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This morning brings me to the latest McDonald’s commercial I’ve seen, in their attempt to health-up their image.

So the commercial features some alleged mommy group visiting the potato farms from which McDonald’s allegedly buys their potatoes, and the women are like, “I like the fact this is all family run.” and “I had no idea raising potatoes was like this” (and I’m thinking you’re a moron!), and then the grand statement of all, “I feel much better about McDonald’s fries now that I know where they come from.”

Say what? Are you insane? Go, right now, and throw yourself off a cliff because you’re too stupid to live! It’s the PROCESS, you idiot, that makes a potato bad, even if it’s raised in an organic environment! Deep frying. All that fat. All that sodium that’s then dumped on them. Did you ever think to ask what are McDonald’s frying their fries in? Oh no. Now that we’ve been to the farm and seen that ohmigodlookatthat they’re gown in (gasp!) real dirt! – they must be okay because it was a FAMILY that dug them up!

From McDonald’s own website: ingredients in French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethypolysiloxane.

::headdesk::

Yeah, and like that’s good for you?!

My fries, roasted not fried: potatoes, olive oil, sometimes rosemary if I want to switch up and sometimes chilli peppers. Salt if you feel like it, but I don’t add. 30 minutes tops to prepare and roast. How fast food is that?

In fact, you can make a whole fast-food fish and chips meal in that time by trying my Fish Sticks, Fries and Pepper Sticks recipe in my cookbook, Stonehouse Cooks, which is available in print and eBook formats from online booksellers everywhere.