Chicken nuggets are mostly made of chicken

So I saw this article over on the Montreal Gazette.  I have no idea how I got there, but it seems to me I’ve linked a few of their stories lately, which seems odd and is probably the work of a rescued llama that was given opposable thumbs and mutant powers and what was I just talking about? Oh, the article.

Chicken Nuggets, as made by McDonald’s, are apparently made out of chicken.  There are various stories going around, including the strawberry milkshake picture, and I guess something about them being 56% corn somehow, and also that they contain Silly Putty, and other levels of ludicrosity.  Anyway, some guy from The Office of Science and Society, and I’m gonna trust him because that sounds like a cool gig, this guy says it’s pretty much just breaded chicken.

And you know what?  I’m cool with that even if the guy turns out to be a one man think tank for fast food.  Not the chicken part, obviously, but I really don’t need to be scaremongering when it comes to talking about what’s wrong with nuggets.  Here’s the thing: you start trying to tell people about the horrible stuff that’s in something that’s been around as long as nuggets, and it’s not like cigarettes – people are going to think hey, I’ve eaten them all my life and I’m not dead, so maybe the scary stuff isn’t so scary, and maybe there’s even more processed animal food out there that I should embrace.  It kinda helps that the things are somewhat tasty, or at least I’d assume so since people keep eating them.

But if everything tastes like chicken, why do we need chicken?  There’s a store 4 minutes away from my office that sells a vegan version of the chicken nugget that as far as I can tell is bang-on accurate.  Oh, and in between my office and that store is a store that sells booze, so yeah, I’m pretty much the mayor of awesometown.  Anyway, there’s really no need, as far as I can tell, for chicken nuggets to exist other than to serve as a waste product disposal technique turned profit centre for the poultry industry.

You want to know what’s scary inside chicken nuggets? Ground up birds, that’s what.  Not much else you need to know, really, so instead of getting a degree in chemistry and still getting the components wrong, how’s about we work on changing that urban legend about KFC changing their name to just initials because they don’t sell actual chicken anymore into a delightful plant-based reality?

Oh, and because I said I was going to focus on stuff people submit, here’s a video Amanda sent in that fits the theme.  The ramble up above was just something I made up to pad out the post.  Er, if you’re prone to seizures, well, you probably already know not to click on random video links, right?

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