Fancy a Chicken McNugget?

[JulesMaximus]

Mc Nuggets can taste vastly different depending on how long it's been on the shelf. In any case, you can always just ask for new ones. They actually think you'd prefer the old ones sitting there for a while since most people going through McDeez drive thru wants to be in and out there quicker than, well a mc donalds drive thru.
If you get fresh ones.. they're sooo mmm mmm delicious. Perfect hot and crispy, and the sauce is so bomb.

Loaded with HFCS goodness...

 

[The Boston Dangler]

I'm going out on a limb and calling bullshit on the pic. Processed chicken goo in a cardboard box? I don't see that happening.

i saw the tv show that pic is taken from. it is for real.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

McNuggets are made from regular chicken breast meat. It's pretty obvious and easily confirmed if you break one open. Not sure why anyone would think otherwise unless they have never eaten one.

there is nothing regular about it. wtf do you eat?

 

[LTC8K6]

there is nothing regular about it. wtf do you eat?

Is someone trying to shove one down your throat or something?

 

[LTC8K6]

Chopping meat up fine, adding a binder, and molding it is hardly a new thing. It's very common, McD didn't invent it.

 

[DrPizza]

That's why we pasteurize stuff. OMG! It's processed!

No shit. If it wasn't you'd die unless you processed and pasteurized it yourself, aka canning.

Wait! We cure food with salt and smoke! How dirty and bad for you! This is what is wrong with people. They don't know how to prepare and preserve their food.

Honest question to all the freaks - could you cook a chicken and pick all the meat off of it? What would you do with the carcass? Throw it away?

Not one of the freaks. But first, I question the "keep the chickens in the dark" statement - chickens grow better in light. I think ideal is 18 or 20 hours of light a day. The breeds of chicken raised for meat (cornish cross) eat more during the day than at night. And, they gain weight incredibly rapidly - ready to be "cornish game hens" when they're about 4 weeks old - great way of culling birds. Call them cornish game hens & sell them for more money!

And, OMG, their poop is on the ground that they're raised on! How un-freaking-natural! Oh wait a second... ever see baby birds in nests? Seems that they shit in the nest too. Hmmmm... maybe the antibiotics aren't because their fecal matter is on the ground. Maybe, just maybe it's because *IF* one chicken gets sick, they're not quite smart enough to say "hey, I need to go to the doctor." And, it's not like they can stay home and take the day off from work. ONE chicken gets sick and it can spread through the flock incredibly rapidly. Antibiotics are a proactive way of keeping young chicks from getting sick. Some common diseases for young chicks have pretty high mortality rates. I'd have to hunt for some organic feed store if I wanted to find chick starter (food for chicks) without antibiotics in it. Out of hundreds of chicks I've raised, I've only lost one young bird, and that was to a cat.

Now, the animal carcass question:
Simple - after I'm done eating, I pick off any leftover meat to give to the dogs, along with leftover vegetables. I put the chicken carcass out on the porch for the cats to pick apart. I don't usually do "leftovers." Except meatloaf. And lasagna. Oh, and pigs in the blanket (stuffed cabbage). Occasionally pizza too, but the dogs love pizza, so generally they get the pizza.

 

[Mike Gayner]

I don't know why people are so shocked by this. Process aside, the result is hardly different from sausages, which have been made for centuries.

 

[LTC8K6]

People eat head cheese, chicken feet, souse, scrapple, etc...

A McNugget is hardly worth talking about...

 

[yhelothar]

Loaded with HFCS goodness...

Indeed... like any bbq or sweetnsour sauce.

 

[qliveur]

Deep frying a chicken may kill bacteria, but it isnt the live bacteria that makes you sick. It is the bacteria's poop that contains the toxic part. Frying doesnt make it any less toxic.

Pure FUD. High temperature (like what is found in a deep fryer) denatures the toxin. This is why we cook food before we eat it.

And the best McNugget dip is hot mustard. Good shit.

 

[Ns1]

People eat head cheese, chicken feet, souse, scrapple, etc...

A McNugget is hardly worth talking about...

head cheese is a person removing the meat from the bones

this appears to be pushing the meat and bones through a sieve

they are the exact opposite.

 

[Born2bwire]

That's what I've heard too from someone who use to work at a plant that processed creamed corn.

Gotta say - at least the food here [in the US] is processed under stringent controls that it's safe for the most part. Can't really say the same for China - freakin gross and very unsanitary.

It's really weird to hear my friends talk about the milk powder trade from Hong Kong to China. Everytime my friends go back to the Mainland they bring back baby formula. The government has even placed restrictions on how much you can bring in.

 

[evident]

You're falling for propaganda on your heart string.

Don't want to eat chicken? Then don't eat chicken.

Anybody that cites that food,inc shit should be immediately dismissed as a dumbass that has zero clue to cooking or taking care of yourself. Now go be scared of your food and buy organic because it's so much better for you!

as a person who've seen you grow your own food and stuff in the garden thread, i would have though you'd actually appreciate this movie. it's pretty eye opening even though regardless if there is some organic food propaganda in it.

 

[Mike Gayner]

as a person who've seen you grow your own food and stuff in the garden thread, i would have though you'd actually appreciate this movie. it's pretty eye opening even though regardless if there is some organic food propaganda in it.

1. L2Sentence Structure.

2. Growing some of your own produce doesn't preclude you from engaging your brain when critically assessing these things.

 

[geno]

I question the inclusion of bones in the mixture, as stated by the linked article, how much grinding and smashing would need to happen to smooth the mixture out. I have no doubt that they're including all the other guts and stuff. Also, why would there be artificial color involved? Doesn't chicken meat cook up white anyhow? Or does the addition of all of the guts and stuff throw that off?

 

[Vette73]

I question the inclusion of bones in the mixture, as stated by the linked article, how much grinding and smashing would need to happen to smooth the mixture out. I have no doubt that they're including all the other guts and stuff. Also, why would there be artificial color involved? Doesn't chicken meat cook up white anyhow? Or does the addition of all of the guts and stuff throw that off?

Chicken breast cooks up white and as you said the guts (lungs, kidneys, etc...) not so white.
The "Other Dark Meat".

 

[Azraele]

My stomach isn't a big fan of processed meat.

 

[LTC8K6]

head cheese is a person removing the meat from the bones

this appears to be pushing the meat and bones through a sieve

they are the exact opposite.

The law would require McD to label it "Mechanically Separated" as far as I can tell.

It is not labeled that way as far as I can tell.

To the best of my ability to check, it is not mechanically separated chicken.

 

[soulcougher73]

FIFTY here for $9.99.

Fifty.

This. But ive not got it yet.

 

[preslove]

The article is bullshit, which is what you should expect from Gizmodo. McNuggets are made from actual chicken breasts.

Not that I eat them. If I want fast food chicken, I go to chick fil a.

 

[Gibson486]

Loaded with HFCS goodness...

Who cares?

 

[dawp]

I'll take chicken tenders from almost anyplace before I'd eat chicken McNuggets anytime.

I also make my own with Louisiana Seasoned Fish Fry

The one in the blue package here.

 

[HumblePie]

You're falling for propaganda on your heart string.

Don't want to eat chicken? Then don't eat chicken.

Anybody that cites that food,inc shit should be immediately dismissed as a dumbass that has zero clue to cooking or taking care of yourself. Now go be scared of your food and buy organic because it's so much better for you!

Propaganda? Excuse me, but I had a bunch of family living in Arkansas right now with Tyson chicken farms. Now, they own their land and their chicken houses, but for the most part, everything to do with the chickens is by Tyson. And much of what is said in Food inc is true to some extent on many farms, and fully true on others. In Arkansas at least, my mom's family makes plenty of money not just through the chickens, but from the logging they "loan" acreage out for as well. I have been there, waded through chicken shit, and done things people on these boards can only see about in a movie.

Now take my uncles chicken farm. He owns the chicken barn, but Tyson owns the equipment. They own the chickens as well. Basically chicks are dropped off at one of his barns, and 8 weeks later they are picked up to send off for processing. He gets paid by the poundage of the weight of the chickens. From that pay, he has to buy their supplied feed, and is not allowed to use any other feed. Remember the chickens are not owned by him. He's basically being paid to watch over the chickens. As a chicken custodian, er chicken farmer, it's his job to maintain the equipment, and raise the chickens.

Now the automated equipment does feed, water, and somewhat clean out all the massive amount of chicken shit that is generated. It doesn't get all the crap though. He still has to go through every so often and get is really clean. The chicken poop is then used to sell for fertilizer so he can make some more money. This is where the propaganda comes in. It's up to the farmers to clean out the poop missed by the equipment, and dead chickens that happen. Many of them are lazy asses though and don't bother. So yes, on many farms the chickens get very, very, very nasty wallowing around in their own shit for much of their 8 week life span. And yes, the feed for the chickens contain tons of crap in it to make them grow faster as well. Which is why there are dead chickens my uncle has to clean out on occasion. Since the chickens are genetically engineered to be bigger and have bigger chest, those chests are literally too massive for most of these chickens. They either die because their own body weight keeps them from getting off the floor and out of some poop so they suffocate to death, or their hearts go into cardiac arrest from growing to fast.

In regards to food inc when it comes to the raising of the animals, it is fairly spot on when taken in certain contexts. Which is that of the lazy farmers, and there are more of those it seems than not. As for the processing plants, well I don't have first hand accounts to go with on that.

 

[Gibson486]

Chopping meat up fine, adding a binder, and molding it is hardly a new thing. It's very common, McD didn't invent it.

Exactly....I mean really, just look at the texture of the chicken and how it stays together when you take a bite. What did people think, that they just took pieces of chicken off a bone and it magically changed texture and took shape of different shapes by magic?

 

[ElFenix]

Honest question to all the freaks - could you cook a chicken and pick all the meat off of it? What would you do with the carcass? Throw it away?

chicken stock

very delicious, rich chicken stock.

Let me guess, you like to buy "chicken tenderloins"?

if i'm going to be chopping up the meat (like for souvlaki) and it's cheaper than the regular breast meat, yes.

yes, i know it's just the muscle underneath the big breast piece.






does chicken wing meat count as white meat? though chicken wings are expensive enough i doubt the processor is putting them in the nugget bin