Soo... McDonalds..

[wombat]

heard the chicken nuggets aren't actually made of chicken meat. Its actually the gizzards and leftovers from the chicken, and they grind it up and add stuff to make it taste like chicken, ewwwww..... I'm never eating anyhting from McDonalds again.

<sigh>

Ingredients (Allergen statement in ALL CAPS.)
White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, seasoning (autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates, seasoning (canola oil, mono- and diglycerides, extractives of rosemary). Battered and breaded with: water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, food starch-modified, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, whey, corn starch. Prepared in vegetable oil ((may contain one of the following: Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness), dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent).
CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK.


From http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/itemDetailInfo.do

There is such a thing called "mechanically separated chicken", and a lot of chicken products are made from this. Basically, anything that can't otherwise get used is chopped up and blown through a screen. The bits of bone stay on one side, the "meat" and whatever else is small / flexible gets through and is food. It has to be labelled as "mechanically separated chicken" or "byproducts" though. I've not seen it anywhere other than pet food lately, though I have seen it in cheap grocery store frozen chicken products in the past.

I used to work with a guy who had a summer job shoveling out what did not clear the screen from the pit beneath. It turned him vegetarian.

NEXT!​

 

[debilorrah]

You guys know you can FIND all the nutritional information about the ingredients in their food at their website, right???

 

[Wifezilla]

Since grass-fed beef is better for us than corn fed beef, we should be DEMANDING South American beef!

 

[StupidBird]

wombat, thank you.
The truth is so much more awful than fiction. Ewww

Chicken (first Ingredient) Water (second most weighty ingredient) followed by various thickeners, starches, flavoring, assorted chemicals....I swear I saw those long words in the HazMat handbook...

 

[thebritt]

Quote:
Please see post #12

 

[WalkingWolf]

What they are doing is using shank to make lowfat hamburger meat. The deboned shanks come in a box that are frozen, and then fat is actually added to make the 15/85 fat to lean mixture. In McDonalds case the mixing is done off site by contractor, then formed into patties and sold as their new angus burgers, they should run for political office. I will say this is a common practice of some major supermarket chains. The lean ground beef is sold at a premium when it actually cost less then the 3070 mixture from trimmings.

 

[AHappychick]

there are so many problems with fast food it is scary, I never eat it and never will and neither will my family. But it is despicable that they would get beef else where I must say I am shocked that there is any beef in it at all....

 

[debilorrah]

Aw heck, if it doesn't kill me now, it'll kill me later. I for one, plan to enjoy my life and that includes a Big Mac every now and again.

 

[wombat]

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Most of those "chemicals" are what's been commonly added to enriched flour for a long time, or are levening agents in the batter ...

 

[debilorrah]

I once ha a loaf of Orowheat bread that sat on top of the fridge for 6 years past it's expiration date and never did mold. Now THAT is scary.