What's So Special About McDonald's Fries?

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Ah, McDonald’s French Fries. According to a poll we recently ran here, 48% of about 42,000 of you prefer this restaurant's slender tan starch sticks to all the other restaurant tuber cutting offerings, with this percentage more than double the next runner up which was a blanket choice of “Other”- i.e. nearly all other restaurant french fries combined. While many view McDonald’s as a hamburger joint, the truth is, beyond in the present day McDonald’s making about 1/3 of their revenue from their franchises on real estate (all once causing Ray Kroc to quip he wasn’t in the hamburger business, but rather “My business is real estate”), McDonald’s came to dominate the world of fast food for primarily one reason- their french fries, with an astounding 1 out of every 200 potatoes grown in the world today used to make these salty sticks of potato guts. Which is extra good for the company as french fries are also one of the most profitable non-beverage items on the menu. So just how did these french fries come to be? What exactly is in them and how are they made? Why were they the center of a surprisingly bitter and occasionally riotous and deadly fight? And just who invented french fries at all in the first place?
Well, tuck in ladies and gents, and let’s do a deep fried dive into the history of the french fry and its perfected version at McDonald’s, shall we?
Author: Daven Hiskey
Host: Simon Whistler
Producer: Samuel Avila
0:00 Intro
1:13 The Origin of the French Fry
8:37 Creating Perfection- Inventing the McDonald’s French Fry
24:37 Fries AND MURDER ...or just violence WHATEVER. Got to keep you watching so I have money to feed my french fry addiction. Don’t judge. We all have our cross to bear
32:45 Bonus Fact
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@TodayIFoundOut 4 месяца назад

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@TheGrinningViking 4 месяца назад

Fact check fact boy. Potatoes used to be poison when unripe, it was (mostly) bred out long after they made their way to Europe and into common usage. People weren't wrong about potatoes being dangerous - they could be! This has been reduced over time through breeding and proper harvesting but it's still possible. There's about 50 cases reported a year with modern potatoes, some of which lead to death. It's thought there's many more as the symptoms mimic food poisoning.

@thomasjones4570 4 месяца назад

Cant stand McDonalds fries. Greasy and fake tasting. Once you eat Checkers/Rallies fries youll never even eat at McDonalds again...even the burgers are better with real meat.

@jesseberg3271 4 месяца назад

The Jain Dharma is not a Hindu sect. It's a separate religion that is arguably considerably older than modern Hinduism.

@sydneymcdaniel3388 4 месяца назад

F5fftffddvf Pl L lmk@@TheGrinningViking

@megaflux7144 4 месяца назад

no. never.

@finekat296 4 месяца назад

"Well, just like with humans, if you eat the wrong part of the human..." "As long as it's consensual" I DIED 🤣

@user-ri5fe7ti6i 4 месяца назад

I'm curious what the "good" and "bad" parts are 😂

@zogar8526 4 месяца назад

@user-ri5fe7ti6i the "good" parts in this situation are the ones which won't get you sick, which is basically the whole human body. Baring any parasites in the person, and even then with proper cooking, you could eat any part of a human being and it won't have any negative health effects. Well, any negative physical health effects anyway. Save one part. The brain. Eating a human brain comes with an incredibly high risk of contracting prion diseases. Which are not anything you want to mess with. They are basically different versions of mad cow.

@shaneeslick 4 месяца назад

G'day finekat, did you see the subtitles here? "But this doesn't mean the other parts of the human aren't good to nom when the mood strikes... as long as it's consentual. Don't be a Greg. Those poor potatoes...) 😂. Ps & then from 23:21

@nivision 4 месяца назад

@@zogar8526 you're right outside of saying the risk is incredibly high. It's only incredibly high if that person already has a prion disease. The one you're thinking of only spread like it did because of ritual funerary cannibalism in a tribe contained within a small area. Tragically the women and children usually got the brain. The onset time of symptoms was also often years, making it harder to put together the symptoms with the cause themselves. Looking into prion disease is one of those things that cost me sleep at night, they're horrific.

@kayleighgroenendal8473 4 месяца назад

The bad parts have E. coli

@curtislindsey1736 4 месяца назад

3:03 I feel like Daven is just f**king with Simon when he writes those kind of lines in the script😂

@TodayIFoundOut 4 месяца назад

Check out the closed captions. There were many more he wouldn't say. 😋 It's all good fun for us. 😋 -Daven

@DMTrance87 4 месяца назад

@@TodayIFoundOutFucking Greg, man. 😂🤣 How often is there more hilarious writing hidden in the CC??

@Iskelderon 4 месяца назад

Sometimes I think the writers have a competition going on to see who can get him to say the craziest lines.

@matiascamprubi-soms7719 4 месяца назад

@@TodayIFoundOut I came to the comments because I was losing my shit reading all the hilarious subtitles. Do I need to go back and rewatch them all with subs now? Have I been missing out!?!? I don't always have them on, but I will never watch y'alls videos without them again.

@ellicel 4 месяца назад

The writers must get bored all chained up in Simon's basement. I don't begrudge them a bit of fun!

@shaneeslick 4 месяца назад

"However when a Mummy Human & Daddy Potato really love each other"😂 I almost choked on my chips thinking of Barbie & Mr Potato Head getting it on

@AfricanLionBat 4 месяца назад

I pictured an Egyptian mummy before realizing you must be a Brit.

@shaneeslick 4 месяца назад

@@AfricanLionBat Nope not a Brit 😁 G'day🙃👎

@thedevilinthecircuit1414 4 месяца назад

I am physically repulsed, yet *strangely aroused* 😊

@AfricanLionBat 4 месяца назад

@@shaneeslick ah from down under. Great people. Every time I meet an Aussie they were cool. Traded a cigarette for a patch when I was deployed in the desert with some.

@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991 4 месяца назад

How much time does it take Mr. Potato Head to grow a potato "eye" before he can get it on? 🤔😉

@TodayIFoundOut 4 месяца назад

0:00 Intro 1:13 The Origin of the French Fry 8:37 Creating Perfection- Inventing the McDonald’s French Fry 24:37 Fries AND MURDER ...or just violence WHATEVER. Got to keep you watching so I have money to feed my french fry addiction. Don’t judge. We all have our cross to bear 32:45 Bonus Fact

@thomasjones4570 4 месяца назад

Cant stand McDonalds fries. Greasy and fake tasting. Once you eat Checkers/Rallies fries youll never even eat at McDonalds again...even the burgers are better with real meat.

@chitlitlah 4 месяца назад

Hey, you're doing Ignition's job posting all these timestamps.

@ThaBeatConductor 4 месяца назад

@@thomasjones4570 McDonalds fries don't even break down. I've left some in a mop drain for a few days to see if anything happened to them and after days of scalding hot water and all sorts of different cleaning chemicals, they were still the same.

@johngavin2570 4 месяца назад

I think the real question here is why Simon is putting a bear pelt on a cross.

@thomasjones4570 4 месяца назад

@@ThaBeatConductorThat explains the fake taste. A checkers fry will break down fast with water running over it.

@HaakonTheViking 4 месяца назад

I worked as a fresh produce controller at the factory that supplies all the fries for McDonalds and Burger king (Yes they're made at the same factory) in Norway. The job was a temp job, consisting of taking samples of vegetables as they arrived at the factory, and determine the quality of each shipment. And I have to say, McDonalds had the strictest standards, and the best potatoes that entered that factory. I have also worked quality controlling potatoes bound for grocery stores. McDonalds had the best potatoes I've ever seen. In Norway they use a type of potato called Innovator. The innovator potato is a giant potato, and is a bit special in the way that it doesn't really change colour that much when you fry it.

@zynsilverblade3125 4 месяца назад

its just a shame that they dont have the same standards when it comes to the people who cook them, in the part of america where i live its always the newest member of the kitchen staff that cooks the fries. In my experience mc'donalds fries are awful 9/10 of the time and amazing 1/10 of the time

@aclstudios 4 месяца назад

@@zynsilverblade3125 Also could be most European countries have higher standards in general.

@tylerhorn3712 4 месяца назад

Then it's absolutely an employee problem. French fries are like a wet noodle in two of three local McDonalds. The third is the only place I'll go. Fries get slightly brown, which creates a beautiful crispy texture.

@saeveth 4 месяца назад

@@tylerhorn3712that is a management/training issue. There are timers on every machine. It is literally fool proof if you are following all the standards that are in place. (Having worked in one and several different restaurants while younger) if the oil is not up to temp, management should know from having done their daily checks. If the employee is not leaving the fries in long enough, management should be training them better. Problem is the management is usually the worst example of management you’ve ever seen, even worse than retail.

@danbuckley6584 4 месяца назад

@@aclstudios sure. Except he wasn't comparing Norway vs USA. He was comparing mcdonalds standards to other good company standards. Reading comprehension

@gregkelly2145 4 месяца назад

Back when the fries were made with beef tallow, they were unbelievably good. They've never been the same.

@tammileroux3329 4 месяца назад

Same goes for the big mac

@dianapennepacker6854 4 месяца назад

Even the second recipe wasn't bad. Then they removed beef flavoring, because of Hindus. Then the third was so disgusting. Man that was like early or mid 2,000s. They removed trans fat. Then they changed again. I seen studies saying tallow isn't as bad as once thought. Especially compared to certain oils. It has to do with keeping the oil on the burner for long periods. Wish they'd go back to the 93% tallow.

@noizeemama3697 4 месяца назад

100%

@StefanMedici 4 месяца назад

I cook mine with duck fat. Mmmm

@Mrbfgray 4 месяца назад

I wouldn't know, haven't tried them more that a dozen X this century. If cooked in seed oil they are extra toxic.

@nickbryant2318 4 месяца назад

McDonald's fries are horrible now, not because of the recipe, but because they are always dry and cold, and feel like they were cooked an hour before I ordered them

@2yoyoyo1Unplugged 4 месяца назад

You have to ask for them “made to order.”

@Kittsuera 4 месяца назад

Idk, the old recipe was good any time you ate them. Now its only passable if you eat them minutes after its been fried.

@LittleLordFancyLad 4 месяца назад

@@Kittsuera The old recipe really was good any time. It was the beef tallow.

@tigershark7155 4 месяца назад

Order them without salt, they will be hot and fresh, and still pick up enough salt when they dump them into the tray from the constant oversalting of the reg fries.

@geofjones9 4 месяца назад

McDonalds used to peel and slice the spuds, then put the loaded fry basket in a draft of warm air for 30 or so minutes. This made the starch in the cut cells of the potatoes to turn to sugar, which made for a very appetizing color on the fried product. This plus the beef tallow made for a GREAT tasting French Fry. Now all of that is gone, and the fries are not great.

@jeffdroog 4 месяца назад

Holy shit! Did we watch the same video? Lol Thanks for the recap chief!

@lloydevans2900 3 месяца назад

If you do this with sweet potatoes, you will get some starch breakdown into sugars, because sweet potatoes have far more amylase - the enzyme which catalyses the starch into sugar reaction. Ordinary potatoes do have some amylase in them, but nowhere near as much, so 30 minutes of warming is nowhere near long enough to convert any significant amount of starches into sugars. Anyone who has tried to make a "fermentation mash" from potatoes will have come across this problem: While malted (sprouted) grains have a lot of amylase (which is how the starches in wheat or barley get converted into sugars for beer brewing), potatoes do not contain anywhere near enough on their own, so you need to add extra amylase, usually by adding some malted grains along with the potato starch - and even then, it takes many hours or even days to get a significant starch to sugar conversion. The colour created during cooking comes from the reaction between sugars and proteins at high temperatures, known as the Maillard reaction. This is responsible for the browning of bread during baking, of pancakes and similar products during shallow frying, and of potato fries during deep-frying. Sweet potato fries do this very nicely because of the relatively high proportion of sugars in sweet potatoes. Ordinary potato fries will do this to some extent, because there are always some sugars in the potato. But not all that much, which is why the modern McDonalds fries recipe (as well as most other fast food restaurant fries) includes some added dextrose (aka glucose) to enhance this effect. If the potato itself had enough sugars or if the sugar content could be boosted to any significant degree by just blasting some warm air at the uncooked fries, they wouldn't need to add extra dextrose.

@ljenk5 4 месяца назад

FUN FACT: In Australia when McDonald’s first opened up, they spent millions of dollars trying to get their potatoes to grow here, turns out they just would not, so in Australia our potatoes are a completely different type to those used in America, I’ve not tried American fries but I am addicted to the delicious ones in Australia 😁

@debmccudden242 4 месяца назад

Chips lol

@JeroenJA 4 месяца назад

in Belgium, even McDo does the frying in 2 sessions, as no respectable Belgian would like to fatty fries all baked in one go :) . to me, McDo fries are.. to thin like french fries.. gamble whatever fries place you like and there is probably about 80% chance the fries will taste better then in a McDo :-p i've never heard of someone just going into a McDo cause they just wanted fries, then we go to a frietkot ;-) , I am quite confused of the fries shown ar 19min, those look the thick really tasty once, NOT AT ALL the inferior onces from McDo.. but problably it was just a good image and the designer does not really spot the difference? :)

@jacobfife7273 4 месяца назад

This makes sense. Usually when I eat a meal I start with the main part (ie burger) so that if I get full its the extra stuff that goes to waste. When I lived in USA for a year I had to eat the fries/chips first because they'd taste worse by the time I was done with the burger. I knew there was a difference but I thought it mightve been the oil.

@lukes6868 3 месяца назад

Me too, in Melbourne

@DjDragonblade 4 месяца назад

That French guy was a genius, having guards guarding his potatoes & telling them to accept bribes... People want things more, when they're told they can't have them, & even moreso if they feel like they're getting away with something by obtaining them...

@johnczaia9124 4 месяца назад

Best side remark ever: "The past ... everybody (eye roll)" :)

@Travenspear8 4 месяца назад

lol ogbb iykyk

@d.l.d.l.8140 4 месяца назад

😂 Even me.

@ethankincaid6838 4 месяца назад

You can't get milkshakes at McDonald's, the machine is down

@DawnDavidson 4 месяца назад

😂😂😂 always!

@michaelb1761 4 месяца назад

Food Theory channel has a video about this.

@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont 4 месяца назад

I never ask anymore. I go across the street to Wendy's for a Frosty.

@VeracityLH 3 месяца назад

It used to be a McD's joke that most locations didn't have hot chocolate because the machines broke down so much it wasn't worth the money to buy them. Now it's milkshakes.

@phillip2010cowley 3 месяца назад

The is a web ite that reports which mc donalds has ice cream (not associated to mc d )and milk shake or just check their app. Both are reasonable right. Except if they are deep cleaning it or the machine (so cleaning and refrigeratoring shaie and sandue mix) e is self cleaning ( heating mixes to 100 degree than cooling)and the manger for to make it unavailable on the POS system. Self clean is every 24 hours deep clean every 7 days. Also daily clean takes 30-60 mins if you know how to take it apart.

@fargosnow994 4 месяца назад

I live in a small city in Mexico. My local butcher sells ready to fry potatoes that are coated in beef tallow. They air fry wonderfully. So yummy, and no chemistry.

@Jo-Anne.Clarke 4 месяца назад

“It’s not rocket surgery”🤣🤣🤣 I first heard this decades ago on the Canadian TV series Trailer Park Boys👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@jasonjuneau2948 4 месяца назад

Rocket appliances.

@Mental_Patient 4 месяца назад

Sounds like a Rickyism

@ajc1080 4 месяца назад

Seconding that the correct Rickyism is in fact: "It's not rocket appliances"

@gesika 4 месяца назад

Omg such a great show. But very common saying in the USA

@JerryB507 4 месяца назад

Rocket surgery and brain science are two of my go to comments when someone is trying to make something more complicated than needed.

@kylehansel6207 4 месяца назад

Whoever did the captions for this episode is fucking hilarious. And if you don't watch with captions you are missing out on a bunch of jokes. 😂😂

@TodayIFoundOut 4 месяца назад

Thanks! :-) -Daven

@kylehansel6207 4 месяца назад

@@TodayIFoundOut You sir are a Legend! Thanks for the laughs.

@n0b0dy-- 4 месяца назад

I normally turn RU-vid subtitles off as they tend to be super inaccurate. I've been denying myself Simon subtitles and ur telling me they're brilliant 😭😂

@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991 4 месяца назад

Well then, lemme go back to 0:00 and turn the captions on!

@Foxpawed 3 месяца назад

Very funny, but I do wish there was a non-comedic version as I like having subtitles on but when they don't match what is being said it's extremely distracting, especially when it's inconsistently inconsistent.

@bonezthesag9149 4 месяца назад

Once they CHANGED the grease it was over. If your taste buds work then you know. I could get them with a meal or eat them alone. Once they CHANGED the grease the ONLY WAY I could eat them. Was with the Hot Mustard or Ketchup and even MORE $ALT than they already put on them . For that matter the nuggets don't taste the same either. Probably why I can't remember the last time I was in one.

@mr.joshua6818 4 месяца назад

Agreed. They took out the beef tallow, it did make the difference.

@michaeldiogenesbest6127 4 месяца назад

FACT: McD's Chicken Nuggets are made using wood pulp as filler......

@TheGrinningViking 4 месяца назад

The spongy chicken meat in the nuggets is just ground up, bleached, and washed chicken with some extra salt in it. The "breading" is where they snuck in a bit of "cellulose powder" made of ground up, bleached, and washed wood pulp. It's used as a filler in a lot of things. Makes them just a little more bland and dry, but there's no bad health effects. No good ones either. It just passes through without helping or hurting anything. It's not even fiber after what they do to it.

@mr.joshua6818 4 месяца назад

@@TheGrinningViking their chicken nuggets are horrible now.

@LikaLaruku 4 месяца назад

While they still have the best nuggests I've tasted, the old dark meat nuggets were 5 times better. I really hate the ones from Chick Fil-A.

@victoriaeads6126 4 месяца назад

Kudos to the writers, the number of perfect potato puns here is truly astounding 😂❤

@TodayIFoundOut 4 месяца назад

Try watching with the closed captions on for more laughs. :-) -Daven

@DoctorDraxion 4 месяца назад

I HAD TO PAUSE AND SCROLL TO SEE IF I WAS GOING MAD! :"D @@TodayIFoundOut

@shaneeslick 4 месяца назад

@@TodayIFoundOut G'day Daven, I do just for this reason🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Drafalga 4 месяца назад

The subtitles are pure gold, A++

@michaeldavis9772 4 месяца назад

Yo, whoever did the closed captions did a great job. And slipped in a few extra fun bits. Well played.

@BrianGay57 4 месяца назад

When I was a child we went to an early Mc Donalds that had glass all around, allowing a clear view of the kitchen. I remember watching them take large (russet?) unpeeled potatoes, slice them with a manual slicer, and then fry them. Sometimes I would get several fries that were easily 6 inches long!

@ohioplayer-bl9em 4 месяца назад

6 inches? Or six inches! Your wife will get that joke

@usMarinecuv902 4 месяца назад

If you don't like your French fries cooked with beef in the oil, then don't go there. Incredible idea.

@user-ri5fe7ti6i 4 месяца назад

Get out of here with your common sense! Clearly, every restaurant can only serve what I am allowed to eat!

@bjbear5202 4 месяца назад

My husband won't even go near the place because the beef tallow smell makes him sick. I can only go when he's not with me.

@NukeCaulfield 4 месяца назад

@@bjbear5202They don't use beef tallow anymore. They haven't for many years.

@n0b0dy-- 4 месяца назад

Bit different serving it to vegetarians without telling them there's beef in it

@usMarinecuv902 4 месяца назад

@@n0b0dy-- I understand being upset about it, but then don't go there anymore like an adult. Instead of throwing a hissy fit

@KeldWolf 4 месяца назад

I'm pretty sure I haven't taken anything tonight. But, man. If you haven't watched this episode with subtitles yet. DO IT. Thank me later. Good work whoever edited those in.

@mamasimmerplays4702 4 месяца назад

The closed captions on this are brilliant. Thank you, whoever did that.

@WolfRamAndHart 4 месяца назад

22:05 Haha. Brilliantly hilarious, sarcastic, and quippy dialogue, better than you get from Marvel movies today. Touche to Simon and Daven.

@Skye_Writer 4 месяца назад

omg, the captions during the ingredients list!!😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@MrsTSJeffcoat 4 месяца назад

Yes! I was hoping someone else saw the CC so I know I wasn't crazy.

@thomasmccrary5689 3 месяца назад

The way Simon describes current McDonald’s recipe really says it all. If I can’t understand half the words in the ingredients, I don’t want it inside my food

@bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb- 4 месяца назад

I love the captions which do not match all of the facts you talk about in the video. Thank you for the hilarious romp!

@jordy8059 4 месяца назад

I'm losing my hearing gradually, so I watch your videos with sound and captions. I gotta say, your captions just add so much! Whoever does them, I love the little jokes they sneak in here and there.

@Catseye189 4 месяца назад

Captions are dark on this one! Brilliant script, and well done Simon.

@Singulitarian 4 месяца назад

Listen to Julia Child. Bring back the fry tallow! Bring back the deep fried tallow apple pies!

@jeffdroog 4 месяца назад

Frying food is for those people without the intelligence,or time to learn how to cook properly.I guess that tracks for the U.S.

@1NOTEGBEATZ 4 месяца назад

Good LORD do i miss those . I had one every morning as a kid ( a fat one I might add 😅 )

@ohioplayer-bl9em 4 месяца назад

I think several states has made that illegal. New York.. California. The usual suspects. Something about not being good for your. Come get your freeeee donut with your Fauci sauce. What are we on? 18?? lol. Remember when you had to show your medical history to get a hotdog in new York? Lolol

@rachelralph100 4 месяца назад

I thoroughly recommend watching with closed captions. Some of what hasnt been said from script is brilliant 😂

@Karatana 4 месяца назад

Your subtitle writer deserves a raise.

@SianaGearz 3 месяца назад

That's Daven Hiskey.

@pwneytube 4 месяца назад

I'm imagining him tasting the fries like Tony Montana sampling a bag of blow, "My god thats good product!"

@grimd8788 4 месяца назад

So, some people want menus to read like a medication warning label... Would those same people ever eat anything ever again?

@bradlevantis913 4 месяца назад

7:48 the “ vastly superior” line had me in stitches

@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan 4 месяца назад

McDonalds fries taste like cardboard. You haven't had fries until you've had them at a proper Belgian baraque à frites

@johndelagarza361 4 месяца назад

I still like the way the fries taste, but IMO these days fries at most places aren't worth the cost. For the cost and calories, I'd rather skip the fries and just grab a burger only.

@thomasjones4570 4 месяца назад

Checkers/Rallies is knocking at your tastebuds doors.

@dylpykldrums 4 месяца назад

i couldn’t agree more.

@kaldo_kaldo 4 месяца назад

I don't understand why their potato sticks are so dang expensive. It's like $4 for some dang fries here. I understand prices have to go up, but I miss the small for a dollar.

@WayStedYou 4 месяца назад

because they make all their money from drinks and fries vs the burgers @@kaldo_kaldo

@del-see-oh 4 месяца назад

$4 for a double cheeseburger and small fries here in NYC

@gamin9wizard945 4 месяца назад

The subtitle-writer has gone nuts in all the right ways during this video. I love it!

@ThePoodleStrudel 4 месяца назад

I'm extremely unsurprised that Daven wrote this script. He's got a unique style...

@TodayIFoundOut 4 месяца назад

A compliment? Or... 😋 (If not, definitely don't read the subtitles. 😋) -Daven

@ThePoodleStrudel 4 месяца назад

@@TodayIFoundOut LOL, not a dig at you my dude. Love your stuff. I was tipped off when Simon started talking about eating human parts.

@WarhammerWings 4 месяца назад

Subtitles make Simon even funnier with the scripts og wording he doesn't say.

@shaneeslick 4 месяца назад

Simon does read the Scripts as written but the Subtitles are done by the writers & often deliberately vary from the script that Simon reads to add more humour & Jibes for those in the know

@Pupil0fGod 4 месяца назад

the subtitles were absolute legends on this vid, not sure if it was script divergence or the person doing subtitles likes improv the legend of Greg will live on

@TodayIFoundOut 4 месяца назад

Freaking Greg. ;-) -Daven

@moechtegern1312 4 месяца назад

It’s like Parmentier had brought not only the idea to plant potatoes from Preussen to France,but also the „lifehack“how to make the potatoes seem more valuable. The story with solders guarding the fields reminds me of the strategy Friedrich the Great used for the same purpose…;)

@TakenTook 4 месяца назад

15:35 -- 1980s teenage me, working at McDonald's and opening up those frozen bags of Simplot cut potatoes to pour into the baskets to fry, assumed that the company name on those bags was some cutesy corporate combination of "simple" and "plot" -- as in "here are **simple** sticks of potatoes grown on our **plot** of land" And even the much older 2020s version of me didn't realize Simplot was actually somebody's last name until RU-vid brought me here.

@ls1gt611 4 месяца назад

Loved the video, textbook Simon presentation plus sarcasm cranked to 11 :)

@LabCat 4 месяца назад

I am totally here for the smart-ass nature of the captions. If you're watching this video with the captions off... TURN THEM ON

@metagames.errata7777 4 месяца назад

Simon, I just had McDonald's two days ago because I'd been undereating the day prior, then yesterday because I'd neglected to get a shamrock shake (and a buddy had to pick me up from work), and now you're making me want more McD's again. 😮

@PsychoStreak 4 месяца назад

The subtitles during the ad were insane. 🤣

@pkt1213 4 месяца назад

The shade randomly thrown in has my dying.

@cweaver4080 4 месяца назад

Shame on McDonald's for forcing people to buy their food. If only they had a choice.

@Sandi_shores_lands_fish 4 месяца назад

Burger king Big kahuna burger Wendys Going to costco buying a rissole pack and loaf or burger buns Frying the meat yourself using coconut oil Sigh. Doesnt anyone study home ec anymore?

@normd5776 4 месяца назад

"Hydrolized Milk, because you can't let Vegans have nice things" LOL 🤣

@Travybear1989 4 месяца назад

I'd rather be a vegan than eat at McDonald's and I would rather die than never have steak again so that is saying a LOT.

@tagabundok1 4 месяца назад

I am really enjoying each reference to *plant murder*. Each new reference is more tasty than the last.😂

@christaverduren690 4 месяца назад

You MUST watch this with the closed captions on.....I can't stop laughing!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Totally not the same as what he's saying!!!!! 23:50 with the description of how they mass murder the spuds........I'm gasping!!!!!! LOLOL "The previous living potatoes are first stripped naked, in this case via having their flesh peeled from their bodies via steam peeler. They are then subjected to high pressure water spray on their now exposed innards, during which the 65 mph or so water cannon they find themselves in forces the tubers through a cutter grate for maximum potato mutilation. After this Byron Hadley insults them and their mothers for maximum psychological damage.

@arcturionblade1077 4 месяца назад

I'm all for religious observance and all but McFries did lose something when they switched away from beef tallow to vegetable oil. Five Guys (just had some yesterday) uses peanut oil though and their fries are pretty good.

@mimetype 4 месяца назад

five Guys' fries are 100% better than McDonnalds sawdust sticks

@jameswest4819 4 месяца назад

Quite a few years ago, some wealthy guy decided that McDonalds was giving people heart attacks because of the tallow they were fried in. This had the reverse effect from the well-meaning idiot was trying to get. Now, we have learned that saturated fat is good for you and poly-unsaturated oils are really bad for you...a really ironic result. They have not switched back to tallow, to my knowledge.

@SilverDreamweaver 4 месяца назад

Five Guys fries are pretty soggy and bland imo. Once they expanded, their fries went downhill imo. Not a fan of their fries at all anymore.

@mr.joshua6818 4 месяца назад

Had Five Guys fries the other day, definitely the best at the moment.

@SilverDreamweaver 4 месяца назад

@@jameswest4819Thank you! Even my current job in wellness wants me to promote poly-unsaturated oils as preferrable to saturated and unsaturated fats! These oils are terrible for you. They may as well age you physically because that's practically what they're doing to your protein structures!

@kwdblade4683 4 месяца назад

Sokolof died on April 15, 2004, of heart failure at the age of 82. *Poetic Justice*

@Crazt 3 месяца назад

Anyone else find that opening like a fantastic entry into The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Universe?

@michaeldiogenesbest6127 4 месяца назад

One indisputable fact about McD's Fries is they are way too fargin' OVERPRICED.......

@KillroyWasHere86 4 месяца назад

The Price of Fries are 2 Damn High.

@jeffdroog 4 месяца назад

Says someone who was just literally told how to make them themselves,for literally pennies on the dollar,and couldn't be bothered to put in the miniscule amount if effort required to do so lol ...Or do you just complain about high prices,even though you don't pay those high prices? Either way,I'm not really sure what you gained here.

@AngelusAnsell 4 месяца назад

You say that, but you don't apparently know what I learned from working at McDonald's. Namely, they come in boxes. Each box contains 6 bags. Each bag has enough frozen fries to make 2 Larges and a Medium....and the entire box is paid for just by selling 2 Mediums.

@Shoutinthewind 4 месяца назад

Yeah I like them and all but I’m not about to pay $2.77 for a small order of fries when I could buy 2 hot and spicy sandwiches for $2

@JamesFromTexas 4 месяца назад

Screw you, Simon! Now I have to go get a basket of fries at Mickey D's!

@TodayIFoundOut 4 месяца назад

You should try researching and writing this one over the course of several days... Sooooo many McDonald's fries runs. My kids enjoyed that part at least. :-) -Daven

@JamesFromTexas 4 месяца назад

@@TodayIFoundOut Daven! Great episode as always! But screw you too! /jk Love you man and I can't imagine writing this.

@matteatonmusic 4 месяца назад

Did not expect this to be the most interesting visit ever!! Good work all!

@damiengalanaud3817 4 месяца назад

I have always found funny that while in the US fries are associated with France while in France they are associated with Belgium. In fact, this debate is both friendly and purely academic: the cuisines of Belgium and northern France are identical, so what we can say with relative confidence is that fries probably originated from somewhere in this larger region, spread to France and from there to the rest of the world

@SwingingCreeper 4 месяца назад

Actually, the French in french fries refers to the cut.

@arasb3258 4 месяца назад

Are you referring to "Freedom Fries"?

@FraDon 4 месяца назад

Rocket Surgery ... love it!

@Hillbilly001 4 месяца назад

They kinda lost something when they started using vegetable oil. Cheers from Tennessee

@miltonbates6425 4 месяца назад

They used to be awesome when the were cooked in beef tallow. Now they're cooked in seed oils which really does make them gross and cumulatively toxic.

@Hillbilly001 4 месяца назад

@@miltonbates6425 I agree. To please India everyone suffers I reckon. They should use the veggie oil there and leave them alone for everyone else. Cheers from Tennessee

@olencone4005 4 месяца назад

Personally, I prefer Burger King fries over McDonald's -- they're thicker and not as salty, so I can better taste the potato. If I can find them, I REALLY prefer the chonky potato-wedge style fries -- sooooo gooood! ^_^ But all of the fast-food fries seem to need to be eaten almost immediately, as they dry out quickly and become almost inedible when you try to reheat them.

@winconfig 4 месяца назад

The common french fry was actually a Belgian invention. It was created by french-speaking Belgians. And there was some confusion whenever the french fries are being served to some people and they thought they were French. This is how the name was created. It wasn't specifically a French man from France that created them. Rusty on the details but I think you can kind of understand the point. Hopefully there will be a person to further define this for me

@beckyowens2586 4 месяца назад

The beef "flavoring" is enough to cause the numbers of someone allergic to beef, to fluctuate and go up. I know a woman who was bitten by a lone star tick and cannot eat red meat or pork of any kind. Sometimes she would treat herself to a McD fry, but her doctor kept complaining that she was eating red meat somewhere. When they finally, painstakingly, narrowed it down, she cut the fries from her diet completely and her levels regulated again. This has been within the last ten years.

@michaelkaster5058 4 месяца назад

yay lets get them to change the grease again for one person, really make them inedible. Cause the minority rules in this country lately.

@LikaLaruku 4 месяца назад

Beef bouillon is also used to add umami to rice in some restaurants, so she'll need to watch out for that too.

@lovenothate 4 месяца назад

Yep, this is me. It's called Alpha Gal and it sucks. Eating a seemingly harmless fry can have me sick for the rest of the day. I can take immodium and other meds to help, but the side effects aren't worth eating red meat intentionally...that should be my choice, though.

@jeffdroog 4 месяца назад

That sounds like a personal problem lol

@TomsBackyardWorkshop 4 месяца назад

Their fries are actually very mediocre. But it helps that most fast food fries are terrible.

@johnbelyk7542 3 месяца назад

This video has a nice blend of information & humour.

@Daisydarthvader 3 месяца назад

There aren’t many of us around that remember the old fry. You would think that once we found out that oil ain’t great they would have gone back. We should all protest outside our local McDonald’s “what do we want? Lard! When do we want it? Now!

@Russo-Delenda-Est 4 месяца назад

What's so special? They're soggy and gross? Everyone knows McDonald's fries are bottom tier, heck, BK fries are better. 😆

@miltonbates6425 4 месяца назад

They used to be awesome when the were cooked in beef tallow. Now they're cooked in seed oils which really does make them gross and cumulatively toxic.

@deandrehoward1261 3 месяца назад

Euroncrack.

@lorieunicorn 4 месяца назад

In Canada we have a burger chain called Harvey's. That's where we went. When my kids started school, around late '90's they found their friends went to McDonald's so they of course wanted to go to. So we took them, they hated it and never wanted to go back. Not everyone loves McDonald's fries.

@jeffdroog 4 месяца назад

Ah geeze...Harvey's,is the equivalent of Arby's...They're both f-tier trash.True Canadians know how to cook their own food anyhow lol Meals begin with opening boxes of kraft dinner.

@Amber_Oakheart 4 месяца назад

Harvey's fries (and everything else they make) are sooooo good xD, when I went to high school there was one across the street, we'd go there so often.

@JeroenJA 4 месяца назад

Belguim here, nobody (at least native) goes to McDo just for fries, the fries are on the menu cause .. if you don't order a menu you haven't filled up a real meal.. I've probably been in a McDo about 4 times in the past 15 years ? :) , I feel the fries are no different, very predictable and uniform ... and ... never special, but always quite okay.. In Belguim, just getting fries somewhere at random would give you 80% chance to get something better the McDo, in Spain or so, i would say the opposite :), but just don't order fries in Spain, although they brougth pototoes over to europe, they actually only really seem to have real good spanish dished that don't seem to use potatoes :), Paella and such , .. pretty ironic actually, Spain is about the last place i would consider ordening French fries.. unless.. it's from a Belguim frituur.. there are actually a couple of dozen of those now, from Belgians wanting to move to a warmer country and seeing a real lack in good fries for sale there :),

@leobeboop4944 4 месяца назад

I had to watch a video in college earlier from this channel 7 years ago and gosh Simon without a beard took me off guard for a hot minute!

@tony_25or6to4 4 месяца назад

As someone who managed a McDonald's for more than half of the the 80s, the fries cooked in beef tallow were the best. Actually, the best fries were the ones fried at least 8 batches after the tallow charge. The tallow is too clean when it's fresh and needs some carbon to add flavor and color.

@Sandi_shores_lands_fish 4 месяца назад

Sad but true... This is why those street vendors in China know they win over customers with re used street grease Mmmm thats street-ey goodness with a half crook smile ga-ron-teeeeee

@venonat80 4 месяца назад

They are cut thinner and they use a more finer salt. Oil it’s fried isn’t important. All u really need to make the same McD fries is a mortar to grind regular salt more fine. Making the fries thinner means it’ll crisp more without burning the entire stick.

@Exiled.New.Yorker 4 месяца назад

You're factually incorrect. Fat is flavor. Any chef or good home cook will tell you that. Canola/rapeseed oil is popular right now because IT DOESNT have a flavor. Beef fat does have a slight umami flavor, as does lard (pig fat). Any county farmer whos rendered lard can tell you how much flavor is in the stuff...as well as how hard it is to wash off!

@mikeh.1130 4 месяца назад

Beef Talow is far more healthier than any seed oil.

@user-tm4ll4de3t 4 месяца назад

I knew I shouldn’t watch this… just ordered fries for dinner 😂

@scottodowd5735 4 месяца назад

Did he say "rocket surgey" ? 😂😂

@nabbunsechkie 4 месяца назад

These fries are so overrated. To each their own

@ogjk 4 месяца назад

I just started eating my fresh McDonald's french fries on this popped up LOL

@Shoelessjoe78 4 месяца назад

Actually thoroughly enjoyed the little vignette about surnames at the end. Well done

@helljumper912 4 месяца назад

Daven's writing makes me nostalgic for the OG Business Blaze team and Simon's cocaine fueled tangents

@PieterPatrick 4 месяца назад

How are Mc Donalds fries special? ...I don't get it.

@hanknotchinaski8222 4 месяца назад

Most overrated fries ever. But as Zappa once posited, stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

@thomasjones4570 4 месяца назад

They are Nasty, they are garbage compared to Checkers/Rallies fries.

@bettyir4302 4 месяца назад

No more special than any other restaurant fries. They are all coughed on by strangers with dirty hands and waaaaaaay over priced. McD's med fries at $3.89 + tax vs. homemade at 20 cents and still hot.

@edfleming9600 4 месяца назад

Because they are really good, when they are fresh.

@gmoney4980 4 месяца назад

And you probably never had the REAL McD's fries that were fried in tallow. Overrated today, not by much. However, it was not nearly as great as before

@sidequestcellars1056 4 месяца назад

I know I'm only one of a few, but I'm an in-n-out fries guy. Bring on the hate!

@jessgunn6639 4 месяца назад

you can`t beat a barties bag of chips, but i`m in cork ireland so you not gonna be able to try them unless you visit lol, almost worth the cost of the flight they are that good¬ add a cheese and onion pie and i`m in heaven lol

@sidequestcellars1056 4 месяца назад

@@jessgunn6639 this onion pie you speak of intrigues me

@jessgunn6639 4 месяца назад

its a ball of mashed potato onion and cheddar cheese deep fried in batter, total comfort food lol@@sidequestcellars1056

@VeracityLH 3 месяца назад

I was a McD's manager when the change was made to remove beef tallow. It was disastrous. Customers complained nonstop and so did employees. Managers were required to do weekly evaluations at one McD's and one competitor and ur fries suddenly didn't compare as well. Lots of franchises complained to corporate to switch back to beef tallow but corporate said the optics weren't right. 🙄. Every time they choose something like optics over quality it bit local franchises in the arse. And honestly, every fast food manager goes home smelling of grease. It's in your clothes, on your shoes, in your carpets. I can honestly say that the partiality hydrogenated vegetable oil stinks worse than the beef tallow oil did. Ew.

@speedygonzales378 4 месяца назад

Sainsburys frozen extra crispy french fries ten minutes in the air fryer just as good as McDonald's fries.

@redbusters1460 4 месяца назад

I felt offended by the title itself, i'm french, and idk if it's the case in other countries, but i always choose potatoes, their fries are horrendous, litterally the worst... Sorry, but those who likes them must have Covid and therefore no taste... Sorry if it offended everyone, but really...

@vyvianalcott1681 4 месяца назад

Americans have no taste, it's not our fault but it is definitely our loss

@ginashemeth7708 4 месяца назад

Well you are French so being a prick just goes with the territory doesn't it?!?!

@miltonbates6425 4 месяца назад

They used to be awesome when the were cooked in beef tallow. Now they're cooked in seed oils which really does make them gross and cumulatively toxic.

@redbusters1460 4 месяца назад

@@miltonbates6425 Oh, i didn't knew they were cooked in beef tallow before, now it makes sense... sadly nowadays you mostly only find fresh french fries fried in beef tallow if you cook them yourself ( which is far better ).

@JessWLStuart 4 месяца назад

Well, I guess McDonald's fries aren't gluten free!

@Gizmo42Rodeo 3 месяца назад

A round of applause to the editor for using the more correct "psyke" instead of the current abomination of "sike". Though it really should be "psyche".

@Bitchslapper316 4 месяца назад

Finally taking on the important subjects.

@vyvianalcott1681 4 месяца назад

What the fuck was that about eating humans at 4:00? Does your writer need to confess something?

@lovenothate 4 месяца назад

I have Alpha Gal syndrome. The enyzymes in red meat make me sick. Whether it is the actual meat or meat proteins, I'm still likely going to get sick and I have a right to know ahead of time that the food I'm ordering is going to make me sick. They put so much effort into labelling for peanut, tree nut, and gluten allergies, they should be required to list all ingredients that are a known allergy and that includes red meat. Alpha Gal is highly underdiagnosed but is getting diagnosed more finally. So yes, they should have to list that there is beef in their fries. I no longer eat McDonald's, but I wasn't aware that Hardee's fries also have beef flavoring and so I got sick from eating them. If I had known, I could have avoided them or taken my medicine.

@andy888008800 4 месяца назад

0:00 Simon giving his best Orson Welles impression.

@FuriosaSonoran 4 месяца назад

I literally cannot remember the last time I had McDonald's... I walked out hangry the last time i was at one. Not only have the prices gone up to a ridiculous extent that i would rather eat virtually any other food in similar cost category. Now Wendy's I'm genuinely in love with. Once or twice a month i splurge on a Wendy's meal.

@Travybear1989 4 месяца назад

$16 for a Big Mac "meal" where I live. Yep, haven't ate there in years and likely never will again.

@SwingingCreeper 4 месяца назад

So $13 is too much for a double quarter pounder with cheese, large fries, large Coke?

@FuriosaSonoran 4 месяца назад

@@SwingingCreeper considering I can get a 4 pack of turkey bacon from Costco for roughly the same price, and have breakfast for an entire MONTH- YES.

@NnH_Kairyu 4 месяца назад

McDonald's fries have been the best fast food fries during my entire lifetime.

@jessgunn6639 4 месяца назад

then you must not have been to a proper chipper! i`m guessing you are not in ireland or britain lol

@thomasjones4570 4 месяца назад

Limited experienced lifetime...they are Nasty, compared to Checkers/Rallies fries.

@canaan5337 4 месяца назад

I don’t see how they thought potatoes caused leprosy Europe had people with leprosy long before the Spanish brought potatoes back from the other side of the planet.

@EducatedBrute 4 месяца назад

No one ever accused the Europeans of being good at epidemiology. 😂

@AngryChihuahua 4 месяца назад

Do we need a 37 minute video about McDonalds fries? No…am I watching a 37 minute video on McDonalds fries? Yes.

@Caleb1874ya 4 месяца назад

Imagine the first Irish person who tried potatoes… “So I can put this in everything??”

@anthonyhargis6855 4 месяца назад

Well, their fries often times cost more than their hamburgers do. So, why wouldn't they be profitable?

@the_once-and-future_king. 4 месяца назад

Proper chippy chips are 1000x better than any fast food corporation!

@thomasjones4570 4 месяца назад

Checkers/Rallies fries beats that by a mile.

@AnotherPointOfView944 4 месяца назад

That's the great thing about opinions in the West .... they are free opinions.

@marvindebot3264 4 месяца назад

I'd put Hungry Jacks (Burger King) fries way above Maccas fries at least in Australia; maybe it's different in the US but Jacks fries are crisp outside, fluffy inside and have the best seasoning.

@uzaiyaro 4 месяца назад

Please do a story on how potato farming turned into Micron. I promise it will be good. For those who are unaware, micron make memory products. Flash memory and RAM, both of which every phone, tablet, and computer needs. They’re one of the world’s biggest players in the field, and are at the forefront of it.