Comments on: Official names of McNugget shapes

By: Felton / Moderator

Felton / Moderator — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:59:00 +0000

Popeye’s used to be my favorite fast food place, but I decided never to go there again after some lousy experiences at the ones in Atlanta and Athens. Maybe I should call the one in Athens and ask them if, by any chance, they’ve had a change in management in the last couple of years.

By: cjporkchop

cjporkchop — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:44:00 +0000

Popeye’s has chicken strips that are pretty darn good, if I get an insurmountable craving for fried chicken chunks when I’m out and about.

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:35:00 +0000

I wonder if they chose these shapes for their tessellating properties, to reduce the volume they take up?

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:30:00 +0000

Even though I had nothing to do with the Wikipedia article (and didn’t even know about it until you mentioned it) I’m sorry you were subjected to that. Unless you like that sort of thing, in which case I’m glad.

The only time I fed my dogs rabbit it, like the chicken necks, was run through the meat grinder and turned into an unrecognizable paste. Although it does kind of disturb me how quickly I’ve become used to seeing the occasional chicken head.

By: Wiki-Truths

Wiki-Truths — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:57:00 +0000

I had NO idea they were this mechanical. Thought the pieces were random. I guess it worked. PS Don’t eat this shit.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:19:00 +0000

Hmm. Last time I ate McNuggets must have been in the mid-to-late 90′s when I was… 11? 12? I thank my mom for mostly cutting us off from fast food around that time.

I mean, we usually had Burger King when I was a kid because there is one pretty close to my parents’ house. I’m not actually sure where the closest McDonald’s is to my parents’ house… I think we mainly had that, occasionally, when staying with my grandparents in another part of town.

Anyway – I somehow still recall that there were these distinct shapes. I’m not sure I realized at the time that the shapes were always the same, though. I think the Burger King ones are (or were) all… er… “ball” shaped.

What I’m trying to say is that I have no doubt this scheme of making them appear to be different shapes fools almost everyone into being more comfortable with what they’re eating. I bet most people who eat McNuggets all the time, even, don’t make the realization (BB readers are a different sort, obviously, since a few earlier commenters report to having noticed – and I’m pretty sure I would notice if I ate these).

By: kiptw

kiptw — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 03:16:00 +0000

In the 90s, KFC’s Kentucky Nuggets had dark meat, and unlike the sawdust nuggets I see everywhere, they were edible even without sauce.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:59:00 +0000

And such a cute kitten, too.

By: teapot

teapot — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:07:00 +0000

Daww, kitteh’s eating his face.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:56:00 +0000

I looked up “raw diet for dogs” and I’m just thrilled that the Wikipedia article on raw feeding has a photo captioned, “A kitten feeding on a cottontail rabbit.”

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:38:00 +0000

Wait, didn’t everybody vote to replace ‘ball’ with ‘cat’?

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:54:00 +0000

Maybe. And there’s probably dark meat in the modern ones too. But by the time it’s nuggetized, man, it’s all the same. All the same.

By: ayleph

ayleph — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:15:00 +0000

I definitely remember being able to differentiate between light and dark nuggets. I don’t remember which shape was which though.

By: Jeff Scherr

Jeff Scherr — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:01:00 +0000

A friend of mine says:

I remember there being consistent dark meat and white meat variance… but I can’t remember if it was shape related or not. I definitely saved the ‘dark meatish’ ones for last, being my favorite. I’m really tracing this memory hard, I think I had to bite into them to see which was which. Ooh, McShame. Don’t tell anyone my real name.

By: retchdog

retchdog — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:56:00 +0000

Bell, boot, bone, ball, and candle. Mass-market voodou excommunication.

By: David Pescovitz

David Pescovitz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:31:00 +0000

They actually do break out the batter from the rest. I just combined them in my list. Here’s the info: http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/product_nutrition.chicken.124.Chicken-McNuggets-4-piece.html

By: Roose_Bolton

Roose_Bolton — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:11:00 +0000

A vat of rose-coloured, mechanically-separated chicken parts by any other name…

By: Leah Miller

Leah Miller — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:08:00 +0000

Educate yourself on Nugget history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejtRsPXgQPs

By: Jerril

Jerril — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:58:00 +0000

I’d actually like to see that breakdown of ingredients separated by the batter, the chicken sausage filler, and the cooking oil medium thing. Obviously they all get combined together in the final product, but if you look at a box of breaded or stuffed foods in the store freezer, they often list the breading ingredients separate from the stuffing.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:57:00 +0000

I feed my dogs a raw diet, which means that every few weeks I run about 120 pounds of raw chicken necks through a meat grinder. When that infamous picture of chicken McNuggets in their “raw” state came out I wasn’t surprised by how familiar the product looked.

It did, however, leave me wondering exactly which bits of the chicken they’re using.

By: Drew_Gehringer

Drew_Gehringer — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:55:00 +0000

yeah, i know they made a point of advertising “now white meat chicken!” a while back…

By: Jerril

Jerril — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:45:00 +0000

There is no difference in the meat from type to type for the current ones. Can’t comment on the 90s nuggets, but I don’t ever really recall dark meat nuggets, chunks in nuggets, or whatever. And I don’t like dark meat so it’s something that would have stuck out a little.

By: morcheeba

morcheeba — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:37:00 +0000

* cloaca

By: Cameron Postelwait

Cameron Postelwait — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:24:00 +0000

i didn’t see the primary ingredient: ‘anus’

By: Shohanna

Shohanna — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:06:00 +0000

The taste has changed after so long. But I think they use to have dark meat in them as well as white meat. Pretty sure at least.

By: Beryllium9

Beryllium9 — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:00:00 +0000

I like the boot shape the best. Great for dipping. Doesn’t even taste like sole.
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I’m glad I brought homemade soup for lunch, otherwise things could get tempting …

By: cookeatreadsleep

cookeatreadsleep — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:00:00 +0000

I have been in a longstanding argument about this. Some people have told me that back in the 90s when they were not all-white meat, that the boot and bone shaped nuggets were dark meat and the others were white meat. Personally, I remember them all being the same with some having higher concentrations of dark meat. Any thoughts?

By: Dave Horton

Dave Horton — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:59:00 +0000

Wait, there’s chicken in them?

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:41:00 +0000

So they’re named after what they’re made from!