RC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Eric Schlosser, French Fries, Cooking Oil
18 Oct 2016
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Why mcdonald"s fries taste so good by eric schlosser. They used to be made from scratch every day. As the chain expanded nationwide, it tried cutting labor costs, reducing the number of suppliers, and switched to frozen french fries. Mcdonald"s is the largest buyer of potatoes in the united states. The taste of a french fry is largely determined by the cooking oil. They switched to pure vegetable oil amiss the crisis over the extreme cholesterol in their fries. About 90% of the money that americans spend on food are processed food items. A lot of the things we eat, we have no idea what is actually in it. Taste buds offer a limited means of detection compared with the human olfactory system, which can perceive thousands of different chemical aromas. Your brain combines the signals from your olfactory epithelium with the taste signals from your tongue and tells you if you like it or not.
