What's in a McNugget and other fun food facts

[ghost]

Boy that sounds wholesome, doesn't it?

When consumers choose to make their own chicken nuggets at home, they get fresh chicken, cut it up into chunks, bread it and either bake it or pan fry them.  When searching McDonald’s website for ingredient lists for all of their menu options, the McNugget is only 45% farm raised, hormone injected chicken.  That leaves 55% of the remaining nugget comprised of chemicals; 37 to be exact.

McNugget's prior to "cooking"

I honestly can't believe that I have eaten this shit.  Food in the US absolutely has to be cleaned up or we're going to end up with a rash of cancers to rival Chernobyl and even more heart disease than we have right now. 

[HaemishM]

I recently had a 10-piece of this shit. My god, by the 6th McNugget, I was ready to McHurl. I realize processed chicken nuggets are in general made up of disreputable bits, but fuck's sake MickeyD's nuggets are just stomach-turning. I don't need to know what's in them to know that.

[ghost]

The problem is that most people DO need to know what's in them to know to stay away.  The same goes for all the processed shit that these fast food chains churn out. 

[01101010]

That picture looks like strawberry soft serve. I will just keep telling myself that is indeed what it is.

[eldaec]

The problem is that most people DO need to know what's in them to know to stay away.  The same goes for all the processed shit that these fast food chains churn out. 

Ok, but is anyone here surprised that McNuggets are made of shit? Because...

I recently had a 10-piece of this shit.

...seems like a lot of people here and others like us do in fact still eat in McDonalds occaisionally. I'm not sure the problem is people not knowing that McDonald's food is bad.

Personally McDonalds makes me nauseous, though I'm sure I've eaten my share of shit elsewhere.

[luckton]

Let's talk about what Arby's roast beef actual is 

[Ingmar]

All the picture really tells you is that it is really, really finely ground before they shape it into what are essentially patties. The actual text of the article is what you should get concerned about if you're going to worry.

[Paelos]

I had a 10 piece today. Its good with hot mustard sauce!

1 - Those same chemicals are used in girl scout cookies
2 - You'd have to drink 11 pounds of cooking oil to get the side effects associated with them.

[Samwise]

I can't remember the last time I went to a McDonald's.  The stuff from the mom-and-pop joints might not be as good for me as a home-cooked meal, but I have the small comfort of knowing that they don't have a massive R&D budget dedicated to simulating food with maximum economic efficiency.

[Yegolev]

Is dimethylpolysiloxane bad for you?

[ghost]

I can't remember the last time I went to a McDonald's.  The stuff from the mom-and-pop joints might not be as good for me as a home-cooked meal, but I have the small comfort of knowing that they don't have a massive R&D budget dedicated to simulating food with maximum economic efficiency.

The only thing you really have to worry about from those type places is the Hepatitis B that you're gonna get when the cook wipes his ass with his bare hand and then doesn't wash. 

[Miasma]

I'm not sure if I believe that picture.  As for the text I basically stop listening when people say X has Y in it and Y can be found in this/that/theotherthing because it tends to be hysterical nonsense created by the ignorant.

You can find a chemical called H₂O in McNuggets!  You know what else has H₂O in it - gasoline, tumours, snake venom and even urine!

Edit: Not sure where they are getting those percentages from either, I don't see any on the website.  Not to mention they have already ignored the breading and oil in concluding everything not chicken must be chemicals.

Edit2: I guess the picture could be real but when I think of it it's really just the same thing as ground beef but chicken.

Also found this while looking on snopes: Hahahaa.

[Kail]

Is dimethylpolysiloxane bad for you?

Not as far as I can tell, it's supposed to be fairly inert.  It's just used in some stuff that isn't normally eaten and therefore it sounds inedible.

    Studies have been carried out on silicone fluids with and
    without the addition of silica. The presence of silica did not
    raise any toxicological problems nor did it affect the results
    of the experiment in a significant way. Short-term studies have
    been carried out in several species, including one study on an
    emulsion of dimethylpolysiloxane. An adequate long-term study with
    dimethylpolysiloxane has been carried out in the rat. None of these
    studies has revealed any significant toxicity. The metabolic studies,
    including those in man, indicate that the orally administered
    dimethylsiloxanes are mainly excreted unchanged in the faeces. The
    provision of this data meets the requirements of the committee for
    metabolic studies.

[Fordel]

Lots of food before it's cooked/prepared is visually horrifying.


Ever make your own sausages? 

[Trippy]

It's most likely real:

http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/msm.asp

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/04/mechanically-separated-meat-chicken-mcnugget-photo_n_749893.html

[Fordel]

From the Snopes thinger:

(Although McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are typically offered as an example of a popular MSP-based food, since 2003 that product has been made with all white meat rather than MSP.)

[Trippy]

Yup but the picture is still likely to be MSP or MSM, even if McNuggets don't come from that anymore.

[ghost]

If McNuggets don't come from that any more I'm sure there's something equally repulsive that they're doing to the meat.  I don't even want to think about what's in the McRib.

While we're talking about shitty foods, you might want to think about the arsenic that is in all the fruit juices that you're drinking. 

[kaid]

Usually if I am going to get nugget like chicken I get it from Hardees you can easily tell their chicken bits are from an actual avian and not ground up meat slurry.

[Trippy]

McDonald's has Chicken Selects if breasts from factory farmed chickens is your preferred protein source

[Cadaverine]

Everything you eat is bad for you, particularly if super-sized with a large tub of soda. 

[Sir T]

Its ok, guys. The effects can be reversed with a gastric bypass.

[Tale]

My dad was a chicken company manager when chicken nuggets first appeared.

They were a way to profit from every last scrap of a chicken carcass. The bits you wouldn't usually think about eating, from which meat can be extracted in processing.

[Hawkbit]

A few friends worked at KFC in high school.  They said the 'popcorn chicken' was nothing more than gristle super coated in batter.  There was literally no meat on them, all gristle and fat.  Blech. 

My kid loves McD nuggets.  I take her maybe once every three months or so, just when we're too busy to do anything else.  Plus, it's the only meal that she will eat without complaining about.  What really sucks is that once a week I take whole, organic chicken breasts, cut them into nugget sizes, bread and bake them... and she won't eat them.  They taste so, so much better than McD and they're a lot healthier. 

I can't do that fast food stuff anymore, for the most part.  Every once in a while I need a McD breakfast sandwich, just to remind me why I don't eat them regularly. 

[Sky]

They were a way to profit from every last scrap of a chicken carcass. The bits you wouldn't usually think about eating, from which meat can be extracted in processing.

Hell, if you knew my grandma from Mississippi, you'd know that.

[Azazel]

A few friends worked at KFC in high school.  They said the 'popcorn chicken' was nothing more than gristle super coated in batter.  There was literally no meat on them, all gristle and fat.  Blech. 

My kid loves McD nuggets.  I take her maybe once every three months or so, just when we're too busy to do anything else.  Plus, it's the only meal that she will eat without complaining about.  What really sucks is that once a week I take whole, organic chicken breasts, cut them into nugget sizes, bread and bake them... and she won't eat them.  They taste so, so much better than McD and they're a lot healthier. 

Try mixing up your recipe a little? This guy's one seems like it could be ok. Once you get your kid eating yours, you can change it back ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5SPdt2Zj6g&feature=g-like&context=G240ece8ALTwQEkQAAAA

[Teleku]

I doubt anything he does will work.  McNuggets where just about my most favorite food in the world when I was a child, and I also hated the "better" shit my mother made (and my mother is an amazing cook).  No really, our parents relenting and taking us to McDonalds was like a second Christmas every time.  As I've grown up my taste have broaden, obviously, but while I rarely eat any fast food anymore, I still have an unholy love of McDonalds Cheeseburgers and McNuggets.  The only food in the world better is Taco Bell.

My dad was a chicken company manager when chicken nuggets first appeared.

They were a way to profit from every last scrap of a chicken carcass. The bits you wouldn't usually think about eating, from which meat can be extracted in processing.

Shouldn't we be happy about this?  In school everybody praised how the Indians never wasted any part of the buffalo.   

[rattran]

I just think of mcnuggets as the chicken version of spam. Mostly eyelids, lips, and anuses, not stuff I want to eat.

[Teleku]

Never ever visit any island in the Pacific then.   

[Azazel]

I doubt anything he does will work.  McNuggets where just about my most favorite food in the world when I was a child, and I also hated the "better" shit my mother made (and my mother is an amazing cook).  No really, our parents relenting and taking us to McDonalds was like a second Christmas every time.  As I've grown up my taste have broaden, obviously, but while I rarely eat any fast food anymore, I still have an unholy love of McDonalds Cheeseburgers and McNuggets.  The only food in the world better is Taco Bell.

Well, this guy uses a different kind of breadcrumbs, double-crumbs them and there's a little bit of sugar and paprika in the flour. I'm tempted to try it myself - and I've eaten McDonalds once in the last 5 or so years. (nuggets and fries, coincidently). I prefer the Colonel's nuggets. Far less horrible.

[Hawkbit]

That's a decent recipe.  It's fairly close to what I do, though his double Panko coating and deep frying them add a lot of calories (and flavor!).  It's a great idea, though.  I'll have to try it and see if I can get her to eat that instead. 

I've made a few sweet chili Thai dishes that prepare the chicken almost exactly like that recipe, and they're phenomenal in those dishes.  For whatever reason, I never really thought of just eating them as nuggets. 

I think I have a project for this weekend.

[Azazel]

Yeah, my thought was that maybe she'll eat them and then once she's happily eating yours, you can start changing them back to the less unhealthy version...

[Cyrrex]

If this thread has accomplished anything, it is that my two boys will not be eating fucking McNuggets again any time soon.  I dislike McD to begin with, but holy shit.

I sent the pic to my wife and asked her what favorite food product it was.  Her first guess was bubble gum.

[01101010]

Once every two months I venture into McD's and get an Angus Mushroom and Swiss. The two months is about the time when it has fully exited my system and memory. If I am really behind and really need breakfast and do not what to venture an extra block for a bagel or doughnut, I will pick up an Egg McMuffin with sausage. Something about that sandwich is like crack to me. Again though, that is maybe 6-7 times a year.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Every once in a while I need a McD breakfast sandwich, just to remind me why I don't eat them regularly. 

This.  And that was this morning, because I've been freaking tired as hell all week and really just did not feel up to packing stuff for breakfast to take to work.  Nope, couldn't even manage to pull a frozen block of steel cut oats and toss it into the lunch bag.  Plus, I woke up starving and didn't want to wait the hour until I made it to work to eat.

I've eaten and liked McNuggets in the past but after seeing that, I think I'll pass next time.