@sun >For the love of god make McDonald's use beef fat again for cooking fries too. I think they can't force people to use a specific animal fat for a specific brand but they can however say, "no more seed oils are allowed as they are dangerous for brain human development".
@sun he's pretty well read when it comes to medicinal compounds. i used to read the occasional children's health defense article and AJ was not wrong when he said its sourced to the guilles.
the article on mercury in flu shots had like 12 government funded studies on how mercury kills you actually
@why@sun If they just change it for mcd then it won't be a significant nor perceptible change yes. Except of course if the stereotypes are true and that Americans only eat at mcd.
@mangeurdenuage@sun im saying the bro science around sneed oils and corn syrup are silly fringe theories, and after experimenting on the entire US population there will be no statistical significance. corpo lawyers will argue that the government cannot force a corporation to just make their food taste better, and win, and they will go back to saving pennies on getting the lowest price ingredients. this is all assuming something ever happens. more likely scenarios: -the "stop sneed oils!!" act will never take off -itll be so full of loopholes that no change happens -backfire! the new rules will allow Big Slop to use even worse ingredients, including sneed oils (this one is my favorite)
@why@mangeurdenuage Yeah I looked into the corn syrup thing and studies suggest it's not different than sugar for health purposes. I still hold on to the idea a bit though because bodybuilders swear corn syrup causes uptake faster and they deliberately use it for after-workout muscle repair. I know they're a bunch of meatheads but they are meatheads who are highly motivated by finding every minor competitive edge.
@sun@why Something something protein. You can't the body builders seriously when they add so much stuff in their diet, it might as be placebo at that point. As for corn sirup/sugar, they're sugars, such sauntities aren't part of a normal human diet originally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uncd7SvT94c
@sun I don't remember early 1980s McDonald's fries as being anything spectacular, though they were pretty good if you could get them made fresh. In-N-Out fries of the time were really awesome IF you ordered them well-done, no-salt and then ate them immediately.
Some time in the 1990s, McDonald's fries were really great. I don't recall whether they were using beef fat or hydrogenated vegetable oil by that time.
The best fries I ever had were cooked by my siblings and I using Crisco vegetable shortening in the 1970s.
(French fries have been a top-5 favorite food since the 1960s, but most food places serve really terrible fries.)
@sun You shouldn't have regular Coke anyway, because of the sugar content, but Home Depot in SoCal sells "Mexican Coke" bottled in Mexico with real sugar instead of corn syrup. It tastes **much** better.
@lnxw37j1 some guy had a heart attack and went apeshit on mcdonalds calling them murderers in full page ads in newspapers and forced them to change to vegetable oil
@why@mono@mangeurdenuage yeah so what bodybuilders found was highly specific to their purposes but has implications for regular people's health if true. basically confirm that corn syrup really will make you fatter than cane sugar.
@VD15 @sun No, it generally isn't. Too much saturated fat can cause cardiovascular issues (which is why medical doctors still generally recommend vegetable oil over animal fats), but in moderation, even high sat-fat substances like coconut oil are okay.
There are some vegetable oils that are artificially (fully or partially) saturated to change their consistency. I think those are worse.
@sun Must have happened after 1986. Before that, I read at least two newspapers front to back (except the entertainment section and parts of the classified ads) each day.
I'm sure it would have been as attention-getting as those "the Christ is now here" ads.