So today I learned chicken nuggets come in 4 basic shapes

likethesea · 1 month

I should have noticed this growing up... I always liked the "boot" or "L" shaped nug because I could always get the best sweet and sour scoop/dip with it

Fluffy_T-Rex · 1 month

I worked a few years at McDonalds to pay off some debt and I was shocked to find out how few people knew this.

Fun story: At one point the store I was working in had this dinosaur-campaign. Dinosaur toys in the happy meals, funny dinasaur balloons, dinosaur flags (wtf) and that sort of shit. We also got a fuckton of dinosaur shaped nuggets. 3 different shapes if I remember correctly. I think they idea was to make the nuggets fun and novel to increase sales. The exact opposite happened. After the first two weeks our sales of nuggets had dropped by over 80%. People were disgusted to find out that it was possible to shape the chicken in any damn way wanted. The campaign went on for a few more weeks but the boss decided against continuing with the dino-nuggets for the remainder of the time :)

JimothyBilliam · 1 month

If you arrange them the right way, they spell out

"LOVE"

zipKill_FRAG · 1 month

TIL that posts that belong on /r/todayilearned can be passed off as WTF worthy.

YouHaveShitTaste · 1 month

4 year old me says "no fucking shit".

Soapz · 1 month

This is not WTF.

skellied · 1 month

Leg, thigh, wing, and breast. Back in the day, it used to actually be that the legs/thighs were dark meat and the breasts were white. Now its all "white" chicken foam!

iwokeupwithgills · 1 month

Boot, baloon, circle, pacman ghost!

kevinnoir · 1 month

I feel like in Canada we either only have 2 shapes OR I have been Nug oblivious my entire life either way.. interesting turn of events!

MolsonIce · 1 month

You noticed that this late in the game? Clearly not a McPro.

Mak8907 · 1 month

I always liked the Boot shaped ones when i was a kid.

WizardlySquid · 1 month

This should have been posted in /r/mildlyinteresting.

FUCKING_EVERYTHING · 1 month

/r/mildlyinteresting

misterfitch · 1 month

not wtf, please leave.

abeck3 · 1 month

you forgot dinosaur shaped from Burger King

N2tZ · 1 month

This is a picture of 4 chicken nuggets.

Care to explain to me why you posted this to /r/wtf again?

vickysawyer · 1 month

HOW THE HELL DID YOU NOT NOTICE!?

[deleted] · 1 month

Ahh yes, the circle, arrow head, pacman ghost, and foot.

IEatTheRedOnesLast · 1 month

I've noticed this before, but tried not to think much of it. It's not really something I want to dwell on while eating nuggets...

spinozasrobot · 1 month

If you rotate the first one 180 degrees through the y-axis, you get YOLO

The_Docter_Who · 1 month

....eclecktickellie(poster) is a slow learner than...

toddkddot · 1 month

"Save the neck for me, Clark."

Patrosz · 1 month

Everyone knows the boot is best for maximum sauce to mouth transportation.

Vicaarious · 1 month

/r/mildlyinteresting
Not wtf.

Madiyasha · 1 month

Always dip the round ones first 'cause when you start running out of sauce they only barely tough the bottom. Then move onto the boot/square ones, cause those scoop really well.

skewp · 1 month

I learned that when I was 6.

Coolbreezy · 1 month

Did you just arrive by spacecraft?

Finnishalzheimerskid · 1 month

This is not even remotely WTF.

stoicambience · 1 month

I use to mess with McDonald's drive-thru people when it came to chicken nuggets. "Hi! Can I get a 6 piece chicken nugget? Can you make it 4 boots, 2 eggs, no boots."

Azzra3l · 1 month

Look reddit it says YOLO!!!!!!

OfficialWhistle · 1 month

Yup. I realized this when I was 8.

lusciouslou · 1 month

I can't be the only one who thought it read "Love"

2moreminutes · 1 month

According to McDonald's they have the ball, bow-tie, bell and boot.

Bazzinho · 1 month

Pretty sure that first one is Ireland backwards.

KalvinAlmeda · 1 month

If thats suppose to spell yolo, I will kick people in the face.

SANAFABICH · 1 month

He instragrammed a picture of chicken nuggets. Now THAT'S WTF.

mrwolf214 · 1 month

I think we can all agree that the boot tastes the best.

danbronson · 1 month

Swap the second and last ones and it spells LOVE

unrealious · 1 month

Stocking, tombstone, toilet/spaceship and cookie.

TheOtherTimeLord · 1 month

How the hell is this in WTF?

supertek · 1 month

I worked at McDonald's over a decade ago and noticed this as well. The shapes haven't changed. It almost looks like they spell L-O-V-E

sadee · 1 month

I hate to tell you this, but McDonald's nuggets are made out of tiny amounts of chicken & chicken fat (for flavor) mixed with lots of flour and deep fried. They come in a few shapes because they begin life as a liquid and are shaped by a mold.

Daamus · 1 month

I see the word 'Love" anyone else?

resident16 · 1 month

Anybody remember Burger King's nugs? The lightning bolt and crown shaped ones?

jhandersson · 1 month

Change the places between nugget no. one and three and bam! "YOLO"

WeldingMouse · 1 month

They come from what is essentially a chicken force-meat (Think spam) so they only have a certain number of punches they can use to get the meat shaped-cores in each nugget.

Think cookie-cutter, only with more poultry.

igotocollege · 1 month

Wait this is legit? my whole youth, raped.

Cynical_Lamp · 1 month

As a person who rarely eats chicken nuggets or at McDonald's as a whole. I did not know this. Thank you.

castsnoshadows · 1 month

im just curious, but how long did it take you to notice that? i mean i noticed that when i was about 8. or do you just not pay so much attention to the food goin in your mouth?

Nacmacfeisty · 1 month

I noticed the unnatural weirdness of this about 30 years ago when I had my first nugget. I also noticed what looked like a vein packed in with the other reconstituted meat substance. Haven't eaten a nugget since.

myweekhardy · 1 month

Yeah, the boot, the grave stone, the oval chicken paste and the circle chicken paste.

Offbutton9939 · 1 month

spells LOVE

ThatSpuds · 1 month

Everyone tells me that I shouldn't love Chicken McNuggets... but they are the best of all maybe chicken. And often better than certainly chicken.

EPluribusUnumIdiota · 1 month

I once got the elusive fifth shape, one that looks like shape #3, but ends with a large ball of spongy mess. Unfortunately, I bit into this disgusting mess before I realized its deformity. I don't know what was in there, not breading, looked like chicken guts.

Skeetwad · 1 month

In the Barajas Airport in Madrid Spain, the Mc Donalds there has the huge plates that they squeeze the chicken stuff through like play dough. You can see the shapes in their purest form!

LickItAndSpreddit · 1 month

Only today? How long have you been eating Mcnuggets?

They are known as (l to r): boot, tombstone, arrowhead and wheel.

JensZen · 1 month

Who the Hell still eats those things? Gross.

IsaacBau · 1 month

Am I the only one who sees them spelling "love"?

Bass2Mouth · 1 month

This is not WTF. This is common fucking knowledge for any person over the age of 6.

Traii · 1 month

They are actually cut to fit those shapes.

Cyb3rRh1n0 · 1 month

the four shapes are actually officially named boot, bell, bow-tie, and ball (as pictured in the pic, left to right)

Stalejokesbakedfresh · 1 month

TIL chicken nuggets are shaped pieces of meat goo covered in breading.

WTF is up with that shit?

completelytrustworth · 1 month

This is probably gonna get buried.

I used to work at one of the factories/production facilities that made these exact nuggets. You don't even know the worst of it. The mechanically separated chicken that makes up these nuggets is disgusting. I've opened up boxes where the meat is literally green and grey, and reeking like shit. Even if some gets dropped on the chemically cleaned floor we just scoop it back up and throw it all in the mixer, where it gets mixed with binders and fillers.

It all gets cookie cuttered, battered, fried, and only bits with little pustules (I assume of unground meat, but never asked) gets taken off the line to be ground up later.

distractthepaladin · 1 month

Wow, I've never taken the time to sort them like that. Just think, there must be 4 nugget molds that squish out all the world's nugget supply. It just came to me that the WMDs we were looking for were probably the stolen plans for those molds. Because if they ever fell into the hands of the enemy, no nugget eating patriot would be safe.

WTF

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