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Are you referring to the push to replace partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (which would likely mean they’d end up using non-hydrogenated vegetable oils), or
by cstrahan 4y ago
Are you referring to the push to replace partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (which would likely mean they’d end up using non-hydrogenated vegetable oils), or do you mean something else?
- saurik 4y agoNo: they were originally using lard, but they were pushed to switch to vegetable oil because people were upset about the saturated fat content.
- 7thaccount 4y agoThey used to taste a lot better as a result. Was it changed for health reasons or because of vegetarians not wanting to consume animal byproducts?
- reddit_clone 4y agoI remember it was one guy who had heart problems waged a PR war against McDonalds and made them change their cooking oil.
- yakak 4y agoIt was over health not vegetarianism. McDonalds adopted a little bit of the cholesterol war and a little bit of styrofoam reduction in that time period and that's about it.
- saurik 4y agoIt definitely wasn't due to vegetarians as to try to keep the flavor they started adding beef flavoring to the fries, which AFAIK they refused to remove once vegetarians--who had thought they might be the intended audience of the vegetable oil--noticed and complained.
- cstrahan 4y agoI see where I got confused — I misread the tense: I thought they were talking about a present/recent push to change the oil used in the fries, not the one from the 1980s (which resulted in replacing the beef tallow around 1990 or so). Thanks for the clarification.
- garaetjjte 4y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244775
- FunnyBadger 4y ago