Ah yes, but did your wife serve billions and billions?
Itâs the whole industrial versus home cooking thing. You make french fries at home you slice up some potatoes and you fry them. You donât have to preserve them or ship them or keep them warm for an hour after you cook them.
This is pretty much what people are opposed to about industrial food processing is that all the preservatives and additives might keep it looking pretty longer, store longer, taste consistently the same each time you eat it even though the people doing the cooking are totally untrained at cooking but at what cost to the nutrition and to our health?
Canola oil, soybean oil, dimethylpolysiloxane, and citric acid are each listed twice.
But I would still go back for seconds of your wifeâs roasted potato slices before I asked for âfirstsâ of McDonaldâs frenched-fried-processed-potato-food-product.
Natural Beef Flavor â nice to see that a vegetarian canât even eat fries at McD.
Freedom FriesâŚ
Say what you want. But to me, it just isnât a french fry without the polydimethylsiloxane.
McDonalds recently ran an ad here in Finland where it proclaimed that their french fries are âMade from real potatoesâ. I think the point was that theyâre potato slices and not some potato smush, but the fact that they have to even advertise that is kind of sad.
Didnât they traditionally cook them in beef tallow and forget to mention that? I thought some Hindus were rather annoyed when they found out.
I didnât realize until recently that McDonaldâs in the US doesnât even have veggie burgers. Theyâve had them since forever in the UK.
PreviouslyâŚ
I still dislike McDonaldâs for the industrial food, the assembly line dining, the car culture pandering. But this âplain folksâ approach to complex ingredients is actally sort of cool! Itâs says they trust the audience enough to not get scared away from complex ideas.
But what makes their french fries interesting to me, isnât the ingredient list, itâs the way they monitor the temperature and timing for a consistent batch of fries, even when the product varies. Itâs been copied by all the other chains, so hardly a monopoly, but they did it first, and it changed fast food quite a bit.
(Also nice to see Grant step out from the shadows of Jamie and Adam.)
Did he have much choice? Didnât they just get rid of him and tâother two?
There was quite a scandel when this truth came out in India. A lot of vegetarians found theyâd been eating beef all this time.
I do actually have a small bottle of polydimethylsiloxane in my fridge at home, although I donât use it for my fries
Yeah, I think they basically got fired because they wanted to just go back to Adam and Jamie.
Iâd watch Mythbusters if someone would go and re-edit every episode to put each segments into one complete bit and remove all the recaps and teasers. I find it utterly unwatchable as is. Each episode is at least twice as long as it has content for, even before you consider all the adverts.
Well then, hereâs an opportunity.
Can technology close the gap between âpicked from the farmâ and âserved on the plateâ, at âMcDonaldsâ scale to be cost effective?
A lot of the preservatives seem to support the logistics leg of this process. A lot of the sugars + salt are there to put the flavor back that was lost in transit.
What if Elonâs Hyperloop was scaled down first used to transport foodstuffs (or other cargo) from the middle of the country where the farms are, to the edges of the country, where the people are at super high speeds?
That seems to be every American show these days. I canât stand watching 45 minutes of something for 22 minutes of actual content. But the earlier Mythbuster episodes were better, with more actual content. Not that I donât still love the heck out of MythBusters (though I havenât seen the very latest seasons yet).
Iâm all like ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ here. If people think that not only all packaged and fast food, but almost all âfreshâ or ârawâ food (including organic food) hasnât been engineered substantially, in one way or another, they havenât been paying attention. (cue snickering at so-called âpaleoâ diets.)
Apparently foraging, while some work, is a legit way to stock your fridge with veggies and legumes and such:
Word is, first-gen Italian immigrants used to make good use of Dandelions for traditional old-world cooking.
http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2007/05/22/dandelion-recipes-italian-style-greens/
Itâs something Iâm going to give a try when it warms up.
Those of us who remember fries cooked in beef tallow know what is lost to the world.
