Video shows how McDonald's Canada makes Chicken Nuggets

[Agschmid]

Chickens don't exactly have nuggets, so how does McDonald's make its popular McNuggets?
In a new video, McDonald's Canada showed viewers how the sausage -- er, nuggets -- is made.
The segment is part of a campaign that aims to combat attacks on McDonald's food and policies.

Earlier videos from the fast-food giant show the company making a burger look delicious in advertisements and constructing a Big Mac from scratch. The chain also posted answers to questions posed on its website, including “Do you use red slime in your meat?” and “How do you afford to sell your food so cheap?”

The latest video takes viewers into an Ontario Cargill plant that produces the nuggets to answer a question from an Alberta, Canada, man who wondered: "What are legitimately in chicken mcnuggets?"

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-mcdonalds-chicken-mcnuggets-video-20140204,0,5545100.story#ixzz2uOk4Ta6L

[Paulie]

1. The pink slime was in the hamburger.

As for the nuggets they switched to the white meat version a few years ago so who knows what was in them before.

[laundry_queen]

2. The pink slime was from some program on the BBC I thought

it was about the fried chicken nuggets in school lunches in the UK. I could be wrong though. There's probably more than one pink slime video, I'm sure.

It's not hamburger though...the hamburger in Canada is processed in much the same way as the chicken nuggets in the video in the OP. I have a friend who worked in the beef processing plant that McDonald's used and he said McDonald's was the only fast food restaurant he'd eat a burger at. He said they were absolutely meticulous with their cuts and cleanliness and quality. They start with lean cuts of beef and add back a bit of fat in the grinding process just like with the nuggets.

[Major Nikon]

3. Nobody seems to know where it came from

I've tried to find the source and can't. It's anyone's guess at to what it is or where it came from. The "pink-slime" that everyone keeps referring to is nothing more than beef products that have been disinfected with ammonia and it looks exactly the same as ground beef I grind in my own kitchen.

All large scale meat packing plants are inspected and all either do or should be complying with government standards for cleanliness. That being said I always grind my own hamburger meat rather than using pre-ground.

[jmowreader]

6. You know that "pink slime" looks exactly like strawberry ice cream

It's the wrong color to be either chicken paste or beef paste, but it's exactly the right color and texture to be ice cream.

[Auggie]

4. Disgusting

[geardaddy]

5. I bet Ricky doesn't care how they're made.