{"id":527,"date":"2002-09-03T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-03T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=527"},"modified":"2021-05-17T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:23:58","slug":"today-in-french-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/09\/03\/today-in-french-fries\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in French Fries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/foodbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; As reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/food\/2002-09-02-mcdonalds-fries_x.htm\"><i>USA Today<\/i><\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2002\/09\/03\/news\/companies\/mcdonalds\/index.htm\">CNN<\/a>, McDonald&#8217;s is contemplating changing the way they make their world famous French fries. &#8220;America&#8217;s favorite french fries are about to get even better,&#8221; says McDonald&#8217;s president Mike Roberts in the <i>USA Today<\/i> article. &#8220;This is a major step toward the elimination of trans-fatty acid from our cooking oil.&#8221;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;Bottom line,&#8221; the article continues: &#8220;The trans fat in a small bag of McDonald&#8217;s fries will shrink 47% to 1.8 grams from 3.4. Saturated fat will drop 17% to 1.9 grams from 2.3.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;&#8216;This doesn&#8217;t turn french fries into a health food,&#8217; warns Margot Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a critic of fast food. &#8216;But McDonald&#8217;s should be applauded for taking a step forward.&#8217;&#8221;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Some are concerned the change might detrimentally alter the taste of McDonald&#8217;s famous fries, but our experts in the SFG Kitchens believe the taste hasn&#8217;t been the same since they stopped using beef tallow in 1990.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; As reported in USA Today and on CNN, McDonald&#8217;s is contemplating changing the way they make their world famous French fries. &#8220;America&#8217;s favorite french fries are about to get even better,&#8221; says McDonald&#8217;s president Mike Roberts in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/09\/03\/today-in-french-fries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-links","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}