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One thing that McDonalds do is add the salt to the fries for you. This seems a little bit odd if you have been used to buying 'chips' from a British Fish and Ch
by Theodores 13y ago
One thing that McDonalds do is add the salt to the fries for you. This seems a little bit odd if you have been used to buying 'chips' from a British Fish and Chip shop.
However the 'salt' they add isn't just salt. It is a mix of sugar and salt. This does work wonders for making them taste really nice, it works well with regular 'chips' too. Yet it is tantamount to deception, unless you are in the know you would never imagine that McDonalds fries are sugar coated.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoUrban legend, I believe.
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- Theodores 13y agoCite sources? I have none either. However I asked a chef I worked with why his chips tasted so good. He said that it was the sugar in the salt that made the difference, a trick he learned at a British McDonalds. Hearsay true, however sugar in the salt does actually work, as it should given our tastes: sugar/salt/fat = yum!
- min_wage_slave 13y agoAs someone recently employed by a Golden Arches franchise, I will attest to using only "table salt" to salt french fries. More specifically, I'd load the fry salting device from a 4-lb paper box of commercial non-iodized table salt [1]. If you'd like to verify this fact at your local McDonalds go ahead and order some fries "no salt" and do the salting yourself. As a bonus, you'll also most likely ensure you get fresh fries. Don't do this in the drive thru, as it's kind of an asshole move. 3:20 for fresh fries. [1] looks just like this: http://www.webstaurantstore.com/bulk-iodized-table-salt-4-lb-box/102SALT4.html http://www.webstaurantstore.com/bulk-iodized-table-salt-4-lb...
- Theodores 13y agoLove your nom-de-plume! I had lived with the lie of sugar in salt for more than a decade, glad to have that settled. I am actually thinking of getting some of the 'Diamond' salt they use in the US. It is not just granulated, it has a 'diamond' shape to the crystals so you get the taste but not the high quantity of sodium.
- ceejayoz 13y agohttp://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5283/are-mcdonalds-fries-coated-in-sugar-before-cooking http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5283/are-mcdonal...
- lnanek2 13y agoIt's a pretty common trick to ask them for no salt fries so they make a fresh batch for you...