"Chicken nuggets" news and stories

Chicken nuggets are such a fast-food staple that it's easy to forget that they're essentially breaded pieces of chicken breast -- and that you can make a tasty, fresh version at home with no fillers or added preservatives. Check out Gino Campagna's recipe for nuggets and dipping sauces -- you may never hit the drive-through again.

Get Gino's recipe for Chicken Nuggets.

See these innocent-looking chicken nuggets that your kids love? Head over to The Stir to see the goo they evolved from -- it'll absolutely make you think twice about processed food.

It's pink, but it ain't pretty, so consider yourself warned.

Perdue Farms is recalling 91,872 pounds of cooked, frozen chicken nuggets because of the potential some may contain pieces of plastic, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The company's voluntary recall is of 1-pound, 13-ounce bags of "GREAT VALUE Fully Cooked Chicken Nuggets." The affected nuggets show the establishment number P-33944 as well as a case code of 89008 A0160 on the bag, the Journal-Constitution reported.

No other Great Value or Perdue products are affected, the company said. Great Value is sold at Wal-Mart stores.

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Proust had his madeleines to evoke the taste of childhood; those of us born after the atomic age have chicken McNuggets.

Turns out the little poultry bites are made of some of the same stuff that goes into one of the most popular toys of the latter 20th century: Silly Putty.

The shocking (well, sort of shocking) revelation came as part of a CNN investigation as to why McNuggets on one side of the Atlantic taste different than on the other. Apparently, British McNuggets are cooked and then coated, where as the opposite is true for American ones. Because the British McNuggets absorb less oil, they have less fat.

But that's not the only unsettling difference.

When I was a kid, once in a very great while, my dad would take my sister and me to McDonald's. My mother was not much of a fan of fast food and didn't particularly approve of these outings, but we loved them and always looked forward to them. I would always get Chicken McNuggets with a little container of honey for dipping. It was total nirvana for me. As I've gotten older, I've given up my McDonald's habit (except for the two cheeseburgers I ate two days in a row last spring. I don't know what came over me) but part of me still misses those juicy, greasy McNuggets.

However, thanks to the folks at YumSugar, I don't have to pine away any longer. On Monday, they linked to a post over at For the Love of Food in which they make homemade Chicken McNuggets (following the instructions from this video). I am totally enamored (and I'm not someone who fries things often). I do believe I see these in my future.

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