Wendy's "natural" cut fries with sea salt (what's a natural cut fry?)

[DainBramaged]

Just what is natural about these fries anyway? Turns out, not much. Yahoo! Finance spelled it out last week, reporting that Wendy’s CEO Ken Calwell said that making the fries all-natural instead of just putting “natural” in their title wouldn’t sit well with “fast-food customers' demands for items that are cheap and can be hoisted through a car window.”

Now, before anyone freaks out and says, “Of course, he blames it on the consumer,” I’d like to point to something I saw last week. On “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” Oliver found an independent fast-food restaurant owner who was willing to have Oliver make suggestions for creating menu items with better ingredients. When he revamped a burger with good beef and let a customer taste test the “good beef” burger vs. the restaurant's regular burger, the customer like the good beef burger much better. But, when the customer was told that the burger he liked would cost $2 more than the other burger, the customer said he’d buy the cheaper burger, even though he knew the ingredients weren’t as good.

So when Wendy’s CEO says customers want food that’s cheap, I don’t blame him for telling the truth.

Okay, back to the fries. Where does the natural come in? It comes in when the potatoes are cut with their natural skins still on. That’s it. To quote the article
The fries are sprayed with sodium acid pyrophosphate, a chemical that prevents them from turning brown from two baths in frying oil — one at the factory and the other at the store. They're also dusted with dextrose, a sugar derived from corn, for similar purposes.

And just like every other large fast-food chain, Wendy's frying oil is dosed with dimethylpolysiloxane, a silicone-based chemical that helps keep the vegetable oil from getting foamy after countless rounds of frying.

http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/blogs/whats-natural-about-wendys-natural-cut-fries


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[Ezlivin]

1. A natural cut is about 7" long

Oh, wrong forum....

[Cronus Protagonist]

6. "natural cut" is an oxymoron

In all interpretations.

[Ezlivin]

7. Would you like fries with that?

:)

[geardaddy]

9. 16 schnitzengruben's my limit.

[Kurovski]

24. Sounds like they leave half the foreskin intact.

[Motown_Johnny]

10. self delete

[damntexdem]

2. And with sea salt. Translation: salt plus contaminants.

And I've tried them. Don't like them: too greasy and too salty.

[Keith Bee]

12. And higher sodium content

Less easily digested, so it can clog your arteries more efficiently! :patriot:

[phantom power]

3. I think it means "left the skin on it"

So, skin plus dimethylpolysiloxane.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. That should be the uncut

[DJ13]

5. Uncut would be a baked potato

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. Oh. but they're so tasty!

[cloudbase]

11. Become a potato moyel.

It's a growth industry.

[Ikonoklast]

15. Keep your rusty scalpel away from my

...Tater Tot!

[crickets]

13. The detailed description is enough

to turn me off of fast food fries for good. Bleh.

[Initech]

14. Go to a place like In-N-Out or Five Guys where you can see them using real potatoes.

[DainBramaged]

16. In-N-Out. ahhhh, such memories

Karl's Jr., Sonic, memories from the road.........yummers

[backscatter712]

20. Mmmmmm... Five Guys... n/t

[Xithras]

22. I was just about to bring that up. In-N-Out shows how false his statement really is.

Had In-N-Out for lunch today. The place was packed, and I didn't see any uneaten fries.

In-N-Out Fries Price $1.30

Wendy's Fries Price: $1.56 (medium sized)


Customers like them. And they're cheaper. Healthier too.

[Initech]

26. French Fries animal style = win.

[HopeHoops]

17. That's where an employee farts a laser beam after a Schlitz binge night....

And they pass it through a prism to slice the potato. Then they capture the gas and deliver it to the dining room for that pleasant "natural cut fries" smell.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

18. In the immortal words of George S. Clinton, "Do Fries Go With That Shake?" LOL! n/t

[Countdown_3_2_1]

19. NATURAL FRIES ARE CURLY FRIES

Yeah, I'm a sick puppy, but that's the first thing that came to mind.
If its any consolation, my wife finds it disgusting too.

[backscatter712]

21. Results in 300 pounds of all-natural fat in your ass... n/t

[Kurovski]

25. LOL.

:D

[quaker bill]

23. They aren't peeled.