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{{Short description|McDonald's product}}
'''McDonald's french fries''', marketed as '''World Famous Fries'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/french-fries-medium.html|title=World Famous Fries|publisher=McDonald's|access-date=2020-04-08}}</ref> are a [[french fries]] product at the fast food restaurant [[McDonald's]].▼
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[[File:French Fries.png|thumb|The french fries in a red french fry box with the [[Golden Arches]]]]
▲'''McDonald's french fries''', marketed as '''World Famous Fries''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/french-fries-medium.html|title=World Famous Fries|publisher=McDonald's|access-date=2020-04-08|archive-date=2020-04-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200427163243/https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/french-fries-medium.html|url-status=live}}</ref> are a [[french fries]] product at the fast food restaurant [[McDonald's]].
==History==
[[File:HK Kln Bay Telford Plaza McDonalds Restaurant McSPICY Chicken Filet French fries Nov-2014 Love mark sign n coke.jpg|thumb|right|McDonald's french fries alongside a chicken sandwich
Introduced in
In the 1950s, CEO and founder [[Ray Kroc]] established quality control measures for McDonald's suppliers, ensuring potatoes maintained a solids content within the optimal range of twenty to twenty-three percent.<ref name=NY>
In the late 1980s, [[Phil Sokolof]], a millionaire businessman who had suffered a heart attack at the age of 43, took out full-page newspaper ads in New York, Chicago, and other large cities accusing McDonald's menu of being a threat to American health, and asking them to stop using [[beef tallow]] to cook their
After this sustained campaign, including by the [[Phil Sokolof|National Heart Savers Association]] against [[saturated fat]]s and the beef tallow they were using,<ref name="OriginalFormula">{{Cite web|url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/original-mcdonalds-french-fry|title=The Original McDonald's French Fry|website=Atlas Obscura|language=en|access-date=2020-04-09|archive-date=2020-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815021015/https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/original-mcdonalds-french-fry|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Formula47">{{Cite web|url=https://www.popsugar.com/node/43864417|title=Truth Is, No Millennials Have Tried McDonald's Original French Fries|last=Roberts|first=Anna Monette|date=2017-10-30|website=POPSUGAR Food|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |date=2004-04-17 |title=Phil Sokolof, 82, a Crusader Against Cholesterol, Is Dead |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/17/us/phil-sokolof-82-a-crusader-against-cholesterol-is-dead.html |access-date=2022-12-04 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2022-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209174740/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/17/us/phil-sokolof-82-a-crusader-against-cholesterol-is-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref> in 1990, they switched to vegetable oil with beef flavouring.<ref name='MC'>{{Cite web |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mc-donalds-world-famous-fries-heres-how-they-evolved-in-the-past-50-years-163854625.html |title=McDonald's world famous fries: Here's how they evolved in the past 50 years |access-date=2024-04-28 |archive-date=2023-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231224070607/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mc-donalds-world-famous-fries-heres-how-they-evolved-in-the-past-50-years-163854625.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name='BT'/> McDonald's has not disclosed whether its beef flavouring contains meat, but it is known to contain milk byproducts.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Foreman |first1=Polly |title=Are McDonald’s Fries Vegan? |url=https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/are-mcdonalds-fries-vegan/ |work=Plant Based News |date=April 19, 2023}}</ref> In 2002, McDonald's paid US$10 million to settle lawsuits that accused the chain of mislabeling its french fries as vegetarian.<ref>{{cite news |title=McDonald's to beef up in India with meatless menu |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-to-beef-up-in-india-with-meatless-menu/ |work=CBS News |date=September 5, 2012}}</ref>
▲In the late 1980s, [[Phil Sokolof]], a millionaire businessman who had suffered a heart attack at the age of 43, took out full-page newspaper ads in New York, Chicago, and other large cities accusing McDonald's menu of being a threat to American health, and asking them to stop using [[beef tallow]] to cook their [[french fries]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2004/apr/16/local/me-sokolof16|title=Phil Sokolof, 82; Used His Personal Fortune in Fight Against High-Fat Foods|date=April 16, 2004|author=Dennis McLellan|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=August 11, 2017|archive-date=August 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821024939/http://articles.latimes.com/2004/apr/16/local/me-sokolof16|url-status=live}}</ref>
The "thin style" french fries have been popularised worldwide in large part by McDonald's and [[Burger King]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Popularization|date=21 April 2011 |url=https://www.today.com/food/how-time-fries-have-potatoes-outlived-their-potential-1C9005243|access-date=3 January 2018|publisher=today.com|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030090642/https://www.today.com/food/how-time-fries-have-potatoes-outlived-their-potential-1C9005243|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Product==
In the United States, McDonald's
As for the manufacturing process, the potatoes are first brought to the plant, where they are mechanically cut, blanched, partially fried, flash-frozen, and then shipped to individual restaurants of the franchise
*[[French fries]]▼
==References==
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