Every little minute detail is a calculated cog that keeps the massive franchise spinning — McNuggets included. Other chains might have random chicken nugget shapes, but the Golden Arches has four precise shapes of McNuggets. Those shapes even have special names to identify them: the "ball," the "boot," the "bow-tie," and the "bell. Three would've been too few. Five would've been, like, wacky. Like we mentioned, nothing is random with McDonald's. As for consistency in taste, well, the company strives for that, but of course, that's largely going to be subjective to each person.
If there was ever any truth to the old idiom "a sucker is born every minute" it has to be this story. In , 23 suckers bidders competed to win a three-year-old chicken McNugget because they believed that it resembled George Washington. You could take a seven-night Caribbean cruise and still have money to buy hundreds of McNuggets when you returned with eight grand.
Considering that McNuggets come in four distinct shapes, one that sorta looks like a fried George Washington is a little odd. The McNugget was strange enough to get the attention of Rebekah Speight of Dakota City, Nebraska who decided to store it in her freezer for three years until the time was right to throw it up on eBay.
Considering that McDonald's uses around 46 million pounds of chicken a year — and that's just in Canada — there are going to be a few bumps in the meat processing process. The company doesn't like bad press and there's not much worse than biting into a McNugget and finding a piece of chicken that's not supposed to be there.
That's what happened to Raquel House of Elkhart, Indiana who claimed she bit into a McNugget and found a chicken feather. McDonald's told the local news that they would open an investigation to collect the facts about the McNugget feather.
A follow-up by the news station with a local chicken feather confirmed that it was indeed a chicken feather. Considering that McDonald's inspects each chicken McNugget, how the feather ended up in House's food is a bit disturbing.
Of course, this is hardly the first time somebody's gotten an unwanted surprise in their fast food order. The world of competitive eating is a strange place. There are accounts of competitive eaters gorging themselves on everything from Big Macs to Shamrock Shakes and even stale McDonald's french fries. Basically, if it's on the McDonald's menu, there's probably somebody out there trying to see how much of it they can cram in their face to set some sort of trivial record.
No, we're not making these names up either. Reda set out to put the old record to shame by attempting to consume McNuggets, and of course he Facebook Live-streamed the event. Because who wouldn't want to watch a guy potentially barf up plus McNuggets?! In the end, Reda didn't hit his McNugget mark, but came in at a respectable — well, depending on who you ask — McNuggets to set a new record.
Eating McNuggets is one thing, but it's pretty small potatoes when you compare it to devouring 1, of them. Bolt, who was 22 at the time, didn't feel like eating Chinese food so he instead hit up a McDonald's every chance he got. That's around 47, calories in case you were wondering. So maybe he didn't eat all at once, but then again, Nadder "FreakEating" Reda hasn't ever been dubbed the fastest person on Earth.
McDonald's has never been a company to completely rests on its laurels and is continuously trying to push forward with new products and refining the ones they already have. Whereas they might have had some setbacks with the pink slime scandal, the company is learning from its competitors how to make sure the McNugget doesn't slide into irrelevance. That big competitor that it's learning from would be none other than chicken phenomenon, Chick-fil-A.
According to one consumer satisfaction survey , the chicken giant is America's favorite fast food. After some trial and error to create the perfect chicken nugget formula, they hired Keystone Foods to automate the chicken-chopping process and Gortons to create a batter that could be produced on a mass scale. McDonald's introduced the McNuggets nationwide, created a chicken craze, and never looked back.
The pink slime rumour that plagued McDonald's McNuggets has repeatedly been debunked by the food chain. Nicoletta Stefou, the supply-chain manager at McDonald's Canada said: "We don't know what it is or where it came from, but it has nothing to do with our Chicken McNuggets. Pink slime is the product of meat being mechanically processed and treated with anti-microbial ammonia - but McDonald's does not use this method.
McNuggets have been made with all white meat since and the restaurants stopped using mechanically processed beef in The Guinness World Records crowned former New Zealand beauty queen and medical student Nela Zisser as the world's new record holder for eating chicken nuggets.
But it seems Usain Bolt could be hot on her tail to take the title - as the sprinting legend revealed he chowed down on an estimated 1, McNuggets during the Bejing Olympics. This powerful petroleum-based preservative which is also found in varnishes, lacquers, pesticide products, cosmetics, and perfumes may be used to help the chicken and other ingredients maintain their distinct shapes.
Eaten in high doses — and it's hard to determine exactly how much is added to McNuggets — this chemical can be toxic. Possible side effects include nausea, delirium, collapse, tinnitus ringing in the ears and vomiting. Some studies have linked it to hyperactivity in kids, asthma, rhinitis, dermatitis, aggravated ADHD symptoms and restlessness. Furthermore, animal studies have reported that it may cause DNA damage.
This mounting scientific evidence was enough that McDonald's entirely removed this bad-news ingredient from the version of their McNuggets sold in the United Kingdom. Oh America, can we please take a cue from the British on this one with regard to concern for our citizens' health? Here's another ingredient the British won't stand for in their McNuggets: Dimethylpolysiloxane. But Americans are still eating it.
This silicone-based anti-foaming agent has been removed from the United Kingdom's McNugget ingredient list — and with good reason. While McDonalds. This sneaky ingredient -- Autolyzed Yeast Extract in the McNuggets' seasoning -- contains monosodium glutamate also known as MSG which allows McDonald's to create the illusion that you're getting more protein with each bite than you actually are. This cheap, flavor-enhancing filler is FDA-approved even though approximately 15 percent of Americans have MSG sensitivity and suffer from headaches, nausea, and heart palpitations when they consume it.
That said, even if you're not one of the people affected with MSG sensitivity, including MSG in the McNuggets recipe is still a devious way of cheating you the consumer out of real chicken seriously, how much poultry is in those things?! Key word here is "aluminum. Ochner explained that this ingredient is synthetically produced from aluminum as well as phosphoric acid and sodium hydroxide.
While this all sounds highly unappetizing, its function isn't to entice you but rather to act as a leavening agent that's often used in flour mixes, like the breaded part of the McNugget. In terms of its safety, the FDA allows a daily aluminum intake that ranges from 10 to mg, so as long as McDonald's stays within that range, it's within the legally acceptable limit. So, if your options are all about deciding whether to nosh on a McNugget or not, your best bet is to fly the coop just like the disappearing white stuff in that now-you-see-me-now-you-don't YouTube video you can watch by following the link below in the "Resources" section below.
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