No more fast food for me

[Il Duce]

THAT...ladies and gents, is what is inside of our beloved Chicken McNuggets

Mommy, Where Do McNuggets Come From? - Geekologie

Chicken Nuggets Are Made From This Pink Goop

Say hello to mechanically separated chicken. It?s...

(all 3 links essentially say the same thing)

I have eaten literally THOUSANDS of these things.

I'm not naive, I knew it wasn't only white meat unicorns, but what bothers me more is the process, not the hue.

[Guest GT_Rat]

So it would make you feel better if someone was pulverizing chicken parts by hand to make you your nuggets?

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

IIRC, I read somewhere that its chicken, actually, but they actually defeather them, thrown them into a big machine, and the machine just crunches them up, like hardcore, and extrudes them through the end....

Yummmmmm...

[Guest db99wj]

Mmmmmm, ice cream..........that tastes like chicken!

[Il Duce]

So it would make you feel better if someone was pulverizing chicken parts by hand to make you your nuggets?

its more along the lines of the additives

[Garufa]

[Guest db99wj]

Ok that is one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life!

[memphismason]

I got a hankering for some chicken nuggets.

[Guest KimberChick]

If that freaks you out, don't eat bologna, sausage or hot dogs ever again.

They all start out as the same meat paste, they just get a different casing and seasoning. We've got a local factory(Starling) that's been making that stuff forever. Memphis Flyer did a big writeup on it probably ten years ago at least. Starling touts their stuff as supposedly "better" despite their bright pink dogs. They don't add fillers to theirs.

[lowbud]

If we saw how most precessed food was processed we would all never eat out again. We would all hunt, fish, trap, whatever and never buy anything at the grocery again. It's a wonder were not all growing extra limbs and ****...

[Guest GT_Rat]

its more along the lines of the additives

If you didn't kill it or grow it with your own hands it's unlikely you eat anything that doesn't have some form of additive or preservative in it or on it. It's a wonder humans even need embalming when we die.

[Guest jackdm3]

The only processed meat I eat is Boar's Head turkey, and I even have reservation on that. Otherwise, all I want is straight recognizeable meat with as little visible fat as possible. I may not live as long as I would if I ate a well-rounded selection of meats with fats and fillers, but I just want the real deal.

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

Speaking of fast food:

I was on campus today getting lunch.. A guy was making burgers, grabbed the raw meat with a gloved hand, and placed it on the grill (no problem) but then, turned around and started to make sandwiches with the same exact gloves that he used to pick up raw meat with...

[Guest jackdm3]

Speaking of fast food:

I was on campus today getting lunch.. A guy was making burgers, grabbed the raw meat with a gloved hand, and placed it on the grill (no problem) but then, turned around and started to make sandwiches with the same exact gloves that he used to pick up raw meat with...

That's a phone call to corporate waiting to happen. Not that it'll matter.

[Guest db99wj]

I remember when you could still eat hamburgers that were pink...man they were good.

[Guest KimberChick]

That's a phone call to corporate waiting to happen. Not that it'll matter.

The Burger King across Covington Pike from Methodist North...omg. Several years ago I was in there because I'd spent the better part of the morning in their ER. The person I was with saw a male employee take a leak, walk out the door and commence to assembling Whoppers. About 5 years prior, Memphis was in the midst of a Hep A outbreak that originated with nasty fastfood employees. Guess folks don't learn...

I remember when you could still eat hamburgers that were pink...man they were good.

FWIW, my boss has a cattle/pig farm. Old time farming techniques. I don't hesitate to eat ground beef from his cows cooked Medium well. E.coli O157 thrives in a feedlot/corporate slaughterhouse condition, not really in traditional farming practice.

Edited October 4, 2010 by KimberChick

[vontar]

I used to work in a froze food plant.

It was not a KILL plant, all the meat came in already dead.

However we did everything after the kill plan processing.

I have a bit over 2 years experiance and could tell some interesting details.

I spent most of my time in Night time Sanitation (engineer) the boss called us Sanitation Engineers joking I guess. In short, we cleaned the plant from END to END every night from the Raw Side to the pack side.

I also did time in day shift running the machine. I could run almost everything in that plant. I think I did everything but shipping and the Cook room(did some cook room but that was the golden job every one wanted).

We had mixers, my favorite was tumblers(big things almost cement truck barrels we had to get inside to clean).

Then the machine you are talking about The machien that formed the product before it went into the ovens. Ours at the plant I worked at was called a Foremax machine

I just googled it and found a picture, Wow. It brings back a few memories. This was a SOB to clean and it had to past a USDA inspection daily.

[vontar]

Here is the Tumbler I was talking about.

I used to have to climb inside this thing to clean it. The rule was. Don't go inside unless you have to. It was possible to clean it with out going inside. However the plant paid us for 8 even if we got done in 6. As if we got done in 6 they could start production quicker and so more. So it was an unwritten rule we went in nightly. When the supervisor came back and ask, we just said it was bad and we had to. He just smiled and went on. He knew and he was a good supervisor. Probably one of the best I ever had.

This machine mixes and freezes different items together. It has no blades in it, just fins like a cement truck tank.

Working around this equipment is when I learned about LOCK out TAG out and MSDS.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

[StPatrick]

A friend of mine sells chicken to Mickey D's these days - since they went to their "all white-meat" chicken nuggets (which aren't as good as the old ones, lower fat / dark meat content) they've started stamping them out of breast meat. Be careful where you get your "frankenfood" info; most sites have an axe to grind.

[Punisher84]

The Burger King across Covington Pike from Methodist North...omg. Several years ago I was in there because I'd spent the better part of the morning in their ER. The person I was with saw a male employee take a leak, walk out the door and commence to assembling Whoppers. About 5 years prior, Memphis was in the midst of a Hep A outbreak that originated with nasty fastfood employees. Guess folks don't learn...

.

Thanks for that.

Anyway I love chicken nuggets lol

[gregintenn]

You don't even want to look at a loaf of souse meat if that chicken paste bothers you!!!!

[Guest jackdm3]

Thanks for that.

Anyway I love chicken nuggets lol

I loved chicken nuggets until about twenty years ago when I found, essentially, what appeared to be half of a plastic ball just a little less than the size of a pinball.

Found a tiny, tiny parts cleaning brush in a can of my grandfather's Big K soda. Took the case back and all they would do is give me another case in exchange. Not even money baack and a free one for the hassle.

[Punisher84]

I loved chicken nuggets until about twenty years ago when I found, essentially, what appeared to be half of a plastic ball just a little less than the size of a pinball.

Found a tiny, tiny parts cleaning brush in a can of my grandfather's Big K soda. Took the case back and all they would do is give me another case in exchange. Not even money baack and a free one for the hassle.

Could be worse.

Quality Assurance & Food Safety Magazine : News Dead Mouse Found in Bread Loaf in England

[Guest DMasterson]

The only thing worse than no information is bad information. Like all things, don't believe something unless you check multiple sources...

snopes.com: Mechanically Separated Chicken