RFK Jr. Invents Totally Modest Catchphrase to Describe Food Getting ‘Healthier’

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has coined a new catchphrase about his work at the department.

On a visit to a Steak n Shake restaurant in Florida this weekend with Fox News host Sean Hannity, he congratulated the company for switching from seed oil to beef tallow to cook its french fries.

“Steak n Shake has been great, we’re very grateful for them for RFKing the french fries, they’ve turned me into a verb,” he said, after reluctantly eating a tiny, beef-fat soaked fry on camera.

The health secretary, who has previously described McDonald’s and KFC’s fast food as “just poison,” has long railed against the use of seed oils to make fries, which he says has “unknowingly poisoned” Americans.

Beef tallow, essentially animal fat, is said to give fries a browner color and a meatier flavor than fries cooked with seed or vegetable oils.

However, tallow is rich in saturated fat which is linked to increases in cardiovascular diseases and deaths.

Restaurants in the U.S. including McDonald’s used to use beef fat in its fryers but switched to other cooking oils after a long campaign by anti-heart disease campaigner and American businessman Phil Sokolof.

After Sokolof suffered a heart attack in 1963, he spent millions of dollars of his own money funding newspaper ads attacking the chain for using beef tallow in its fries.

Sokolof won, and McDonald’s stopped using beef fat to cook its fries in 1990, a move followed by other fast food chains including Wendy’s and Burger King.

Speaking of the tallow cooking oil method in November, Kennedy said, “Your body needs that, it makes you healthy.”

He also spoke at length to Hannity about how fries used to be better in the U.S. than in Europe, but now they are better in Europe because of the different cooking method.

“People are raving about these french fries, when I travel in Europe, you know, Europe has always had great food. The french fries were always a big disappointment because we had the best french fries here, they had pommes frites over there and they just didn’t taste right,” he said.

He continued: “Today, the best french fries in the world are in Europe. I order them every time I go to Belgium or anyplace else. And the french fries here just don’t taste right. And you taste these, it’s a completely different experience. The customers are raving about it.”

Dr Brad Stanfield, a New Zealand-based primary care physician, wrote on X, “Sorry, but on what planet is eating processed fast food healthy?” in reply to a video clip posted by MAGA-commentator Charlie Kirk.

“MAHA should be about healthy choices,” said surgeon Rafael A. Lugo from Houston, Texas.

“This looks to me like a shameless plug. Saturated fat is also detrimental and can lead to insulin resistance. It is bad for the microbiome and well documented to increase free fatty acids in the blood,” he continued.