Fancy a Chicken McNugget?

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zerocool84

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Just an FYI to everyone here, if you're getting Chicken McNuggets you're not controlling your destiny.
 

IcePickFreak

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I still wouldn't eat McNuggets if you paid me, but honestly they picture looks more tasty than actual McNuggets.
 

TheVrolok

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I didn't realize there were people who were not aware of this fact? They're still yummy when you've got a craving for fast/junk food. Obviously not good in the realm of "real food," but they have their niche.
 

NFS4

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DrPizza

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Home made chicken nuggets are soooo much better than the crap served at McD's. Take only a couple minutes to make (once the fryer oil is hot.)
 

Jeff7

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So a chicken is good if its muscles are eaten whole, but if they're pureed and shaped, then it's gross.
o_O


Maybe it's similar to saliva. It's fine if it's in your mouth, but if you spend a day drooling into a glass....well, I don't know that I'd be able to drink a full 12oz glass of my own saliva without gagging.



Mmmmm, various-animal paste.
 
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Adrenaline

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I had a coworker that worked at a food processing place say this:

"If people knew how food was made, many would not want to eat."
 

spidey07

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So a chicken is good if its muscles are eaten whole, but if they're pureed and shaped, then it's gross.
o_O


Maybe it's similar to saliva. It's fine if it's in your mouth, but if you spend a day drooling into a glass....well, I don't know that I'd be able to drink a full 12oz glass of my own saliva without gagging.



Mmmmm, various-animal paste.

Funny part is some of that best part's of the chicken aren't from the major cuts. The back, butt, rib meat are the tastiest but not enough yield to hand pick them which is really the only way.

Make sure you don't toss these out when you pick a roast chicky carcass, these are indeed the supreme chicken nuggets as they are small little nuggets of chicky goodness. It all comes down to processing time - the major cuts are easy to get, but the best part of the chicky are the small chunks that come from hand picking it.
 
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MJinZ

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OMG OP you have officially stopped me from going to McDonalds for anything except $1 coffee and fruit smoothies.
 

CurseTheSky

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Looks too finely pasted to be what they put into chicken nuggets and patties. Don't get me wrong: nuggets, patties and other processed foods are junk compared to the "real thing," but I don't believe that they're some kind ammonia-wasted, artificially dyed of pasty concoction that somehow turns back into relatively fine-chopped chunks of meat under a bread coating.

In other words, McDonalds chicken nuggets and patties are no worse for you (in terms of processing) than crab cakes, tuna fish, other brands of chicken nuggets and patties, meat found in TV / frozen dinners and microwavable soup, etc.
 

spidey07

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OMG OP you have officially stopped me from going to McDonalds for anything except $1 coffee and fruit smoothies.

Have you seen the videos on the intarweb of the processing of that coffee? OMG! They grind them up and it's, like, gross and stuff. And fruit is not a smoothie unless it is run thru a processor that separates the skin and fruit from the seed. Have you SEEN what that looks like?

It's all gross and stuff.
 

JulesMaximus

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There's more: because it's crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.

Fuck...is that true? That is pretty fucking nasty.

<--Do not want. :|
 

MJinZ

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Have you seen the videos on the intarweb of the processing of that coffee? OMG! They grind them up and it's, like, gross and stuff. And fruit is not a smoothie unless it is run thru a processor that separates the skin and fruit from the seed. Have you SEEN what that looks like?

It's all gross and stuff.

I don't care about fruit or coffee but I take meat srsly