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Charles Gifford
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"Dimitri" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > "Dimitri" <[email protected]> wrote in message news-
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> > > IIRC the tallow was never the prime oil used it was a
> > > flavor enhancer
to
> > the
> > > vegetable oil. The practice was in broad use when the
> > > stores actually prepared the fries from potatoes right
> > > in the store. For years now
that
> > > practice has been abandoned in favor of a frozen
> > > product.
> >
> > It just occurred to me that we have been down this road
> > before! I
> apologize
> > for bringing it up again Dimitri. We shall, once again,
> > have to disagree with respect.
> >
> > Charlie
>
> Charlie see the last paragraph from Australian Broadcast:
> http://www.abc.net.au/am/s302914.htm
>
> "This announcement has to be put in some perspective. In
> 1990 McDonalds in the USA announced with much fanfare that
> it would switch to cooking its fries in vegetable oil,
> making them acceptable to vegetarians who will not eat
> food cooked in beef fat.
>
> The company also made a virtue of the fact that its switch
> to vegetable
oil
> was made for nutritional reasons to offer customers a
> cholesterol-free
menu
> item.
>
> So, what's the situation in Australia?
>
> Well, McDonalds here would only say that they had never
> said the oil they cooked in was completely vegetarian.
>
> Indeed the potato chips we get here is cooked in a mixture
> of beef tallow and cotton seed oil. Hence the humble
> vegetarian potato chip may well be non-existent."
>
>
> Dimitri
That's fine Dimitri, but I was talking about the 50s,
60s and 70s.
Charlie
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> "Charles Gifford" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> > "Dimitri" <[email protected]> wrote in message news-
> > :[email protected]...
> > >
> > >
> > > IIRC the tallow was never the prime oil used it was a
> > > flavor enhancer
to
> > the
> > > vegetable oil. The practice was in broad use when the
> > > stores actually prepared the fries from potatoes right
> > > in the store. For years now
that
> > > practice has been abandoned in favor of a frozen
> > > product.
> >
> > It just occurred to me that we have been down this road
> > before! I
> apologize
> > for bringing it up again Dimitri. We shall, once again,
> > have to disagree with respect.
> >
> > Charlie
>
> Charlie see the last paragraph from Australian Broadcast:
> http://www.abc.net.au/am/s302914.htm
>
> "This announcement has to be put in some perspective. In
> 1990 McDonalds in the USA announced with much fanfare that
> it would switch to cooking its fries in vegetable oil,
> making them acceptable to vegetarians who will not eat
> food cooked in beef fat.
>
> The company also made a virtue of the fact that its switch
> to vegetable
oil
> was made for nutritional reasons to offer customers a
> cholesterol-free
menu
> item.
>
> So, what's the situation in Australia?
>
> Well, McDonalds here would only say that they had never
> said the oil they cooked in was completely vegetarian.
>
> Indeed the potato chips we get here is cooked in a mixture
> of beef tallow and cotton seed oil. Hence the humble
> vegetarian potato chip may well be non-existent."
>
>
> Dimitri
That's fine Dimitri, but I was talking about the 50s,
60s and 70s.
Charlie