Are the new spicy McDonalds nuggets any good? I love the original nuggets and was curious what the new ones are like. Thoughts?

I never buy chicken nuggets from a hamburger joint. They look and taste processed.

Only Chick Fil A.

phunkdaddy said:

I never buy chicken nuggets from a hamburger joint. They look and taste processed.

Only Chick Fil A.

not my top choice in food. see here.

Exposing McDonalds: "Chicken" Nuggets

http://voices.yahoo.com/e...html?cat=5

free2bfreeda said:

phunkdaddy said:

I never buy chicken nuggets from a hamburger joint. They look and taste processed.

Only Chick Fil A.

not my top choice in food. see here.

Exposing McDonalds: "Chicken" Nuggets

http://voices.yahoo.com/e...html?cat=5

When you think of McDonalds, there's a good chance you think of the golden arches, comical characters, Ronald McDonalds, clowns, happy childhoods (or not?), and particularly addictive food. You may also think of the movie "Supersize Me", in which an individual ate McDonalds food for thirty days straight--and suffered. Suffered badly. The words "obesity epidemic" may even come to mind. But the next time you hear someone talking about McDonalds chicken nuggets, I want you to know what, exactly these economic imperialists at McDonalds are trying to pass off as chicken.

So, at this point you're wondering: What exactly is it that is in the chicken nuggets?

Here's a fun fact: their "chicken" is actually, at most, 44 percent chicken. The rest is mostly corn, salt, preservatives, and a few other interesting nasties.
When someone orders chicken nuggets, it's generally understood that you're getting chicken, not corn. Unfortunately, corn is extremely abundant in this country and is easy to establish crops of in others, and so corn and corn products compose the majority of McDonalds "chicken" nuggets.
Yes, I absolutely have to use the quotation marks. Sue me.

There are 38 ingredients in the McDonalds "chicken" nuggets.

Of them: the chicken (which is fed genetically altered corn, by the way. But is that really much of a surprise?), modified cornstarch (without this, the "chicken" nuggets would not be able to hold themselves together, due to the extreme processing of the nugget.), emulsifiers (so that the fats and the moisture in the nuggets do not separate, forming a nasty clot-like knuckle of nugget.), dextrose (it's a sugar.), chicken broth (a source of moisture and some flavor that has been leeched out of the nugget by the processing of the product.).

Yellow corn starch and more modified cornstarch are added to make the batter.

Even more cornstarch is used as a filler in the nugget itself. Following that, other fillers include vegetable shortening and partially hydrogenated corn oil (a source of trans fat; particularly nasty trans fat, as well.), and citric acid (about the only even slightly natural thing about the nuggets.)

Interestingly, perhaps even moreso than the above, are ingredients actually purchased from chemical plants that go into the "chicken" nuggets.

Aluminum phosphate and calcium lactate help prevent the rancid vegetable fats in the nuggets from starting to rot visibly and starting to smell disgusting.
Dimethylpolysioxene is added to the oil to prevent starches (and, as you can see, starches aren't just present in the nuggets--they're outright abundant.) from binding.

Problem: this chemical is a carcinogen.

What's more--and you'll like this--it's actually flammable.

Tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) is derived from petroleum and is an antioxidant that is actually sprayed directly on the nugget most of the time to preserve freshness. For those of you familiar with TBHQ, it will come as no surprise to you that TBHQ is a form of butane. Butane is lighter fluid.

That's two flammable ingredients in "chicken" nuggets from McDonalds. I'm starting to suspect that McDonalds is responsible for alleged cases of spontaneous human combustion.

TBHQ is allowed in small quantities by the FDA to be used in our food. This is a good thing that it is at least limited. A single gram of TBHQ, when ingested, can induce nausea, vomiting, delirium, collapse, and worse. Three to six grams of TBHQ can, and have, killed people.

So, please...It's one thing if you want to feed yourself flammable fried nuggets of chemicals and starches.

Just don't feed them to your children.

ooooohhh Wow!

When in college, I ate at Mcds twice if not three times daily. I didn't gain any excess weight and did not suffer any health issues at the time.

Wendy's makes the best nuggets ever.

EVER.

And the sauce is so good I pour what's left on my burger after I finish the nuggets.

This is making me hungry.

sometimes I make my own nuggets. I cut up chicken meat, white and dark. marinade, then season, then flower then fry!

OnlyNDaUsa said:

sometimes I make my own nuggets. I cut up chicken meat, white and dark. marinade, then season, then flower then fry!

and the cool part about making your own = you can add as much cool love to the chicken nuggets as you wish!

OnlyNDaUsa said:

sometimes I make my own nuggets. I cut up chicken meat, white and dark. marinade, then season, then flower then fry!

Lots of folks do, but let's be real here - you will never taste a homemade nugget as good as a fast food one. For all the dumping on fast food chains that people do, they honestly excel at some things.

Fries, too. No one can fuck with McDonald's fries, or even Wendy's, I don't care how good of a cook someone is (or thinks they are) .

free2bfreeda said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

sometimes I make my own nuggets. I cut up chicken meat, white and dark. marinade, then season, then flower then fry!

and the cool part about making your own = you can add as much cool love to the chicken nuggets as you wish!

Truth? I don't give a damn what emotions went into someone's cooking, I just care about the ultimate result, how it tastes.

I really don't care less if the person working in the back of the kitchen hates the job and hates the customers, the nuggets taste damn good so the rest is irrelevant.

Analyst said:

free2bfreeda said:

and the cool part about making your own = you can add as much cool love to the chicken nuggets as you wish!

Truth? I don't give a damn what emotions went into someone's cooking, I just care about the ultimate result, how it tastes.

I really don't care less if the person working in the back of the kitchen hates the job and hates the customers, the nuggets taste damn good so the rest is irrelevant.

my truth, nothing beats home cooking. then i know my food is clean, un-loogied and not dropped on the floor and tossed into the bag. that to me is very relevant.

phunkdaddy said:

I never buy chicken nuggets from a hamburger joint. They look and taste processed.

Only Chick Fil A.

Do you go twice on Sunday?

Analyst said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

sometimes I make my own nuggets. I cut up chicken meat, white and dark. marinade, then season, then flower then fry!

Lots of folks do, but let's be real here - you will never taste a homemade nugget as good as a fast food one. For all the dumping on fast food chains that people do, they honestly excel at some things.

Fries, too. No one can fuck with McDonald's fries, or even Wendy's, I don't care how good of a cook someone is (or thinks they are) .

McDonald's fries were REALLY the bomb when they used beef tallow in the oil. Then vegans, Hindis and Muslims began complaining . . . so they stopped.

But when I want fries, it always Mickey D's.

free2bfreeda said:

Analyst said:

Truth? I don't give a damn what emotions went into someone's cooking, I just care about the ultimate result, how it tastes.

I really don't care less if the person working in the back of the kitchen hates the job and hates the customers, the nuggets taste damn good so the rest is irrelevant.

my truth, nothing beats home cooking. then i know my food is clean, un-loogied and not dropped on the floor and tossed into the bag. that to me is very relevant.

I guess you never eat away from home.

I don't trust anything McDonald's. Bojangles has the best nuggets.

Analyst said:

Analyst said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

sometimes I make my own nuggets. I cut up chicken meat, white and dark. marinade, then season, then flower then fry!

Lots of folks do, but let's be real here - you will never taste a homemade nugget as good as a fast food one. For all the dumping on fast food chains that people do, they honestly excel at some things.

Fries, too. No one can fuck with McDonald's fries, or even Wendy's, I don't care how good of a cook someone is (or thinks they are) .

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Girl you trippin'...

free2bfreeda said:

phunkdaddy said:

I never buy chicken nuggets from a hamburger joint. They look and taste processed.

Only Chick Fil A.

not my top choice in food. see here.

Exposing McDonalds: "Chicken" Nuggets

http://voices.yahoo.com/e...html?cat=5

When you think of McDonalds, there's a good chance you think of the golden arches, comical characters, Ronald McDonalds, clowns, happy childhoods (or not?), and particularly addictive food. You may also think of the movie "Supersize Me", in which an individual ate McDonalds food for thirty days straight--and suffered. Suffered badly. The words "obesity epidemic" may even come to mind. But the next time you hear someone talking about McDonalds chicken nuggets, I want you to know what, exactly these economic imperialists at McDonalds are trying to pass off as chicken.

So, at this point you're wondering: What exactly is it that is in the chicken nuggets?

Here's a fun fact: their "chicken" is actually, at most, 44 percent chicken. The rest is mostly corn, salt, preservatives, and a few other interesting nasties.
When someone orders chicken nuggets, it's generally understood that you're getting chicken, not corn. Unfortunately, corn is extremely abundant in this country and is easy to establish crops of in others, and so corn and corn products compose the majority of McDonalds "chicken" nuggets.
Yes, I absolutely have to use the quotation marks. Sue me.

There are 38 ingredients in the McDonalds "chicken" nuggets.

Of them: the chicken (which is fed genetically altered corn, by the way. But is that really much of a surprise?), modified cornstarch (without this, the "chicken" nuggets would not be able to hold themselves together, due to the extreme processing of the nugget.), emulsifiers (so that the fats and the moisture in the nuggets do not separate, forming a nasty clot-like knuckle of nugget.), dextrose (it's a sugar.), chicken broth (a source of moisture and some flavor that has been leeched out of the nugget by the processing of the product.).

Yellow corn starch and more modified cornstarch are added to make the batter.

Even more cornstarch is used as a filler in the nugget itself. Following that, other fillers include vegetable shortening and partially hydrogenated corn oil (a source of trans fat; particularly nasty trans fat, as well.), and citric acid (about the only even slightly natural thing about the nuggets.)

Interestingly, perhaps even moreso than the above, are ingredients actually purchased from chemical plants that go into the "chicken" nuggets.

Aluminum phosphate and calcium lactate help prevent the rancid vegetable fats in the nuggets from starting to rot visibly and starting to smell disgusting.
Dimethylpolysioxene is added to the oil to prevent starches (and, as you can see, starches aren't just present in the nuggets--they're outright abundant.) from binding.

Problem: this chemical is a carcinogen.

What's more--and you'll like this--it's actually flammable.

Tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) is derived from petroleum and is an antioxidant that is actually sprayed directly on the nugget most of the time to preserve freshness. For those of you familiar with TBHQ, it will come as no surprise to you that TBHQ is a form of butane. Butane is lighter fluid.

That's two flammable ingredients in "chicken" nuggets from McDonalds. I'm starting to suspect that McDonalds is responsible for alleged cases of spontaneous human combustion.

TBHQ is allowed in small quantities by the FDA to be used in our food. This is a good thing that it is at least limited. A single gram of TBHQ, when ingested, can induce nausea, vomiting, delirium, collapse, and worse. Three to six grams of TBHQ can, and have, killed people.

So, please...It's one thing if you want to feed yourself flammable fried nuggets of chemicals and starches.

Just don't feed them to your children.

ooooohhh Wow!

Cornstarch and lard. No wonder we have so many overweight, unhealthy folks walking around out here. Folks, stop eating this POISON!! Do yourselves and your loved ones a favor and cook at home!!!

SUPRMAN said:

free2bfreeda said:

my truth, nothing beats home cooking. then i know my food is clean, un-loogied and not dropped on the floor and tossed into the bag. that to me is very relevant.

I guess you never eat away from home.

very rarely. where i live most of the fast if not all of the fast food chains do not have any type of mandatory medical back ground check like they used to do back in the day. so who knows what kind of strange disease the food preps carry.

also no food preps are required to wear hairnets in the current day.

i tend to like to save money so when i do choose to go out to eat it's usually at an upscale restaurant.

free2bfreeda said:

SUPRMAN said:

I guess you never eat away from home.

very rarely. where i live most of the fast if not all of the fast food chains do not have any type of mandatory medical back ground check like they used to do back in the day. so who knows what kind of strange disease the food preps carry.

also no food preps are required to wear hairnets in the current day.

i tend to like to save money so when i do choose to go out to eat it's usually at an upscale restaurant.

Why even go to a restaurant. Eating at home is always a sure thing... especially when someone knows how to work the ingredients. You almost can't trust a fast food worker because they're always told to put something in your burger or salad. The convenience store food is better actually.