[Burkeman1]

For crying out loud! Is that true?

[discostu]

It's 99% true. The old grease for french fries was vegetable oil but it had tallow (about 1%) for flavor. Then they decided having two different sets of oil (the fish, pies and chicken were all fried in pure vegetable oil) was too expensive so they got rid of the french fry oil, and now it all tastes lame. I don't think the PETA crowd had much to do with the decision, it happened during a time when they consolidated a lot of behind the scenes stuff for simplicity.