Don't think it's just Chicken Nuggets...

[Al B. Sure!]

For those who saw Boris' post about the mechanically separated chicken, don't think it's just the chicken nuggets.

I know a lot of posters on here like Subway. You ever see what their chicken 'breasts' are made out of?

http://subway.com/subwayroot/MenuNutrition/Nutrition/frmUSIngredients.aspx

OVEN ROASTED CHICKEN PATTY Oven roasted chicken with rib meat, water, seasoning (corn syrup solids, vinegar powder [maltodextrin, modified corn starch & tapioca starch, dried vinegar], brown sugar, salt, dextrose, garlic powder, onion powder, chicken type flavor [hydrolyzed corn gluten, autolyzed yeast extract, thiamine hydrochloride, disodium inosinate & disodium guanylate]), sodium phosphate.

I didn't know you can get 'chicken type flavor' with hydrolyzed corn gluten, autolyzed yeast extract, thiamine hydrochloride, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate.

I guess a lot of things taste kind of like chicken.

[Elok]

This really doesn't have the shock value of chicken soft-serve. Sorry.

[rah]

Yeah, when the number 1 ingredient is "Oven roasted chicken with rib meat", it's no where near the soft-serve chicken.

[giblets]

For those who saw Boris' post about the mechanically separated chicken, don't think it's just the chicken nuggets.

I know a lot of posters on here like Subway. You ever see what their chicken 'breasts' are made out of?

http://subway.com/subwayroot/MenuNutrition/Nutrition/frmUSIngredients.aspx

I didn't know you can get 'chicken type flavor' with hydrolyzed corn gluten, autolyzed yeast extract, thiamine hydrochloride, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate.

I guess a lot of things taste kind of like chicken.

So you don't eat fast food, don't consume alcohol and don't drink juice or soda. Could your diet get any more boring?

[Al B. Sure!]

Yeah, when the number 1 ingredient is "Oven roasted chicken with rib meat", it's no where near the soft-serve chicken.

To be fair, the number 1 ingredient to the soft-serve chicken is STILL chicken. All they really do (at first) is just smash chicken through a sieve at high pressure. It's still as much chicken as this Subway chicken.

Here's snopes debunking the mechanically separated chicken myths:
http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/msm.asp

(sorry you have to go there. I can't copy and paste it)


Really the problem with both of this stuff are all the additives. Mechanically separated chicken is still meat at its core if not for all the fooling around with it during processing.

[Al B. Sure!]

I will say one thing about all these composite meats like mechanically separated chicken... our modern diets are sorely lacking in organ meats and bone marrow. Sausages and other processed meats at least give us this stuff that our prehistoric ancestors made the most of. The problem is all the chemical additives added during processing.

[MikeH]

Why not just cook up some nice livers or kidneys or bone marrow? Dirt cheap and delicious.

And if you buy whole chickens, you can chop it into bits, use the carcass to make stock, then pick the carcass clean to get extra meet for whatever...

[giblets]

I will say one thing about all these composite meats like mechanically separated chicken... our modern diets are sorely lacking in organ meats and bone marrow. Sausages and other processed meats at least give us this stuff that our prehistoric ancestors made the most of. The problem is all the chemical additives added during processing.

Why do you give a **** about additives?

[Al B. Sure!]

Why not just cook up some nice livers or kidneys or bone marrow? Dirt cheap and delicious.

And if you buy whole chickens, you can chop it into bits, use the carcass to make stock, then pick the carcass clean to get extra meet for whatever...

I do crack open chicken bones and suck the marrow out I've been doing that since I was a little kid when I learned from Nova that our prehistoric ancestors did it.

I am not sure how to do that stock thing though.

And it's not about me. It's about people in general. I was saying at least that's how your average person gets some organ meats in their diet.

[Provost Harrison]

Thiamine is Vitamin B1...that can't hurt you

[DaShi]

Sucking the marrow out of chicken bones always seemed a bit too gay for my tastes.

[Elok]

So you don't eat fast food, don't consume alcohol and don't drink juice or soda. Could your diet get any more boring?

Of course. He could be vegan, for one thing.

[N35t0r]

Chinchulines

[Dinner]

My girlfriend and I usually cook at home these days. It's fun, it's cheaper then going out, and I can control what goes in it.

[DaShi]

Nothing like having your girlfriend over to grind your chicken.