OT: food

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Fri Nov 9 00:50:24 2001

At 02:54 PM 11/8/01 -0700, you wrote:
>McDonalds puts sugar in their french fries, I recently head on
>NPR. Apparently
>their sales increased slightly when they started doing that. It's consistent
>with their tendency to limit our diet to salt, fat, and sugar. In reality, I
>guess we do it to ourselves, since we don't have to eat there. The only
>meal I
>occasionally take at the Golden Arches, is breakfast, since they do, oddly
>enough, have pretty passable coffee.
>
>Dick
The french fries at MickeyD's are sprayed with a sugar/starch water mix and
flash frozen, it helps them get the golden brown color. they are also
blanched during the manufacturing process to make them faster cooking in
the stores and give the creamy texture inside... (was a mickey-d's manager
in a previous incarnation)
Received on Fri Nov 09 2001 - 00:50:24 GMT

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