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 remember bringing up 100 lb bags of Idaho potatoes from the basement, abrading them and chuting them to the dual processing sinks, cutting them, washing them and then blanching them to be ready to final cook. That crap they have today is not the same - in no way. Oil or composition, it really doesn’t matter to me. They’re crap by the time you get them home.
cut, unprocessed potatoes. abrading them ... cutting them ... washing them ... blanching them
Dude, you were PROCESSING them, lol!
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.