Not for Human Food....but

[kenw]

ok for those engineers I guess.....

yum, yum!

[groovyone]

[photonewb]

I was stuck at a railroad crossing once and saw a bunch of those cars, so I looked it up. It's really not appetizing to even think about:rofl:

[alamoshutterbug]

From Wikipedia:

Before switching to pure vegetable oil in 1990, the McDonald's corporation cooked its french fries in a mixture of 93% beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil.[1]

mmmmmmm

[kenw]

Originally Posted by alamoshutterbug

From Wikipedia:

Before switching to pure vegetable oil in 1990, the McDonald's corporation cooked its french fries in a mixture of 93% beef tallow and 7% cottonseed oil.[1]

mmmmmmm

while wiki is not exactly the most irrefutable source, this time they're fairly close. the switch was not complete at all locations until much later. There were some lawsuits that finally got it switched in all locations; some folks with religious reasons to avoid cattle parts got involved.

And there are purists who insist that the change affected the taste of those world-famous fries......and some claim that the switch from animal to vegetable oil wasn't the improvement claimed since (at first at least) the vegetable oil was hydrogenated to delay spoilage.......

I really don't care, I love 'em.....

[sporkthedork]

Yum.

[Torrey]

From what I've been told, the rendering business is a very smelly one. One of the clients of the company I work for is in that business (they used to be one of my accounts), and luckily I've never visited one of their plants.

[dtscds]

Originally Posted by Torrey

From what I've been told, the rendering business is a very smelly one. One of the clients of the company I work for is in that business (they used to be one of my accounts), and luckily I've never visited one of their plants.

Having driven a truck in a previous life, I frequented several meat packing plants. It's a smell that somehow never seemed to get more pleasant--you never really get used to it. I don't imagine the rendering plant being any more pleasant.

[Truckman]

Soylent Green...

[CaptainTom]

Soylent Green IS US !!


McD's fries have never been the same since the change. They're OK, but just not as tasty.