The Food Gestapo strikes again!
Can someone please tell me what is so healthy about chicken nuggets?
These Nanny State Police need to be thrown out of office....be more careful who you elect this next time around...if this is some School Board member, throw them out or stop the funding that allows them to throw their weight around.
http://thestir.cafemom.com/food_party/110459/Anatomy_of_a_Chicken_Nugget
Which came first: The chicken nugget or the pink goo?
We may never solve the age-old chicken/egg question, but this one is easy: It’s the pink goo.
It looks like some sort of innocent strawberry frozen yogurt, doesn’t it? But it’s not. That horrible pink image above, my friends, is what happens when an entire chicken is smushed through a sieve, according to the folks at Inquisitr.
Why would someone do that? It’s because he or she is making chicken nuggets.
Read on — if you dare! — to learn about what ELSE goes in to those cute little nuggets.
Nugget-making doesn’t stop there! Because there’s so much bacteria in this smushed chicken mess — also known as “mechanically separated chicken” — the pink goo has to be soaked in ammonia. But who would want to eat pink, ammonia-soaked chicken goo? Nugget-makers accurately assume no one, so they add artificial flavoring and coloring.
So, how do you tell if your nuggets contain this disgusting pink stuff? Simply check the ingredient list: The USDA now requires foods with mechanically separated poultry to be labeled as containing “mechanically separated chicken or turkey.”
McDonald’s McNuggets no longer contain mechanically separated poultry; however, their ingredient list is still nothing to brag about: Water, modified food starch, salt, seasoning, safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary and sodium phosphates. (Surely I can’t be the only one slightly taken aback that McNuggets are flavored with rosemary?)
And they are battered and breaded with: Water, flours, modified food starch, OTHER starches, salt, leavening, spices, and whey. And they are prepared in vegetable oil. And dimethylpolysiloxane is added as an antifoaming agent. Whatever that means.
In case you think I’m being mean to McDonald’s, consider this — Perdue Dinosaur Shapes Chicken Breast Nuggets contain: boneless chicken breast with rib meat, water, potassium lactate, sodium lactate, salt, sodium phosphates, sodium diacetate, and flavoring.
They are breaded with: flours, yellow corn meal, dextrose, dried whey, salt, sugar, potassium sorbate, spice, soybean oil, calcium propionate, guar gum, flavoring, extractives of paprika, and spice extractive.
Hard to tell if that’s any better, isn’t it?
But it’s also hard to forget the pink goo, no matter how much you like chicken nuggets.
*Editor’s note: This story has been modified from the original version to make it clear that nuggets made by McDonald’s and Perdue do not contain mechanically separated poultry.
Is this an appetite killer or what?
I bet single moms love the help - it’s better than having a husband.
Why, it’s almost as good as being married to Obama.
If you read the letter written by the school principal and sent to the parent of the child featured in the news item, it is obvious the person has difficulty expressing herself.
It used to be said that clear written expression is evidence of clear thinking.
Maybe someone should take all those commas out of the principal’s “lunch box” and make her chew on some basic grammar fundamentals.
Parse much?
but flatly denied any of its employees or contractors “instructed any child to replace or remove any meal items.”
Are visitors from State employes or contractors of school?
Instructed vs. ordered?
Replace or remove? Didn’t the kids say they were told to eat a different lunch? That isn’t replacing or removing a meal item, its replacing the entire meal.
Somebody has a kickback to buy x amount of nuggets.
Laying he foundation for communists America. It is well on it’s way.
I had a friend who had several odd food allergies. His mother always packed him a lunch so he wouldn’t eat one of his food triggers accidentally.
These jackasses would probably kill him since his allergies included many fruits.
Sounds like the cafeteria lady needs to be jailed for theft.
The real reason for the food police is that federal money is given on the basis of hot lunches served in the public school—not nutritious bag lunches sent from home.
Here’s the approved school food processors for NC:
http://www.ncagr.gov/fooddist/documents/2011-12ApprovedProcessorsList20111102.pdf
Here’s 4 pages of chicken nuggets from one of the approved processors - these are for K-12.
http://www.tysonfoodservice.com/Products/Categories/Chicken-Nuggets.aspx
(I do find it ‘funny’ that Nanny on one hand is trying to take away choice at fast food joints for the common people while holding a chicken nugget in the other hand ready to ram it down a kids throat at Nanny-school)
What scares me is when I tell people these stories and they say...”why would they take her lunch? It sounds nutritious to me”! That’s not the point!
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These government meals will be dumped in garbage cans because the kids don’t eat them. And nothing will force them to eat these meals.
“[Mother fixed] A cheese and salami sandwich on a wheat bun with apple juice. The lunch she got in the cafeteria? Chicken nuggets, a sweet potato, bread and milk.”
Oh yeah, that school lunch sounds WAY better (barf!)
BTW, those school people would have to fight me to get the sandwich. I loves me some salami.
And don’t even get me started on mortadella...