The Silly Secret about Chicken McNuggets

6-30-2010 @7:15AM Jalapeno said... Why? Because you thought of it.
They'd have to reconfigure the ingredients to contain a high % of SODIUM.
Without SODIUM, it may be too healthy for children.

6-30-2010 @10:23AM Nancy said... I NEVER eat ANYTHING from McDonalds! And neither should anyone else, everything is very Greasy, and loaded with fat.

6-30-2010 @12:29PM Bob said... There is also dihydrogen monoxide in virtually everything you eat these days.

6-30-2010 @1:26PM Tiffany said... I don't go to fastfood places, and I have never taken my children to them. Once I heard about McD's years ago and found out they were putting high fructose corn syrup in the buns so kids would crave them, it was enough for me to put on the brakes. Watch the documentary on PBS about the type of meat they purchase and you will certainly stay away. Look around at the people you know who feed themselves and their children a steady diet of fast food. Eat as many fresh veggies and fruit as you can and you will lose the weight Bruce or anyone else reading. My number one advice to everyone is read all ingredients on everything. If there are more than 5 ingredients on anything, dump it. Have your kids eat snacks outside of the pantry, fruit. If they see you do it, they will do it.

6-30-2010 @1:52PM Gale said... Jules----you kind of contradicted yourself on that. I read the Snopes artcile and everything I said about margarine was in that article. So your point is what? Perhaps you need to read more, it mention in the article that it was indeed developed to fatten turkeys but ended up killing them instead. Now you research more before you accuse others of not having done so.

6-30-2010 @3:32PM jules said... Gale, try reading the entire article, it states that the turkey email was not reality, what you read was quoted from the emails spread through the internet starting in 2005 with no basis to factual information. The paragraphs AFTER the quote tells the true story.

"Contrary to the claim, margarine was not invented as a turkey fattener. It was formulated in 1869 by Hippolyte Mege Mouries of France in response to Napoleon III's offering of a prize to whoever could succeed in producing a viable low-cost substitute for butter. Mege Mouries concoction, which he dubbed oleomargaring, was achieved by adding salty water, milk, and margaric acid to softened beef fat. By the turn of the century, the beef fat in the original recipe had been replaced by vegetable oils. " Snopes.com.

You do realize that an indented paragraph means the content is a quote, as stated above the quote "mailings circulated in 2005 had this preface tacked onto them: meaning the content if from the emails, not factual when followed by the above information.

You might want to read the entire content of the page before commenting. Just because something in included in a snope's page does not make it part of the factual information provided when it is quoted from a false source to prove the point.

7-02-2010 @12:54AM Samie said... @Bob: Yes, that dihydrogen monoxide can be deadly stuff, as can hydrogen hydroxide...

6-30-2010 @8:59AM Cassandra said... It has EVERYTHING to do with the food.

Yeah, your grandma cooked with those ingredients, but those were REAL ingredients. Your grandma probably ate meat, veggies, & fruits. I doubt she packed cheetos or lunchables for his kids to take to school, or threw a frozen dinner in the oven every night. What's wrong with our food is that everything is overprocessed & the body can't use it properly; toxins are trapped inside & cause disease & sickness. It zaps energy (making people 'lazy'), or gives false energy (caffeine) and sugar is the most addictive white stuff out there, and it brings people back to eat more & more junk.

So many things have changed & I think it is hard to pinpoint exactly what the problem is, but you cannot say it's not about the food, when the food is everything.

6-30-2010 @9:11AM Dee said... M2rdj----Sorry to say, but you're missing the point....this isn't about obesity [solely], it's about disease. And why would your grandma's inherent desire to cook with lard and bacon grease be any cause for surprise? Back when she was a child her food was all natural (including the hogs to make the 'scary' bacon and lard).....so she had a great start to her long life....if she had eaten Silly Putty for her developing years, she might've only made it to 60, if she was lucky. I'd much rather have a piece of free-range chicken, battered in organic, whole grain flour and fried in lard from a pasture-raised pig than the toxic nuggets passed off as 'fast' food of today.

The moral of this story: support the organic and natural farmers, buy local eat local...and cook at home. You might weigh the same.....but you'll live to tell about it to your grandchildren.

6-30-2010 @10:21AM carey said... Very well put!!!! I agree 100% everything in moderation is fine. People need to get up and get more active. We are a "lazy" generation. So very sad!!!!!!

Have a great day

6-30-2010 @10:32AM gypsy said... you get a standing O for that one!!!!!
totally agree

6-30-2010 @11:19AM Gulfstater said... "Did you know the same ingredients in Wedding cake are the same in glue? That's right flour and water. Duh! Does it really matter?"

Not to point out the obvious but flour and water are supposed to be edible...

6-30-2010 @2:31PM beth said... totally agree 100% with you! eat whatever you want...moderation and exercise is the key!
our ancestors gorged on FAT!

6-30-2010 @2:36PM Robin said...
All what I have to say is that if ingesting something is going to make you feel guilty then don't do it.

Why have the guilt trip on your mind and worry.

It's just like anything else.

People just need to start listening to their conscience.

Why do you think God gave us one?

6-30-2010 @4:24PM Jules said... And if vegetable oil was used in making that wedding cake, the exact two chemicals will also be in that cake.

8-12-2010 @1:01PM bem179 said... m2rdj, you are so right! Add to that the fact that the Media is causing people to become totally NEUROTIC when it comes to weight and diets! You can't turn on such shows as the Today Show without seeing some so-called expert telling us what we should or shouldn't eat; or unappealing recipes which are supposed to be healthy for us and we're supposed to go along with the host and believe it looks "yummy" when it really looks like the trash falling out of a dumpster in the back of a restaurant! Some of you may have seen recently on one of these morning talk shows, where now a new set of 'so-called' experts, joined by a sonogram on the show, is perpetuating the idea that FETUSES are gaining too much weight, therefore it is born too fat or chubby, therefore this future kid will have a weight problem!! Give me a break! We want people (already Neurotic) to put their fetuses on diets??? Come on... do people really want to have skinny babies? I don't think so. AND, give me a Grocery Store isle that isn't full of foods with "extra fiber" or Extra Extra Light Yogurt, or laxative filled snacks (like that one advertised by Jamie Curtis!) Kids cereal now contains Fiber - how healthy do you think that really sounds?
If folks would just quit listening to these alarmists and relax and eat normal portions, of normal foods, without neurosis as a side dish, and normal exercise, without TURBO sessions of exercise videos; etc, we will live normal (what is normal today) lives. I am really sick of all the diet food hipe which in my opinion is REALLY what's making people fat!

7-01-2010 @7:03AM Erica Filpi said... *LOL* My ex-husband has an auntie who owns a condiment plant. Her brother works there and on occassion tried to tell all of us what was in the condiments that most people don't know about. Some things are better off unknown.