What a Chicken Nugget Looks Like Under the Microscope

**Neo** · 23-10-2013, 07:04 AM

There is no nugget on a chicken. There are breasts, there are wings, there are thighs, there are drumsticks. But there are no nuggets. So what is the chicken nugget made of then? We’ve seen the alien pink goop but now it’s time to see what the nugget looks like under the microscope. According to researchers from the University of Mississippi, it’s barely chicken.

Well, that’s unfair. It’s still chicken. But it’s nothing like the healthy lean white meat we’ve come to expect from chicken.

Taking two different chicken nugget samples from two different national fast food chain restaurants, Richard D. deShazo, MD, and his colleague Steven Bigler, MD, put them under the scope and found that the chicken nuggets were 56 per cent fat, 25 per cent carbohydrates, and 19 per cent protein and 58 per cent fat, 24 per cent carbs, and 18 per cent protein, respectively.

The microscope revealed blood vessels, nerves, skeletal muscle, the skin of visceral organs and so on in the nugget autopsy which, well, yeah, is all things you’d find in a chicken but not exactly friendly enough to place in a survey.

**Fondles** · 23-10-2013, 07:16 AM

I for one am very happy no actual chicken nuggets are inside a chicken nugget.

**withnallstoke** · 23-10-2013, 07:46 AM

I prefer my chicken to look like chicken.

**Cujo** · 23-10-2013, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

I prefer my chicken to look like chicken.

MMmmm, babies hands.
Next they'll be telling us fish don't have fingers.

**misskit** · 23-10-2013, 08:58 AM

Pretty disgusting stuff, those chicken nuggets. I refuse to eat them.

I do love hot dogs. Can't say the content is any better than the nuggets.

**piwanoi** · 23-10-2013, 06:53 PM

Originally Posted by misskit

Pretty disgusting stuff, those chicken nuggets. I refuse to eat them.

I do love hot dogs. Can't say the content is any better than the nuggets.

When I was a young kid I used to work part time at the local butchers to get a bit of pocket money ,the crap he used to throw in the Sausage meat before making them had to be seen to be believed !, I often wonder what goes into em today!

**TonyBKK** · 23-10-2013, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by misskit

Pretty disgusting stuff, those chicken nuggets. I refuse to eat them.

I do love hot dogs. Can't say the content is any better than the nuggets.

Yeah, sometimes you just gotta have one!

Hot dogs, nuggets, etc. Friend of mine who worked at Hormel summed 'em up nicely:

"Lips and arseholes"

**DJ Pat** · 23-10-2013, 09:22 AM

Luckily I've never jumped on the chicken nuggets bandwagon. Worked in a butchers part time after school at 14, so I know what goes on

**The Big Fella** · 23-10-2013, 12:48 PM

What is it with these scientists / researchers for their penchant for stating the bleeding obvious ? I would hazard a guess that the vast majority of the public know these things are made from crap and are not the best food to eat if you are looking to eat healthily so why do they waste their time, money and resource's on telling everyone what they already know ? Do they honestly have nothing better to do with their time and skills ?
If you put any piece of meat under a microscope it isn't going to look very appealing now is it so why do it and as far as I know nobody has ever died from eating a nugget only ever just got fatter.
People buy and eat them because they are cheap, easy to cook, convenient and they like the taste. If they didn't they wouldn't sell billions of them every week now would they ?
Food Nazi's are one of my pet hates. If a person likes a certain type of food and it isn't illegal then leave the fcuk alone.
I once met a guy that wasn't a vegetarian or even a vegan but he would only eat fruit and veg that had fallen to the ground and wouldn't eat anything that had been picked. I have never before seen a more sick looking person in my life
Live and let live people

**tdar** · 23-10-2013, 05:46 PM

Check out the 'Boneless Menu' KFC are advertising now.
No part of the chicken is wasted.
Mulch it it up and extrude it as 'portions'.

Beaks and bones are a great source of calcium.

**astasinim** · 23-10-2013, 06:21 PM

If you had seen what goes into a standard pork pie, then you probably wouldn't eat one again.

Mmmmmm pork pies

**Aberlour** · 23-10-2013, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by The Big Fella

I would hazard a guess that the vast majority of the public know these things are made from crap and are not the best food to eat if you are looking to eat healthily so why do they waste their time, money and resource's on telling everyone what they already know ?

Jamie Oliver has proven many times on his various programmes, that the average low income parent hasn't got a fucking clue what shit they are putting in their children.

I agree that it doesn't need scientists doing research to get the message out there but the message most certainly does need to get out there.

**Rural Surin** · 23-10-2013, 09:25 PM

Originally Posted by Aberlour

Originally Posted by The Big Fella

I would hazard a guess that the vast majority of the public know these things are made from crap and are not the best food to eat if you are looking to eat healthily so why do they waste their time, money and resource's on telling everyone what they already know ?

Jamie Oliver has proven many times on his various programmes, that the average low income parent hasn't got a fucking clue what shit they are putting in their children.

I agree that it doesn't need scientists doing research to get the message out there but the message most certainly does need to get out there.

Don't have to be low income to be vacant of knowledge.
This appears amongst all classes and status.

....and fuck Jamie Oliver. On this fashionable and trendy binge, he is.
People suck it up.

**Retro** · 23-10-2013, 06:52 PM

If you eat enough nuggets, you'll produce a few of your own.

**withnallstoke** · 23-10-2013, 06:56 PM

I would prefer rabbit nuggets to chicken nuggets.

Far healthier.

FACT.

**Aberlour** · 23-10-2013, 07:53 PM

The thing is, they're one of the most simplest of things to make at home with decent chicken breast meat. Young people can't cook for shit these days, that's the problem.

**Aberlour** · 24-10-2013, 12:55 AM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

....and fuck Jamie Oliver. On this fashionable and trendy binge, he is.

Don't agree and I doubt you really know much about him or his work. He has worked tirelessly for a long long time and at huge personal cost to try and make a difference in the way kids eat. He single handedly got a huge amount of schools on both sides of the Atlantic to change their entire menu and swap out shit junk food for decent healthy food. He has done more for the cause of healthy eating than any British government has ever done. I think the bloke's a fucking legend. I think you just like the idea of not liking him rather than having any rational reasoning.

**piwanoi** · 24-10-2013, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by Aberlour

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

....and fuck Jamie Oliver. On this fashionable and trendy binge, he is.

Don't agree and I doubt you really know much about him or his work. He has worked tirelessly for a long long time and at huge personal cost to try and make a difference in the way kids eat. He single handedly got a huge amount of schools on both sides of the Atlantic to change their entire menu and swap out shit junk food for decent healthy food. He has done more for the cause of healthy eating than any British government has ever done. I think the bloke's a fucking legend. I think you just like the idea of not liking him rather than having any rational reasoning.

Yeah I agree Abe Oliver is a multi millionaire legend maybe thats why certain people don't like him

**Aberlour** · 24-10-2013, 01:08 AM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Don't have to be low income to be vacant of knowledge.

That's very true but statistically it goes hand in hand.

**khmen** · 24-10-2013, 05:32 AM

Jamie Oliver is a nosey busybody thick tongued lisping patronising mockney [at][at][at][at] and nuggets are full of arseholes.

**piwanoi** · 24-10-2013, 07:03 AM

Originally Posted by khmen

Jamie Oliver is a nosey busybody thick tongued lisping patronising mockney [at][at][at][at] and nuggets are full of arseholes.

Jaime has a personal fortune of over 150 million quid and employs well over a thousand people which he started from nothing ,as Abe rightly says he has done far more for the young kids as far as eating healthy goes than all the UK governments put together , I often wonder why some people hate others successes in life ,but then again I think we all know don't we

.

**Aberlour** · 24-10-2013, 05:40 AM

Originally Posted by khmen

and nuggets are full of arseholes.

Which Jamie Oliver stopped several schools serving to children.

If people are so thick that they happily let their kids eat food that you just admitted were made of arseholes, then thank fuck for a nosy busybody to tell them what's what.

**thailazer** · 24-10-2013, 07:12 AM

I always wondered about the texture of chicken nuggets and was never a big fan. Have a weakness for hot dogs from 7-11 though and would expect those to have even more of those, er, not-so-meaty parts.

**FloridaBorn** · 24-10-2013, 08:01 AM

Ummmm looks good, think I'll go get a 6 piece tomorrow for lunch.. They eat all range of animals and insects in your corner of the world FFS, stop being a pussy, it's all food.. Sterile western thinkers..

**Rainfall** · 24-10-2013, 12:49 PM

Here's a selection of small insects living on fruits and vegetables.

Enjoy your healthy sustainable organic bio salad.

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