Medium fries is literaly one potatos worth of frires. That potato is probably worth $.25cents.and they still overcharge. America is just one big mark up..

​@@martinroa1480yes yes America bad

Who still actually eats at McDonalds? I mean, gross dude.

I do buy the fries than the burger

right?!!! i only go to McDonalds when i use their app, i get two double cheese burgers. 3.50. sometimes less. a medium fry is over 3 dollars alone?! do we have a potato famine going on or what?

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Need one about Burger King next. They had great & unique fries (for fast-food) for like 4 years and then switched it. And don’t even get me *started* on the seafood restaurant down the street from me that used to have the best fries of all time before new ownership. DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED

@@CantTellYou make a video about it bro, I’d watch it

I mean i agree with him, i'm in my 30s and mcdonalds fries back in the day was The SHIT. Everyone had to get it with whatever they ordered. BRING IT BACK!

Phil believed that seed oils were healthier than tallow. He was exceptionally incorrect in that regard, and now we all suffer because one hypochondriac wanted to literally force his wrong opinions based on misinformation down everyones throats.

@@smh9902 Seed oils also destroy the thyroid gland, which can cause weight gain, something scientists knew in the late 1940s.

​@@smh9902exactly the seed oils are poison. Animal fat is needed for our brains to function properly.

trans fats the reason for the lgbtq movement

​@@alexvanpelt494 What about trans skinnies?

lard? interesting. I thought they used beef fat or beef tallow

@@mstrikesback168you’d have to ask op for clarification but lard can be used to refer to rendered animal fat in general, hence beef lard being a technically correct term. it may have even been a mix of pork and beef fat.

@@mstrikesback168 That's what lard is.

I worked at Mickey Ds in 1999. By then it was Trans Fat Oil, the shortening was STILL inside the Trans Fat Oil, but it was kept Secret until 2008.

@@mstrikesback168Shortening. It’s Called Shortening, Ala Crisco.

Fat and protein satiate longer.

​@alexl9334 that's absolutely true. I was driving yesterday for 12 hours and stopped at a mall. Grabbed myself some wetzels pretzels as a treat. Even when I was full, bloated and generally telling myself "I shouldn't keep eating" I still felt "hungry" for another bite after about 15 minutes. Which I'm betting is how long it took for the insulin response to start making me hungry again. And it's easy to see, I'm not a fat guy either lol. Just took too much imodium for the drive and the subway was full 😂

Yeah the wildest thing is everything we eat is building blocks for our body. The cholesterol you give it is sent off to the cells to make the cytoskeleton iirc. Everyone of our cells is a little ball made of a cholesterol scaffold and a protective fat layer.

Trying foreign sweets and sodas has really opened my eyes to how disgustingly over-sugared american sweets and sodas are. I didn't mind when I was a kid with a rampant sweet tooth, but now a lot of that stuff makes me feel ill. You could cut the sugar content of a Hershey bar in half and it would probably taste better.

@PeteyThePenguin and with that diabetes and obesity epidemic comes left wing movements claiming that being fat is good and healthy. With the added bonus, that they also convince fat people that they need and deserve "free" healthcare

Bro is Socrates

nothing worse than Arby's mozerella sticks, the cheese solidifies and gets cold before you even make it home.

10 minutes is pretty generous

@@IvanOoze1990that’s what you get for eating at Arby’s, if I’m being honest I’m pretty biased. My mom was a manger there and my sibling and I were the two youngest so we weren’t trusted at home. Neither of us actually liked whenever we had to go with her to work.. Not because it was boring but because we had a possibility of eating Arby’s. I got lucky as I only had to eat it once.

You can re-warm them in the oven at a low temp and they taste just as good!

Thats interesting !

Agreed. We need less health people these days

Vegetable oil is basically toxic too. It's infuriating how many times in history people who purport to be "experts" will take really simple thinking, that's wrong, and apply it to everyone's lives. "Hurr durr, it's called 'fat' and people are getting fat. Fat must make you fat. Hurr durr, vegetables are good for you. So vegetable oil is good for you."

Yeah health people suck! Imagine caring about people getting addicted to unhealthy lifestyles and food that's generally bad for you. Scum bags, booooo

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There is literally no chemical difference, sugar is sugar and study after study has completely failed to find any meaningful difference between table sugar and corn syrup and people can't effectively discern any difference in the VAST majority of products either. People claiming it has any effect are feeling nothing but placebo. Now if you want to argue that the fuck huge tax payer funded subsidies paid out to corn farmers that make it cheaper then sugar are bullshit that we shouldn't be funding, then hell yes I'm with you, but arguments that corn syrup as a sweetener is somehow 'evil' or 'worse for you' then sugar can fuck right off,that's bullshit. Corn oil is no different, it's just vegetable oil chemically speaking it's not really any different then other plant based oils. Like I bet you'd hem and haw about how fucking great olive oil is, but that shit is just type of plant. Why do you think oil from corn is magically worse then oil from olives, rapeseed, soy, etc. All of them are literally liquid fat so none of them are really great for you in large amounts, but from a macro nutrition prospective there really isn't all that much difference between them. There is however a growing body of evidence that ANY plant based oil is inherently better then animal derived fats which there is increasing evidence are just inherently inflammatory by the very presence of animal proteins in them and are probably just bad for you. There is a very strong chance that corn oil is in fact, significantly better for you then beef tallow, just not quite for the reasons we suspected in the past.

Now people start to realize why small hat people were kicked out of 109 countries.

Shouldn't be any surprise that the severity of the "American obesity epidemic", which talking heads just _love_ to pontificate about, tracks almost perfectly with the point at which Americans started overconsuming these oils, as well as grains, and underconsuming meats. Even South Park joked that turning the food pyramid upside-down would heal America's nutrition issues, which isn't really that far from the truth (assuming you minimize or altogether cut out processed sugar intake).

​@@mister_stangNo mention of ww2 in this video or Wikipedia.....

​@@mister_stangimagine being this pressed about McDonald's fries

No, I think he was propped up by the seed oil industry

Seed oils are poison

You really just gonna steal a quote from the video your commenting on

I'd rather have slightly less satisfying fries than have the fast food label be an excuse to slowly poison people imo.

Others will without being informed or because they have no other choice. The fries are still good and won't instantly clog your arteries.

I mean he wasn't going to succeed. People don't go to McDonald's for healthy eating. I don't think anyone ever did. Honestly he kinda ruined everyone else's good time and definitely wasn't as healthy as he claimed if cholesterol was his problem. That meant his diet was probably crap.

@@dlf7789 or you could just, y'know not eat the food, instead of ruining it for other people?

He should have just stfu and eaten a salad

Tbh i'd do the same

Hes the batman of health

@@4ft1inAlpha More like 2 face

A good guy

Dude be like: oh no, my unhealthy junk food needs to be slightly healthier so I can keep gorging myself on them

Honestly, his problem was likely a combo of salt, trans fat, and simple carbs.

I wrote an entire essay on why you actually need a lot of sugar to stay alive but ofcourse KZfaq crashed. Long story short; Dont cease your intake of sugar. You need more sugar than you think. (I dont know your gender so I will use average male) - Your body alone needs at the least 1000g "per day" of sugar *to live*. your brain uses at least ~20% of your daily intake of sugar per day which according to the NIH and FDA is 200g. I am writing this because people are actually forcing themselves to not eat anything sugary at all and even worse its more common with keto diets which are very fatty and protein heavy diets with very low sugar. The stereotype is the middle aged mom with toddlers/preteens who dont allow their children to eat very much candy, ice cream, cake, pie etc because of the stigmatism around sugar itself. A single Gatorade sports drink (chosen for popularity) contains only 36g of sugar so you can already tell how shiny of a red flag this is. People are causing themselves harm. Low blood sugar can cause serious problems if continued for weeks or months. The worst symptoms being memory loss, brain fog, weakness, fainting, death of brain cells/tissue, Alzheimer's and eventually death. Basically if you dont eat 3 meals a day, maybe a dessert after dinner you are harming your body anyways and burning off muscle tissue while storing fat tissue. I know because its been happening to me. Half of the overweight people on the planet are overwright because they dont eat enough.

@@nitroxylictv Obvious troll comment lmao

An Entire Elk? Goddamn...

not really. there's not much of any single compound we eat that in proper moderation and with the lifestyle to support it, can't be healthily absorbed. example: pizza, structurally, is actually not bad for you. it's pretty good, really. you have carbs, proteins and usually some less complex sugars from whatever you slap on top. this guy was probably eating enough mcdo for about two grown men with WAY higher metabolism than he had, on top of (and i think this was actually the culprit) probably just being predisposed to heart attacks genetically. carbs ARE sugars and sugars are carbs, so theoretically if they were the issue here, you'd be basically saying rice or other simple carbohydrates routinely introduced into a diet are a detriment to health. but they're not.

He's like a recovering alcoholic I used to work with. I enjoy a craft beer or 2 or a good bourbon a couple nights a week. He used to try to lecture me on how I was going to become an alcoholic in jail like he was. Like nah dude I'm sorry you couldn't control your drinking but I can and I'm fine,

@@loganstroganoff1284 I swore when I quit smoking I would never become a self-righteous ex-smoker.

@@Fr.O.G. yet here you are, patting yourself on the back, implying you're superior compared to those other people.

@@rodmunch69because he is superior (in a way). Shoving your nose in someone else’s business is never a good trait.

@@rodmunch69 He's not lecturing people on the ills of what smoking can do.

Lmaoooooooo 😂 “Darn it… I’ll suffer… but so will everyone! Bwaahahahaha!”

​@@jiminboo lol what? That's the most retarded take I've heard and there's a lot in these comments. "Mwahaha now they'll suffer more from slightly mediocre fries than suffering more from a heart attack like I did! 😈"

Still worth it I guess for him to stumble ass backwards in to something good, by making it the law to print nutritional facts.

Real Karen energy

I mean he did do some good but yea dude needs to listen to his doctor and dont make it everyone’s problem for his bad choice.

Meh. I had Em.

dark meat nuggets... wha.. WHAT?!?

McDonalds was STILL using Shortening all the way up until 2008. But they cut down on the amount it used in 1991, when I worked there in the Summer of 1999, it was 42% Shortening in its Trans Fat Oil.

If you ever want a good assessment of general nutrition ignorance, have a fat person ask 1000 strangers what they need to do to lose weight. They advise obese people not to talk about weightloss with people, not because it makes you look like a braggart, but partly because talking about it satisfied the reward center for accomplishment, and I think more importantly, because EVERYONE will tell you some godawful weightloss advice.

Now you get called a bigot if you tell people they should eat healthy food. Things are only going to get worse.

​@DevineInnovations think about it though. The idiots that eat like a bunch of livestock at Willy Wonka's factory will take care of the problem on their own. They eventually will succumb to their own gluttony and bad habits. Those who have IQ's not in the double digits will get it together and move on.

@@DevineInnovations the point is about 3 miles over your head

@@fluffbuck3t What makes you say that?

I don't know if we have different recipes in the UK but I've always preferred Burger King fries, even when I was younger. But for sure decent chip shop chips are better than either.

Every chip in my region uses the cheaper beef fat even though sun flower oil tastes far superior and is healthier but also more expensive.

@@mrjoe5292 Yes in the UK McDonald’s fries have different ingredients, ours contain three, potato, salt and vegetable oil (I think sun flower or rape seed.) where as in the US they contain 17 or 18 ingredients!

Isn't that how it always is, sadly? Some people just have think they're saving the world.

And because a quack doctor misled him about saturated fats we live in a world where essentially toxic canola and palm oil is in everything.

@@ebolachanislove6072yeah, the irony is painful.

Tell that to drug users

Its just fries, not worth your health

Another reason to hate hindis. Selfishly ruining a good thing for everyone because of their made up rules

@Svenskanorden1 20% of India isn't Hindu. Majority of that 20% is Islam and Christian, which can eat beef. But I do appreciate you asking :)

Why would it not be a Hindi thing, but a nationality thing?

*Hindu* , not "Hindi." Hindi is a language, not a religion.

Beef Shortening was STILL used by McDonalds after 1991. But it was done secretly. I should know, I worked there in 1999. We mixed it in trans fat oil to cook the fries.

Here is my daily hot take: Burger King onion rings >>>>>>> McDonald's fries

Yup. The burger king by me sucks. But the one by my grandparent's house (in another state) is awesome.

my local burger king itself is incredibly inconsistent. Some days their fries are soggy and sad, some days they're on par with old mcdonalds fries

Burger King would rule the fast food market if their quality control was as good as McDonald’s

Piles of dog shit are frequently steaming hot too

If you're under 25, you've reallt never had the best ANYTHING. It's so sad man :/ Shit sucks now.

I miss early 90s taco bell and Wendy's

Your generation has been cheated of all the good things in life and you'll never even know what you're missing

Fun fact, Wendys used to let you order chili (the topping) on your burgers. Then dave thomas died.

I read this in monas voice lel

Send them to the county fair.

Just make your own fries.

Don't feel, we don't know what we are missing, so it's all good

I'm shaking with rage.

@@lerdog well then let me enlighten you, mcdonald's original fries were the greatest culinary gift to humanity. nothing before or since will ever taste as good.

That's why you should never do a knee jerk reaction without a true understanding. What he did was no different than someone switching from kfc to eating popeyes fried chicken 4 days a week. Because their doctor advised to stop eating kfc 4 days a week instead of don't constantly eat fast food or cut down on fried chicken. It would seem obvious kfc just was an example but some will take that type of example literally to mean only that.

he was paid off by big oil.

The full change was in 2008. They were STILL using Shortening when I worked there in ‘99, but they had cut way back on it.

@@plawson8577 shortening is not beef tallow.. stop posting this

Gotta balance out the internet horrors somehow

he's just like me fr!

Might be his editor that watches tbh

I see no problem. Bandit is top G.

As someone with a kid who watches way too much Bluey, I gotta admit, it's a good show. Even if you don't have kids, it's fun, calming and genuinely funny. It also handles some serious topics that I wasn't expecting at all from a kid's show. Most kids shows annoy tf out of me but I genuinely enjoy watching Bluey.

Wait until he features Morgan Spurlock....

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@@spitfiremanlizerd Vegetarian and especially vegan diets are _not_ what we evolved to eat. It would be a good opportunity to shove that down their throats.

McDonald’s destroyed the patent for it in 2004 after they discontinued using Pink Slime. Burger King also completely stopped using Trans Fat Oil and 30% Shortening after its Parent Company Guinness/Heineken sold BK to Tim Hortons in 2005.

They taste & feel stale fresh from the fryer.

And obesity is worse than ever

What are you, like, 40 with a Chinese cartoon profile picture? Okay bud lol

@@DaemonJerky Thanks man. I work hard on my image.

​@DaemonJerky are you actually a giant D?

@@DaemonJerky Weebery dates back far, they had anime and manga back in the 60s and 70s too, you know.

@@DaemonJerky 40 is the age of higher end millennials who enjoyed DBZ and adult swim starting at age 19. 1980s and 1990s anime was good shit

Oils from vegetables are not loaded with trans fats, but they become after frying. Vegetable oils are only good for salads, not for frying on them.

There's no caloric difference between fat types.

That's what people don't actually realise. Beef fat is the same fat our bodies produce so it's natural that our bodies can break them down. Plus think about the carnivorous animals in nature. You don't hear about lions suffering heart attacks from eating a whole wilderbeast. And when you cook red meat you can see how much fat it had as it drips of. Animals eat raw meat, plus all the fat it contains every day. Where as how many seeds does it take to extract all the oil? Way WAY more than what any human or animal could eat in a single meal.

@@ShaLun42 Veggie oils are all trash since they're all essentially seed oils high in omega 6s and raise triglycerides, it takes a lot of chemical processing BS to get oil from seeds. Even so called olive oil and avocado oils are mostly trash because they almost all are frauds, rancid, and/or mixed with seed oils. Most people don't even like real olive oil because the real stuff is bitter.

@@sus-ln1nm of course

Mmmmmm yeah. I order 5 small McDonald’s fries, with special instructions to put them all in separate bags so they get even colder, then I order 5 Taco Bell hard tacos, same deal with the bags…. And, lastly, I order a salad from a pizza place, make sure it’s the end of the night and gave them deliver it last, after it’s sat with all the hot pizza. When it gets here, I mix it all in a huge bowl, and force feed myself until I climax.

@@ShooterMcgavin119??????? tf

@@yamomma8560 don’t act like everyone hasn’t done it at least once.

My mom worked at a little convenience store with a pizza hut pan pizza section. We used to give it custom toppings like nacho cheese, jalepenos and sausage. Incredible stuff

@@drygordspellweaver8761 Wow, that's actually really neat! (The custom toppings - though a convenience store having a place selling PH pan pizzas is neat - wish they'd open up a PH Express near me (used to have at least 4 full blown PHs in my area within a 10-15 minute drive, now only have 1... and I know there definitely would be room for a PH Express in that area.)

Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes.

@@themoviedealers Taubes had some ideas that were based in proper science, 😉 But he completely ignores that thin "healthy" people like Sokolof and Robert Kennedy Jr. and countless others had life threatening heart issues despite exercising regularly and having access to top notch medical care. My grandmother ate salads and walked every day until she was bed-ridden by cancer. Health and weight are, believe it or not, mutually exclusive concepts. There is no such thing as "good/bad calories." Calories are calories. He ignores decades of research that indicate that carbs and the Western food industry's dependence on sugar actually cause most of the deleterious effects he attributes to fats (specifically saturated fats). He also doesn't take into account auto-immune disorders, pharmaceutical side-effects, and biological factors that contribute to any individual's weight or ability to metabolize certain macronutrients. He is a hack who took as rote the pseudoscience garbage that people like Sokolof peddled throughout the 80's.

@@ZaKKsQuaTcH1 "He ignores decades of research that indicate that carbs and the Western food industry's dependence on sugar actually cause most of the deleterious effects he attributes to fats (specifically saturated fats)." He does the exact opposite. He's an anti-carb guy.

The answer to that is wax.

My brain said "no, they can't out wax in there." Then realized that's stupid, and thought "yeah but I'd notice wax In there" and realized that too, was stupid lol. And then I thought about that experiment a couple guys ran, where they wanted to see how much sawdust they could add to rice Krispy treats before anyone could tell. And they found they could add something like 25% sawdust before anyone could possibly tell the difference lol

Reeses cups now are like biting into peanut butter flavored dirt

@@tommyleporati5644 bro you might be eating dirt.

i always thought they tasted bad, the only ones i can actually stand are reese’s thins

Exactly, seed oils are incredibly worse than animal fat

Yeah it's funny how few are talking about this in the comments. Vegetable and seed oils are the devil, but then again we haven't known that for very long in the grand scheme of things.

Literally all fried foods are bad in excess, muh sneed oils doesn't change that

​@@jacobestersonvegetable oil isn't even made from vegetables. Vegetables themselves don't even produce oil

@@Mr-pn2eh don't drink the nut juice...

got this recipe imma not use the karo or sugar because i hate that stuff in fries even if it makes the recipe different but everything else sounds good, when i get some tallo and crisco ill def be happy

Replace the crisco with lard if you don't want Alzheimer's and heart disease.

Can't wait to whip up a batch of these for friends and declare them to be "McMenu PDF Fries" without any further context

This came at the perfect time! I just bought a new bag or potatoes! Thank you!

No way Crisco!!! 👎🏻 5:29

We found the good fries, boys! To the UK!

Based.

@@OriginalContent89 Oh so now we don't suck! Well you're welcome to Northern Ireland, we got the best Dripping here since all our Beef is free ranged and the beef dripping is the best

@@StudioKelpie1993 heading there now, tell McGregor to save me some fries

he is a professional after all...

Based

Fr this should be top comment

A very American thing to do.

HFCS took over American cane sugar Soda after New Coke.

Kfc is so salty now its disgusting. Popeyes is where its at now.

Or just say fuck McDonald's and quit whimpering

Yeah but it would be nice to not to die early of a heart attack, no? The obesity rate in America proves that people’s judgment of a healthy diet/foods can’t be trusted. I say this as someone who goes to McDonalds/Taco Bell sometimes. I’m 30ish and I’ve already had issues with cholesterol. Something is very clearly wrong with the food supply still.

That's awful. You're a sick person.

@@TitaniumTurbine There are a lot more things that contribute to your health than the occasional meal and McDonald's. I'm 54 and I have great cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar. I guess eating those fries in the '80s didn't have as much impact as some people might think they would. The correlation between eating cholesterol and blood cholesterol is not as strong as once thought. Obesity and lack of exercise are major contributors. Of course if somebody ate nothing but fast food and never exercised, they're likely to be very unhealthy. On the other hand, some people do all the right things and still have high cholesterol. I'm not American, but I do agree that there seems to be an obesity problem in the US. I would say that more to do with personal responsibility, than it is to do with the food. Less healthy foods should be eaten only occasionally, not for every meal.

​@@andrewdonatelli6953it's hard to eat healthy when a burger is half the price of a pack of strawberries, a lot of us here in the US are stuck in a financial trap that keeps us eating the cheap stuff. Some people just give up and get fat, it's honestly pretty sad

Go to your local butcher. buy beef fat, but ask them to grind it fine. Put it in a crockpot for 4 hours on low, then pour through cheese cloth to remove the solids. Peel and cut russet potatoes in roughly the size and shape of mcdonalds fries. Fry the cut potatoes in your rendered beef fat. Top with salt. Serve hot.

story old as time

i dont think he wanted to help anyone but his wallet

did you watched the video with your ass instead of eyes?@@feluto7172

That's what happens to people when they go on a moral crusade. They get so wrapped up in what they believe will help people, they see any opposing information as an attack on morality itself and anything they do is justified. You can see examples everywhere in society and even on opposing sides of the same issue.

@@feluto7172 Interesting claim. Please elaborate how exactly he stood to benefit financially from this?

So much nostalgia in just one sentence. This hit me quite hard. I was a teen in the 80s and both parents smoked until they gave up in the mid 90s. I recently lost the two of them within a year of each other and I would do anything to go back to those years.

Hell yeah that's a real 90 s memory!😮

Me in the backseat playing with the ashtray on the door armrest.

@@adamsfusion and burning myself with the lighter😁

McDonald's fries were still actually pretty good until about a decade ago or so, when they switched from vegetable oil to canola oil - or whatever they're using now. They can still, occasionally, taste OK if they're cooked perfect and are fresh, but most of the time they're trash.

Tbf, some of it is because, once you stop eating any given Ultra processed food, if you try going back it can be really nasty.

@@rodmunch69 mcdonalds still uses vegetable oil or atleast my store still uses vegetable oil... but no i cant eat the damn fries they fell off

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There is a Petition from 2017 to bring back the old fries, but it only got 81 supporters and is closed now. I feel that a new one would do much better, but Whang would have to promote it on his channel for that to work.

It seems like today, people are relearning the phrase "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". And maybe it's just the religious aspect of it that makes people ignore it or not think about its true meaning. But it absolutely applies to this guy. Good intentions or not, his actions have lead to a huge rise in diabetes, heart disease, obesity and more.

It's the most tragic case of confidently incorrect

For him I feel sad. Especially hearing him sing, there's a real love to what he does even in that. But Ancel Keys, the ''''scientist'''' who started this whole anti-fat/cholesterol bullshit, deserves an eternity in hell. This video scratches the surface of how truly terrible nutritional advice became after the 50's. For anyone interested enough, there's a somewhat funny but serious documentary about this, it's called Fat Head and I can wholeheartedly recommend it. It's a bit old but so is this whole topic and it holds up.

@@StrawberryDonutKing tbf, ancel keys is a mixed bag. The same people who deride his cholesterol research also love his Minnesota starvation expirament. Iirc, he wasn't wrong either. His findings were that polyunsaturated fats are healthier than saturated fat. Nothing I've ever heard in dietetics courses disagrees with this. The problem with it is that the sugar lobby weaponized it. The diet he made was the Mediterranean diet. He wasn't anti fat. He was anti massive quantities of saturated fat.

No conflict for me, anyone who eats fast food every day then turns around and blames the fast food instead of themselves is an idiot. And that's before we take into account the fact that he ruined it for everyone. Make your own decisions, don't try to make them on behalf of others.

​@@gharm9129just say you blame the jews man

@@gharm9129 Stop noticing.

honestly, true. checkers' fries hit really good.

Agree.

The best fries

It is called 'Rallys' in the west coast here and is honestly the best of the best of fries!

Scrumptious

Maybe childhood memories because they tasted pretty meh to me when I was a kid 🤷‍♂️

Quite the opposite, they used to taste like shit and got way better when made of white meat.

Strongly disagree, the old ones sucked they were basically the same as cafeteria food.

@@spotalarm1068yeah, old fries were great, but the new nugs are way better

They weren't as dry back then.

I'm the only person I know who noticed that about Lay's

That's what's wrong with them! Thanks! Ditched all the chips about then too!!!

I remember when even “low fat” chips actually tasted good until companies quit using Olestra. What’s wrong with a little diarrhea and anal leakage?

Grandma's UTZ cooked in lard are the best.

​@heathermillsphantomlimb9314 If you read the literature, you'll find Olestra only caused anal leakage in people who consumed truly prodigious quantities of said chips on a daily basis. And honestly, people with those diets probably would've had dribbly booties with or without Olestra's involvement.

The duality of man

Amen brother!!

*r/NoFap in a nutshell*

Agreed.

Pretty typical of the merchants actually. Many such cases.

Maybe? I really don't about this person before...

they are broken by design so the company can charge restaurants for someone to come "fix" them.

No it’s just the ice cream machines they use need to be sanitized often and they need a special technician to take it apart to do it properly. I heard they found another supplier for them.

@@lucristianx doubt it, its in the contract that they have to use the only one brand and the problem is that operators do not have full access to the machine or the information being displayed. 'often times it just gets too cold and shuts down with no "real" way of understanding that is whats wrong. Its some back door deal between McDonald corporate and the manufacturer and it just dicks over the franchisee's

Seriously the best. Even the Rally's fries you can buy in the frozen section absolutely slap right out of a home deepfryer.

Ew...

I love Arby's curly fries but they're so different from regular standard fries that I put them in a different category. They belong grouped with wedge fries and steak fries.

Agree that curly fries are great because of the seasoning

Burger King in the Netherlands had curly fries (I moved away, idk if they still do) and they were *so* good. To the point I'd drive an extra 10 minutes to BK rather than go to McD.

@@hannakinn I just categorize anything I can get at standard fry pricing as part of the same category. If there were actually good cheese fries at a fast food restaurant I'd probably consider that too. Sweet potato fries as well just kinda aren't available at fast food restaurants or they'd be a contender for a default win because sweet potato is incredible with just tad of salt and when fried right to be just a bit crunchy.

If they switched back to lard fries, the Biden admin and every blue state in the country would be suing them for billions, claiming that it's making people even more fat and unhealthy and since all those fat unhealthy people are on welfare, that it's affecting the cost of medicare/medicade.

You make a good point.

True !

Honestly I think the only reason they haven't switched back yet is because of potential backlash from vegetarian or vegan consumers

@nickmcnugget16 well they do sell burgers so I'd call out the vegans for overlooking that aspect lol

what kind of fucking pervert eats things that are dunked in the fat taken out of a cow's dead body

*every day

​@@runnersdialzero1244*nobody cares

"chef of 12 years" yeah, whatever. cook my bussy if you're so great

What do you think about saving bacon grease to cook in? Doesn't it go rancid after a little while?

While the old apple pies were as hot as the surface of Mercury, they were delicious. The ones they have now are sad and sorry.

It's true. The Pies were deep fried like nuggs and fries and filet-o-fish

Those pies were goddamn incredible. I didn't get them super often but they were a right fucking treat

Then we let in Jews and millions of immigrants.

​@MSinistrari Still as hot as the tiles of the Space Shuttle during re-entry even after you finished your whole meal, but GAHH they were a tiny little bit of heaven 😌

I disagree. Both fats AND sugars are bad (especially out of moderation) and they don’t have to be attacked together/inclusively. Back then if he started attacking both of these common ingredients… then he really would have been labeled as a quack and his messaging wouldn’t have been nearly effective. Nowadays, the general public has more information than ever, but prior to the late 90s/early 2000s, it was harder to obtain health data/experiences. He’s NOT partially responsible for a sugar pandemic just because he chose to attack a different unhealthy boogeyman. That’s not how advocacy works, rather that is an all or nothing mentality that would get us nowhere.

@@TitaniumTurbine he pushed hard enough to get the recipes changed. The intent was good but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The video states trans fats use increased at a result of the low fat movement. I would guess addition use of sugar and artificial sweaters followed as these manufacturers tried to keep their product tasting good. I’m not an expert but doesn’t modern nutrition science say a diet high in protein and naturally occurring fats but low in carbs and sugars is the key to losing and maintaining a healthy weight.

Ultraprocessed foods are the culprit. Squabbling over macros doesn't help anyone. Sugar won't make you fat all that quickly, but it will rot your teeth, and cause an insulin spike and subsequent crash, which has been linked to all kinds of health problems, including cancer. Fat will just stick to your ass, clog your arteries, and ironically enough, give you diabetes. And what do modern ultraprocessed foods have a lot of? Fat AND sugar. (Also excessive salt, but that's another can of worms.) Just eat your damned veggies. Don't drench them in butter. Don't glaze them with sugar. Brussel sprouts are just fine without some maple bacon bullshit.

Like Snackwells cookies... they're low fat, so I can just eat the whole box right? They're good for me! (Never mind the sugar)

I don't understand how a lot American people still believe that starting their day with cereal, peanut butter sandwiches, flavoured yogurts, box orange juice and everything like that is healthy. And stuff like lunchables and pizza pockets being considered as common school lunch for kids is a crime.

Yep. Nothing wrong with tallow, lard, or butter in moderation. Cottonseed and the rest of the seed oils were completely untested for long term effects and have been put in every single product since then because of the supposed lower cholesterol, instead of convincing the public to eat better

what kind of fucking pervert eats things that are dunked in the fat taken out of a cow's dead body

I thought that that's definition of substitute cheaper and less good

They? That's awfully antisemitic.

​@@mister_stangDude. You need to see a psychologist for that obsession.

same! i missed out on the beef tallow fries 🥲 mcdonald's where i live have had a change of supplier recently and now taste even *worse*. i'd love to experience the contrast with the OG fries