McMom, where do nuggets come from?
McDonald’s recently gave the “Moms’ Quality Correspondents” access to one of their poultry facilities to learn how Chicken McNuggets are made, so they can give their children the answer to that often puzzling question. According to the press release this is “unprecedented”. From what I can tell, these Moms work for McDonald’s. They have their own website, McDonaldsMom.com which feels much like an advertisement, or pseudo reality TV show. These are not people off the street, like you and me. I’m not really sure how “unprecedented” or unbiased we can expect it to be.
I can understand wanting to defend their product. Chicken McNuggets have been blamed for the ills of the world. More than almost any other fast food item over the years, they’re the one I’ve seen the strangest, and most numerous stories about. But the reality is, they’re not that bad, and many stories are false or exaggerated.
Anyway, I’m not sure this is the best way to convince skeptics of the wholesome nature of the Chicken McNugget. We shall see. In addition to the McNuggets, they apparently have a whole series of tours to various McDonald’s facilities arranged, and there will be videos, interviews and all kinds of good McDonald’s coverage to follow.
Here’s a couple highlights of the press release.
“Beginning their tour at Keystone’s hatchery, the Moms learned about food quality and safety protocols, including incubation operations and traceability — the process used to trace chicken menu items in restaurants all the way back to the egg. They also learned about McDonald’s stringent animal welfare practices in place to ensure safe handling of the birds. The Moms then visited a broiler farm to witness how the chickens are cared for, fed and nurtured until fully grown. Keystone Foods representatives also discussed the bio-security measures that are taken to ensure McDonald’s strict food safety standards are met.
On the second day of the tour, the Moms visited the food production facility where they saw first-hand how the meat used to make Chicken McNuggets is carved from boneless, white meat chicken breasts. The same white meat is used in all McDonald’s premium chicken menu items including Premium Chicken Salads and Sandwiches as well as Snack Wraps.” — McDonald’s USA
Visit McDonaldsMom.com to learn more, and follow their adventures.
FFC, you gotta take the time to thoroughly explore their site. It’s a hoot. They have individual bio’s that read like the ones for Playmates (not that I’ve ever read that demon magazine) “I like picnics on the beach, pizza and making sand castles.” (Or something like that.) They are all happily married or not, as they all have children, but could not come up with a single thing to say about hubby.
The best thing is that, having visited a chicken factory, they are now completely satisfied that everything they buy at McD is sanitary and wholesome! Wow!
Yes, this group looks like an absolute sham!
They are charged with reporting on the quality of the food but, until this visit to the McNugget factory, seem to have no more access than you and me to any aspect of quality control.
I don’t know why Mickey D would put out a press release that introduces the public this group while simutaneously revealing they don’t really have any power or independence.
If I were in their shoes, I would have just kept quiet about it.
I agree with you guys. The whole thing seems cheesy. I hesitated to even post it, but who knows… maybe somewhere behind the glossy images of happy smiling faces, something good will actually come from it.
We can hope.
Its hilarious. All the McDonald’s moms are a little too skinny, their makeup applied a little too carefully to be real people.
I miss the old dark meat mcnuggets made out of kangaroo toe knuckles… they were much juicier than the “all white breast meat” version of today.