The hugest fast food restaurant in
the fast food business announced last month that they were introducing an
alternative to their regular fat/salt-laden fries. McHealthy Fries® were added
to the menu on November 17, just in time for the holidays..
The food giant took all the
suggestions out of the suggestion boxes of hundreds of McDonald's restaurants
across America. By far, the most suggestions were from folks who wanted to cut
down on their risk of heart disease by eating fries with their Big Macs® that
were less harmful to their bodies. McDonald's test kitchen chef, Edward
"Ed" Ibbles, took that challenge and came up with what he termed the
healthiest fries on the planet.
The folks who decided to give
McHealthy Fries a try were met with an alternative they didn't expect. The
McHealthy Fries, they decried, were nothing more than fresh apple and carrot
sticks.
Soon after the first McHealthy
Fries®began appearing on the menu, complaints started pouring in and McDonald's
found itself in a huge firestorm of controversy, i.e. "what constitutes a
fry?"
"They got the healthy part
right," said Wilmer Deans of Shreveport, Louisiana, "but the fry
part? Where's the grease?" he said, mocking another big fast food chain.
Chef Ibbles countered with
"what part of the word fry is healthy? You're the ones asking for healthy
fries. Seriously? If that isn't an oxymoron, then I am Colonel Sanders,"
to which Deans replied, "Who you calling a moron, moron?"
The fight devolved into fisticuffs
with Colonel Sanders, er Chef Ibbles, taken to the hospital with a broken nose.
The fight isn't over. Less than a
month after the menu change, a group of angry diners is threatening a class
action suit against McDonald's for false food labeling. Meanwhile, McDonald's
has taken the McHealthy Fries® off the menu for now until they can come up with
something closer to a fry than an apple or a carrot.
"We were mainly concerned with
the safety of our servers, both in the restaurant and those manning the
drive-thru windows," said a McDonald's spokesperson known only as Ronald.
"While the 'fries' served were
always refrigerated and contained no hot grease whatsoever, getting hit back in
the face with a bag of apple and carrot sticks can sting," he said.
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