Mcdonalds: Chicken Mcnuggets

[DAS]

For god's sake, go Veggie!!

No need for that, just and eat buy proper meat

I think Katherine is against the concept of eating meat, rather than eating McDonalds' chicken nuggets.

[DAS]

I've never eaten a McDonalds chicken nugget in my life - more to do with being unadventurous rather than avoiding it. And I can't say I've ever purchased something from KFC, either...

With my rather odd mind, I often think inappropriate thoughts when I'm eating a sausage or a hamburger but it never puts me off.

There are only two things which have come close to putting me off. One was a double page spread photograph in the Daily Mirror a couple of years ago of the McDonalds chicken nuggets chicken head - PLEASE somebody do not post that photograph on this thread because it really made my stomach turn. It's a bit of a shock turning the newspaper and finding that picture!

The second was in year 6 as I was enjoying a lovely sausage, and a bitch of a girl called Laura ran up to me and reeled off what she was told by her teacher about sausage production.

[DAS]

How I knew someone would do that.

Cheers Mark, you're paying for the keyboard cleaning fluid.

[Chris]

I was just wondering today after i saw a Mcdonalds' advert about Chicken Nuggets "now made with real breast chicken and less salt."

OK... Im confused , if Mcdonalds are saying Mc Nuggets are made with REAL chicken,it makes you wonder what they were made of before.

McDonald's chicken products (and worringly, as far as I know most of this is actually true):

Chickens are 'carefully selected' - carefully selected to be the cheapest they can buy, which usually means they're too old and straggly to be sold as a whole chicken or as joints.

Once plucked, the whole chicken goes into a grinder to form a mince, which is then mixed with egg to bind it together.

It's shaped into 12" cubes, frozen, and then loaded onto pallets

McDonalds buy it by the pallete load, defrost it, and then squeeze the chicken out into the various shapes they need and finish it with the correct batter/breadcrumbs/whatever that the product demands.

The products are then cooked, frozen again, and distributed to the stores where they are refried to defrost and warm them up again at the point of sale.

I thought they were made of that weird chicken protein stuff which is grown rather than farmed - similar to KFC chicken (hence KFC aren't allowed to call themselves Kentucky Fried Chicken any more).

AFAIK all KFC chicken is real chicken. For one thing their latest advertising campaign waxes lyrical about their 'real chicken meals' and how their chicken fillet burgers are made with whole chicken brests. And I'd love to know how their original recipe chicken (the standard pieces of chicken coated in KFC-stuff) are made from protein considering they are recogniseable as chicken pieces - even with bones.

There was an exposé in the Daily Mirror (I think) sometime last year where a hack of theirs went under cover at a factory which produces these 'chicken' nuggets, bugers and the like. Don't know if I kept the copy but from what I can remember, pretty much all of the chicken nuggets you see on the freezers in supermarkets amd in fast food chains comes from low quality meat and this place where they sent the hack to supplies quite a few of the well known fast food chains.

Apparenly it is shipped in from Brazil or some far flung country on a pallet with loads of blue wrapping around it, and then the blocks of meat are then left to stand a bit to defrost and then sent down a conveyor belt together with blocks of other stuff such as blocks of saturated fat and onions in the case of burgers (one thing I remember is that the employees were meant to use separate gear for handling the meat but never bothered to change and one of them didn't even bother to rip off all the wrapping on the meat before it was sent down the conveyor belt, so somebody must have had a wonderful surprise when they discovered bits of blue polythene in their nugget or burger)

The blocks of meat and other crap are then placed into this giant mixer where it all gets mushed together and somewhere else in the factory it all gets squeezed out into globule shapes on a conveyor belt below. They are heated, have breadcrumbs or whatever sprinkled on top of them and then they are blasted with liquid nitrogen or some sort of cooling fluid and are then packed and shipped all over the country.

Have to admit, it turned my stomach reading the article and ever since I've never looked at chicken nuggets and burgers in the same light again.

[Pete]

I could well imagine that.

The thing I wonder about the chicken head thing though is how it would survive the mincing process where they clag all the muck together at the start?

[Neil Jones]

I thought they were made of that weird chicken protein stuff which is grown rather than farmed - similar to KFC chicken (hence KFC aren't allowed to call themselves Kentucky Fried Chicken any more).

However this could turn out to be nothing more than an urban myth.

Indeed, it is an urban myth.

The reason they changed their name was to get away frm the reputation that all they do is chicken, when of course it isn't.

According to Snopes and http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.htm

Kentucky Fried Chicken decided to change their name to KFC in 1991 for several reasons, none of which had anything to do with governmental regulations about mutant animals:

A move to de-emphasize "chicken" because KFC planned to offer a varied menu that included other types of food. (The Boston Chicken corporation took the same approach for the same reason, changing their name of their retail food outlets to Boston Market.)

A desire to eliminate the word "fried," which has negative connotations to the increasingly health-conscious consumer market.

A recent trend towards the abbreviation of long commercial titles, as demonstrated by other companies' employing shortened forms of their names, such as The International House of Pancakes (IHOP) and Howard Johnson's (HoJo).

[Anonymous]

[Jenny]

According to Snopes and http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.htm ...

Of course, the real story is elsewhere on the snopes site: http://www.snopes.com/lost/lost.htm#kfc

[tvmercia]

For god's sake, go Veggie!!

if people went veggie, then they'd be exposing themselves to more of all those harmful pesticides that are lovingly sprayed onto fruit and veg these days.

yes, yes, yes, organic blah blah blah, but then not many eating establishments offer organic fast food.

[Katherine]

No Offence, Katherine, but... I have tasted veggie burger and it tastes horrible. and im never eating meat alternative food again!

What brand of veggie burger did you eat? You can't go too wrong with the veggie food that Cauldron Foods produce, especially the veggie sausages and burgers, which I eat at every opportunity! Have a look at the range:

http://www.cauldronfoods.co.uk/product_ ... ?t=burgers

http://www.cauldronfoods.co.uk/product_ ... t=sausages

[Anonymous]