We only source chicken, beef and pork from animals raised for high-quality meat from suppliers who meet or exceed our standards for animal care, quality and food safety. We believe the best food starts with the best ingredients, which come from Wendy’s suppliers who share in our vision. One taster described the Wendy’s nuggets as having the “ perfect crunch on the outside and a nice, juicy filling.” Visible pepper flecks and a fresher-tasting breading helped Wendy’s rank ahead of McDonald’s and Burger King in this taste test. It might be all white breast meat or not, but it has been ground and configured before being breaded. Nuggets, on the other hand, are made from processed chicken. Are nuggets the same as tenders?Ĭhicken tenders, also sometimes called chicken fingers, are always made from a single cut of chicken, often breast meat. In turn, the meat is ground up, formed into smaller shapes, breaded, and cooked. The Chicken Council identifies chicken nuggets as products containing split breasts of chicken and additional boneless meat from legs and thighs. What is the difference between chicken and chicken nuggets? Wendy's might try to take away our nuggets but we, the mighty and bored customer base, will not go silently into the night.BATTERED AND BREADED WITH: WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SPICES, LEAVENING (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE), DEXTROSE, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, GARLIC POWDER, CITRIC ACID, YEAST, SPICE EXTRACTIVES, AND XANTHAN GUM.

In times like these, it's up to the people to make sure that the institutions and menu items we hold dear stay alive. Who is the brand without it? More importantly, who are we? Spicy chicken nuggets were the reason so many of us fell in love with the chain in the first place. That doesn't, however, give Wendy's the moral right to play chicken with our chicken, and take them away from the people who love them the most. None of us can even remember the last time it was in an advertising campaign.įace it: Spicy chicken nuggets aren't cool anymore. They don't come in cool colors or with a hip dipping sauce. Spicy chicken nuggets might be popular with the base, but it's probably not bringing in 'clever' young millennials the way Taco Bell's 'Doritos Quesolupa' is. On the surface, it appears that the chain is responding to simple consumer demand. 20 pieces of chicken fillet lightly breaded for a crispy outer then fried to seal in the juicy goodness.

Regular or Spicy Chicken Nuggets: 0.99: Value Natural-Cut Fries: 0.99: Value Soft Drink: 0.99: Small Frosty: 0. Cheeseburger: 0.99: Crispy Chicken Sandwich: 0.99: 4 Pc. These nuggets are beautiful just the way the meat processing plant made them. Regular or Spicy Chicken Nuggets: 1.79: Chicken Go Wrap (Spicy or Grilled) 1.79: Caesar or Garden Side Salad: 1.49: Chili: 2.09: Small: Jr. So soft you barely have to use your teeth. So shapeless you forget it comes from a chicken. It is never in your economic best interest to purchase a 10pc. Why would the price increase as you bought MORE Hell, if you buy 2 6pc you get 12 nuggets for 2.98. They've got phenomenal carpeting at their Canarsie, Brooklyn location.īut it's the spicy chicken nugget we all love - just hot enough to have flavor, just bland enough to appeal to our pathetic American palette. Using my own local Wendys as an example: 10pc Nugget - 4.69 or 0.47 per nugget 6pc Nugget - 1.49 or 0.25 per nugget. Their burgers look like they might actually be burgers. Their broccoli and cheddar baked potato is to die for (literally, with that amount of petrified cheese). Sure, there are other items on the Wendy's menu that are popular and that bring in non-partisan fast food independents. Why would Wendy's needlessly repeat this trauma?

Never did any of us dream that Wendy's would do something so dangerous again, that we would one day lose the dollar menu item we loved the most.įast forward to 2017. For seven years, I'm proud to report, the nuggets stayed. We weren't sure what would happen, but we weren't about to do something desperate like go eat at Burger King without a fight.Īnd we won. We faxed letters, yelled at teenage local franchise managers, and trolled the company in their comments section on Facebook. So I, along with dozens of others nationwide, rose up in protest. In 2010, rumors spread that Wendy's would be removing their brand new item without consulting their loyal base (myself) first. Without it, the menu - and the community so many of us are proud to call 'family' - are nothing.įull disclosure: Before I started working at Mashable, I was very active in the grassroots movement to keep Wendy's spicy chicken nuggets on the menu. Surprise! Study finds Subway's chicken may contain less than 50% chicken.įor many, Wendy's spicy chicken nuggets are the one item that keeps the entire diverse, fractured chain together.

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