minorthird

so…this has been bothering me for the last couple days, and as I’ve just seen the commercial twice in 15 minutes:

McDingleberry’s has changed it’s McNuggets. Now they’re made of 100% white meat.

The commercial, of course, has a bunch of kids enjoying the new nuggets.

Where are the parents, questioning what the nuggets were made out of before this?

Two things that strike me as odd, shown at the bottom of the screen in the commercial:
1. At participating McDingleberry’s locations, for a limited time only.
I understand the idea of “independently owned and operated,” and I understand that maybe people won’t like the new nuggets, and they’ll have to offer the “pieces and parts” nuggets again, but come on! Let’s see this for what it is: McD’s is posturing after all of these obesity claims. “Look! It’s white meat. It’s healthy!” The minute people forget about the lawsuits — and they will forget — “pieces and parts” time.

2. from an entire boneless chicken breast with skin
entire: ok, not “assembled” nuggets, which is surprising. This can’t last. Even if they use Purdue’s chickens-on-steroids, they’re going to realize that they can only stamp out 4 or 5 nuggets from a breast, and then they’re left with breast scraps — I bet they drop the “entire” soon (It’ll still be white meat…it’ll just feel pre-chewed.)
boneless: ass-covering time — if they say it’s boneless, and one or two or ten thousand get by, it shows those were mistakes. The old nuggets never said they were “chicken head-free” and see what happened.
with skin: there goes the healthy. and there goes the 100%. skin isn’t meat!!! and it’s definately not something you what your kid to be chewing on.

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