Your guesses are:A. Unprocessed strawberry yogurt
B. Tomato concentrate
C. Wesabe sauce prior to green dye injection
D. McNuggets
If you guessed D, you're today's winner and you'll be carting home a 55-gallon drum full of three-day old nuggs. As for the manufacturing process? Well, it's kinda like that car wreck on the other side of the highway. You want to look away... but... you... just... can't help yourself.
This is mechanically separated chicken. Chickens are turned into this goop so we can create delicious chicken nuggets and juicy chicken patties. It's obscenely gross and borderline alien but it's not going to stop me from eating nuggets...
The process works a little something like this... ...because it's crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.
Mmmm. Just like the McNuggets Mom used to make!
Image: Gizmodo.
In the dog food industry, this stuff would be called pumpable meat.
ReplyDeleteHave a friend who is in the Chicken industry. You should see the machine that does this.. Had a hard time eating eggs after seeing a demo..
ReplyDeleteYa know, I think you could probably call that a Soylent Green machine, too. Only the source protein needs be changed.
ReplyDeletewv: squegre the sound that the pictured machine makes in my imagination.
I thought it was a skinned snake.
ReplyDeletedoug;
ReplyDeleteyou should have checked snopes first:
http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/msm.asp