I just a
te some Mcdonalds nuggets and as usual I was faced with a dilemna.
What exactly are they made of?
Why are they all shaped the same?
Why exactly am I eating them if I don’t know the answers?
Well I have done a bit of research on the topic, and by a bit I mean about 10 minutes of semi hard work. It turns out that chicken actually is an ingredient in the nuggets, although it looks like sponge might be a better fit. Although chicken is an ingredient there are near 40 ingredients in the little boot shaped nuggets as well. Of all the ingredients the only one that caused a little issue was butane. Yes, butane. You know lighter fluid. Apparently it is very little, and if you plan to not eat nuggets because of the ingredients you might as well start a farm and produce everything on your own because these ingredients along with butane are very common even throughout sit down chain restaurants. I am honestly just happy that ground chicken bone is not an ingredient, I just couldn’t handle that. Lighter fluid for some reason doesn’t bug me too much. I also eat nuggets about twice a year so no lighter fluid overdoses here. I guess as far as ingredients go nuggets are mostly corn. Thats fine with me, I like corn. ON TO SHAPE!
Okay the shape mystery is that the chicken is processed with other ingredients, and can be shaped like a hot dog or how you can shape a hamburger patty. They are pushed out by different shape machines, cut, then breaded. The different shapes are just different molds you see.
Well I am honestly a little happy that researching this topic did not scare me away. The only thing I am worried about now is the amount of preservatives in the little suckers. I mean they are practically like concrete after they put in preservatives, and I just wonder how these preservatives stand up to hydrochloric acid. I hope the acid wins otherwise I have just moved in 10 nuggets permanently to my lower intestine.
