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French fries and soda are vegetarian.
by yters 7y ago
French fries and soda are vegetarian.
- saagarjha 7y agoDepends what they've been fried in and how picky you are.
- _bxg1 7y agoThere was a lawsuit a few years back when vegetarians discovered that McDonald's was flavoring their fries with beef juice. I do think they've since stopped the practice.
- likeabbas 7y agoI'm still fucking mad about that. Frying in beef juice made them taste so much better.
- Djvacto 7y agoWell, no one wins since they no longer use beef tallow, but do add beef flavoring to the spuds. So we can't eat them and people who liked the tallow-fried ones don't enjoy them as much (?)
- dragonwriter 7y agoThe “natural beef flavor” doesn't, AFAIK, have beef in it (except insofar as hydrolyzed milk protein, originating as it does in a cow, is “beef”.) The construction “natural X flavor” in an ingredient list means “flavorings that can legally be described as natural which are intended to simulate X”.
- Djvacto 7y agohttps://www.thoughtco.com/mcdonalds-french-fries-still-not-vegetarian-3970283 https://www.thoughtco.com/mcdonalds-french-fries-still-not-v... Seems like as of a bit earlier this year, they still contained animal products, but this is in the US (in Canada, for example, it's vegan ingredients only).
- NoGravitas 7y agoSo is this to say that McDonalds' fries are lacto-ovo-vegetarian, but not vegan? I'm not vegan myself, but I find this a strange category for fried potatoes to end up in.
- hansthehorse 7y agoMcD's fries died the day they stopped using tallow.
- cr0sh 7y agoI'm still saddened that Pringles aren't cooked in peanut oil any longer - they tasted so much better before; now they're fairly bland (regular version).
- johnmaguire2013 7y agoNope, they still cook them in beef juice.
- pkaye 7y agoIn the US they use flavorings derived from milk and wheat.
- johnmaguire2013 7y agoAnd natural beef flavors...
- dragonwriter 7y ago> There was a lawsuit a few years back when vegetarians discovered that McDonald's was flavoring their fries with beef juice. They weren't “flavoring them with beef juice”, they were frying them in tallow. And AFAIK they didn't stop because of a lawsuit by vegetarians, but because of nutrition (saturated fat) concerns, and they now use other flavorings to attempt to simulate the flavor imparted by tallow: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/whats-inside-mcdonalds-french-fries/amp https://www.wired.com/2014/07/whats-inside-mcdonalds-french-...
- ceejayoz 7y ago> They weren't “flavoring them with beef juice”, they were frying them in tallow. They actually did both. https://www.thoughtco.com/mcdonalds-french-fries-still-not-vegetarian-3970283 https://www.thoughtco.com/mcdonalds-french-fries-still-not-v... > But when they switched to vegetable oil, the fries were no longer as tasty. The solution was to add natural beef flavor to the spuds. > Admitting that the fries were coated in beef flavoring, McDonald's settled for $10 million, with $6 million going to vegetarian organizations. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-settles-beef-over-fries/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-settles-beef-over-fri... > The vegetable oil used to prepare the fries and hash browns was not pure, but contained essence of beef for flavoring purposes. Many Hindus consider cows sacred and do not eat beef.
- bart_spoon 7y agoMalcolm Gladwell did an entire podcast episode on this. It wasn't a few years ago, it was like the early 90s. And it wasn't that vegetarians were pissed, it was because someone had a heart attack from eating terribly, and then made it his mission to run a campaign against the "dangerously" unhealthy fries made from beef tallow. Eventually McDonalds caved for PR purposes.
- untog 7y ago> other than for snacks If you go to McDonalds and all your friends get a meal, you're not going to be all that satisfied with just fries and soda.