Friday, January 27, 2012

I'm (Not) Into Nuggets Ya'll

So as much as I hate to say it: IM DONE WITH McNUGGETS! A story hit the national presses yesterday about a teenaged girl who had eaten a diet of mostly McDonalds' (R) Chicken McNuggets since she was 2 years old and got sick (finally). This article brings about negative publicity to McDonalds (as if they needed anymore of that after Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me) and McDonald's can react by saying "We don't intend any of our menu items to be designated as an everyday meal", "How people choose to utilize/enjoy our products is their choice", or "While the medical crisis was tragic, we cannot blame it on our food products" or some hybrid of all three. But I'm mainly more concerned with how McDonald's will defend (if at all) their McNugget recipe--because it's quite repulsive.

There are a few questions that I would love to raise about this news story---

1) At age 2, she could not introduce herself to chicken nuggets, her parents went out and purchased them--WHY?
2) After about the second week of her demanding nuggets as a 2 year old, why didn't the parents put their foot down---for the simple fact of financial sanity (nuggets aren't exactly cheap) or the health concerns of their young daughter???
3) Why didn't nuggets lose their novelty and taste to this child after, let's say, a YEAR of a Nugget diet?
4)  How bad can McNuggets/fried foods be if it takes 15 years of daily doses to have an adverse effect? (kind of a weird question, I know)
5) How does McDonald's sell nuggets with all that stuff in it (read the story for the genetic makeup of the beloved Chicken McNugget) and 50% of it being actual chicken.......... They should probably be forced to style it as "Chik'n" to avoid a false advertising charge.

If anyone has any legitimate answers to these questions, please comment. Until then, I'll just drive by the Golden Arches from now on when I crave a crispy coated nugget. (**Looks up the ingredients to Wendy's nuggets**)


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