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Fast Food Nation

Chapter 5 Why the Fries Taste Good

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Authors IntentTo tell readers why the french fries at their favorite fast food

restaurants taste so good.

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Information in the Chapter• The Simplot Plant in Aberdeen, Indiana, grows

more potatoes than any other city in Idaho.• It processess about a million pounds of potatoes a

day.• It is open 24 hours a day, 310 days a year.• In 1942, the plant had 100 workers. In 1944, the

plant had about 1,200.• In the 1950’s, frozen foods started to become

extremely popular.

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Information in the Chapter• Simplot was the person who made frozen french

fries become a common thing.• They started including them at fast food restaurants

because they were much cheaper and easier to make than home made.

• In 1960, Americans ate about 81 pounds of fresh potatoes, and about 4 pounds of frozen potatoes per year.

• Today we eat about 49 pounds of fresh potatoes, and more than 30 pounds of frozen potatoes per year. ( 90% of these were from fast food restaurants.)

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Information in the Chapter• Simplot provides the majority of the french

fries for McDonald’s.• Fast food companies purchase frozen fries for

about 30 cents a pound, reheat them in oil, then sell them for about $6 a pound.

• Out of every $1.50 spent on a large order of fries at a fast food restaurant, only about 2 cents goes to the farmer who grew the potatoes.

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Information in the Chapter• It costs about $1,500 an acre to grow potatoes

in Bingham County.• The average potato farmer who plants 400

acres is more than half a million dollars in the hole before selling a single potato.

• Incoming potatoes from Canada have made Idaho grown potatoes and other potatoes from the U.S. lower in sale price.

• There really is no control on how well the potatoes will grow, it is based on the weather.

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Information in the Chapter

• The unique taste of McDonald’s french fries comes from their unique oil mixture. –They use about 7% cottonseed oil and

93% beef tallow.• The fries have more saturated beef fat per

ounce than a McDonald’s hamburger.

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Information in the Chapter

• The aroma of a food can be responsible for as much as 90% of its flavor.

• Studies have found that the color of a food can greatly affect how its taste is perceived.– Identical foods, with different colors were tested

and people would often say the brighter colored food tasted better.

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• The author succesfully portrayed his ideas.

• He used an array of different sources to provide his information.– Such as:• Interviews• Facts• Personal Experiences• Etc.

Successful Or Not?