McDonalds Chicken McNuggets
Quick, tell me what availability heuristic is. Did you get that without google? Basically it's like this, there are far more car crash deaths a year than plane crash deaths, but you're more likely to encounter individuals who are afraid of flying than afraid of dying in a car. Or, should you be more afraid of getting a shark bite, or building a pool in your backyard and have a child accidentally drown in the pool? We've all heard horror stories about what kind of meat goes into fast food, and how mass produced meat is this grotesque thing that leads to mad cow disease and such. And many of us have seen the movie where that dude decided to eat McDonal'ds for a month and see what happens. Well I like McDonald's Chicken McNuggets. I don't care what kind of chicken goes into the McNuggets. Seriously, I'm pretty sure it's a special breed of chicken especially bred to be deep fried in nugget form.
When I was younger, the dipping sauce of choice was spicy mustard. I don't know if they make that shit anymore. There was a time in my life when my tastes shifted towards the chicken nuggets at Wendy's more. But now that I'm older, wiser, fatter, and run a far slower mile, I think there's room for all kinds of fast food nuggets.
Maybe eating fast food makes me go to the bathroom faster. I can live with that. So who knows what goes into it. As long as this sucker tastes awesome, I'm going to continue to eat chicken mcnuggets. They used to be six for one dollar. But McDonald's is just itching to fuck with my wallet for the sake of their profits, so now they're four for a dollar. When I first started to work in Midtown, there was this one McDonald's by my office that would run a promo for six nuggets for a dollar and I'd restrain myself by just getting two orders. It's been so long since that promotion though so if I see a McDonald's run that promo, I'm going to get 24 nuggets. So this is a call for help. If anyone sees any McDonalds doing a six nuggets for $1, please help a brother out. I am ready to bust a nut on this thing.
50 nuggets for 6.99? Death sentence for sure.
Google 'mechanically separated chicken'. Strawberry shake anyone?! Nauseatingly addictive.
anthony
August 3, 2010 12:49 am
sweet and sour + bbq is the best.
Patrick
July 17, 2010 1:04 am
OMG MY FAVORITE!!! That's pretty much all I ever get when I go there.
During game days in Austin, McDonalds would offer a bucket of 50 nuggets for $6.99. My brother and I used to do Cheng family eat offs and see how many we could eat in one sitting. I think I maxed out around 20. :(
YUMMMM.
Tammy
July 16, 2010 8:59 am
Sweet and sour's where it's at! This doesn't help you in the immediate sense, but if you cross the bridge into Jersey, there's still a crapload of places that do 5 for a dollar (and come Superbowl time the 6 piece deals start to roll).
I forget where I saw it (maybe TIWYF), but someone made a pie crust and filled it with McNuggets and BBQ sauce and baked it. It made me so happy.
Nicholas
July 15, 2010 1:04 am
@wonders,
yes! exactly, hot mustard. I'll ask for that next time!
@Ming,
damn, vis a vis. I don't even know what that means. Yes you're right the more accurate way to say it would be, people are afraid of mass produced chickens even though the odds of getting sick by them are minuscule. And I'm going to go outside of your apartment and shout Viva Espana!
@Nicholas,
pie crust with nuggets and bbq sauce? What is this, some sort of heaven that eludes me? I must try this at home! And crossing into Jersey for nuggets seems like a lot... maybe I'll cross into Jersey to live one of these days, so when that happens, I shall be nearer to my dear nuggets. mmm...
Danny
July 15, 2010 11:17 am
Um... I might be nitpicking, but that's not the correct use of availability heuristic vis a vis McNuggets. Perhaps a more appropriate use is that people are more likely to die if they ate animals raised without antibiotics (Fictional example, no offense intended, food bloggers) than if they ate McNuggets and still chose to do the former more than the latter.
Oh no, you're going to shout racist things outside my apartment now, aren't you? Damn you Danny. I'll shut up now.
Ming
July 14, 2010 10:16 pm
They have hot mustard, that comes in one of those dipping tubs like the sweet and sour sauce, I don't know if it's the same as spicy mustard. I get the hot mustard for fry dipping, it's scrumpdiliosious. -=X
wonders
July 14, 2010 1:33 pm