Up until the early 1990s....McDonalds had the best fries of any chain operation. Then, they did something and the ‘magic’ was gone. When I do walk into a McDonalds today....I only order a soda and a burger. The fries simply aren’t worth eating.
They used to fry them in beef tallow. Then they switched to vegetable shortening.
Now that the government has said “never mind” to all their crap about animal fat, maybe McD’s will go back to beef tallow—in forty years.
They used to fry them in beef tallow. In the 90s they switched to vegetable oils with chemical additives.