Saturday, May 31, 2014

Baskeball Honor: Call the Fouls You Make

In the Bluegrass State (and maybe in other areas that take basketball almost as seriously as we do), we have a tradition of playing pickup games without referees in which players call fouls as a matter of basketball honor...and so, in this same spirit,  I am calling a foul on myself...McDonald's French Fries...clearly, potato, a vegetable, and widely known to be fried in vegetable oil...but, alas, a "secret ingredient" to make those fries so tasty is one part derived from a cow. I have been doing quite a bit more research on things vegan and discovered that I might be in violation of PETA, et al based on the following (from www.mcdonalds.com) :

MCDONALD'S FRENCH FRIES                                                 

Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [Wheat and Milk Derivatives]*, Citric Acid [Preservative]), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (Maintain Color), Salt. Prepared in Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil with TBHQ and Citric Acid added to preserve freshness), Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.
*CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK.


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