2026-09-20 06:30 UTC
@sysop408@sfba.social this same company makes avocado oil kettle chips and they are delicious. Sold at Whole Foods. No reason to get beef tallow versions. Beef tallow goes rancid very quickly and that’s why beef jerky is always very lean cuts or completely juiced with preservatives.
I don’t know how McDonald’s did it (probably preservatives) but their fries were cooked in beef tallow through the 1980’s and they were great. Nowadays it’s vegetable oil and “beef flavor” derived from milk, wheat, and stonewalling from corporate.
https://www.vrg.org/blog/2025/01/24/mcdonalds-french-fries-contain-a-milk-ingredient-natural-flavor/
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@sysop408@sfba.social 2026-09-20 07:42
@bryan@dusty.ninja yup, I really like their avocado oil chips so I thought their weird detour into beef tallow potato chips would be worth trying. The McDonald’s fries of old was what I was hoping I’d get a whiff of. There actually is one fast food place that does include beef tallow in their frying oil. It’s Weinerschnitzel. Although it’s different, you can catch a hint of the old McDonald’s fry flavor through them. There’s also a small chain that used to be around the Bay Area with beef tallow as a component of their oil, it was Smashburger.