> Problem is the new products being advertised: chicken (breast) strips and "popcorn" chicken. Did the thought not occur to ANYone developing these ads that neither the "strip" nor "popcorn" is any recognizable part of the chicken, either?

Well, here's the problem, at least in California.

One of the major chicken producers in this state (errrrm, chicken producers? Yeah, anyway) has some major problems, or at least they did three years ago. They had many chickens with diseased skin -- scabs, pus pockets, you name it -- which they ignored.

Chicken nuggets are basically ground chicken meat.

The chickens from this company, with their diseased skins, would go in the chicken grinder, or whatever they do -- but anyway, the skins are ground in with the meat. (Ewwww.) They released a statements saying so long as the meat was cooked properly, there'd be no problems, but who wants to bite into a nugget and find a jelly-like pocket of stuff in it?

This is why the "because you don't want to know what's in a nugget" slogan appeals to me.

Chicken (breast) strips are just that -- strips of meat off the breast. No ground meat, so no chance for that gooey goodness.

Oh, and you're supposed to be safe from this anywhere except California, the home state of nuts, flakes, and disgusting chicken nuggets.

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