McDonalds French fries... What's in them... ?

[Robert Poste's Child]

I know people in the country who take home anything they run over and cook it for their families because they don't want the animal to have died in vain. Ethics are tougher in the country apparently.

[Loz]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> My original post was just to highlight that 17-19 were used to produce French Fries..

18 is citric acid. Prime component of lemon juice. What's your issue with that?

[Jeremy]

Fox - as has been mentioned more than once - you are talking about the US recipe. The UK recipe is very different. Also, the people who pay a premium for organic, locally sourced yada yada generally don't eat in McDonald's. You've missed the mark...

[Robert Poste's Child]

According to the McDonalds UK website, ingredients for fries are as follows:

Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Dextrose (only added at beginning of the potato season).

Prepared in the restaurants using a non-hydrogenated vegetable oil.

Salt is added after cooking.

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/product_nutrition.sides.44.mcdonalds-fries.html

[KidKruger]

"Why is religious belief more important than people who have actually arrived at their morals through independent thought?"

Word.

Why indeed.

[ernesto]

given this has moved into god, then i declare this post closed

[Salsaboy]

God goes to Burger King.

[DulwichFox]

Loz Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > My original post was just to highlight that

> 17-19 were used to produce French Fries..

>

> 18 is citric acid. Prime component of lemon

> juice. What's your issue with that?

Nothing at all. But I can make chips at home without using lemon Juice..

DulwichFox

[KidKruger]

but if you only eat out what you can't make at home there's nowhere to go - chefs aren't magicians.

[Loz]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Nothing at all. But I can make chips at home without using lemon Juice..

I've no doubt you can. But can you make 200 tonne of them?

[DulwichFox]

Loz Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > Nothing at all. But I can make chips at home

> without using lemon Juice..

>

> I've no doubt you can. But can you make 200 tonne

> of them?

FFS..

I'm going to have a nice soak in my tub... Boil my head.. then off out to meet my public..

Hopefully find someone to have a sensible conversation with.

Anyone with a mental age of 8 should do after spending time here.

DF

[Loz]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> I'm going to have a nice soak in my tub... Boil my head.. then off out to meet my public..

> Hopefully find someone to have a sensible conversation with.

> Anyone with a mental age of 8 should do after spending time here.

Hello, Foxy's off on a flounce.

[Mick Mac]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> I know people in the country who take home

> anything they run over and cook it for their

> families because they don't want the animal to

> have died in vain. Ethics are tougher in the

> country apparently.

I have always thought of that as an argument of convenience somewhat.

[Seabag]

Mmmmmmm....Boiled Head

[El Pibe]

ohhhh, has this moved on from canola/rapeseed pedantry?

That was fascinating, more please.....

[Robert Poste's Child]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> > I know people in the country who take home

> > anything they run over and cook it for their

> > families because they don't want the animal to

> > have died in vain. Ethics are tougher in the

> > country apparently.

>

> I have always thought of that as an argument of

> convenience somewhat.

Personally I thought it was revolting. One friend became such an enthusiast she would sit in her car idling the engine waiting for something to step out. The bloodlust became clear when her family refused to eat it and she carried on.

[Seabag]

Which brings us nicely onto this by Daniel Vaughan

http://youtu.be/nq7GvyD3afA

[Robert Poste's Child]

I can see there are plausible rational arguments, but why are the people involved always weirdos?

[Loz]

I think if you're picking up dead animals from the side of the road and eating them, you've probably been taking long trips on the weirdo bus for quite a while now.

[Seabag]

I understand that in Scotland (I think) that you can't eat/collect your own 'freshly run over' roadkill

But you can eat the 'road kill' of others

Which I find rather polite

[RosieH]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Fox - as has been mentioned more than once - you

> are talking about the US recipe. The UK recipe is

> very different. Also, the people who pay a premium

> for organic, locally sourced yada yada generally

> don't eat in McDonald's. You've missed the mark...

Not to mention the fact, that, to my knowledge, none of the people on here are abject morons.

Fox, do you really think any of us thinks that McDonalds food is good for us? I like good food, but sometimes I eat a Snickers, and I know it's shit, but I am more than ok with that. Beer's bad for you. Smoking's bad for you. Too much cheese is bad for you. But we drink, smoke, eat fondue and go see the personal trainer. I am entirely at peace with the cognitive dissonance.

Oh. And it's not even the bloody UK recipe anyway.

[Seabag]

If I ran Foxy over

Would anyone eat him?

(with chips)

[????]

:)

[Jeremy]

Perhaps one of the local kebab vendors would be interested.

[Salsaboy]

Nah, too tough and stringy,