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McDonald's: We swear those 'Minions' aren't swearing
The Daily Times ^ | 7-10-2015 | ap

Posted on 07/10/2015 9:10:26 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

McDonald's says some customers have complained that a talking toy included in recent Happy Meals uses curse words.

The fast-food restaurant introduced a Happy Meal on July 3 with toys inspired by the movie "Minions."

The Oak Brook, Illinois-based company issued a statement saying the sounds the small yellow figures make are nonsense words, nothing offensive or profane. It says that the Minion Caveman toy makes three sounds — "para la bukay," ''hahaha" and "eh eh."

The statement says "a very small number of customers" have been in touch with the company about the toy. McDonald's said the promotion is supposed to run through the end of July.

"Our goal at McDonald's is to serve up food and fun for our valued customers, and we're glad to have the Minions on board," the company said.

A spokeswoman for McDonald's, Lisa McComb, says there are no plans to take the toys out of distribution.

"Minions," a prequel of the "Despicable Me" movies, premieres Friday.


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To: Gaffer
cut, unprocessed potatoes.

abrading them ... cutting them ... washing them ... blanching them

Dude, you were PROCESSING them, lol!

21 posted on 07/10/2015 9:37:51 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

So you own some of their stock, then.


22 posted on 07/10/2015 9:38:26 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
How about swearing the burger meat and fries don’t largely consist of pulped wood/ soybean substitute?

Correction: I'm not the one who needs to cite evidence, since I'm not the one making the insinuation.

23 posted on 07/10/2015 9:39:23 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

When you took them home, they tasted like potatoes. Be confident your stock in them is protected. I really don’t care.


24 posted on 07/10/2015 9:39:46 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
No offense, but I’d have to see the real potatoes and the WHOLE process before I’d believe they were just cut, unprocessed potatoes.

I did, they did. You can tell on current production, too. Some have a bit of black from an eye, or a slight green hue from the skin. They're not chopped and formed, otherwise they'd all be uniform. They're not. They're all different sizes and shapes (within the fry cut shape, that is). They have imperfections.

It's not the fries, it's the oil they use anymore. McDonald's changed from using beef tallow to something else several years ago to please Indian consumers and Muslims.

25 posted on 07/10/2015 9:39:46 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
BTW, back in the day, McD used fresh potatoes, which they peeled in a cylindrical device right in the building.

I remember seeing that as a kid, but it's been a long, long time ago. Not that I've grown up. I've just grown older.

26 posted on 07/10/2015 9:40:50 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: Gaffer
Be confident your stock in them is protected.

I have stock in McD? I wish.

27 posted on 07/10/2015 9:40:52 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

That could be true, I guess. But there is a distinctive difference between how they used to and do now. They only are palatable if you eat them there right away.

Regardless, the preparation and storage is completely difference now. NONE of their fries are blanched in advance now. Right out of a plastic bag or box into the approved fryer.


28 posted on 07/10/2015 9:42:16 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: IYAS9YAS
It's not the fries, it's the oil they use anymore.

Yep, McD uses real potatoes, they just process them at the factory instead of at the restaurant.

Burger King uses some kind of chopped/formed concoction.

29 posted on 07/10/2015 9:42:43 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
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To: Gaffer
NONE of their fries are blanched in advance now.

Yes they are, at the factory.

30 posted on 07/10/2015 9:44:25 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

That cylindrical device was an upright drum that had an abrasive coating on the vertical surface and a similarly coated rotating bottom. It basically sanded the peel off the potato by tumbling them against the abrasion (like those spray on truck bed liners).

From there a chute put them in a sink where they could be washed and hand cut in a cutter into another sink where they could be further washed. Then fried for a while (blanching) and then stored on a rack until final cooking.

Best fries ever.


31 posted on 07/10/2015 9:46:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
That could be true, I guess. But there is a distinctive difference between how they used to and do now. They only are palatable if you eat them there right away.

Ever had Five Guys? They do now what McDonald's used to do, except they don't peel the potatoes. They wash them and run them through the cutter right into the oil. Even their fries taste like crap when they get cold. You can't nuke 'em, either. You have to warm 'em back up using the oven. They even have the source farm's name written on a sign. Every time I've been, they've been from Idaho, usually near Pocatello or Idaho Falls (I'm from there, but currently live in New Mexico).

32 posted on 07/10/2015 9:46:22 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I’d have to see that.


33 posted on 07/10/2015 9:46:34 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: IYAS9YAS

You have to wash them after cutting. That’s the key. I remember at least a quarter to half inch of starch buildup per load in the sink after washing.


34 posted on 07/10/2015 9:48:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
From there a chute put them in a sink where they could be washed and hand cut in a cutter into another sink where they could be further washed. Then fried for a while (blanching) and then stored on a rack until final cooking.

Yes, McD's fries were double-fried (once quickly, to prevent browning/deterioration before use, I think). They even do that now. They're quick fried and cooled, then frozen at the factory. They then fry them again at the store.

35 posted on 07/10/2015 9:50:15 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Actually, my experience with FG fries is they are larger in size, and I have driven 20 miles with them and even nuking they were better than MDs 5 minutes away.


36 posted on 07/10/2015 9:50:55 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: IYAS9YAS

If that is true, then it have to be the oil and possibly a smaller size in cross section. What they have today is crap.


37 posted on 07/10/2015 9:51:59 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Jeff Chandler

Part of it is that it was just a pain. They used to have 2 oils, the one with a bit of beef tallow for the fries and the one with none for everything else (because you really don’t want to fry your chicken and fish in beef tallow, it would be weird). Add minimum wage employees that can’t keep track of blue box in this one red box in that one, and using the up at different rates, and different rates of spoilage, plus of course whiny vegetarians, and 2 greases was too much.


38 posted on 07/10/2015 9:52:08 AM PDT by discostu (In fact funk's as old as dirt)
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To: Gaffer
Actually, my experience with FG fries is they are larger in size, and I have driven 20 miles with them and even nuking they were better than MDs 5 minutes away.

True, but it takes that larger mass more time to cool, and they still taste like crap when they get cold. That, and the bag is pretty much filled with fries on top of the burgers, so there's much more heat and mass to have to cool over that 20 minutes than McD's at 5.

39 posted on 07/10/2015 9:52:39 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

I’d agree, but they aren’t the same. I sometimes used to take stuff home from there when I worked and it always better than now.

The bottom line now is that I’d never stop at a McDonalds to give my grand daughters something to eat. They deserve better, IMO.


40 posted on 07/10/2015 9:55:48 AM PDT by Gaffer
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