Poll: "Ingredients in a Chicken McNugget" or "You Want me to Eat What Now?"

[Mordwyl]

Whatever happened to making chicken nuggets from, you know, bits of breaded tenderised chicken?

 

[Keltrick]

And we vegans win again.

Eeehee, if only I had the will power to adhere to a vegan lifestyle. ^_^ Its an interesting perspective, as a few of my friends are vegan. Ever feel like you can look at issues like this, as if through a window? My few vegan friends don't eat out much, for obvious reasons, and always find it hysterical when these sorts of things come to light.

 

[Spacelord]

I hate to break it to you, OP, but a lot of things are deadly if you eat too much. So 5 grams kills? Whatever. Next you'll be asking us to ban salt.

Sir, you obviously don't understand the gravity of this situation. An even bigger killer is dihydrogen monoxide.

When ingested in large doses, it is almost always fatal. Big companies use the substance in pretty much everything: in central heating, as a cleaning agent, and even in food production. In fact research suggests that it is now so ubiquitous that there's a considerable amount is in your body right now.

And there's no escaping dihydrogen monoxide. It's in our atmosphere and you can even find a considerable amount from your tap at home.

Ban dihydrogen monoxide now!

 

[Dunstann]

I hate to break it to you, OP, but a lot of things are deadly if you eat too much. So 5 grams kills? Whatever. Next you'll be asking us to ban salt.

Sir, you obviously don't understand the gravity of this situation. An even bigger killer is dihydrogen monoxide.

When ingested in large doses, it is almost always fatal. Big companies use the substance in pretty much everything: in central heating, as a cleaning agent, and even in food production. In fact research suggests that it is now so ubiquitous that there's a considerable amount is in your body right now.

And there's no escaping dihydrogen monoxide. It's in our atmosphere and you can even find a considerable amount from your tap at home.

Ban dihydrogen monoxide now!

Jesus, even in food?! Why won't someone think of the children?!


Serious mode:
Everything in large doses will kill you. Actually you would need to eat an abnormal amount of chicken nuggets in a short period of time for it to have an effect and most of us would have gotten tummy aches(I really mean the shits) before reaching the 3rd box o nugz .

 

[newdarkcloud]

You probably should be reading up on the much more serious problem of ihydrogen Monoxide (http://www.dhmo.org/)

Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.

Should I be concerned about Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Yes, you should be concerned about DHMO! Although the U.S. Government and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) do not classify Dihydrogen Monoxide as a toxic or carcinogenic substance (as it does with better known chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and benzene), DHMO is a constituent of many known toxic substances, diseases and disease-causing agents, environmental hazards and can even be lethal to humans in quantities as small as a thimbleful.

Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:

Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.

Funny. I never get tired of this little joke. (Despite nearly ever science teacher I've ever had using it.)

 

[Kevonovitch]

so who else had a sudden urge to go kill a few cows, pigs, and chickens, and freeze them, so then they have no doubt's about there meat being not fucked with?

 

[Poopie McGhee]

You probably should be reading up on the much more serious problem of ihydrogen Monoxide (http://www.dhmo.org/)

Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.

Should I be concerned about Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Yes, you should be concerned about DHMO! Although the U.S. Government and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) do not classify Dihydrogen Monoxide as a toxic or carcinogenic substance (as it does with better known chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and benzene), DHMO is a constituent of many known toxic substances, diseases and disease-causing agents, environmental hazards and can even be lethal to humans in quantities as small as a thimbleful.

Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:

Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.

Love it... You sir, made my day... Haha.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

I am a die hard meat lover, but even I know enough to stay away from McDonald's.

 

[fletch_talon]

Here are the ingredients in Australian Mcnuggets according to the website.

Chicken, Water, Flour (Maize, Bleached Wheat), Salt, Canola oil, Thickener (1404), Raising Agents and Mineral
Salts (341, 451, 450, 500, 541, 551, 327), Whey (Milk), Spice, Wheat Starch.
Contains gluten & milk Note: McNuggets are cooked in canola oil blend.

Sounds pretty normal compared to other "artificial" foods, though I spose the thickener and salts don't go far to explaining what they are specifically.

 

[vivalahelvig]

I've always like Wendy's nuggets much better................But the best is BK chicken fries. I could eat those all day if I could drive.

 

[superbatranger]

Well, I was never much of a fan of McDonald's. I always found their portions to be on the small side, and their fries were always incredibly salty, at least back home in Houston. If anything, I prefer Burger King, and I hardly eat there anyways.

Also, too much of anything is bad for you. All the stuff McDonald's puts in its food serves a purpose. I highly doubt a fast-food chain would put stuff in its product that could harm its consumers, besides the whole "fast food is not healthy for you" shtick. I mean, their ingredients have to be approved by the FDA.

 

[Denamic]

You'd be surprised with how much toxic shit you consume every day.
Like oxygen.
The thing is that our bodies are built to resist things that kill us.
It's not healthy to eat too much of it, but it's not healthy to completely shield yourself either.
You'll develop allergies.

 

[Sephychu]

I don't eat them, but bad shit gets in your food regardless. Anything in excess can kill you.

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

You probably should be reading up on the much more serious problem of ihydrogen Monoxide (http://www.dhmo.org/)

Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.

Should I be concerned about Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Yes, you should be concerned about DHMO! Although the U.S. Government and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) do not classify Dihydrogen Monoxide as a toxic or carcinogenic substance (as it does with better known chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and benzene), DHMO is a constituent of many known toxic substances, diseases and disease-causing agents, environmental hazards and can even be lethal to humans in quantities as small as a thimbleful.

Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:

Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.

H20? sorry I don't fall for chem jokes

 

[Captain Schpack]

I have the same view on the Chinese food stereotype (aka it's cats). As long as it doesn't kill me or make me sick I don't care what it is.

 

[manaman]

That is a valid critique, but I think that implicit in the fact that these synthetic chemicals have seemingly alien names is a much more important point, that being that from an evolutionary perspective, these synthetic chemicals are genuinely alien. Nutrition on a chemical level is a blindingly complex field, because the biological processes that compose the human body are equally complex. We're talking here about mechanisms that have evolved over millions of years, and in the case of omnivorous creatures like humans, they are processes that have evolved to fuel themselves by consuming the other natural things in our habitats, plants, animals, and even some minerals.

Most of what people think are synthetic compounds are either derived from food, or actually where a part of living bug or plant matter at one time. The reason they use the chemical name is obvious, nobody wants to eat something that contains blue beetle extract, but are fine with eating red-13. Still salt and iodine are both completely synthetic and necessary for life. Calcium carbonate made from coral or sometimes limestone is given to people who are calcium deficient as a supplement to their diets. Fluoride treatment in water. Synthetic does not mean bad on it's own.

Calcium lactate is a salt, and a baking powder. Nothing malicious here. It's even used in medicines.

Sodium aluminum phosphate is is a leavening agent, it's used in the dough. You eat in most commercial breading. It produces carbon dioxide that gets trapped in the bread during the preparation. It's a quick acting agent that reacts with water. It keeps the breading from being a thick nasty mess. Basically you have so far the same crap that's in that double acting baking powder that has been selling for a couple of hundred years.

sodium acid pyrophosphate is basically the same thing. It produces a salt and carbon dioxide by reacting with a base.

Mono-calcium phosphate is an acidic leavening agent that is used to balance out the other agents used.

Sure Mcdonald's isn't the healthiest place, but trying to sensationalize there chemicals as being bad simply because they didn't grow on a plant is ridiculous. Especially when most of them where first synthesized 150 or more years ago and have been used as commercial leavening agents since.

A large part of the rise of cancers and other diseases in industrialized countries comes is due to people living longer then ever before. It's admittedly hard for researchers to rule this factor out of their studies.

I'm going to assume most people saw Supersize Me, I would at least think you did Mr. OP, as this is the same kind of sensational over the top crap that the "documentary" was made of. The guy over ate, there is no reason to think any health problems he described anything more then the fact that he ate more calories then he needed to with each mean and he ate three of them a day. It wasn't a study, it was a sensationalism, it was theater. It's the same stuff Michael Moore does.

Don't get me wrong, I will say again McDonalds isn't health food. The food you eat there is jam packed full of calories from fat, fat that is added in oils and rendered fat for flavor. It's no good for you at all, but it's not fake, or made of cardboard which is what your OP seemed to be leading to.

Wouldn't water be 1 molecule away from just 2 parts hydrogen?

Seriously, scare tactics and sensationalism like this always make me laugh.

Water would be one atom away from H2, but even worse water is two measly neutrons away from being heavy water, and that stuff will kill you dead!

I have a few diabetic acquaintances, they use salt substitutes. Mostly potassium chloride. Yes the same stuff death row inmates are given to kill them after being administered the pain killer, and the paralyzing agent.

It's all about moderation. Mcdonalds food isn't going to kill you if you eat it once or twice a week when you need a quick meal. Through far better fast food restaurants exist around here.

Hardy har har.

I figured it would at least get a page or two in before someone stated water was deadly.

 

[the-kitchen-slayer]

Considering the other crap we do (and intake) to our bodies, i doubt mcnuggets are as harmful as, say, breathing is nowadays. With all the pollution, second hand smoke, diseases, and crap in general that's floating around in the air, there's worse we can do than eat a thing of mcnuggets.

Like smoke, I do that quite frequently. So i'll enjoy the rare mcnugget i eat knowing i put more poison in my body via inhaling what lets me keep a steady job

~edit~ btw, it's an odd day. post 69 about clevage, post 70 about food. i'mma go nap now

There is NO real evidence that secondhand smoke kills. None. All of EPA's and other agencies' documents were rigged.

How many diseases can you actually catch through airborne inhalation?

As for McD's, everybody knows that it's crap. I stopped eating there probably many, many years ago.

EDIT: I stopped eating at McD's because the food there always caused stomach pains and digestion problems. I don't really believe scaremongering surveys and experiments.

Aight, so, aside from the second hand smoke, i still put more crap in my lungs from walking along the road, cars wizzing by and spreading nice exhaust fumes into the air around them, and DEFINATELY put more crap in my lungs by smoking first-hand smoke.

That was the point: I smoke, therefore mcnuggets do less damage to me since i'm already committing very slow suicide. tyvm and have a nice day

 

[justnotcricket]

Interesting is also the reverse effect - where certain names for things will be used to slip the substance under your radar - like when they say flavour enhancer 621 or monosodiumglutamate instead of 'MSG'. It's amazing how people will gloss over something that's bad if it doesn't have its most recognisable name printed in the ingredients list.

As a synthetic organic chemist by trade (medicinal - drug design and synthesis), I am perfectly comfortable with all the hair-raising tonguetwister chemical names, and I deplore people who use them to scare others. Sure, I agree that McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are not exactly the world's Superfood, but I hate it when people scaremonger. for Christ's sake, go and find something useful to do.

Like build a better McNugget? =P