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What they were originally fried with: animal fats. Lard, tallow, clarified butter, goose fat, etc. Potato chips and french fries predate industrial seed oils.
by lylejantzi3rd 3y ago
What they were originally fried with: animal fats. Lard, tallow, clarified butter, goose fat, etc.
Potato chips and french fries predate industrial seed oils.
- HelloMcFly 3y agoI've definitely seen chips at Whole Food fried in animal fats, but they were substantially more expensive which I think a) makes sense and b) is a good thing given the additional environmental cost of raising and consuming animals.
- rsynnott 3y agoCommercially produced bagged potato chips more or less never were, I don't think? I don't think you'd get a very good product if you fried them in lard and then put them in a bag for a year.
- qingcharles 3y agoAnimal fats? Vegans are getting pitchforks sharpened...
- lylejantzi3rd 3y agoYou can have my butter when you pry it from my cold, dead, slightly greasy hands! That would actually be pretty easy, but then your fellow vegans would ask why you have butter.