sporting event snacks

[danzig6767]

i know i'm late to this party, and the link is actually a few years old. feast your eyes on this. it's new to me and i can't believe it. found via this amusing notgraphs post.

That looks disgusting. My kid used to like eating the chicken nuggets from McDonald's and to this day i'm not convinced that it's really chicken in those nasty things. Their burgers are by far the worst of any fast food place.

 

If any company on the planet is a testament to the proof that marketing works it's McDonald's. Their food for the most part is terrible, yet they rake in massive profits. They smartly have targeted much of their marketing towards children who don't really care much about food tasting all that good, they just see McDonald's in the commercials and love the play areas inside many McDonald's.

[GAME05]

http://selfreliantcommunity.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/chicken-mcnugget-step-one-1447-1232141429-13.jpg

behold, Danzig, the Chicken McNugget. good cuts of meat pulled off the chicken to be sold separately. then the carcass, bones and all, ground up to a goo. the bone chips are strained out to get this basically flavourless paste. i presume the pink colour is from the bone marrow. add food colouring and artificial chicken flavor and you get yourself a nugget (or a chicken patty).

edit: McDonalds denies that they use this mechanically separated meat. apparently it's an FDA law now that companies must mention "mechanically separated meat" on its list of ingredients.

 

 

[dadofandrew]

They use all white meat now in McNuggets. I think they were juicer before with some dark in there.

 

And there is no bone in mechanically separated meat, they use special machines to extract more meat off the bone, including a sieve of some kind. It's kind of like the Native Americans never letting anything go to waste, except for some reason, people act like Tyson and businesses like them should throw out the entire carcass unless it's prime cuts. If they used bone, they would have to include that in the ingredients, like they do on dog food. That is some quality stuff there, especially the marrow, but it's not used for human consumption.

[GAME05]

didn't mean to imply that there was bone in there. we do similar stuff with scraps from pork and beef, too. when an animal is processed, we truly use every possible part of the animal.