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    Revisionist History

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    This episode summarizes the 9th episode of the 2nd season of Revisionist History titled "McDonald's Broke My Heart". It discusses how McDonald's changed their french fry recipe in 1990 which made the fries less tasty. It explores how one man, Phil Sokolof, convinced fast food restaurants to stop frying fries in beef tallow for health reasons, though this changed the taste. The episode made the speaker think differently about fast food and its health consequences.

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    Revisionist History

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    This episode summarizes the 9th episode of the 2nd season of Revisionist History titled "McDonald's Broke My Heart". It discusses how McDonald's changed their french fry recipe in 1990 which made the fries less tasty. It explores how one man, Phil Sokolof, convinced fast food restaurants to stop frying fries in beef tallow for health reasons, though this changed the taste. The episode made the speaker think differently about fast food and its health consequences.

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    This episode summarizes the 9th episode of the 2nd season of Revisionist History titled "McDonald's Broke My Heart". It discusses how McDonald's changed their french fry recipe in 1990 which made the fries less tasty. It explores how one man, Phil Sokolof, convinced fast food restaurants to stop frying fries in beef tallow for health reasons, though this changed the taste. The episode made the speaker think differently about fast food and its health consequences.

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    Revisionist History

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    Victoria Godovaniuc
    This episode summarizes the 9th episode of the 2nd season of Revisionist History titled "McDonald's Broke My Heart". It discusses how McDonald's changed their french fry recipe in 1990 which made the fries less tasty. It explores how one man, Phil Sokolof, convinced fast food restaurants to stop frying fries in beef tallow for health reasons, though this changed the taste. The episode made the speaker think differently about fast food and its health consequences.

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    Hello. My name is XXX and for recorded speech I chose to cover the 9 th
    episode from the 2nd season of the Revisionist History which name is “McDonald’s
    Broke My Heart”.
    In a nutshell, this episode is about the investigations that Malcolm Gladwell
    has made to show us the reality about McDonald’s french fries.
    McDonald’s used to make the best fast food french fries in the world —
    until they changed their recipe in 1990 and because of the first try of french fries at
    13 years old that made Malcolm Gladwell to love McDonald’s french fries he
    decided to travel to the top food R&D lab in the country to discover what was lost,
    and why for the past generation we’ve been eating french fries that taste like
    cardboard. He discovers that the main character in this change was Phil Sokolof
    who because of fast food and other unhealthy dishes had high blood cholesterol
    and was at risk of dying. Phil Sokolof started to make a lot of informative ads and
    talk to managers of fast food restaurants in order to convince them to change
    something in their food preparation to be healthy, because his bad experience was
    like a push up to make something for all people to protect their health. He died at
    43 years old because he had a heart attack, but his fight for healthy fast food was
    successful. Fast food restaurants have stopped frying french fries into beef tallow
    and that’s why their taste is different from 1990, but even though the taste is not as
    good as it was in the past, a lot of people nowadays continue to eat them.
    From this episode I found out a lot of new things such as people, the real risk
    we are exposed to if we eat too much fast food and how when we really want to
    change or to obtain something if we don’t give up, after a great effort, success will
    come undoubtedly.
    More than that, I can say that the most surprisingly for me was the power of
    a single person to convince the fast food restaurants’ managers to change
    something for people’s wellness.
    To sum up, I would like to point out that this podcast has made me think
    differently, because I didn’t thought seriously about fast food consequences on
    health before and in the past I chose to eat fast food sometimes, but now I will
    think twice before. I understood that we can live easily and without fast food in our
    lives and if we know that we have the power of changing something we should just
    do it, especially if this change can improve awareness of something bad for us.

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