I feel like chicken tonight....

[Mofo8]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/22/1079939581660.html

Mmmmmhhhhh McChicken! uke:

 

[~Yuckfou~]

Anyone who eats McAnything deserves food poisoning.
I would rather eat the hard skin off the soles of my feet, at least I know it's origin.

 

[Tom]

heh

I did an interview last year I think, for Tonight with Trevor. It was a programme about an undercover reporter who had loads of great footage of people in a chicken nugget factory putting stuff dropped on the floor back onto the production line, not cleaning their boots after walking outside in dog-shit-ridden grass, etc etc. All the wholesome things you'd expect of a Victorian black pudding factory.

They did an in-depth analysis of the typical content of a chicken nugget. It was fucking disgusting. If you cook one, and squeeze it, the amount of fat (mostly hydrogenated vegetable oils) that seeped out was shocking. They are high in salt, coated in breadcrumbs that contain little or no nutritional value, and to top it off, the chicken is reconsituted (reformed bits of chicken scraps), and arrives at the factory in large ingot shaped blocks.

I remember when the questioning got a bit too tough, they started up the machinery behind the interviewee, thinking that we'd stop filming. We carried on, and the interviewee was made to look like a complete fool by shouting out his answers over the machinery. His bosses behind the camera eventually signalled the end of the interview, all of which was broadcast (no doubt to the shock of the factory concerned).

Coincidentally, I had a McChicken sandwich today, 2 halves of a bun, a bit of chicken, and 5 scraps of brownish lettuce.

Yum.

 

[]AC[dRuM]

If that was the program were they had 'rotten' chicken parts (green & manky) being lifted with a JCB to be processed, it made me feal quit sick. Apparently some of that made its way into 2 major food chains in the UK.
:eek2:

 

[Mofo8]

All the wholesome things you'd expect of a Victorian black pudding factory.

LOL

It's all about them saving money and maximising profits. Greedy bastards! You can just imagine some fat sweaty cunter in charge of these things saying "Hey, why are we throwing out perfectly good beaks, claws, feathers and bits of skin? Grind 'em up and we'll sell them as reconstituted chicken!"

 

[Tom]

If that was the program were they had 'rotten' chicken parts (green & manky) being lifted with a JCB to be processed, it made me feal quit sick. Apparently some of that made its way into 2 major food chains in the UK.

Nah, different place. Although to be totally honest, so long as you cook rotten meat properly, its perfectly edible. Won't taste nice though uke:

 

[Mazling]

I thought this was about the cool old TV ad with people pretending to be chickens. It all ends with my being told I've been eating dogshit throughout my youth.

 

[Tom]

heh, I just checked my jobsheet for tomorrow:

The Pork Pie Appreciation Society meet every week in a pub in Yorkshire to celebrate the humble pork pie. We send ***** ***** to join in a meeting with the club whose aim is “to constantly improve the quality of pie making and to recognise and celebrate the nation's best pork pie makers”

Looks like lunch won't be a problem then Should be fun!

 

[Mofo8]

Mmmhhh.... I suspect you might come back with tales of pork pies being composed of tasty bits of pig like trotter, snout and hairy pink skin.

Me personally, I've never liked pork pies. What is that horrible congealed jelly stuff all about?

 

[Tom]

I hate pork pies too, but hey, no doubt there will be other pies there. If there aren't, I may well stop in Greggs on the way and buy some cheese and onion pasties.

 

[Lynchet]

LOL

It's all about them saving money and maximising profits. Greedy bastards! You can just imagine some fat sweaty cunter in charge of these things saying "Hey, why are we throwing out perfectly good beaks, claws, feathers and bits of skin? Grind 'em up and we'll sell them as reconstituted chicken!"

Yeah tho you could argue that that makes it more ecologically sound -- after all people always complain about the western world throwing so much away

 

[Mofo8]

If they think it's good enough for eating, then why not just put it in pet food? No waste, and I get to eat the best bits

 

[Tom]

hehe

Guess teh pie!

 

[Mofo8]

Guess teh pie!

Or even better, guess WHO ate all the pies? That fat bastard Dominic Something or other!

 

[old.user4556]

I've met Dominic Diamond

 

[Tom]

I've met Dominic Diamond

awww, hes actually a really nice bloke. Quite entertaining, and professional.

He did eat an exceedingly large number of pies though

 

[Mofo8]

awww, hes actually a really nice bloke. Quite entertaining, and professional.

He did eat an exceedingly large number of pies though

I'm sure he is a nice guy! He's a Scot after all But he does look as if he's porked up a bit since he first appeared on our TV screens.

 

[Mazling]

Anyone remember ... what was it called ... gamesmaster ? channel 4 ?

 

[Mofo8]

Anyone remember ... what was it called ... gamesmaster ? channel 4 ?

I think so... that was the one with Patrick Moore in it as some kind of cross between Davros and Stephen Hawking... and there was usually a couple of tasty girls IIRC.

 

[old.user4556]

I loved gamesmaster, watched it religiously.

He is a very friendly bloke, spoke to him for ages about games n stuff.

 

[Trebz]

I've not had a BK or Maccy D's since december and I intend never to eat one again. It started off as a new years resolution but after reading Fast Food Nation i dont find the idea of eating a McChicken or any fast food product very appealing.

 

[~Yuckfou~]

Sweet irony