Mcdonalds French Fries

[udonuk1]

I really love McDonalds French fries. I can eat 2 ordered large fries, but lately I don’t have time to go to McDonalds that’s why I bought French fries cutter.
If you make french fries regularly then having a specialized potato cutter can be a real help in the kitchen. A French fry cutter is the best kitchen accessory if you want to produce your own home made fries. Make loads of fries in minutes. Metal and plastic construction with a sharp stainless steel cutting grid makes this unit as it is functional, includes two stainless steel cutting plates, one for regular fries and one for shoestring fries.

Cutter sounds great, but if you are lazy and miss those fries, you can get mcdonalds delivered by calling 1711, only 20 baht delivery fee ! Telling the Bangkok based call centre your exact Udon address details seems to take longer than the actual delivery and the consumption
http://www.mcthai.co.th/deliverycontent_en.php?catid=1

[panick]

MacDonalds' fries are certainly non-processed, fresh from the farm potatoes and among the best. For decades MacDonalds has carefully managed its supply of potatoes by contracting with large farms to meet its specifications and schedules. They do the same with all their suppliers.

Total BOLLOX!!!! ..... Have you ever seen anything that is non-processed and stocked by them???

They're the same as KFC .... Cheap frozen goods, raised/grown and supplied by the closest 3rd word country!
Supplied in abundance to keep costs down and profits up!

[panick]

Prabably McCains ...... Processed chips ( KFC have used for over 40yrs )

[LoveDaBlues]

THE french fry was "almost sacrosanct for me," Ray Kroc, one of the founders of McDonald's, wrote in his autobiography, "its preparation a ritual to be followed religiously." During the chain's early years french fries were made from scratch every day. Russet Burbank potatoes were peeled, cut into shoestrings, and fried in McDonald's kitchens. As the chain expanded nationwide, in the mid-1960s, it sought to cut labor costs, reduce the number of suppliers, and ensure that its fries tasted the same at every restaurant. McDonald's began switching to frozen french fries in 1966 -- and few customers noticed the difference. Nevertheless, the change had a profound effect on the nation's agriculture and diet. A familiar food had been transformed into a highly processed industrial commodity. McDonald's fries now come from huge manufacturing plants that can peel, slice, cook, and freeze two million pounds of potatoes a day. The rapid expansion of McDonald's and the popularity of its low-cost, mass-produced fries changed the way Americans eat. In 1960 Americans consumed an average of about eighty-one pounds of fresh potatoes and four pounds of frozen french fries. In 2000 they consumed an average of about fifty pounds of fresh potatoes and thirty pounds of frozen fries. Today McDonald's is the largest buyer of potatoes in the United States.

McDonald's French Fries:
Potatoes, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, natural flavor (beef, wheat and dairy sources), 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). Contains derivatives of wheat and dairy.

[markdamaroyd]

You will find that mcds and the like cannot call their fries chips or french fries

Just Noticed in the topic title you called them french Fries though....

Quick solution to this. Get your missus down to the market for some lovely plump spuds and enjoy your homemade burger and real French fries tonight.

[Adhoc]

Only 2 words to describe McDonald's french fries: absolute crap.

[Aardvark]

Give me the good old fashioned Chip any time ! I make my own at home and they don't get better than that

[TJ]

Only 2 words to describe McDonald's french fries: absolute crap.

Tastes differ. In the U.S. many go to McDonalds for the fries. Never heard anyone say they didn't like them.

IMO the fries are the best tasting item on the McDonald's menu and I have to discipline myself to have only the small portion of fries.

My search for good "chips" in fish and chips in Pattaya was disappointing. I doubt that I have ever had decent fish and chips, though the fish were good.

[docta]

Following Wazza's #4 post, are French Fry cutters sold in Udon, anyone know?

[Frans]

Why the are calling frenched petatoes "French"?Are the not discovered in Belgium and sliced with a petatoe knife? But to give a answer on where to get a "potato cutter"; i have see them last year on the marked.

[BobHelm]

Well Franz....
I think that our American cousins started off calling them 'French Fries'. In the UK we would have normally called sliced & deep fried potatoes 'Chips". However in America 'Chips' is used as the name for very finely sliced & deep fried flat potato normally found in packets, what are called 'Crisps' in the UK.
In fairness the name 'French Fries' is also often used in the UK now as the word for very finely cut 'Chips' - as available from Big Mac.

[papaguido]

French fry history lesson:

The phrase means potatoes fried in the French sense of the verb "to cook", which can mean either sautéing or deep frying. While its French origin, frire, unambiguously means deep-frying, frites being its past participle is used with a plural feminine substantive, as in pommes de terre frites ("deep-fried potatoes").[5][6] Thomas Jefferson at a White House dinner in 1802 served "potatoes served in the French manner".[5][7][8] In the early 20th century, the term "French fried" was being used for foods such as onion rings or chicken, apart from potatoes.[9][10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries

[Adhoc]

My search for good "chips" in fish and chips in Pattaya was disappointing. I doubt that I have ever had decent fish and chips, though the fish were good.[/quote]

The Pig & Whistle on soi 7, have decent fish'n'chips. I'd give the chips a six, the fish an eight, the batter a 7, ish, and the mushy peas, 9. (all out of 10 for those of you who will have a problem with this)
Simon's in Jomtien was good, but that has gone now

[old-timer]

My search for good "chips" in fish and chips in Pattaya was disappointing.

OT might be wrong here, is the fish and chips in England is so much better than Asia because the fish comes out of freezing cold seas. Would that make any difference to the taste and texture of the fish or am I talking nonsense.

OT........

[panick]

Plenty of good tasting fish here!
It's just the batter and chips that ruin it

Thai potates don't fry like English potatoes ... chip them first, boil for about 10mins with lotsa' salt .. then fry

Batter? ... I like bread crumbs ... but if you want a good crispy batter? ... STD batter mix BUT instead of milk use Soda water? ( haven't tried it myself yet, but, there's several people here that swear by it!! )

[fredwilliams]

French fries, (or rather the incorrect 'french fries'') were invented by a French chef in a New York hotel/restaurant.

British 'chips' on the other hand are far superior and not a million miles off of American home fries, but they come with salt & vinegar, mushy peas or gravy depending on where you are in the country.

The best fish & chips in the world are to be found at Steele's in Cleethorpes.

Yum!

[pienmash]

I must concur Fred .... Steeles in Cleethorpes is 100% best in the world !!?? ..... far better than the much more well known Harry Ramsdens in Yorkshire (i think Leeds or there abouts).

[Adhoc]

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I must concur Fred .... Steeles in Cleethorpes is 100% best in the world !!?? ..... far better than the much more well known Harry Ramsdens in Yorkshire (i think Leeds or there abouts).

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Harry Ramsdens is in Guisley, just outside Leeds, and I also think they are over rated, (btw I'm from Leeds)
There are a few good chippys left, but they're dwindling fast. The best fish 'n' chips are cooked in beef dripping, they taste so much better than those cooked in oil.

[pienmash]

You are spot on about the dripping and the dwindling number of good traditional chippys remaining in blighty Adhoc , i ate in Ramsdens (25 yrs ago) whilst working at the Airdayle AC plant in Leeds , not a patch on Steeles in Cleggy and just for the record fish n chips MUST be served in newspaper when for a takeaway meal never mind what all these health freaks say .

[Dokya]

Don't please....Steeles....Jumbo Haddock, Chips and Mushy Peas with bread n' butter on the side....pure lush, (just around the corner from my house in Cleethorpes), beats the cr*p out of Ramsdens and that includes the Guisely outlet even before they went too commercialsied and now sell that frozen, breaded poor excuse for fish...anyway we all know that haddock is the best for fish n' chips, you can keep your cod it's only good for fishcakes...well it was in our house anyway.