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Alert: Mcdonald's Lied

Guest AmandasMommy

By Guest AmandasMommy
in Gluten-Free Restaurants

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Guest AmandasMommy
Guest AmandasMommy
Posted

MAN AM I P.O.'D

long story short, we went to camp, long trip, got micky d's (cause ff are gluten-free ), next day went out to another restaruant, amanda got sick!!!! i thought i did good at this restaurant just a salad and pudding for her. i blamed my self, i really kicked myself in the butt. i see it turns out it was because Micky D's LLLLIIIEEEDDD!!!!!!!! she got sick for 3 days with the runs. i trusted McDonald's. the heck with McDonalds, we are not going there again!!!!!!!!

a note from the celiac society website:

Gluten Alert!!

McDonald's French Fries Contain Gluten:

Not long after disclosing that its french fries contain more trans fat than thought, McDonald’s Corp. said Monday that wheat and dairy ingredients are used to flavor the popular menu item — an acknowledgment it had not previously made.

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“If they’re saying there’s wheat and dairy derivatives in the oil, as far as anyone with this disease is concerned there’s actually wheat in it,” said New York resident Jillian Williams, one of more than 2 million Americans with celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder triggered by gluten.

“They should have disclosed that all along,” she said. “They should never have been calling them gluten-free.”

It’s not the first time McDonald’s forthrightness has been called into question concerning what’s in its famous fries.

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penguin Community Regular
penguin
Posted

I'm sorry your daughter got sick :(

This was discussed at length a while back...try searching old threads and you'll see all of the posts on the subject.

VydorScope Proficient
VydorScope
Posted

Thie offical gluten statement:

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Again as I have said over and over onthis site, aviod thier fries if you have celiac disease. Posted on these very boards is story after story about how McDonalds employees drop pies and other gluten foods in the so called dedicated fryers, and thats just the intentional issues.

IMO, McDonalds Fries are NOT safe for ppl with celiac disease. Never have been, and likly never will.

gfp Enthusiast
gfp
Posted
It’s not the first time McDonald’s forthrightness has been called into question concerning what’s in its famous fries.

This was my original point..(on another thread). its a matter of court record that McDo's lie as a matter of course and when they don't they avoid knowing the facts so they can claim not to know or they just mislead based on the fact if you ask they might go intot he storage room and find a fact sheet or two... if they haven't gone missing.

Like vydorscope say's you only have to know a few people who worked there to know what goes on... and that is just the intentional stuff ... when you think the servers are hadling the baps all the time CC is bound to happen.

What I find strangest is so many people want to believe them ... when they are proven to have lied over other things.

Try watching supersize me and it will probably put you off for good !

Guest nini
Guest nini
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of course they lied... my daughter and I used to get the fries all the time, before the whole brou ha ha came out a while back about the fries. We kept getting sick back then, but because we wanted to believe that McD's fries were safe, we kept eating them. When they revealed the source ingredients that just opened up the floodgates and I had a "duh" moment where I realized it was the fries making us sick all along.

VydorScope Proficient
VydorScope
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when you think the servers are hadling the baps all the time CC is bound to happen.

GFP, what is "baps" ?

VegasCeliacBuckeye Collaborator
VegasCeliacBuckeye
Posted
of course they lied... my daughter and I used to get the fries all the time, before the whole brou ha ha came out a while back about the fries. We kept getting sick back then, but because we wanted to believe that McD's fries were safe, we kept eating them. When they revealed the source ingredients that just opened up the floodgates and I had a "duh" moment where I realized it was the fries making us sick all along.

MCD's is a personal issue.

I have been glutened there a few times, but not by the fries (normally by people handling buns and then touching my food).

University of Nebraska testing has shown that the fries and the oil used to cook them are gluten free.

Having said that, some people are more sensitive to wheat fibers/molecules than others. Also, cross contamination is at issue.

However, last I heard the fries are gluten free.

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eKatherine Apprentice
eKatherine
Posted
GFP, what is "baps" ?

A "bap" is a bread roll in Europe.

frenchiemama Collaborator
frenchiemama
Posted

Off topic -

Victor, your son looks just like my younger brother when he was little.

gfp Enthusiast
gfp
Posted

MCD's is a personal issue.

VydorScope Proficient
VydorScope
Posted
MCD's is a personal issue.

I have been glutened there a few times, but not by the fries (normally by people handling buns and then touching my food).

University of Nebraska testing has shown that the fries and the oil used to cook them are gluten free.

Having said that, some people are more sensitive to wheat fibers/molecules than others. Also, cross contamination is at issue.

However, last I heard the fries are gluten free.

Actaully, McD's own gluten statement says the flavoring in the oil contains "dectectable levels" of gluten . The calim is by the time it gets to the fries its small enough not to matter. That cailm you have to make your own call on, as I have many here have siad, ppl react to thier fries. Wether it from the HUGE cc risk there (both intentional or otherwise) or because of the gluten that is known to be in the flavoring in the oil is realy a just an acedemic debate.

The closing paragraph of the gluten statement says if you have celiac disease, aviod thier fries.

Its your call, but I will never intentionaly feed my son any product that is known to have gluten in it, such as McD's fries. CC risks with truly gluten-free products is bad enough, no need to throw caution to the wind.

jabberwife Explorer
jabberwife
Posted

Bottom line is....regardless of whether the fries themselves are gluten-free, which according to McD's past history, I would believe they'd lie, every fast food restaurant is a gamble. I went to Whataburger last night and watched them use their fryer. Good news? They fry onion rings in a dedicated fryer. I started to get excited about the fries--until I saw a girl pull apple pies out of the french fry fryer. Dang it! But even those restaurants that have dedicated fryers are only as trustworthy as the managers are at watching over their staff. Employees at those restaurants can be lazy, and will fry whatever, wherever, they want. I'm not as sensitive to it as some other celiacs, but it's enough to make some never eat out!

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KaitiUSA
Posted

They are not on my good side right now.

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