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At first I just thought it was a cute new contribution to American's inability to handle portion control; equipped with cute box as well as a built in slot for your dipping sauce, what was not to love? Well, the answer to that question is the product itself.
There I found myself, unable to resist the new little brother of the world famous, and nostalgic Chicken McNugget. Little did I know this was actually the backwoods cousin with no blood relation. Showing up in the middle of the night uninvited, a la Randy Quaid in the Vacation Movies.
As I ate the "food", if you can even call it that, even the sauce was not able to mask the disappointment that surely showed on my face. The only solace I could muster was that it was 12am, and I was sitting in a car alone, thus only my life was sadder than pathetic quasi-meat product I was driven to sample.
The first thing I noticed was there was a remarkable void of meat in something so generously called "chicken". As I dug through the tiny box of fried nothingness, I looked for just one piece of mini chicken nugget that resembled what I had seen on the ad that night. I never found that nugget. Instead I found fried... well fried. Its a box of fryer scraps. I have often heard of obese people requesting fryer leftovers from Long Johns Silvers, or what they so grossly call their "Leavins", but I always thought this to be an urban myth. But now I'm not so sure?
Do we really live in a day and age where we have enough expendable income and derision for our health, that we pay for garbage?
They sell a 4-ounce “Snack” size ($1.99), a 6-ounce “Regular” size ($2.99), and a 12-ounce “Shareable” size ($4.99). Shareable being the only responsible thing McDonalds has done here, essentially saying "under no means necessary should you as an individual ever even think about trying to eat this alone."
Thanks to McDonalds for another contribution to my list of some the of the worst things in the world.
