Mmm yummers, after the jump, here’s a picture of some mechanically separated poultry. We didn’t want to put it on the front page because it is so gross, so if you click through, that is your fault.
Click on the pink goo pic for the full-size version.
If you’re craving some, go buy a hot dog. It’s likely to be in there. To make it, they take chicken carcasses with bits of meat still on them and run it through a high pressure sieve, extruding a cake batter-like paste filled with a rich slurry of ground bone. But is it in chicken nuggets, as some blogs hyping up this picture have said?
Well, if it’s in a food, it has to be disclosed in the ingredients. According to McDonald’s, their McNuggets are made with white boneless chicken. Nuggets you get in the supermarket might have MSC, as do many chicken dogs, chicken patties, chicken sausages, and just cheap food, but if so, it will say it plainly on the label, as required by the Agriculture Department for years.
[via Early Onset of Night]
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This makes me remember the Will it blend? video where Tom makes chicken milkshake. Eeeeeew! This looks like yogurt.
Is there a nutritional difference between chicken separated mechanically and chicken separated by hand? Does the chicken lose it’s nutritional value because it’s a paste instead of stringy muscle?
While I certainly prefer my chicken all natural, I don’t really see the “grossness” (beyond texture) of mechanically separated chicken.
Also, I enjoy the fact that Consumerist got completely OWNED by snopes in an earlier post.