Make Retro McDonald’s Fries With Beef Tallow

McDonald’s may be a hamburger restaurant, but it’s the fries that keep them coming back. Oddly, the fries that made McDonald’s famous—the ones that truly set them apart from their fast food rivals—are not the fries they serve today. The original golden fry from the Golden Arches was cooked in beef tallow, which gave…

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Author: Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to Lifehacker

How to Be a Whistleblower

Whistleblowing seems to be in the news a lot, lately. And it makes us ordinary schmoes wonder: How would we handle ratting out our colleagues, or our superiors, if we had to—either to protect other consumers and citizens or merely to cover yourself? If a worker sees some dirty deeds and want to call attention to them,…

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Author: Leigh Anderson and Elizabeth Yuko

Teach Your Kids to ‘Find a Parent’ If They Get Lost

When my son was four, my husband and I took him and his then two-year-old sister to spend the day on a Florida beach. The scene was picture perfect: The sun was shining, we’d managed to remember sunscreen and beach toys, and both kids were content to build sand castles in front of our beach blanket. When my husband…

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Author: Christine Burke on Offspring, shared by Christine Burke to Lifehacker