Whut: no more fries at the French McDonald's?
Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: no more fries at the French McDonald's?
I am crazy about McDonald's fries. If you ask me, that's the ideal fry. I'm a member of team thin fries; I don't want anything to do with those thick, Flemish fries. No, just give me nice thin, crispy, and golden fried ones. For French lovers of McDonald's fries, it's going to be a bit tough for a while. They can't order their favorite fries at the fast-food chain. So what then? Vegetable fries.
And indeed fries made from parsnips, carrots, and beets. That's quite different from the fries you're used to from McDonald's.
A (reusable?) container with vegetable fries
The change took effect on March 7. From this day on, it is impossible for the French to order potato fries at McDonald's. Instead, they get a cone (probably a reusable, washable container - if they haven't all been stolen by now) with vegetable fries. Choosing parsnips, carrots, or beets is not possible; you get a mix of all types of vegetables. Tough luck if you find parsnips mushy or think carrots are disgusting.
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Trying new things
Then the question is of course: why this decision? There are two important reasons for that. McDonald's would primarily like to test the ‘consumer's appetite for this new ‘vegetarian’ side dish’. In other words, what do the French think of such vegetable fries? Would they order it again if they had the chance? The fast-food chain also wants to respond to consumer needs. More and more people want to vary their food. No more the standard fries-burger-cola menu, but trying new things. McDonald's regularly comes up with surprising expansions of their menu. The spicy cheeseburger for example, and in France the McBaguette. Now the French get to test whether the vegetable fries the next new thing on the McDonald's menu will be.
Also in the Netherlands?
Whether the French will become vegetable fry fans remains to be seen. It's definitely healthier than the golden potato fries. The French won't have to miss their familiar McDonald's fries for long; it's an experiment lasting three to four weeks. They don't have to pay anything extra for the vegetable fries either. Makes sense, because it's a test. Should we in the Netherlands also fear a McDonald's without potato fries? That's not clear, as it hasn't yet been decided whether the experiment will also be implemented in other European countries. So we'll have to wait and see. And until then: order kilos of McDonald's fries.
Source: HLN.be
