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The 2021 NRL season is here, and you could score yourself a free Broncos Burger, thanks to McDonald's® Brisbane.

1. Mar 16, 2021 The 2021 NRL Telstra Premiership season has commenced – and so is Mac For A Match, thanks to McDonald’s. As a valued member of the club, if the Dogs win at home, you win! Any home game during 2021 won by the Bulldogs means you can take home a free Big Mac the following Monday – lunch sorted. Redeeming your free Big Mac is easy!
2. Tony Finau hits McDonald's at 3 a.m. After playoff win - after dinner at Ruth's Chris. Big Mac, Double Quarter Pounder with cheese, 10 nuggets, large fries, Oreo McFlurry and a bottle water.

The rules are simple: if we hit 19 points, win, lose or draw, you score a free Broncos Burger.

Any game where the Brisbane Broncos reach 19 points or more means Members and fans can pick up a free Broncos Burger the following day after 10.30 am – lunch sorted!

Redeeming your free Broncos Burger is easy!

Brisbane Broncos members and or match day ticket holders will simply need to show their membership card at participating McDonald’s on the day following a Brisbane Broncos NRL home game where the 19 points is reached. Regardless of the final outcome.

Want to redeem on the Gold Coast?

No problems! But unfortunately McDonalds doesn’t sell the Broncos Burger in their Gold Coast restaurants but instead you are welcome to redeem a Big Mac instead.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Offer entitles Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Football Club member and match day ticket holders to one free Broncos Burger on the day following a result of 19 points or more. Parent/carer must be present for anyone under 14 years to redeem this offer. Available after 10.30am. Show membership card, membership email confirmation or match day ticket when ordering to receive offer. Limit of one offer per person. Not to be used in conjunction with or to discount any other offer or with an Extra Value Meal®. Not redeemable via McDelivery®, mobile ordering or self-ordering kiosks. Valid at participating Brisbane, Gold Coast and surrounds restaurants for the 2021 NRL season only.

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Local Derby - Broncos Burger

The Macca’s® Local Derby is here, and you can score yourself a free Broncos Burger, thanks to McDonald's® Brisbane.

It’s simple: if the Bronco’s win, lose or draw, in the Macca’s Local Derby you score a free Broncos Burger.

McDonald’s are proud to support all NRL teams in Queensland and this weekend we want to reward all loyal Broncos members and fans. So, keep your 2021 Broncos membership card or match day ticket handy and pick up a free Broncos Burger the following day on Saturday 1st May, 2021 after 10.30am – lunch sorted!

Redeeming your free Broncos Burger is easy!

Brisbane Broncos members or match day ticket holders will simply need to show their membership card or membership email confirmation or game day ticket at any participating McDonald’s restaurant on Saturday 1st May, 2021. Regardless of the final outcome. See Terms and Conditions below.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Offer entitles Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Football Club ticket holder/member to one free Broncos Burger on Saturday 1st May, 2021. Parent/carer must be present for anyone under 14 years to redeem this offer. Available after 10.30am. Show your game ticket, membership card or membership email confirmation when ordering to receive offer. Limit of one offer per person. Not to be used in conjunction with or to discount any other offer or with an Extra Value Meal®. Not redeemable via McDelivery®, mobile ordering or self-ordering kiosks. Valid at participating Brisbane, Caboolture, Beaudesert, Ipswich, Logan, Sunshine Coast and Bundaberg McDonald’s restaurants for Saturday 1st May, 2021 only.

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McCafe Monday

Monday morning can be tough! But not anymore. It’s now McCafé Monday! Thanks to Macca’s, Broncos Members can pick up a free small McCafé coffee between 6-9am on a Monday morning* (selected dates apply)

Make sure you are following the Brisbane Broncos on social media to see when McCafé Monday is live during the 2021 NRL Season!

Redeeming your free small McCafé coffee is easy!

Brisbane Broncos members will simply need to show their 2021 membership card at participating McDonald’s on the Monday following a Brisbane Broncos away game * (selected dates apply)

Now this is Monday morning done right!

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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Offer entitles a 2021 Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Football Club member to one free small McCafé ® coffee on select Monday’s following an away game. Parent/carer must be present for anyone under 14 years to redeem this offer. Show your membership card or membership email confirmation when ordering to receive offer. Limit of one offer per person. Not to be used in conjunction with or to discount any other offer or with an Extra Value Meal®. Not redeemable via McDelivery®, mobile ordering or self-ordering kiosks. Valid at participating Brisbane, Gold Coast and surrounds restaurants for the following dates: Monday 5 April 2021 6-9am, Monday 12 April 2021 6-9am, Monday 26 April 2021 6-9am, Monday 10 May 2021 6-9am, Monday 17 May 2021 6-9am, Monday 24 May 2021 6-9am, Monday 7 June 2021 6-9am, Monday 14 June 2021 6-9am, Monday 26 July 2021 6-9am, Monday 9 August 2021 6-9am and Monday 30 August 2021 6-9am.

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If you're a fan of McDonald's crisp, golden french fries, you've likely wondered if something changed about the flavor of those famous fries over the years — rest assured, you're not alone in your suspicions. Over the decades, the fast-food giant has changed the oil used to cook those signature fries, often in response to public pressure for a 'healthier' french fry, resulting in a product that many swear doesn't taste quite as good as it once did (not that we've stopped eating them, mind you). To understand what changed, we decided to explore why McDonald's french fries used to taste a lot better.

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A Franchise Founded on Fries

To better understand how McDonald's fries changed over the years, we have to go back to the early golden years of the Golden Arches. As much as a burger may come to mind when you think of McDonald's, it was really the restaurant's french fries that were the main attraction from the beginning. At their drive-in hamburger stand in San Bernardino, California, brothers Dick and Mac McDonald drew big crowds for fries, burgers, and shakes with cheap prices and quick service, beginning in 1940.

It was the restaurant's fries, in particular, that caught the attention of Ray Kroc, who would go on to bring the McDonald's franchise to the world. 'The McDonald's french fry was in an entirely different league,' Kroc explains in his memoir, 'Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's.' 'They lavished attention on it. I didn't know it then, but one day I would, too. The french fry would become almost sacrosanct for me, its preparation a ritual to be followed religiously.'

Taking Time to Make Fries

Two major factors made those original french fries irresistible: texture and tallow. Kroc realized quickly that what helped keep McDonald's fries from getting mushy after the frying process was maintaining the right amount of moisture and starch in the fries. Even the reliable Russet Burbank potato — the large, oblong variety that McDonald's uses to this day among others — can vary in moisture content depending on where and how it's grown. To maintain consistency, Kroc had suppliers use hydrometers to ensure optimal moisture content.

Kroc also found that curing the potatoes — storing them in warm temperatures for a few weeks — helped convert the sugars in a fresh potato into starch, which made for a crisper fry that didn't caramelize and brown. He also hired an electrical engineer named Louis Martino to develop a 'potato computer' to determine the optimal cooking time for the fries.

But it was the beef tallow used to cook the fries that ultimately made them a worldwide hit.

The Flavor Secrets of Formula 47

It was beef tallow — the rendered form of beef fat that's solid at room temperature — that gave McDonald's fries their signature rich and buttery flavor. But the tallow was used initially because it was the cheap, convenient option. Interstate, the fry oil supplier for the McDonald brothers' burger stand, was too small of an operation to afford the expensive hydrogenation equipment to produce partially hydrogenated vegetable oil — the most popular frying oil at the time. Instead, Interstate provided McDonald's with a blend of 7% vegetable oil and 93% beef tallow, sourced from the stockyards of Chicago, which could extend the life of the oil without expensive equipment. It also happened to make the fries incredibly delicious.

The special beef tallow and oil blend for McDonald's fries became known as Formula 47, named after the combined cost of the restaurant's 'All-American meal' at the time, which included a 15-cent burger, 12-cent fries, and a 20-cent shake. Kroc insisted that all of the McDonald's franchises use Formula 47, ensuring that the rest of the country — and eventually the world — would come to love the taste of McDonald's french fries.

In his memoir, Kroc explains how important those fries were to the success of McDonald's, 'One of my suppliers told me 'Ray, you know you aren't in the hamburger business at all. You're in the french-fry business. I don't know how the livin' hell you do it, but you've got the best french fries in town, and that's what's selling folks on your place.' He goes on to say, 'The quality of our french fries was a large part of McDonald's success.'

A Change of Heart

The buttery, beef tallow flavor would continue to be a hallmark of McDonald's fries for decades, adored by the millions — and later billions — served. But eventually, concerns were raised that the saturated fat in beef tallow raises cholesterol levels to potentially dangerous heights, which eventually prompted a change in the recipe. In 1966, self-made millionaire Phil Sokolof had a nearly life-ending heart attack at age 43, prompting him to create the National Heart Savers Association to campaign against fat and cholesterol in the American diet. A self-admitted 'student in the greasy hamburger school of nutrition' before his heart attack, Sokolof went on to launch a multimillion-dollar campaign, including full-page newspaper ads, contending that McDonald's and other fast-food chains were threatening lives with high-cholesterol menus.

In 1990, faced with Sokolof's campaign and growing public concerns about health, McDonald's gave in. Beef tallow was eliminated from the famous french fry formula and replaced with 100% vegetable oil. The results were french fries with zero cholesterol and 45% less fat per serving than before, but also a plummet in stock prices and countless consumers saddened by a drop in flavor.

Trying to Bring Back the Flavor

In an effort to bring back some of the flavor lost by removing beef tallow, McDonald's began adding 'beef flavoring' to its fries. But the company was forced to settle lawsuits from vegetarians and Hindus who abstain from eating beef for not disclosing the added ingredient. The company now lists 'natural beef flavor,' of which the starting ingredients are hydrolyzed wheat and milk proteins thought to be a source of 'meaty-tasting' amino acids. Many customers thought the changes lost much of the fries' balance between a crisp, crunchy exterior and a soft interior.

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To make matters worse, the new oil blend began raising health concerns of its own as people became aware of the risks posed by trans fats in hydrogenated vegetable oil. So in 2002 the company changed the formula again to a new soy-corn oil, designed to cut the amount of trans fats by half while increasing the amount of healthy polyunsaturated fats. In 2007, McDonald's announced yet another new oil blend for its fries, this time a healthier trans-fat-free oil — in part a response to New York City's ban on trans fats.

So while the McDonald's french fry may be healthier than it was decades ago, we may have sacrificed a lot of taste along the way.

Of course, many of us still enjoy McDonald's french fries, perhaps just not as much as we used to. The fries still have that golden, crispy exterior and tender interior. They still offer that delicious sweet-salty combo, thanks to a spray of dextrose after they've been blanched during processing, and the salt sprinkled on after frying.

And for those wondering if we remember the original version of McDonald's fries as better tasting only because of nostalgia, author Malcolm Gladwell dispels that idea in his 'Revisionist History' podcast episode, 'McDonald's Broke My Heart.' In the podcast, Gladwell laments the end of beef tallow use in 1990. He even goes so far as to have the country's leading food scientists recreate the original recipe for a taste test against the modern ones. It's no contest, the original recipe wins, and Gladwell concludes, 'My heart is full of sadness again to think about how many millions and millions and millions of people around the world have never tasted that.'

If you'd like to do a taste test yourself, you may want to try making a batch of fries with the original beef tallow recipe.

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