McDonald's McNuggets made with 'Silly Putty' chemical

[TheQueen]

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What kid doesn't love McDonald's Chicken McNuggets? The white meat chunks are tasty and perfect for little mouths and hands. And while most parents are aware that McNuggets aren't perfectly healthy, they probably don't know exactly what goes into making them.

CNN has revealed that the fast-food chain makes this popular menu item with the chemical preservative tBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a petroleum-based product. Mcnuggets also contain dimethylpolysiloxane, "an anti-foaming agent" also used in Silly Putty.

Across the Atlantic in Britain, McNuggets don't contain these chemicals and they're less fattening.

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[Doug11]

tertiary butt - what? :sick

anybody remember the "parts is parts" commercial? :lookaroun

[pinkrose]

:sick:sick:sick:sick:sick:sick:sick:sick

[TheQueen]

I'll have the number 3, hold the tertiary butylhydroquinone and dimethylpolysiloxane.

[Garyhoov]

I'm a little less concerned by the tertiary butylhydroquinone since it's a relatively simple organic molecule (though aromatic rings always make me nervous regarding carcinogenicity). The silicon on the anti-foaming agent makes me a little nervous, but cooking on silicone sheets is all the rage . . . and kids have been playing with (and ingesting) Silly-Putty since before I was a kid. I believe silicone breast implants are no longer available, but that was probably due to more dramatic problems from a burst implant than you would ever get by eating small amounts of silicon based anti-foaming agents.

Alcohol is a chemical that is pretty nasty and toxic to the human body and it can cause liver and kidney damage along with all kinds of other problems . . . yet people voluntarily drink that chemical fairly frequently . . . sometimes drinking so much that it temporarily incapacitates them.:lookaroun

[Doug11]

that whole "tertiary butylhydroquinone" description of the ingredients reminds me of the story of the kindergarten teacher who wanted to give her class a surprise, so she gave them a honey flavored life savers candy and asked them to guess the flavor. When no-one could name it, she gave them a hint: "It's something your mother might call your father," to which little Johnny yelled, "Spit em out, y'all - they're assholes!!!" :p

[pinkrose]

that whole "tertiary butylhydroquinone" description of the ingredients reminds me of the story of the kindergarten teacher who wanted to give her class a surprise, so she gave them a honey flavored life save
rs candy and asked them to guess the flavor. When no-one could name it, she gave them a hint: "It's something your mother might call your father," to which little Johnny yelled, "Spit em out, y'all - they're assholes!!!" :p

:rotfl

[Hooker]

that whole "tertiary butylhydroquinone" description of the ingredients reminds me of the story of the kindergarten teacher who wanted to give her class a surprise, so she gave them a honey flavored life savers candy and asked them to guess the flavor. When no-one could name it, she gave them a hint: "It's something your mother might call your father," to which little Johnny yelled, "Spit em out, y'all - they're assholes!!!" :p:rotfl:rotfl

[BeeJay]

See, I don't know what to make of this. I'm skeptical of an article that tries to get people worked up by rolling out a long chemical name. It reminds me of the site that explains how we're all being exposed to a dangerous chemical called dihydrogen monoxide and explains how large amounts of it can be very dangerous...then reveals that it's just a fancy science name for water.

[figmentmom]

When I first started teaching, I worked with a very attractive older woman. One of the other younger teachers was giving her a hard time at lunch one day about all the preservatives in the food she was eating, and she finally said, 'Honey, at my age, I need all the preservatives I can get!" :rotfl

[TheQueen]

that whole "tertiary butylhydroquinone" description of the ingredients reminds me of the story of the kindergarten teacher who wanted to give her class a surprise, so she gave them a honey flavored life savers candy and asked them to guess the flavor. When no-one could name it, she gave them a hint: "It's something your mother might call your father," to which little Johnny yelled, "Spit em out, y'all - they're assholes!!!" :p

That, sir, is FRACKING HI-LARIOUS!!

[Christy]

When I first started teaching, I worked with a very attractive older woman. One of the other younger teachers was giving her a hard time at lunch one day about all the preservatives in the food she was eating, and she finally said, 'Honey, at my age, I need all the preservatives I can get!" :rotfl

:bow :rotfl