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Posted by Professor Tor Coolguy (Member # 6361) on :
 
Linky
 

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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
I find it utterly revolting.
 

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Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
 
Defenitely not buying McNuggets again, but then again, I never did, the Wendys ones are the best.

Rhaegar
 

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Posted by Geomancer (Member # 6299) on :
 
I, too, find this "utterly revolting", but I have always hated McDonald's (I've always had an 'unsanitary' feeling about them). I shall continue to avoid that wretched place for all of eternity...and maybe plan the franchise's demise...
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
I've seen this before.
 

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Posted by drumsntolkein (Member # 6095) on :
 
AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!


 

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Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
 
Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew.
This is particularly gross to me today.(see Sexual innuendo thread)
 

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Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
 
I was thinking the same thing Elizabeth...

That is SO wicked gross!
 

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Posted by skrika03 (Member # 5930) on :
 
I'd never seen that before. Thanks. I was worried she had bit into a standard round or Louisiana shaped McNugget to find parts that could only have come from the head. I did handle my subsequent McNugget consumption a bit more gingerly.

But come on, folks, don't you eat sausage or hot dogs?
 

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Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
 
At least hot dogs aren't recognizable.
 

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Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
*decides at this point to STAY OUT of this thread from now on*
 

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Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
 

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But come on, folks, don't you eat sausage or hot dogs?

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Nope. Jewish.

I'm also a vegetarian. And my mother never allowed me to eat fast food when I was growing up. I finally tried it when I was about 16 and hated it. Then I read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser.
 

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Posted by skrika03 (Member # 5930) on :
 
Would you believe this thread actually caused me to crave McNuggets, which I actually went and purchased this evening? That's some powerful crack in those nuggets.
 

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Posted by LadyDove (Member # 3000) on :
 
Wow! I guess those nuggets really are made out of chicken.
 

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Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
 
At least it looks like real chicken (see CU shot of chicken-head). *YUM!!!*

fallow
 

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Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
 
Note: It was found in a chicken wing box, not a chicken mcnugget box. Therefore mcnuggets don't necessarily have to be chicken.
 

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Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
 
If you want GOOD nuggets, you can't beat Chick-fil-a chicken nuggets, which are recognizably chicken, (cut into bits, not ground and re-formed). Mmmmmm. With "polynesian sauce". <insert Homer drool here>
 

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 
Does that McD's box look goofy to anyone else?

Since when does McD's sell chicken wings?
 

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Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
 
My thoughts exactly, Scott. Plus, that doesn't look like the batter they coat McNuggets with. I'm seriously doubting the legitimacy of this photo. Anybody tried snopes?

KarlEd is absolutely correct, for fast food chicken, nothing beats Chick-Fil-A
 

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Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
 
Seek and ye shall find:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/friedrat.htm

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Katherine Ortega says she discovered the McNoggin while divvying up the wings at home for her family of four. (Fried chicken wings were being test-marketed in that area.)

Those who have taken the photographs note the fried batter on the item looks to be the same as on the chicken wings. The McNoggin, however, has yet to be examined by experts. John E. Smith, owner of the McDonald's in question and two others, states "My ability to conduct a thorough investigation has been delayed because I have not been given an opportunity to examine the object in question. Although I have made several requests to see this object, the customer refuses to give me that opportunity."

An enforcement officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who is looking into the case is at a loss to explain how the head ended up in Ortega's order of wings. The first thing that happens in the processing of live chickens into poultry parts is their beheading, with the heads immediately being discarded. The carcasses then go on to the next stage (which is being dropped into the boiling water to de-feather them). Though the process is mostly mechanized, a plant operator helps with evisceration (the removal of the bird's internal organs) and an on-site USDA inspector is supposed to check each and every chicken. How both could have missed a chicken head going through is a mystery.

At this point, not enough is known to determine if anyone is trying to hoax anyone else, if a poultry plant worker or McDonald's employee thought he'd have himself an innocent bit of fun, or if something went severely wrong with the food processing procedures at the plant and thus a McNoggining could happen again. Further information will be provided as soon as it is available.

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Maybe if we removed them all from the Middle East, we could stop terrorism.

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Do they have Weapons of Mass Deliciousness?
 

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Posted by Rolf Singer (Member # 3972) on :
 
I work in the chicken processing industry and its not impossible for a head to end up with the wings. We've had it happen a few times....ooops.

We dont make anything for McDonalds (yet, but you never know when the contract will come up!!) but if their nuggeting process is anything like ours, you'd be surprised how little actual chicken is in a nugget by proportion. Or maybe you wouldnt.

And yes I had heard McDonalds had changed from a formed to a whole muscle nugget in the states. The reason it tastes remarkably the same will be the fact they probably (and I did say probably here, I dont know for sure, but its how we would do it) inject and tumble a huge amount of mariande into the whole muscle fillet. This will give the whole muscle the look of being processed. It also whitens the muscle (otherwise chicken meat tends to cook "grey" looking) gives a better yield for the process, extends the shelf life, and makes the finished product have a softer mouth feel. The end result....you'd never know they used an actual breast fillet to make your nugget, even though they did.

[ April 09, 2004, 08:49 PM: Message edited by: Rolf Singer ]
 

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Posted by ssywak (Member # 807) on :
 
Hi,

Can I be the first to say it?

No one will be offended?

I guess in the neverending battle between McDonalds, Wendy's, Burger King, and KFC...McDonalds finally found a way to get a...

No, I can't do it. I'm sorry. Someone else will have to say it.

...ahead!

Oh! Now look what you made me go and do!
 

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Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
 

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Wow! I guess those nuggets really are made out of chicken.

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