Arby's 100% natural chicken

[germangel 0]

Arby's is very proud in it's new commercials saying their chicken is now made with 100% natural chicken.

What in the world was it before???

Any suggestions??

[ChristinaM 0]

To be honest, you probably don't want to know.

If you're interested in the practices and composition of fast food, I recommend "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser. VERY informative, and slightly disturbing at the same time. I can't recommend it strongly enough, in fact!

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

In their press release, Arby's uses the following line to prove its chicken is more natural than its competitors: "Other leading fast food companies offer chicken breast sandwiches with up to 29.3 percent of solutions made of various elements including water, seasoning (salt, spices and spice extract), oil, modified food starch, sodium phosphates." That list of ingredients is lifted exactly from McDonald's ingredients listing for their chicken breast fillet.

But Arby's never explicitly states that their chicken is completely free of these other ingredients other than describing it as "100% all-natural chicken." I wasn't convinced so I referred to Arby's own ingredients listing and found this: "Arby's Natural Chicken Tenders: Seasoned with salt, hydrolyzed corn and soy protein, flavor contains less than 2% (autolyzed yeast extract, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, enzyme modified egg yolk, thiamine hydrochloride)."

http://www.foodfacts.info/blog/

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

To be honest, you probably don't want to know.

I agree. There are some questions that are better left unasked...

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

To be honest, you probably don't want to know.

If you're interested in the practices and composition of fast food, I recommend "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser. VERY informative, and slightly disturbing at the same time. I can't recommend it strongly enough, in fact!

He just wrote a childrens book about fast food.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/061871031...603947?n=283155

[Not Available 0]

The first time I saw that commercial I was thinking, "Um, would this be good for business 'hey guys, we were serving you kangaroo meat before, but now we are serving you REAL CHICKEN!" I'm kinda scared to eat there now...

[flipside 0]

I had their chicken cordon bleu sammich yesterday. It was pretty tasty.

[CarolineM 0]

don't most places used processed chicken where it's chicken PARTS blended together to make chicken product?

[nayalamb 0]

erm, squirrel meat?????

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I had their chicken cordon bleu sammich yesterday. It was pretty tasty.

Tasty? Sure. Chicken? Maybe.

[Kajikit 65]

if Arbys is using real chicken breast cut into pieces instead of reprocessed chicken parts bound together with crud, it's a huge step forward... all i'd have to do to tell would be to buy one and taste it, but i'll pass on the experiment!

[Miranda&James 8]

if Arbys is using real chicken breast cut into pieces instead of reprocessed chicken parts bound together with crud, it's a huge step forward... all i'd have to do to tell would be to buy one and taste it, but i'll pass on the experiment!

I agree, their chicken has always been pretty good but I cannot eat McDonald's chicken If my chicken falls apart into little chunks and doesn't pull apart like "real" meat, I feel like being sick! I can't STAND fake chicken, it freaks me out.

[ChristinaM 0]

Don't think of it so much as "fake" - it's all chicken. It may be chicken's feet, wings, eyes and neck, along with whatever a machine can recover off of the bones, but it's all chicken baby!

(It's really better not to think about it. Really.)

[kc456 0]

One word: AVOID.

[ktun 0]

"Ma always said, 'MEAT IS MEAT!' "

Quoted from the movie "Motel Hell"

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