Love them or hate them, McDonald's fries are special. They taste unlike any other fast food fry. One bite, and you know you are eating an order of World "Famous Fries:, and that is by design.

McDonald’s is serious about their fries. When they were forced by shifting public opinion (drunkenly swaggering around as it always does) to switch from their beef tallow and cottonseed oil ...

“It’s because McDonald’s cooks their fries with beef flavouring mixed within their vegetable oil, right. So, that’s why the fries taste so good but also so different from everybody else’s.