Chicken Nuggets from McDonalds

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Are those videos real, the ones that show what the raw nugget gunk is made of that looks like bubblegum?? Bork I hope it's a hoax!

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its kinda real, but not what mcdonalds use, its the sculptured el-cheapo ones that use that junk

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Don't eat muscle! Nice bit of cruelly raised fois gras will sort you right out.

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Depends where you get it from. If you want to be sure (and your happy to pay a little bit more) then go somewhere where they'll mince in front of you (get them to dump the first bit - an empty mincer can hold quite a bit of meat).

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I told my kids how McDonalds food is manufactured and what it is made from, they made the decision themselves not to go there any more. I should say I do this with all their food and I'm not picking on McD's specifically, I think it is really important that kids know the origin of the food & drinks they consume.

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My dad always had a large planted garden for vegatables at home. I would always help out as a kid in the spring preparation. When we would get manure mix to spread before tilling, I asked him where the 'dirt' we get comes from. He showed me it came from Cow Poo----I refused to eat vegatables anymore, since they were made from poo!

When we were visiting a Trinidadian market, we picked out a live chicken to curry that night, and got to watch as the market butcher cut the head off, defeather by holding the chicken on a spinning truck tire apparatus, then throwing it in boiling oil. Of course I asked if there was a few hundred people in the market, how could the butcher do that for each family with so few chickens in the coop. I was in awe of the explaination and by the time I was 25, I was a manufacturing engineer in the food industry.

Point being--What does a kid really know? And your beliefs and values will be reflected on them even if you feel you are letting them make their own decisions.

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My one son`s 4yr old asked him "What are Chicken Wings, Dad?" - his favourite take-away.

He told him ..... "Chickens wings".

"Yes but what ARE they?"

"They are the wings of a chicken".

"You mean a real chicken?"

"Yes"

"Then how does the chicken fly without wings?"

"No, he doesn`t fly anymore because he`s dead when they cut off his wings"

"Why`s he dead?"

"So you can eat Chicken Wings".

Same story with Chicken Legs ....... except for "How does a chicken run without any legs?"

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Most chicken and beef sold in Swiss stores comes from the same sources as McDonalds Switzerland uses. Swiss Farms.

Ever had a whole roasted chicken? You will eat the same, just in a different form.

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Not a hoax Pixie B.

I looked for the Jamie Oliver video showing exactly how big industry makes chicken nuggets (but couldn`t find the one I`d watched).

In that video he has invited guests to dinner, for Chicken Nuggets, made according to the industrial method.

From the cute chickens that get sorted by sex ... males are gassed and fed into a steel pressing machine, together with chicken carcasses, discarded skin/fat/heads/feet/entrails. This is compressed and out comes the Pink Goo that gets treated with "flavourants" and end up as Chicken Nuggets .... Finger Licking Good Take-aways.

Same with any processed meats - that`s why sometimes one finds a tiny sliver of bone or hard gristle that`s escaped the sieve.

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They sound yummy. I hate the fact many people (especially, it seems, in the US and the UK), when buying meat, just buy tasteless chicken breasts as they really don't want to think that maybe, just maybe, meat comes from an animal.

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Here is the thing, especially now:

A lot of people choose to eat just the breasts because they're "boneless" and because they (we're told) are healthier since it is a leaner part of the body.

So, if we're all eating breasts, what happens to the thigh, the drumstick, the wings, the back? Everything NOT breast? Yep, gets pressed and formed into the meat used for chicken hotdogs, sandwich meat, nuggets, etc. Yes, it's processed to the gills BUT if we focused on eating WHOLE chickens instead of just parts that suit us, Smoky Jr. would have already known where the wings and legs came from AND there would be fewer strange things happening between butcher and table.

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All the stuff that goes into nuggets is stuff that I normally eat anyway as I normally buy whole chickens/quail/ducks/etc. and use all of it.

Tom

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you eat the bones too?

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i think you have to beware of the advertising,

a company may say we use chicken breast, and they may for a while until noone is watching and then they put other stuff in, people look at advertising and think oh thats the way it is for ever and ever ? or close and a week? after the advertising stops they change the recipe, but people are still under the impression its what it was before.

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Quail nuggets, now that's posh.

Soup, stock.

Theough I've eaten chicken leg bones in Indonesia, they cook 'em until they're soft. Very tasty they are (as long as you haven't used the sachet of plasma grade spicy sauce).

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you probably buy a quality chicken though?

there was a story in the papers about a village in the uk that prevented an intensive chicken farm (lots of chickens in a barn no outdoor access) from opening next to them, it was going to provide for nandos i think, so these people don't want something so awful next to them but they probably buy a nandos, it seems like there is a big disconnect between what people think they are, animal lovers, fair, reasonable and what they actually do.

this is what a chicken farm next to me looks a little like (the swiss one is a bit more spacious and has modern shade thingys) and i wouldn't object to this, in fact a few chickens around might add to the charm of the area..

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Here is a link to a video McDonalds made showing how they make Chicken McNuggets:

http://digg.com/video/mcdonalds-show...make-mcnuggets

Now you know, and probably wish you didn't.

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Thanks for sharing, nothing gross or unusual. Does not look much different from making a meatloaf.

So I was wrong. Instead of pressing and freezing the chicken breast is ground.

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One programme I saw on the making of chicken nuggets showed the entire chicken; guts, bones, brain & all, being ground up and made into the pink slime stuff. This mix then has to be bleached to kill all the bacteria found in the intestinal tract. I doubt your meat loaf contains the animals faeces, intestines etc? If it does never invite me for dinner

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that was how mcdonalds allegedly used to make them, not done it like that for a long time, iirc they don't make them like that 2nd video in europe either, they don't mince them up and reconstitute them, easy to tell as reconstituted is like a lump of smooth meat rather then being stringy

(I don't eat mcd's nuggets so not 100% sure, but pretty sure I read it)