Source: https://www.msn.com/, HT News AU. McDonald's French fries are notorious, in taste and in their reputation as an unhealthy yet addictive snack. Yet the recipe we all know well has not always been how it is. From its beginnings as a franchise in 1950s, the recipe went unchanged until one fateful day in July 1990. That day the company stopped frying their (well) fries in beef tallow, and started using vegetable oil instead. Journalist Malcolm Gladwell, the host of the Revisionist History podcast, dedicated an episode to the watershed moment in fast food history. Gladwell explained that the recipe change was brought about because of one man, Phil Sokolof, an American businessman who poured millions of his money into funding adverts that explained McDonald's French fries were harmful. Sokolof reportedly suffered from a heart attack age 43, in 1966, and the event turned him into a crusader against high cholesterol diets, and founding the National Heart Savers
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