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<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>

I need to share:
After reading all that goes into this list from so many people I had
read many moons ago about the oil and cross contamination of the fries
.. so I asked at my local store and was assured by the manager that they
had two oil bins for the different foods they cooked .. good deal so I
ate the fries .. then several months later I was in early, before the
breakfast time was over, to ge the kooler they have ..   and was
horrified to see everything was cooked in the same bin!!!  and so I
asked again and found that ALL foods cooked in the oil was cooked in the
same bin!!!!!!! So even though you ask you may NOT get the right and
true answer .. for no other reason than because they just do not
understand your question . even if you explain they 'think' they know
but they really do not. OY! So caution and visit during different times
of the day.  I DO miss the fries!!!!!  ( I also found this to be true at
Burger King as well - I am sad - healthier, I am sure, but sad too)

KT
Happy day!

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situation.>>

Dear Listmates -

Yes, McDonald's does have a GF list.
It just came in the mail (I requested it).
Please note the precautions I've noted and questions I have at the end:

Coffee
Hot Chocolate
Milk
Orange Juice
Soft Drinks
Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla Triple Thick Shakes
Butter
Chicken McNugget Honey sauce and Hot Mustard Sauce -
  but the Chicken McNuggets themselves have gluten
Hotcake Syrup - but the hotcakes have gluten
Jam, Ketchup, Margarine, Mayonnaise, Mustard
Tartar Sauce, but the fish filets have gluten
Onions, Pickles, Tomato
Beef Patty (no bun)
Breakfast Beef Steak
Canadian Bacon
Cheese
French Fries (see precaution I've added below)
Hash Browns
Grilled Chicken Breast (no bun)
Fruit & Yogurt Parfait (no granola)
Ham
Ice Cream Sundaes including nuts
Sausage
Scrambled Egg
Caesar Salad without chicken (i.e. just the salad)
Side Salad
Newman's Own salad dressings: Creamy Caesar Dressing, Cobb Dressing,
Light Balsamic Vinaigrette, and Ranch Dressing

My own added notes:
The french fries and hash browns are only GF if the fryer (or fryers)
for them isn't (aren't) right next to the fryer(s) for breaded products.
At extremely small McDonald's, like the one in the International
Terminal at O'Hare airport in Chicago, the fryers are side by side and
gluten-containing crumbs do drop into the oil for the fries and hash
browns.

I can't see what good it does to have GF McNugget sauces when we can't
eat the nuggets, GF hotcake syrup when we can't eat the hotcakes, etc.,
but at least they have some sort of a list now.

Seems to be it might be best to ask them to wash off the utensils they
handle your beef patty or anything else with, since these have been used
to slide the meats onto buns and may have some gluten on them.

Vicki

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