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Chips

  • 09-05-2008 12:15PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭


    Under the assumption that chippers use lard, I stopped eating chips a few months ago. It's hardly killing me, but I miss them. Do they all still use lard?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭Nature Boy


    Don't think so. As far as I know most use veg oil (I could be wrong...). But most will cook them in the same oil as fish/chicken etc. I had burdock chips the other day. One tasted like onion rings, the next tasted like fish, the next tasted like chicken (and so on...).
    I know they're not real chips but McDonald's chips are definately veggie (use veg oil, and are cooked seperately)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭BurnsCarpenter


    Nature Boy wrote: »
    I know they're not real chips but McDonald's chips are definately veggie (use veg oil, and are cooked seperately)

    I thought they had some beef extract in them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭oblivious


    I thought they had some beef extract in them?


    From 2001

    McDonald's French fries are essentially cooked twice. Central suppliers wash, steam-peel, cut, blanch, dry, par-fry and then freeze the potatoes that make the famous golden slivers. During the par-frying, ''a minuscule amount of beef extract is added,'' the company said.

    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0504-02.htm


  • Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Isn't the selling point of Burdocks that they are cooked in lard?

    I don't like chips.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Slaphead07


    Moonbaby wrote: »
    Isn't the selling point of Burdocks that they are cooked in lard?
    it used to be but I'm pretty sure that was along time ago.... around the time they used coal fired cookers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Peanut


    Burger King chips are also vegetarian, they're the only big fast food chain to have veg. society approved stuff on their menus. It's just a pity they're not so great. Go to London and get Maoz fries :-p




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    Oh yeah that's what I'm talkin' about!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭Nature Boy


    oblivious wrote: »
    From 2001

    McDonald's French fries are essentially cooked twice. Central suppliers wash, steam-peel, cut, blanch, dry, par-fry and then freeze the potatoes that make the famous golden slivers. During the par-frying, ''a minuscule amount of beef extract is added,'' the company said.

    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0504-02.htm

    Wow, I always thought they were veggie. I knew they used lard or whatever but I thought all that changed.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Moonbaby wrote: »

    I don't like chips.

    Wtf


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    i've found actually a really large amount of chippers in new zealand are really really vegetarian friendly, and use as low fat oil as they can, in general. though it can be a bit of an effort to persuade our local one that we don't want chicken salt on them... usually, if a place here is veggie friendly, they let you know, and advertise the fact.

    though that's mcdonalds chips ruined for me now :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭oblivious


    though that's mcdonalds chips ruined for me now :(


    that was for the US, maybe things are differ in Europe or they could;d have changed since 2001?

    but the last paragraph does say a lot!:eek:

    ''Not only did they deceive these people,'' he said. ''Now they are claiming that all these people were deceived because they were stupid. This adds insult to injury.''


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,128 ✭✭✭sweet-rasmus


    yeah, always been curious about chippers. i assume they fry everything in the same oil, but the type of oil/fat is a curiosity... anyone got any chipper-working friends?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Peanut


    Contrary to popular belief, you don't get exactly the same thing in each McDonalds around the world.

    The confusion here is because the vegetarian suitability of the fries has differed from country to country.

    Currently, McDonald's fries in the UK are explicitly suitable for Vegetarians, as per here (eat smart->nutitrion counter->fries and dips), no doubt due to the large vegetarian lobby there. (I imagine it would be the same in somewhere like India.)

    There appears to be no such specific guarantee for the Irish franchises - they say
    here
    that the cooking oil is 100% veg, but like someone said, that doesn't mean that the fries aren't prepared with animal derived ingredients.

    (To further confuse things, their worldwide nutrition information site at http://www.mcdonaldsmenu.info/ourmenu.jsp says that nothing on the menu is certified as vegetarian, however I would believe the country-specific sites over that one)

    Maybe someone could ask them to clarify it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭Nature Boy


    Moonbaby wrote: »
    I don't like chips.

    I didn't think that was possible...


  • Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Its not like I'm a freak. I love potatos. Mashed,Boiled, Roast, Boxty, Potato Cake.

    I do eat proper from the potato chips if needs be. I just don't like them enough to eat them for other than social reasons.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭armada104


    Thanks for the responses. Suppose it depends, I'd feel like a twat asking though. Suppose I'll stay off them, I could do with losing the weight anyway.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Moonbaby wrote: »

    I don't like chips.
    [/QUOTE]

    Contradiction?

    :P


  • Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    armada104 wrote: »
    Thanks for the responses. Suppose it depends, I'd feel like a twat asking though. Suppose I'll stay off them, I could do with losing the weight anyway.


    I know where I live all the chippers use Veg oil, as I have seen the containers left out for the binmen.

    I would imagine lard is actually quite rare.
    I'm sure they get people doing all sorts in a chipper, face your fear of twatdom.


  • Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Contradiction?

    :P[/quote]

    Bah.....I'm not fussy enough to turn my nosy up at something I don't like.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Oh i quoted wrong.
    I don't like chips.
    Its not like I'm a freak.

    Contradiction? ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭Washout


    Ive probably said this b4 a dozen times but chips beans and fresh brennans bread laden with kerrygold butter is just my idea of food heaven.

    edit: what about mikeyDs curly fries?


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  • Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    OOHHhh :D.

    I'm on a recipe expanding drive, and on the cards someday this week is potatos and pasta.
    Sounds so wrong, but it might make me like that devil seed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 939 ✭✭✭Aurora Borealis


    Peanut wrote: »
    Burger King chips are also vegetarian, they're the only big fast food chain to have veg. society approved stuff on their menus. It's just a pity they're not so great. Go to London and get Maoz fries :-p




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    Oh yeah that's what I'm talkin' about!

    Omigod can't tell you how hungry i am looking at that!!

    So hard to be sure the fats used are veggie friendly. Even burger king though kosher with their chips use meat/fish contaminated oil for beanburgers etc... Grrr.........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Many people see hydrogenated veg oil in chippers and presume it is lard. I would imagine most chippers oil has had meat cooked in it too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Peanut


    Omigod can't tell you how hungry i am looking at that!!
    :)
    So hard to be sure the fats used are veggie friendly. Even burger king though kosher with their chips use meat/fish contaminated oil for beanburgers etc... Grrr.........

    I think they say on the menu, it may be cooked in the same oil as fish or chicken thingys. I'm not sure if I'd feel like asking though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    Peanut wrote: »
    :)
    I think they say on the menu, it may be cooked in the same oil as fish or chicken thingys. I'm not sure if I'd feel like asking though.


    My veggie girlfriend asked in a chippers recently...

    Well, first she asked were the chips suitable for vegetarians, and they said yes.

    Then she asked are they cooked in same oil as meats etc. Yes!! they said.

    Cue, confused chipper man not understanding why this might be a problem....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Peanut


    Yes, he was thinking, all that meaty goodness for no extra charge!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    we've got a chip frier which cooks chips with only one spoonful of oil per kilo. they are seriously nice!!! and another huge benefit is no smell!!!


  • Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    we've got a chip frier which cooks chips with only one spoonful of oil per kilo. they are seriously nice!!! and another huge benefit is no smell!!!

    I wondering about that fryer. Is it only chips or could I use it to "deep fry" anything?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    you can use it to cook anything you like. it acts more like a fan assisted oven turning constantly rather than a deep fryer.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Sounds cool, Picz?


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