Whats in a chicken MCNugget

BeachIron

I'm pretty sure this is "chicken" or some kind of chicken based paste - not beef. I saw this exact picture, with an article, in a pretty reliable news paper (as reliable as news papers get) and it specifically pointed out that this pink crap was indeed chicken.

Either way, I wouldn't eat it. I'd probably literally rather starve.

I found a youtube article claiming this is chicken. I'm still skeptical as it looks so much like the "pink slime" that so much scare mongering was done about not so long ago. Between that and the chicken feathers comment, I had to assume the person was trolling. In any event, I doubt it's harmful and we all know that chicken McNuggets are not made from whole chicken pieces. The video I found was similar in tone to the sensationalism in the video in the OP. No factual information provided, just scaremongering. I prefer to get my information from reliable sources.

That said, if you have the news article, I would appreciate it if you posted it. I've been wrong before. I'll be wrong again. I like to question and verify. It's how I stopped being afraid of white rice . . .

iecreamheadaches

I don't care because they are delicious

this guy gets it.

Wildflower0106

Pink slime is no longer used by McDonald's...

I never cared anyway, McNuggets are nummy!

jen_zz

sweet n sour sauce!:drinker:

tigersword

The hair is the tiny individual strands of feather fibers. The crust of a McNugget is not made of grain flour. It's pulverized feather stems. My stepdad worked for the processing plant. Why they are blue, maybe it occurs in some sort of cleaning process to get the feather stems ready? As for what's on the inside, I'm guessing it's like weiners. If it could be sold as meat, it was already. Which leaves everything else that can't be classified as meat.

Not to defend Mickey D's, but they claimed a few years ago they stopped using "mechanically processed chicken" after bad media reports. I don't know when the Ranger video was actually taken, though. Maybe MD's idea of real chicken is what we saw. And side note - mechanically processed chicken is a paste the color of pepto-bismol. That might be what the red stuff is, remnants that didn't bleach out during the ammonia soak the paste is put through before flavoring and injected into molds.

^ This post has so many factual errors in it, I honestly don't know where to start.

That's beef, not chicken.

McDonald's doesn't use that beef anymore.

Wait.

You were trolling.

Never mind.

I'm pretty sure this is "chicken" or some kind of chicken based paste - not beef. I saw this exact picture, with an article, in a pretty reliable news paper (as reliable as news papers get) and it specifically pointed out that this pink crap was indeed chicken.

Either way, I wouldn't eat it. I'd probably literally rather starve.

It's the same exact picture that was used for the "pink slime" beef stories. That's pretty much the point. Companies don't use either of them anymore, so news organizations are recycling the same picture to make up a "story" where none exists.