/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15451634
No.

>>15451634
yes

>>15451634
Probably, i dont think fast food joints cook with beef oil anymore, its all about being healthy now

>>15451634
It's complicated

>>15451639
beef tallow is healthier than vegetable oil. it's about cutting costs

>ywn taste 90s McDonald's

>>15451634
Mcd fries used to be the greatest fries on earth

>>15451634
90s was peak mcdonalds and everything was bigger mostly meat at least.

>>15451642

Well vegetarians pitched a fit the fries weren't vegetarian.

>>15451674
They still aren't, paranoid faggot
>>15451642
It's not. There was a huge uproar about beef Tallow causing heart attacks, and they had to change it. Revisionist history podcast has an episode about it. There's actually no evidence it causes heart attacks, but the 90's were the worst decade for nutrition science

>>15451634
taco bell was awesome in the 90s. now, they just suck ass.

>>15451684
i'm sure the fact that vegetable oil is dirt cheap from subsidies didn't impact their decision at all

>>15451705
It didn't, they resisted the change for a long time because they knew it tasted worse and were terrified it would gut their sales

>>15451684
>>15451708
or maybe the heart problems came from the white bread and liters on liters of sugar water

Things changed with time, even in the early 2000's Buger King had totally different items, whether it was the chicken nuggets being odd oval shapes, or the fries being a mimicry of McDonald's.

>>15451634
There was a time when McDonalds fried their fries in beef tallow(or something like that).
But I think they switched before the 90s

>>15452114
fuck the white bread hate meme, its so widespread in my country that people think that rye bread somehow has different calorie density to white one and is some food of the gods because it has 30% more fiber

>>15452154
Burger king's model isn't based on consistency like McDonald's. They are always changing their menu, adding and removing new items.

>>15452168
Rye bread is sugar free. Sugar is addictive and causes hunger. Rye bread is healthier than white bread.

McDonald's used to have an amazing bbq sauce then they changed the recipe.

>>15452158
In the continental US, it was always vegetable oil with a small amount of beef fat. Still is, they just changed the proportions to reduce the trans fat content.

>>15451634
befow the heartstroke president and keyes, fastfood and pretty much everybody w/ access to livestock or a butcher used lard and tallow; macdo used to have much much tastier fried according to many eldery, who were alive at the time, i dunno if any of that gen are stil alive and non-senile

>>15451634
I wish I remembered what they tasted like before they moved to "Natural Cut Sea Salt"
Been so long since.

fast food has never been better
cope retrofags

>>15451634
Yes, McDonald's fries were actually crispy and good back then because they were cooked in beef tallow and they added a little bit of sugar as well (my parents had a diabetic friend who couldn't eat McDonald's fries because of the added sugar). Complaints from diabetics got them to remove the sugar, complaints from health nuts got them to switch to vegetable oil. They've been complete sloppy shit ever since.

>>15451634

Ingredients always change up. Like those 3D Doritos taste nothing like the ones from the 90's.

>>15452344
burger king:
original BK chicken tenders
angry whopper
that A1 angus whopper with the mashed potatoes

wendy's:
big bacon classic on the kaiser bun
monterey jack chicken sandwich
the salad bar

taco bell:
chicken bacon ranch chalupas
59 cent soft tacos

mcdonald's:
99 cent whopper
legos in happy meals

ALL
GONE

it used to be saltier, definitely

>>15452223
carbs get broken down into sugar anyways nigga

>>15452344
taco bell used to be so much better than it is now

>>15452758
Not into fructose, dumbass

>>15452758
>carbs get broken down into sugar anyways nigga
No, carbs get broken down into glucose. Sugar is sucrose which is 50% fructose. This disingenuous labeling of all substances ending with -ose as "sugar" is frustrating when you fucking KNOW people are referring to white table sugar when they say sugar is an addictive substance.

>>15452758
based retard

>>15451684
What do they ad to McDonald's fries to make them not vegetarian now

>>15452183
Yes, but the fries were a bag change and were not liked for a long time. They used to directly copy McDonald's fries.

>>15451634
Yes. Less joggers were making your food and everyone seemed happier, quality was a lot better and so was portion sizes.

>>15451634
Quality was better. Prices were lower. Portions were bigger. 90s was peak Americana

there are people browsing right now that never experienced the mcdonalds ball pit

>>15452306
Kinda like Burger King but better

Beef tallow and lard > vegetable oil

Well lard isn't used in cooking the fries anymore.

>>15452154
Late 80s/early 90s is the only time I remember BK actually being able to compete with McDonalds in taste, I don't know what happened that it all went downhill.

>>15452766
This, people don't understand how much TB has fallen.

>>15452306
These were so much better it's ridiculous. Fuck the stupid soggy oversalted natural cut garbage ones they have now. I also miss the bread sticks that came in those foil pouches.

>>15452959
they add beef flavoring which is made from beef, so they could cut out the beef tallow but keep the same flavor

>>15453227
The bacon club Chalupa is based, but yeah.

I distinctly remember the taco salad being huge and high quality back in the late 80s.

>>15452306
i can't stand wendy's fries now

>>15453389
Same. They used to be my favorite fast food fries by far, especially with that extremely fine-grained salt they were coated with, now they're complete ass.

>>15452306
They were garbage, they tasted like In-N-Out fries which are horrible, but soggy and with a ton of salt

>>15453204
Burger King was godly in the early 00s

>>15451642
they were appealing to vegetarians who wodnt eat their fries. I remember one time specifically someone asking a million questions to the cashiere about all the food products before deciding ehat to get. He didnt get the fries because of the type of oil

>>15452758
That's one of the most stupid things I've ever read on this site

>>15453424
wendy's fries are infinitely better now I don't get why people like that shit soft lumpy texture to fries

>>15453112
growing up in the late 80's early 90's in america is peak humanity and no one will ever know how insanely great it was unless they experienced it themselves

>>15451634
McNuggets used to have dark meat in them which made them moister and more flavorful and the fries have been brought up numerous times. Also before the Jack in the Box e-coli outbreak burgers weren't cooked to jerky.

I haven't eaten at McDonalds in 15 years but I just realized I can have it delivered. What should I get? Or what's your go-to order. No soda.

>>15451634
Yeah. McD’s improved and most other franchises went downhill since then.

>>15453985
>McD’s improved

Imagine eating fast food so frequently that you can purposefully compare the quality over 3 decades. Christ.

>>15452306
I like the new fries more, but I miss the old thin greasy burger paddies. A Double or better yet a Triple would just melt in your mouth with the grease and cheese

>>15454078
Well that's the problem is you know most can't and are just unknowingly nostalgiafagging. also anybody waxing poetic here about these places in the 90s was a kid or teen at most so muh childhood memories cloud judgement more

>>15453988
They're better than they were like 10 years ago yeah but not as good as before the 90's.

>>15454192
idk, the last couple times i went there i was really unimpressed and haven't been in almost a year and have no plan to ever go back. it consistent yeah, but honestly just bland shit

>>15451634

It genuinely did. My older sister worked at McDonald's in the 90s and I remember the food being different. But everyone has changed except for KFC. I went to an McDonald's in some middle of nowhere town that the building had not been updated at all. The food was amazing. Drinks are definitely more watered down they used to taste like out of a normal can.

>>15451634
I remember this old McChicken wrapper, what a strange thing to feel nostalgic about

>>15451636
>>15451637

The duality of man

>>15451634
other than getting rid of certains things that were really good, all the major fast food companies have been making stuff that (to mean) tastes the same now as when I first had (whatever it was) more than 40 years ago.

>>15451634
Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut all noticeably dropped in quality after Yum! Brands took them over in the late 90s.
>>15452344
Kentucky Fried Chicken is atrocious compared to what it used to be in the 70s and 80s. There is a reason a mall foodcourt chain blows it away nowadays.
>>15453121
>ball pit
Cushy spoiled millenial. For me, it was an outside play area with a sheet metal slide that soaked up the sunlight and burned your ass as you fall off into bark chips.

>>15453121
plastic balls covered in snot and feces.

>>15454320
Building up your immune system is a good thing.

The rise in the Black Population working in the Fast Food industry has lead to a decline in not only standards but also quality.

There's a stark difference in quality when you get a burger wrapped by an overworked poor 27-year-old Black single mother in the inner-city versus an 18-year-old looking to pay down the last $2k on his car in a smaller town or city.
Not even a competition.

>>15454311
>outside play area with a sheet metal slide that soaked up the sunlight and burned your ass as you fall off into bark chips.
this and the one near me had a fucking merry go round inside that i'm sure hundreds of kids got injured on and/or were killed by

>>15451634
Yeah way more msg in the 80s and the ice cream gave you fucking heart burn

>>15454347
I miss the big plastic tubular play places where kids crawled through holes into rooms an adult wouldn't even fit in

>>15454367
there's still a play place at the same mcpenis in my area that had the merry go round back in the day. pretty sure its closed for the cough though.

>>15452258
what did it taste like? compared to their current bbq which tastes like almost no other bbq in the world, yet somehow goes well with mcnuggets.

>>15454367
I disliked playing in those as a kid because they always smelled if little girl feet.