[tizaala]

You get this at McDonalds, KFC, local supermarkets, and probably anywhere that is deemed fast food. Say hello and thank you to mechanically separated chicken. This is what they use to make chicken nuggets and patties. Also, over 70% of processed frozen chicken in the stores is made from it. Basically, the entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve—bones, eyes, guts, and all. The end product is this. However, since they crush everything, there is an enormous amount of bacteria, and disease. Therefore, guess what? They washed with ammonia, soaked in for a number of hours where it will expand. Then, the flavor it’s just horrendous, thus they add artificially flavoring. And to get rid of the pink color, it will be dyed with artificial color

I'm glad I know what I'm eating........

[Cavendish]

I have just vomited!   

[Roxy]

Urgh ....feel qute queezy after reading this.  Strangely enough, although I do not eat many KFC's etc. I quite like the taste of the chicken burgers etc.  (but for some reason, have gone right off them and will not eat another one)

[Fleecewife]

I'm delighted to say I haven't eaten anything like that for years     Lucky us to be able to grow and rear our own food               (surely not  )

[Sylvia]

I would almost rather eat my chicken's poo

[Rosemary]

Kids and many of their parents should be forced to watch that. It should be on the school curriculum.

[Skirza]

Kids and many of their parents should be forced to watch that. It should be on the school curriculum.

I SO agree with you. I have a friend who teaches in Clapham. He does an after school cooking club (the kids are aged 9-11) and the very first one he did they cooked lamb burgers and chips. He sent the recipe home and one of the kids came in the next day and said, "Sir, sir, we cooked the chips last night. My Mum was well impressed, she didn't know you could make chips from potatoes". What is the world coming to?

[Southfields]

KFC & McD's now use 100% chicken fillet in most of their products.  I always check at supermarkets too to make sure i am buying 100% chicken fillet.
My hubby is a chef and we made MSM to show our children and their friends what they sometimes eat!  Changed them completely!

[Herdygirl]

Southfields is correct.

8 years ago i worked for McDonalds in their large centre in Lancashire as an assistant transport manager. Only chicken fillet, 100% british beef, organic eggs from Cumbria and salads from Linconshire were purchased and if it didn't pass stringent quality controls, it got sent back.  i imagine that KFC woud be the same because of the ethics of both companies, they aren't daft, they know they would go out of business virtually ovenight if they were found to be selling stuff like that muck!

Now school dinners is a different thing, they will serve anything they think they can get away with to children.

[Rosemary]

Now school dinners is a different thing, they will serve anything they think they can get away with to children.

I think that's grosly unfair. I used to work for a local authority in Scotland and part of my remit was the provision of school dinners. We had a central production kitchen where food was prepared from raw ingredients, cooked, blast frozen and delivered to schools to be reheated in special ovens.

Quality and consistency of product was very good - nutritional value was constantly monitored and we had strict Government guidelines that we had to follow. And we did so willingly because the people who worked there understood the impact of food on kids' health and wellbeing. And that's bearing in mind that the budget was incredibly tight.

However, we only provided a maximum of 190 meals per year for each child - what the parents provided was a different matter. And as for what was often in lunchboxes - I despaired.

[Herdygirl]

'what the parents provided was a different matter. And as for what was often in lunchboxes - I despaired.'

i agree with you

Didn't mean to upset you Rosemary, or any one else that works hard to provide a good meal for children, but in England the rubbish that schools provide to feed to children is appalling. Parents are asked to pay over £2.00 per day for garbage that their children will not eat so they won't pay it and feed them other garbage that they will eat for less money. 

[northfifeduckling]

Kids and many of their parents should be forced to watch that. It should be on the school curriculum.

When Jamie Oliver showed how they are made onTV, I nearly threw up. I think it is so sad that kids, old people and the sick are getting the worst food in the "civilized" world. Should it not be the other way round? The quality of school meals varies from council to council I think, even there from school to school. they are really making an effort in Fife to provide healthier food but with the effect of it lacking flavour - so my kids tell me. But they are spoiled ! 

[darkbrowneggs]

I would almost rather eat my chicken's poo

Presumably with that you are eating someone elses chickens poos    Though perhaps they gut them first, or am I being over-optomistic   

I have to say I haven't eaten any "fast food"  since as a teenager in the 60's I had a couple of Wimpyburgers and decided it was like eating a fried beer-mat with slimy onions and never bothered again. 

Am I the only person on here to have never set food inside a MacDonald's 

[northfifeduckling]

to my shame I have - over 35 years ago, when it was for me and my mates the cool place to hang out, a novelty with real coke in paper cups!  why does writing that make me feel so old