McDonald's McNuggets made with 'Silly Putty' chemical

[Donnachaidh]

http://smirkingchimp.com/news/35590/mcdonalds-mcnuggets-made-with-silly-putty-chemical

"CNN has revealed that the fast-food chain makes this popular menu item with the chemical preservative tBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a petroleum-based product. Mcnuggets also contain dimethylpolysiloxane, "an anti-foaming agent" also used in Silly Putty.

Across the Atlantic in Britain, McNuggets don't contain these chemicals and they're less fattening.

TBHQ is a preservative for vegetable oils and animal fats, limited to .02 percent of the oil in the nugget. One gram (one-thirtieth of an ounce) can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse," according to "A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives."

Dimethylpolysiloxane is used as a matter of safety to keep the oil from foaming, says. The chemical is a form of silicone also used in cosmetics and Silly Putty."

More at the link --

[hlthe2b]

1. Uggh... as if the pink goo they put in hamburgers wasn't bad enough...

No thanks....It's been far more than a decade since I've had "chicken" McNuggets from McDonalds (or similar product anywhere else)...I think I'll keep it that way. :punk:

[reformist2]

26. Speaking of pink, wanna see some raw chicken mcnugget meat?

[hlthe2b]

28. looks like a pink Anaconda....

I'm enured to this kind of thing, generally. Ever see how cottage cheese is made? Ooh, now that's a vat of disgusting slimy goo, but at least it is "naural".

[Fuddnik]

41. So is poison ivy. And I ain't eating either one.

[Cali_Democrat]

45. Damn!

[eowyn_of_rohan]

53. ewww...are you kidding?

i hope so, but don't doubt it is this gross.

[BOG PERSON]

57. jesus

it looks like something out of "Naked Lunch"

[Shagbark Hickory]

60. No freakin way. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

73. Is that really mcnugget material?

[cabot]

35. Do I want to know? Blech.

If I could go vegetarian, I would. I get too many bruises, though.

[hlthe2b]

37. I'll let you decide...

Google "pink goo filler added to ground beef" or "ammonia slime in ground beef" (if you decide you want to know). All I can say is that it has kept me away from fast food hamburgers almost entirely, since the first stories came out about a year ago. Yes, i got desperate once in that time and ate one when there was literally nothing else available. I find that if you add enough ketchup, lettuce, tomatoes and onions, you can sort of forget what might be under the bun. ;)

[live love laugh]

51. I have never liked ther McNuggets--or much else. nt

[Fuzz]

62. Yeah, as soon as I found out about that I started grinding my own.

I buy the large beef chuck and use my kitchenaid mixer grinding attachment. Break it up into 1 lb segments and freeze. I know exactly what's in there now, plus it's nearly $2/lb cheaper.

[hlthe2b]

65. I don't think that grocery stores can add that to their ground beef...

I could be wrong, but I think it is only prepared patties and similar used by fast food restaurants... Regardless, I guess those of us without meat grinders could simply have the grocery store butcher grind it fresh from chuck while you wait. I don't think they charge for that, do they?

[Fuzz]

67. From the NYTimes article. Wish I knew about this earlier.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html

With the U.S.D.A.’s stamp of approval, the company’s processed beef has become a mainstay in America’s hamburgers. McDonald’s, Burger King and other fast-food giants use it as a component in ground beef, as do grocery chains. The federal school lunch program used an estimated 5.5 million pounds of the processed beef last year alone.

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I just made burgers with my own grind and everyone thought they tasted much better and fresher.

[ixion]

2. Fast fod is not real food.

and this is why.

[SpiralHawk]

44. It's "Industrial product" from Industrial Farm Factories

Prole rations for the 21st Century Homeland.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[ixion]

47. Yep. Anything called "processed food product"

If they have to tell you it's 'food', it probably is just crude oil and chemicals.

[AngryAmish]

59. Does Grant Achatz make real food?

[Sentath]

70. No, he uses food

and FDA allowed chemistry to make art. Art that is consumable.

[Liberal_in_LA]

74. It sure ain't. McD has wi-fi now. I'll buy a diet coke & use the wi-fi. That Smell! Doesn't

quite smell like grandma's kitchen. The artificiality of the smell of McD!

[femmocrat]

3. Are the same chemicals found in school cafeteria chicken nuggets?

Wow. :puke: That is all some kids eat, day in and day out.

[Donnachaidh]

6. I'd have to assume they are, if they are extruded like McNuggets

It's horrible to feed this shite to our kids.

[Terra Alta]

4. Yet another reminder of why I don't eat much fast food.

This food is NOT healthy for you, folks.

[benld74]

5. WHY? IS it always in the U.S. that ingredients are allowed,,,

when in other countries, those same ingredients are absent? WHO makes these decisions?

[freshwest]

10. The corporations that run our government, medical colleges, pharmaceutical companies, etc.

Oops, I forgot the media. Gotta get those advertising dollars.

[dems_rightnow]

7. I'll have my McNuggets without foam, please

Whatever it takes.

[BlueJazz]

52. "Of course Sir, would you like those with our special tertiary butylhydroquinone sauce ??

:)

[here_is_to_hope]

8. Check out this 'glued meat' video...

:spooky:


http://www.dump.com/2011/04/14/meat-glue-secret-video/

[defendandprotect]

25. Capitalism is suicidal -- for all of us!!

[freshwest]

9. Thanks! Another good reason to give up corporatist fast food. Sorry, Mickey Dee's.

[bluesmail]

11. I don't remember the last time I or a close family member

ate at McDonald's. It's been that long ago. Or is memory loss a symptom? Gawd, it's true, if you don't catch a sickness one way you're bound to get it another. My best to the younger people. :hi:

[whoneedstickets]

12. That explains why they Bounce!

Now, I wonder if I can copy a comic strip with one?

[obxhead]

13. Additional fun fact:

I sold automotive paint and all the things that go along with it for 5 years or so. I obviously spent some time learning about products during that time.

It takes your liver 72 hours to filter lacquer thinner from your blood steam from just 10 seconds of bare skin exposure!

Once silicon enters your blood stream it can never be filtered out or otherwise evacuated from your body! It will flow through your body from the time it enters into you until you die. Remember that the next time you're hosing that crap onto your tires or dashboard to make them shiny.

[RC]

16. Do you have a source for the silicon info?

Sounds like health nut BS to me and Google had nothing on the subject.

[obxhead]

18. I wish I did

It was from a class I attended with PPG. 99%+/- of the US population has silicon flowing through their blood stream and nothing can be done about it.

[sir pball]

56. Silicon is excreted via the kidneys.

"The mean urinary silicon excretion was 33.1 +/- 3.85 mg/day; the mean renal silicon clearance was 88.6 +/- 7.94 ml/min; the mean fractional excretion of silicon was 86.35 +/- 8.1%, and the mean urine silicon concentration was 0.265 micrograms/ml."

It's an essential trace nutrient that's in multivitamins, if we didn't eliminate it somehow we'd all end up half-metal monstrosities (which might actually be pretty cool).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3703066

[RC]

66. I'm thinking someone mixed up silicon with silicone

Won't be the first time.
And silicone is pretty much inert. And if silicone is inert, then the kidneys cannot act on it, bla, bla, bla.
And being inert, it has a hard time being adsorb through the skin too.

[meow mix]

14. gross.

thats disgusting

[ddeclue]

15. Are you sure that Silly Putty isn't made with the Chicken MacNuggets chemical?

:rofl:

[DeSwiss]

17. K&R

tert-Butylhydroquinone (TBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone) is an aromatic organic compound which is a type of phenol. It is a derivative of hydroquinone, substituted with tert-butyl group.

Applications

TBHQ is a highly effective antioxidant.<1> In foods, it is used as a preservative for unsaturated vegetable oils and many edible animal fats.<2> It does not cause discoloration even in the presence of iron, and does not change flavor or odor of the material to which it is added.<1> It can be combined with other preservatives such as butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA). As a food additive, its E number is E319. It is added to a wide range of foods, with the highest limit (1000 mg/kg) permitted for frozen fish and fish products. Its primary advantage is enhancing storage life.

It is used industrially as a stabilizer to inhibit autopolymerization of organic peroxides. In perfumery, it is used as a fixative to lower the evaporation rate and improve stability. It is also added to varnishes, lacquers, resins, and oil field additives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tert-Butylhydroquinone">MORE

- It'll all come out in the wash......

[franzia99]

19. Excuse me while I go vomit

[Magron]

20. How about the 'modified worm protein'

Are they still using that or did the publicity in the 80's end the practice.
Remember?

[Goblinmonger]

29. Urban Legend

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/wormburg.asp

In short, worm meat would be way too expensive compared to beef.

[Magron]

31. I'm not sure that's true. I remember seeing the story on 60 minutes

despite the Snopes disclaimer about the 60 minutes story, I clearly remember watching it, myself, in person. on Sunday night, on the 60 minutes show.

[unkachuck]

21. mmmmmmmmmm....silly putty....n/t

[progressoid]

22. ...

[Forkboy]

23. And their burgers are made out of Flubber.

[defendandprotect]

24. Food is too expensive to put into food anymore -- Domino's pizza recently had to report

that they are using "real" cheese now --

There have long been reports that all of Domino's Pizza ingredients are

artificial!!

[hobbit709]

50. It would take more than "real" cheese

to get me to eat one of those cardboard wonders made by that RW Fundy asshole.

[AsahinaKimi]

27. I wonder if McDonalds is

made better in other countries? There has to be some country who demands a higher standard.

[southerncrone]

30. I was on the original team that created McNuggets.

Back in 1980. They did not start out with this junk in them back then. Keystone Foods was the creator. I don't know if they are still the company involved or not, cuz they let me go after the product was developed (my second job out of college). I was involved in the marketing end, but worked closely w/those doing the "creating" of the product. There were only 6 of us actually working on developing them....very small operation. When I think about how many have been eaten since then it blows my mind. I had bags of them in my freezer because we would run different batches using different techniques & seasonings. Never was there anything very "chemically" in them then. But that was 31 yrs ago......

[nilram]

36. wow, cool. I haven't had one in nearly 20 years, but enjoyed them then.

I'll have to try them again, if ever I'm in Britain. The crispy outside, the sauces, yummy. But my tastes have changed (chard! I'd never heard of chard--yum!) Are you still in food product development? The whole 'need' to keep products fresh for long periods of time (as opposed to keeping fresh foods available in the distribution channel) has resulted in a lot of chemicals in the general US diet.

[southerncrone]

75. No, I'm a business teacher now.

At least for another month or so. Then, I'm looking for another job. Not sure what avenue I'll go down next. LOL

We did put out a good product back in the beginning. But just like almost everything that's over 30 yrs old, there have been many changes....usually based on cost cutting, not product improvement. :(
If I ever get to Britain, I've got to try them again, myself.

I grew up eating chard, it's great! And so good for you, too. Haven't had it in years now. It's easy to grow, you've inspired me to plant some this year. Thanks! :hi:

[defendandprotect]

32. Kick -- for the MacDonald's fans -- !!

[CoffeeCat]

33. So, if you flatten a chicken mcnugget on a comic strip...

...then press down for a few seconds, does the comic-strip image show up on the chicken mcnugget?

[cabot]

34. Disgusting

[Kablooie]

38. I always wondered why silly putty didn't foam. Now I know.

[eppur_se_muova]

39. I can't stand the thought of those poor chickens having to go through life without their nuggets. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

40. Sounds about right. Last time I had a McNugget was about the last time I played with Silly Putty

Here's a tip; if you look at a diagram of the body parts of a chicken, you will notice there is no part labeled the "McNugget".



Try eating actual chicken, instead.

[Cobalt-60]

42. Scooped again

I thought of submitting a Simpsons script where Mr Burns disposes of toxic waste by putting it in the food.
Looks like MCDonalds got there first.

[Citizen Worker]

43. Could this be the source of "finger lickin' good?"

[Skidmore]

46. Who the heck had the bright idea of adding a petroleum product

to food anyway? What the eff genius decided that this type of oil was tasty? It would not be the first thing to come to mind for me to add to food.

[vercetti2021]

48. Oh man...

I had some yesterday...They taste like shit anyway along with mcdonalds all together. Wendys is the only fast food i ever get anymore.

[pintobean]

49. Parts is parts. They're kind of fused.

Edited to ad the 80s Wendy's commercial link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTzLVIc-O5E

[Pacifist Patriot]

54. And my kids wonder my mommy won't take them out for fast food.

[sir pball]

55. If it really worries you, I wouldn't eat out in general..

The dimethylpolysiloxane is actually in the fryer oil, not the product. I work at a quite nice NYC fine-dining restaurant. We, along with every other place I know the details of, use bulk oil as a general-purpose neutral vegetable oil for all kinds of cookery as well as in the fryer. Sooo, pretty much anywhere you eat is probably going to have this stuff in the food. You could try specifically requesting the kitchen only use olive oil in your meal, but sometimes that's not technically possible (say in a stir-fry or sauté).

[felix_numinous]

58. Soylent Pink

--it's the 'other' white meat!

[reggie the dog]

61. good stroy, but i got booted from the chimp for not believing

the 911 commission report....

[arikara]

63. And we got upset with the Chinese for using melamine

as a filler. Sheesh.

[Left coast liberal]

64. Doesn't surprise me a bit. Those little death nuggets have never passed...

...my kids lips.

It is the least a mother can do.

[Heywood J]

68. The "Silly putty chemical" is consumed by thousands every day.

Simethicone is an oral anti-foaming agent used to reduce bloating, discomfort and pain caused by excess gas in the stomach or intestinal tract. It is a mixture of polydimethylsiloxane and silica gel.

Simethicone is the active ingredient in most OTC anti-gas medications. I'm curious as to why they need to defoam McNuggets (this may raise questions about the source and quality of the meat), but the agent in question is not necessarily bad just because it also happens to be used in Silly Putty.

[pintobean]

71. Good job. thanks

:-)

[JI7]

i kind of like the nuggets and fish filet sandwich

not all the time. but every once in a while i get a craving for them. but then i can go for a long time without having it.

i love their breakfast though and wished they would serve it all day. but then maybe not since i would eat more of it which isn't so healthy.

[JI7]

69. i kind of like the nuggets and fish filet sandwich

not all the time. but every once in a while i get a craving for them. but then i can go for a long time without having it.

i love their breakfast though and wished they would serve it all day. but then maybe not since i would eat more of it which isn't so healthy.

[Jamastiene]

72. So, THAT is why my teeth bounced apart when I tried to eat those

McNuggets that one time. :puke: