As for chicken nuggets or strips?
Those can be made with any chicken meat.
Most will shout from the rooftops that their tenders are hand-breaded and cut from whole tenderloins.
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If they don’t, they probably aren’t, proceed with caution.
Those uniformly-shaped and uniformly-tastyMcNuggets from McDonald’sare made with more than just chicken on the inside.
Whole boot-shaped cuts of chicken?
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This is surely no big surprise, as chicken does not come in fry shape, after all.
And that’s the “meat,” not the breading.
Which is not 100% chicken, FYI.
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Smashburger
We love Smashburger’s burgers.
And the chain’s chicken sandwiches.
And the new wings, even.
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But readingthe chicken tender ingredient listis reason enough for us to skip ordering them.
And yes, that’s before we get to thebreading ingredients.
First off, chicken doesn’t come in rings.
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White Castle
