To offer an adult chicken nuggets for their tea?

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DS & I have chicken nuggets (with potatoes & veg) for tea every Friday as an end of the week treat.
This week we will have a family friend with us for our evening meal, she is a lovely lady who is in her mid-60s (I think that maybe relevant).
So...WIBU to offer her chicken nuggets for tea? Should I get something more grown up?

"Do you actually understand what goes in them and how the "meat" is produced?"

Chunks of chicken breast covered in breadcrumbs?

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(just picked those ones because they came up first, other chicken nuggets are available, but I couldn't find any that weren't 100% chicken breast as the meat part)

Do you realise that "pink slime" is pretty much a myth?

www.snopes.com/food/prepare/msm.asp

I'd be disappointed if I was her. But I'd just assume that you find cooking really difficult or stressful and I'd be grateful that you still invited me over.

How about this little change?

Same potatoes and veg
Get a pack of 6 chicken thighs, skin on, bone in.
Chuck them in a roasting pan, drizzle with a little oil, sprinkle with salt.
Put in hot oven for half an hour.

Just as easy as nuggets and much nicer.

To me they are acceptable to offer to a child, not an adult guest. I'd make something different for you and her such as chicken breasts in sauce to go with the potatoes and veg.

I would not see them as a 'treat'.

I'd never offer that to an adult, particularly not if it was a friend who'd I'd invited for dinner. I would eat them politely if I were the friend, but I'd be a bit inside that you hadn't bothered to go to the effort of making/buying adult food.

It would be fine. Not particularly a treat, but nothing wrong with it either.

Chicken nuggets? Yes please!

(I'm 60)

I wouldn't even eat chicken nuggets when I was a teenager. I would eat it and not say anything, but I would find an excuse never to eat at yours again.

I would be very happy to eat whatever you're having and I would be very pleased that you hadn't gone to any trouble and just accepted me as part of your family tea. It is lovely that you have invited her and lovely that you care enough to check that she would be happy.

DH and I would be delighted by that, we're both approx 40.
Last night we had turkey dinosaurs and smiley fries for dinner as we needed a cheerful meal...

How are chicken nuggets not adult food? Chicken = fine for adults. Breadcrumbs = fine for adults. Only different from chicken goujons in size.

I agree that it's lovely for you to invite her, but I'd consider a menu shake-up.

I'd just be happy to be served a meal I hadn't had to cook myself, and with a small child in the house it's a perfectly understandable choice. I go to restaurants for fine dining, I go to friends' houses for company and conversation.

How are chicken nuggets not adult food? Chicken = fine for adults. Breadcrumbs = fine for adults. Only different from chicken goujons in size.

Chicken nuggets are processed/frozen food. I like processed/frozen food as much as the next person, but I wouldn't serve them if I had a guest.

I don't understand why some people have to make a difference between adult and children food, unless of course you consider portion size, or adding alcohol to your recipes.

If something is not good enough for a guest, then surely it's not good enough for a child? If you are happy with chicken nuggets, then what's the problem.

I'm in my 50s. I've never eaten a chicken nugget. I think it's good to try news things so I'd be quite please to be offered them - especially as someone else would be doing the hated cooking.

I assume friend is visiting because they enjoy your and DS's company?

Personally as a 58 year old, I would enjoy sharing and being part of a family's kid friendly treat meal. In the 70s we were brought up on this sort of processed food and would also enjoy the retro vibe. How about Angel Delight for pud?

That being said I now find processed meat products a bit gross and I'm a bit concerned about where their content comes from. But for 1 night only would not be too concerned, maybe warn the visitor about your Friday night special 'treat'.

Need to know if home cooked or frozen really. Home made ones = fine, although may be just as easy to create the adult ones a bigger size or stuff a breast each to make a nice Kiev instead. If they are frozen then probably quite grim, even the breast meat ones taste funny to me, and if it's a treat it should be chips or potato shapes not potatoes and veg!

I'd be totally fine with that (as a guest).

Maybe just ask her?

"Friday night is normally "chicken nugget night" for us, do you want to join in or I can do some more grown up catering once DS is in bed"

When I've got guests over for dinner i often let then know what it'll be so they know what wine to bring can opt out of something they aren't keen on.

Processed food like this is gross. Chicken pieces in breadcrumb are fine. But chicken nuggets really is crap food.

How are chicken nuggets a 'treat" though?

I cook them occasionally, and the treat element for me is that it's easy no-effort cooking.

But they are not that nice to eat, really. they are ok I guess, but not a treat.

It's toddler food really. Would not offer it to a grown up.

If someone came for dinner I'd make a bit more effort

I've done the same but with fish fingers. The were absolutely hoovered up by the grown ups! If you don't have young kids at home you don't tend to indulge in the guilty pleasures of "beige kid food" and once in a while it can be lovely.

I've done the same but with fish fingers. The were absolutely hoovered up by the grown ups! If you don't have young kids at home you don't tend to indulge in the guilty pleasures of "beige kid food" and once in a while it can be lovely.

I absolutely adore fish fingers and all that crap but there is no way I'd serve them to an adult guest. A lot of them would find this a wholly unsuitable.

I'm kind of amazed you're actually asking, OP, and also wondering if this is a wind-up.

Ew, no.
Make a proper meal even if just soup bread and cheeseboard followed by pudding.
Or get a takeaway.

I do not distinguish between "proper" and "kiddie" food. One meal for all. Sometimes that means the kids eat liver and sometimes the grown ups eat fish fingers. It's not like you're suggesting they eat baby rice with formula milk. Chicken nuggets won't earn you waitrosy middle class points, but they are just food.