"chicken nuggets" news and stories

We're not talking about real rules like "No double dipping." No, I'm talking about everything else, like what dipping sauces go with what kinds of finger foods, if it's okay to "embellish" a dipping sauce with salt, pepper, or Tabasco, or whether you can dip in one sauce and re-dip in another to make a "combo" dip. Obviously, if you're eating your own plate of chicken fingers, you can do whatever the hell you want. If you're sharing an appetizer platter, what do you do?

I do everything. First of all, when the restaurant offers honey mustard with the chicken tenders because that's normal and accepted, I still like to ask for Ranch dressing and BBQ sauce. If I recall from my old Chicken Nuggets days, breaded, deep-fried chicken goes with: BBQ sauce, Sweet & Sour, and Honey Mustard. So the Ranch dressing is a little off.

Watching UCLA stomp all over LSU tonight, I noticed that there were quite a few commercials for McDonald's. Now I'm quite certain that these commercials run fairly often, but my eyes and brain have somehow become numb to them. However, tonight, I actually took notice because I tried to think about the last time I went to McDonald's. Furthermore, I started to think about some other interesting questions regarding America's McClownBurger: what is the average length of time since someone has eaten at McDonald's? Would it be safe to say that, across the population, on average, it's been 24 hours?

I thought about it because I proudly thought to myself, "It has been a LONG time since I've eaten at McDonald's." In fact, I don't even remember the last time I let a Chicken McNugget pass my lips. Then I realized I was totally wrong. Just a few months ago, I was forced to stop at a McDonald's in the wee hours of the morning for coffee, long before any of the other places likes Peet's or Coffee Bean in my area were open.

Scary. I've been to McDonald's as recently as four months ago. (My pit stop at the mega McDonald's in Chicago doesn't really count.)