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DainBramaged

(39,191 posts)
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 12:10 PM Jun 2013

What’s In Fast Food Chicken? [View all]

Frying chicken is fairly simple, if a little messy. You dip pieces of chicken into a mix of egg and milk, roll them around in flour and spices, then cook the chicken in sizzling hot oil until the pieces are brown, crispy and delicious.

But wait! Don’t forget to add a dash of dimethylpolysiloxane, an anti-foaming agent made of silicone that is also used in Silly Putty and cosmetics.

Now add a heaping spoonful of tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), which is a chemical preservative and a form of butane (AKA lighter fluid). One gram of TBHQ can cause “nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse,” according to A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives. Five grams of TBHQ can kill you.

Sprinkle on thirteen other corn-derived ingredients, and you’re only about twenty shy as many ingredients as a single chicken nugget from McDonald’s. And you were using pulverized chicken skin and mechanically reclaimed meat for your chicken, right?

No one in his or her right mind would cook chicken like this. Yet every day, hoards of Americans consume these ingredients in Chicken McNuggets, which McDonald’s claims are “made with white meat, wrapped up in a crisp tempura batter.”

However chicken only accounts for about 50% of a Chicken McNugget. The other 50% includes a large percentage of corn derivatives, sugars, leavening agents and other completely synthetic ingredients, meaning that parts of the nugget do not come from a field or farm at all. They come from a petroleum plant. Hungry?

http://www.undergroundhealth.com/whats-in-fast-food-chicken/


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What’s In Fast Food Chicken? [View all] DainBramaged Jun 2013 OP
I begin to understand why fast food is so loaded with calories, hedgehog Jun 2013 #1
"Convince yourself that fast food is the most disgusting stuff on the planet" dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #8
thank god it's not pink slime leftyohiolib Jun 2013 #2
Pretty subtle distinction you're aiming at. Igel Jun 2013 #3
yea it was kinda my point leftyohiolib Jun 2013 #25
Gave my kid his choice of places to go to. Igel Jun 2013 #4
We raised our kids without McDonald's food. Arugula Latte Jun 2013 #5
went out for a burger the other day... Whisp Jun 2013 #6
The toxic waste that McD's sells has been inedible to me since the '80s. Egalitarian Thug Jun 2013 #7
I wonder if McDonalds sold more real food forty years ago or hedgehog Jun 2013 #9
Jack's 15 cent hamburgers rocked back then. L0oniX Jun 2013 #14
I'm pretty sure they did because, even as a kid I noticed how the taste changed Egalitarian Thug Jun 2013 #18
Not that I would go to McD's in the first place. hobbit709 Jun 2013 #10
" mechanically reclaimed meat " hedgehog Jun 2013 #11
America in 4:29. How sad is that? n/t Egalitarian Thug Jun 2013 #19
Even the commercials for fast food on TV make me wanna barf. Mr.Bill Jun 2013 #12
I bought KFC a couple times when I was hungry and tired - hedgehog Jun 2013 #17
...and I WAS only concerned about chicken butt being mixed in. L0oniX Jun 2013 #13
the wendy's chicken berry salads are delicious arely staircase Jun 2013 #15
Gross in every way. undeterred Jun 2013 #16
no way it's only 50% chicken Mosby Jun 2013 #20
natural flavor (plant source) DainBramaged Jun 2013 #21
Believe it or not I have only eaten mcnuggets one time in my life Mosby Jun 2013 #22
Back in the 90's they didn't contain as much shit DainBramaged Jun 2013 #23
" ignoring Chili's, Applebee's Red Robin, Mimi's etc." alp227 Jun 2013 #24
Chicken is so easy to prepare SoCalDem Jun 2013 #26
Another Resource matt819 Jun 2013 #27
tert-Butylhydroquinone has nothing to do with butane or lighter fluid. FarCenter Jun 2013 #28
McShit. flvegan Jun 2013 #29
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