Fries

[poliphilo]

So McDonald's fries aren't vegetarian.

No, they're cooked in an oil that contains "natural beef extract". They also have all sorts of shite added to them- including sugar.

Ah well, It's not as if the company claims they're vegetarian. I'd just assumed...

And as Ailz is fond of saying, "You shouldn't assume; it makes an ass of u and me".

Comments

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

Burger King is much better for vegetarians. If by 'better; you mean 'contains no animal products in its coronary inducing fakey potato products'...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'll bear that in mind. I do like fries...

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Not surprising, really. When it comes to fast food, probably better to assume that nothing is as it appears.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I steer clear of fast food most of the times, but occasionally, when there are children around....

[matrixmann]

No, it really really isn't as if they would...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Unless something says it's vegetarian you can be fairly sure it ain't.

[matrixmann]

Can you be sure even if it says?

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Nothing Macdonads produces can be assumed to be vegetarian. I'd even have doubts about their salads given the levels of additives and crap they use........

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

A non-vegetarian salad- hmmmm.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Whodathunkit?

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

It makes sense. If you kill a bazillion cows each year you might as well use the fat for frying.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Waste not, want not.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Yes. And this includes all of their deep fried pies, too... anything that gets put into that big frying vat that they use. It is filled with this thick white substance that, melted, because a lethal, bubbly golden liquid death that they are very fond of dipping things into.

I used to work at McDonalds.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I bet you could tell some stories about that...

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

It was a good place to work for a teenager. They taught me a lot of really valuable working skills. However, I went back a few years later as an adult, and it was nothing but pure exploitation.... horrible. But it was in a different store in a different state.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I suppose it depends a lot on the local manager.