DailyDirt: No Bones About It

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Fri, Oct 3rd 2014 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Some folks want to suck out all the marrow of life, but apparently when it comes to fast food, it's much more expedient to just suck all the meat off the bones, grind it up with some other stuff, and fry it until it's a delicious golden brown. Chicken nuggets are popular with kids meals, and there are apparently various patented processes for cutting up chicken meat into innovative products. Here are just a few good nuggets on some fast food chicken items.

What is a chicken nugget made of? An anecdotal analysis finds that some chicken nuggets (not McNuggets) are mostly fat (~56-58%), about 40-50% muscle meat, along with some bone fragments and breading and other bits. (And don't forget the BBQ sauce.) [url]
McDonald's Canada took a film crew to document the process of making chicken nuggets. Did you ever notice that there are four distinct nugget shapes: the bell, the ball, the bow tie and the boot? If you want to see how the ~~sausage~~ nugget is made, check out the video. [url]
KFC got on the boneless chicken wagon in 2013 to go after the 6 in 10 customers that say they prefer chicken meat without bones. Customers have to pay a little more to eat chicken without bones, so the convenience comes with a price. [url]

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Filed Under: boneless, bones, chicken, fast food, food, mcnugget, meat, nuggets
Companies: kfc, mcdonalds

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Anonymous Coward, 3 Oct 2014 @ 5:56pm

hmm.... why don't they make pork nuggets?
this post makes me wonder why there aren't other kinds of meat nuggets... like beef/pork/alligator/etc nuggets.

I guess there are fish sticks......
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Hibby the Hoovy (profile), 3 Oct 2014 @ 9:15pm

I know for sure KFC had boneless chicken (in some form) on their menu much earlier than 2013. I used to eat their Colonel's Strips meals as a kid in the mid-to-late '90s.
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Mark (profile), 4 Oct 2014 @ 8:37am

KFC discontinued the boneless chicken in the first quarter of this year.
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jo (profile), 4 Oct 2014 @ 1:38pm

They both sound awful
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Anonymous Coward, 5 Oct 2014 @ 12:06am

The best chicken by far is at Chick-fil-A, a family-run business that is not "chicken" when it comes to defending traditional values.
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