Both McDonald's and Burger King receive potatoes from the same company. Even then, one chain's french fries constantly ranks ...

Waffle, shoestring, steak, curly, crinkle-cut, sweet potato, Belgian, traditional, or beyond –- however you like your fries, they all start as the same starch: potatoes. Yes, those unassuming lumps ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co.'s new genetically modified potato. But one of the company's oldest business partners — McDonald's — ...

Simplot - one of the world's largest producers of frozen vegetables - is also one of McDonald's main suppliers of french fries, including from north China, where all potatoes required by the burger ...