Fast-food franchises get as big as they are for a lot of reasons.
Trademarksecret recipesand surprising ingredientssometimes troublesome oneshave kept these businessesbooming for decades.
No, there aren’t vegetables in your nuggets.
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Celery salt is a mixture of ordinary table salt and ground-up celery seeds.
While this preparation may seem odd, it’s actually fairly commonplace in the food world.
Okay, Buffalo Wild Wings is technically fast food, but this is an interesting one.
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However, some secrets have to be spilled, even if it’s just a little one.
Popeyes chicken, according to their nutritional menu,contains MSG.
While many have anegative association with MSG, it’s nothing more than a flavor additive.
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MSG has a long, complex history of stigma in the West.
Anyone who’s had one can attest to that.
The brine at Chick-fil-A
Have you ever wondered how a Chick-fil-A sandwich can have such juicy chicken?
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The answer is in the brine.
Sugar is hygroscopic, meaning that it attracts and holds moisture.
So, without sugar, most bread would be dry and pasty.
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Is that necessarily the healthiest thing in the world?
Perhaps not, but that sugar is a key ingredient to making Subway bread what it is.
Right, almost no one.
Courtesy of Wendy’s
In case you’re curious, these are the chains that usefresh-cut potatoes for their fries.
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