{"id":3145,"date":"2003-06-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/06\/01\/2003-06-01-mcdonald-s-where-s-the-beef-just-about-everywhere-including-the-fries\/"},"modified":"2003-06-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-01T12:00:00","slug":"2003-06-01-mcdonald-s-where-s-the-beef-just-about-everywhere-including-the-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/06\/01\/2003-06-01-mcdonald-s-where-s-the-beef-just-about-everywhere-including-the-fries\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald’s: Where’s the Beef? Just About Everywhere, Including the Fries!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KAUAI, HAWAII, June 1, 2003: An HPI reader asked a logical question upon hearing about the $10,000,000 settlement and apology coming from McDonald’s for misleading vegetarians into thinking the company’s french fries were vegetarian. He asked, “Did they take the meat out?” The answer is no.

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\nOn their list of ingredients (“source” above) is this: “Large French Fries: Potatoes, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, natural flavor (beef source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (to preserve natural color). Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and\/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and\/or partially hydrogenated canola oil and\/or cottonseed oil and\/or sunflower oil and\/or corn oil). TBHQ and citric acid added to help preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an anti-foaming agent.”

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\nPrior to the lawsuit, this list just said “natural flavor” without any further qualification, and vegetarians often assumed the flavor was not meat-derived.

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\nSo, what can a vegetarian eat at McDonald’s? Not much. A scroll through the list of ingredients reveals vegetarian lettuce and tomatoes (hard to change that), maybe a Big Mac bun, but not the Big Mac sauce (egg yolks). Forget the “Creamy Herb Sauce” and “Tartar Sauce” (both with egg yolks) as well as “California Cobb Salad (without chicken)” but with chopped cooked eggs. You can — but would you? — eat the mustard (out of the packet), the ketchup, the dried onions and the pickle slices. You might be tempted by the “Ceasar Salad (without chicken)” except for the part about Paramesan Cheese, cheese culture and “enzymes,” any of which could contain rennet (an enzyme derived from calf’s stomach, but also produced artificially, used to make cheese). It does appear — but we make no guarantee — that the “Side Salad” and the “Butter Garlic Croutons” along with “Newman’s Own Light Balsamic Vianaigrette” salad dressing, might be vegetarian, but not vegan, what with the “butter oil” in the croutons.

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\nHave a nice lunch. The coffee’s OK.<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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