The metropolitan area, which has just over a half million citizens, boasts 50 different companies offering varying numbers of fast food outlets. Mississippi leads the nation’s epidemic of obesity, and Jackson, Mississippi, the state capitol, is the epicenter. I like the way the research team, doctors at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, described the impetus for their study: That seems like a much more reasonable use for them than hiding them in chicken nuggets. But (a) they have a right to know when they’re eating it (b) one reason people eat chicken meat is because they think it’s lean-cutting it with chicken fat turns such eaters into suckers and (c) bone matter, really? Bones are great when they’re gently boiled into highly nutritious broths and stocks. Granted, people should eat more offal, as I’ve argued before. Now why would national fast-food chains be mixing bone and fat and whatnot into the chicken meat they grind into nuggets? I doubt anyone ever woke up and thought, “I’m craving some mechanically formed orbs of chicken parts, including meat, but also with plenty of fat, connective tissue, glands, and bone.” Offal is a lot cheaper than meat-the more you can work in, the more profit you can eke out of this popular menu item. The remainder consisted “primarily of fat, with some blood vessels and nerve present,” as well as epithelium, the stuff that glands are made of. The other sample had a whopping 50 percent muscle. The rest? “enerous quantities of fat and other tissue, including connective tissue and bone spicules.” Mmmm, chicken bones.
One of them contained just 40 percent muscle.
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(Abstract here I have access to the full paper but can’t upload it for copyright reasons.) They bought an order of chicken nuggets from two (unnamed) fast-food chains, plucked a nugget from each, broke them down, and analyzed them in a lab. What people are actually getting from chicken nuggets is a bit different, according to a new study by University of Mississippi medical researchers. What they get when they do so is a mouthful of muscle-popularly known as meat. The implicit marketing pitch goes something like this: “You like fried chicken, right? How about some bite-sized fried chicken chunks, without the messy bones?” When most people think of eating chicken, they think of, say, biting into a drumstick. Take the chicken nugget, that staple of fast-food outlets and school lunches. Marketing isn’t about giving people what they want it’s about convincing people to want what you’ve got-that is, what you can buy cheap, spiff up, and sell at a profit.
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(Mar.Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The art, however, might rope in the reader-the spread of Tex reclining, Odalisque -style, near the cowboys in their bedrolls is plumb wonderful. After Tex vanishes into the desert from whence he apparently came, the story limps to a close with the suggestion that the ``boys'' have simply been swapping tall tales around the camp fire.
And Pete's too young to bend a bean''), Birney's narrative is wordy and fails to answer obvious questions. Despite some nice touches, such as giving Tex a ``ten-thousand-gallon hat,'' and some chuckle-worthy chatter (``You're getting too old to beat a biscuit. to round up stampeding cattle and put out the blaze. Here, five cowboys meet up with big galoot Tex while riding the range, and after the fellas get over their surprise, the dino tells them ``about Texas before the people came.'' That night, as Tex and his new bunkies sleep, rustlers set fire to the prairie it's up to Tex et al. With his wispy lines and pebble-toned watercolors, New Yorker cartoonist O'Brien ( Six Creepy Sheep Six Sleepy Sheep ) adds a quirky charm to this disjointed tale of a toothy dinosaur cowpoke named Tyrannosaurus Tex.
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