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On 06/24/10 3:23 PM, sometime in the recent past Mark Thorson posted this:
> projectile vomit chick wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 24, 12:57 pm, > wrote:
>>> It becomes as silly as McDonald's defense 'that we never claimed our French
>>> Fries were vegetarian.'

>>
>> You must be too young to remember when McDonalds (and lots of other
>> places) fried their French fries in tallow.

>
> As I recall, it was a 50/50 mix of beef fat and lard.
>
> If you eat French fries, you really shouldn't care
> about that. Unless it's one of those new weird
> fats.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesterified_fat

I found the interesterified fat a couple of months ago and did the research.
You can't call this one 'new.' But they dug it up again after trans fats
were getting bad press.

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