Why I Try Not to Eat Chicken Nuggets
Earlier this week, I went to McDonald’s with my girlfriend, her brother and his three-year-old son. We got our food and took back it to the car, my nephew and I eating in the backseat. Periodically, he would hand his dad things from the Happy Meal asking him to open the toy, the nugget box and when they checked the bags, I heard them say up front, “aww they forgot the sauce.” Apparently my nephew didn’t hear it and said, “Dad, can you give me the sauce? …Dad, sauce?” *sigh* this was it, I was going to have to break the news to him. “They forgot the sauce, sweetie.” I said. A quick look of pain came across his face, as if I’d just told him that Superman died. He took it well though; no further protests or even an “aww, man!” He just bit into his sauceless nugget.
Today I went to run some errands on my lunch break and stopped at McDonald’s on the way back to the office. I ordered a 10-piece and the woman specifically asked me what type of sauce I wanted. I got to the car and could smell the nuggets, the flavors of processed chicken and sweet & sour sauce mingling on my tongue already. Yet I get back to work, open the bag and…I’m sure you know. Superman had died. I work nowhere near McDonald’s and even if I did, my lunch break was over. I didn’t even think to ask for sauce since the woman who took my order had already assured me that my sauce of choice would be in the bag. So I sucked it up and took a page from my nephew’s book. I didn’t complain and bit into the nugget since there was no point in lunch being ruined. But the reason my nephew and I got so upset when the sauce wasn’t there: It’s because nuggets without sauce suck.
With sauce, it transforms the nugget into fatty fried goodness dripping with flavor! Without it, it’s just fatty fried meat(?) lumps. For 20 years McDonald’s has served nuggets and for 20 years I’ve had to eat them without sauce almost more times than I’ve eaten them with. I think with the new flavors that they have (don’t let anyone tell you that the new Sweet Chili sauce is delicious. They’re lying.) there mus
