{"id":105861,"date":"2016-09-28T17:51:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=105861"},"modified":"2016-09-29T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T14:35:08","slug":"this-is-how-chicken-mcnuggets-are-really-made-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/105861-this-is-how-chicken-mcnuggets-are-really-made-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"This is how Chicken McNuggets are really made in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this point the infamous pink slime that supposedly makes up McDonald&#8217;s Chicken McNuggets has practically passed into folklore.<\/p>\n<p>While the infamous photo is more likely soft serve than chicken &#8211; Mechanically Seperated Chicken doesn&#8217;t look all that different.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is at one point in time the Nuggets <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/food\/prepare\/msm.asp\" target=\"_blank\">likely were made from mechanically <\/a><\/strong>separated chicken (MSP), a process which entails feeding all of the leftover bits of the chicken alongside the meat.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2003 however, McDonalds has only used white meat rather than MSP in its products.<\/p>\n<p>Mythbusters&#8217; Grant Imihara found what goes in today&#8217;s Chicken Nuggets below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pPSOTRyIB2c\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s\u00a0a local perspective:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kG2_Ft-2D0Q\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nvidia Titan X Pascal SLI takes 4K gaming to the next level\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/105089-nvidia-titan-x-pascal-sli-takes-4k-gaming-to-the-next-level.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nvidia Titan X Pascal SLI takes 4K gaming to the next level<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/105439-the-biggest-movie-releases-in-south-africa-this-week-15.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How well does the world\u2019s best gaming PC actually run games?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/105757-how-well-does-the-worlds-best-gaming-pc-actually-run-games.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How well does the world\u2019s best gaming PC actually run games?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth behind that &#8220;pink slime&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":105863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,22267,20418,22265,22263,183],"class_list":["post-105861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-chicken","tag-mcdonalds","tag-mcnuggets","tag-pink-slime","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105875,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105861\/revisions\/105875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}