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Steve Wertz > wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:06:10 GMT, Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>
> > Omelet > wrote:
> >>Sorry, but I've heard from people recently that McD's new "Trans-fat
> >>free" fries suck. I've not tried them.

> >
> > They should put the tallow back in.

>
> Now they're using some other sort of chemically-modified oil to
> replace the trans-fat and there's some questions whether this
> stuff is really any safer (I forget what they call it, but I've
> seen it on a bunch of labels lately. It is of course an ADM
> invention).
>
> I say go back to tallow, too. At least it's all-natural and
> trans-fat free.
>
> The same people/groups who made us switch from beef tallow in the
> 80's to hydrogenated vegetable oils in the 90's are now the same
> people telling us to ban hydrogenated vegetable oil too (and even
> suing for it). I really wish they'd make up their minds,m those
> damn hypocrites.
>
> http://www.trans-fatfacts.com/why.htm
>
> -sw


I'd vote for bacon grease.

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