Burger King French fries are not vegan!In 1997, while researching for our Guide to Fast Food, we were told by Burger King that their French fries contained nothing "which would present a problem to [a vegetarian] diet. No whey whey liquid residue from milk after the removal of cheese curds in the manufacture of cheese. An excellent protein supplement but difficult to handle in the liquid form, except to pigs maintained close to the cheese factory. Dried whey is easy to handle but processing costs are high. , no dairy products dairy products dairy npl → produits laitier dairy products dairy npl → Milchprodukte pl, Molkereiprodukte pl , no beef fat, no flavoring from animals." Recently, however, Burger King Customer Relations asserted that the fries are not to be considered vegetarian. Burger King's Media Relations department stated that the fries do contain a small amount of a poultry-based amino acid amino acid (əmē`nō), any one of a class of simple organic compounds containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and in certain cases sulfur. These compounds are the building blocks of proteins. used for flavoring. They are not able to provide any documentation to this effect. The flavoring is currently under further development. Burger King's Product Consistency department informed us that the recipe for the French fry coating was last reformulated in the spring of 2001. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , vegetarians who choose to eat the BK Veggie (see "WHATS'S IN A BK VEGGIE?") may want to order it without the fries. Check <www.vrg.org> for updates. |
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