Chicken Mc Crappy

**WillBrink** · 10-07-13, 09:35

Anyone still eat this stuff?

Study: Less than 50% of a chicken nugget is actually “chicken”

“Chicken nuggets are mostly fat, and their name is a misnomer,” concludes a small study published in the American Journal of Medicine.

Researchers in Jackson, Mississippi, performed an autopsy on chicken nuggets purchased from unnamed two national fast food chains. They randomly chose one from each box to preserve, dissect and stain, and then examine under a microscope. What they were looking for was muscle tissue — the stuff we’re generally referring to when we talk about eating chicken. What they found instead, according to Reuters, challenges our definition of edible:

The first nugget was about half muscle, with the rest a mix of fat, blood vessels and nerves. Close inspection revealed cells that line the skin and internal organs of the bird, the authors write in the American Journal of Medicine.

The second nugget was only 40 percent muscle, and the remainder was fat, cartilage and pieces of bone.

What the chains call chicken, Richard D. deShazo, the study’s lead author, explained to Reuters, is actually an artificial byproduct of chicken parts high in calories, salt, sugar and fat. “Even worse,” he said, “it tastes great.”

The researchers admit that this doesn’t quite count as an exposé. Most of us have figured out by now that fast food meat is kind of gross. As a representative of the National Chicken Council said, “it’s no secret what is in a chicken nugget – most quick service restaurants have nutritional information posted in the store or on their website.” But that information isn’t as much as a deterrent as it perhaps logically should be. The real question the researchers seem to be raising is: If we know all this, why do we keep eating it?

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/07/stud...ken/singleton/

**Eurodriver** · 10-07-13, 09:39

I'm single, young, and live behind a McDonalds.

I also need 4500+ calories a day to gain 1-2lb a week. (2400 comes from drinking a gallon of whole milk - every day)

In short, yes. I do eat that stuff. All the time.

Why? Because to get 2100 calories from lean meats and vegetables would leave me in the kitchen all day and throwing up from eating too much food.

Edit: I didn't read your post by the way, because I'm sure it would make me feel disgusted and would ruin my love for 20 piece nuggets from the Golden Arches.

**BIGUGLY** · 10-07-13, 09:51

Same thing at Subway unless you get the cut up chicken the "chicken breast" is about as nutritious as a hot dog.

**SilverBullet432** · 10-07-13, 09:56

Every once in a while yea. Half the crap they sell these days is fake anyway

**WillBrink** · 10-07-13, 10:02

Originally Posted by SilverBullet432

Every once in a while yea. Half the crap they sell these days is fake anyway

Ad should be "Chicken Mc Nuggets: fat, blood, tendons, nerve tissue, stuff we cant's identify, and possibly some white breast meat"

**SilverBullet432** · 10-07-13, 10:05

Originally Posted by WillBrink

Ad should be "Chicken Mc Nuggets: fat, blood, tendons, nerve tissue, stuff we cant's identify, and possibly some white breast meat"

Everything but the chicken!

**Airhasz** · 10-07-13, 10:09

Dined there once in the last two years because it was the last place open during a heavy snow almost to deer camp. No longer hit any fast food with the exception of a few hard tacos once in a great while.