😥
I always find it hilarious when I hear that a vegetarian has a regular diet of McDonalds. I mean sure you can do it, but there are so many better options than a fast-food burger place to get a vegetarian meal.
There’s nothing in that ingredient list that alarms me; and yes I do know what all the difficult-to-pronounce ones are. The issue with them is that they are very dense with carbs and oil. Therefore, consume in moderation, and keep up your exercise.
I wish I, too, could launch a 14 million dollar campaign against McDonald's... I wouldn't but at least I'd have the means to.
Had a little laugh at the bonus fact section. “Beef fat on my human killing device??? Let’s kill them (humans)!”
The protection of cows symbolises the Hindus' non-violence against all life forms. Basically, they wanted to spread the "do not murder people" principle to all animals, but in the process, cows became more important than humans.
We always find an excuse to kill humans if we have beef with them. 👍
"Now it is always there in my mind that I have done this sin." This is the funniest/saddest/moronic thing I have seen in a long time.
Yeah I'm crying beef tallow for that idiot.
Do the underwear still work if my package looks like a strawberry sitting on a bean-bag
Well.. the beanbag will probably make it into its pouch, the strawberry however will be limited to just looking at where it's meant to be
I had an ad for McDonald's fries during this video. Too good!
That was interesting. I don't think the fries are as good as they used to be. KFC fries used to be the best, then they changed. Now Burger King have got rid of that awful coating the fries used to have, they are the best out of the 3 chains IMO.
Could you do a video and how the regional accents of the country (UK) came about please? It's amazing how distinctly different they are in not just the cities but counties too.
Once again, great video Simon. I remember watching a video about this subject in the past. Uk fries ingredients are totally different. I won’t list the difference. See google.
No one asked so you're good
Fascinating story. I would say that it was his individual responsibility and his alone to simply not partake of McDonalds foods once he discovered that there were minute ingredients that he coolant tolerate for religious or health reasons.
Yea he had no right to let other's know about it and inform them it' goes against there belief even though it's advertised like it doesn't.
The restaurant should always be transparent about the ingredients. Period.
People should not have to learn the hard or deadly way that they can’t eat a specific food that they normally can without issue.
McDonald’s fries in the UK have the “Vegetarian Society Approved” stamp on them, which also includes “Vegan” in the centre. The ingredients list doesn’t include “natural flavour” or milk, and they’re fried in separate oil to the oil that meat products are cooked in. So, I’m not sure why you’re making a sweeping statement that they’re not suitable for vegetarians and/or vegans when they appear to be in the UK, at least?