Maybe they’re just out of lemons 
do you recall why McD had to change their fries? A Sikh sued because the fries were cooked in beef tallow (but if you’re forbidden from eating beef, why go to restaurant that SPECIALIZES in beef products?)
Please provide a cite for that.
Edit:
Here’s what actually happened. They were sued because they said they were serving a vegetarian product when they were using tallow
sorry, just my memory but I’m sure internet can help
It wasn’t “a Sikh” that caused them to change, it was McDonald’s lies. Does that help?
Do you have a cite for this? It sounds like an urban legend.
I stand corrected, but I do remember a Sikh suing them (but then I’m old )
You might want to check on that before repeating a religious slur.
This is probably the origin.
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It was all started by a Seattle lawyer, Harish Bharti, a vegetarian Hindu who makes a habit out of identifying the ingredients in purportedly vegetarian foods. He examined McDonald’s french fries [which were found to have beef flavoring in them]… Bharti sued McDonald’s in 2001, and that grew into a law suit involving a number of lawyers and organizations. Ultimately, Hindus, Sikhs, Jews, Muslims, vegetarians and vegans joined the fray–the Jews because the beef flavoring was not kosher and the Muslims because it wasn’t halal…
So McDonald’s lied about their fries, and got called out on it.
I wouldn’t say that was a slur exactly. In the 1999, Taco Bell settled a suit with a Hindu man who sued because he was served a beef burrito instead of the bean he ordered. He was seeking compensation in the amount of $144,000 because the trauma led him to journey to Britain to consult a spiritual advisor and then to India to bathe in the Ganges River. I’m not sure what Taco Bell actually settled for, but these kinds of lawsuits happen.
It really galls me how many restaurants say that X, Y and Z on their menu are vegetarian but they include actually include fush sauce, chicken stock, dried shrimp, etc.
Just say you have no vegetarian options and let the customers walk.
Saying “a Sikh” sued McDonald’s because he ate fries that he already knew had tallow in them is a slur. His religion was not the point because it could have been any one of a number of people that don’t eat meat. In fact the person involved wasn’t even “a Sikh” at all.
I worked at a pizza restaurant as a teenager and a customer asked me if one of the dessert pizza had any dairy products in it. He explained that he was lactose intolerant and it he simply had to avoid dairy. My initial thoughts were “What the hell are you doing in a pizza restaurant?” followed by “Are you sure you want to trust that question to a teenager making close to minimum wage?” I went back to check the ingredients as best I could and couldn’t find any dairy. I hope when I told him no that was the truth.
I love fush sauce!
This. Better yet, have a real vegetarian option. Not sometime with the meat removed, but a nice dish with some protein and calories that happened not to have meat.
But be honest about what you sell.
If you don’t have the ability or resources to answer a dietary question, say so. “I think so, but I can’t be sure.” is not that hard to say.
If you’re employing people who are unable or unwilling to assure food safety, because they are too cheap to pay the wages required, that’s on the owners.
My kid worked at a franchise place (with thousands of locations) and this was drilled into her in training. Don’t guess, ask a manager.
You are correct. This was my first job and I didn’t have the experience or any instruction on what to do when asked about dietary requirements.
Oh yes, I’m complaining about the owner/employer, not you.
I’m thinking that we can get all the nutritional information we need before entering a restaurant simply by going on line. However, I googled “McDonald’s fries ingredients” and got a detailed response:
Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt.
I see no mention of “tallow”, but it seems to me that “natural beef flavor” might disqualify it anyway. If I have dietary restrictions due to physical or religious reasons, I am not going to trust some kid in a paper hat to give me the information I want. I’m going to research it myself.