To offer an adult chicken nuggets for their tea?

[SomedayMyPrinceWillCome]

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?

I would eat it to be polite but I would find it a very odd meal choice

I have been vegetarian for 25 years but now have a craving for McD chicken nuggets. Thanks OP.

No, no, NO way to the chicken nuggets for guests. Equally I do LOVE a chicken nugget myself and always put a couple extra on for mummy obvs.....

My friend and I go for Dim Sum occasionally and actively choose some more unusual dishes.
Chicken feet being one of them, also pig's ears and beef belly.
I saved the skin from a slow cooked chicken and deep fried it to garnish a meal and I currently have two packages of pork skin and a whole ox tongue in my freezer.
I still love cheap nuggets.

They wouldn't get wasted. They would go into animal feed.

I am an animal. Nuggets are tasty.

I think she came on light the blue touch paper and retire, as she's not been back since starting the thread six hours ago.

I think she saw the massed ranks of food snobs out for blood and ran for the hills.

I'm still here!!
Thank you everyone for your replies, it's given me food for though (see what I did there...!)
I have spoken to DS & he is happy to have something else for tea tomorrow so I think friend will be spared chicken nuggets

I'm rather liking lego's fake designer goujons

You haven't got enough replies from 60+ posters yet, so here's mine. I think: balls to "what processed crap is this?" and hello to "how nice of Someday to include me in her family tea".

FWIW, I cook my own food and only use processed stuff after careful label-reading and intricate food-value-per-pound-money calculations. Can't stand most mass-market takeaways, but love the occasional KFC (nuggets are close enough!)

If someone offered a McDonald's as a treat, it'd still smell like dog food to me but I'd appreciate it. When you're invited to eat at someone's house it's for the companionship - you go to a restaurant for the culinary quality :)

Is she a food snob? Ignore me if so - and I'd also recommend un-inviting her! But if she is, and you still want her at your table, how about offering her nuggets or an omelette? Very little extra work or expense, and perfectly natural with chips.

Cross-posted :) What's on the menu, then?

YOU'VE MADE DOD!!!!!!!

Now you're morally obliged to tell us what she'd having for tea!

OMG - chicken nuggets??? Utterly utterly gross. How could anyone think that they are a treat? Bleurgh....

I'll see what bursts of culinary inspiration hit me tomorrow (I'll see what Sainsbury's have in)
I will report back...

Chicken nuggets. If you enjoy eating eyeballs and innards and chicken feet and shite then you might enjoy them. It's dog food.

Lidl do amazing chicken gougons in their chilled section. Lovely and peppery.

My DM would eat it but find it odd, my MIL would be gracious enough to eat it, enjoy it and tell you so. I am a vegetarian so would just scoff the veg....
Enjoy.

In what world are chicken nuggets dog food? What is so wrong with them?
Fair enough they're not haute cuisine, but here's Sainsbury's Chicken Nuggets ingredients list...

Ingredients

Dutch or British Chicken (61%), Breadcrumbs (Fortified British Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Yeast, Cider Vinegar, Salt, Sugar), Fortified British Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Pea Starch, Wheat Gluten, Salt, Yeast Extract, Sugar, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Sunflower Oil, White Pepper, Sage, Yeast.

Chicken nuggets. If you enjoy eating eyeballs and innards and chicken feet and shite then you might enjoy them. It's dog food.

In nugget form, I do like feet, innards and eyeballs. Woof woof

Today I had chicken nuggets with ds it was a treat as ive been on a strict diet! Most people wouldn't find it a treat though maybe kievs instead. To be honest I'd be happy with them as I'd just be glad to get fed.

I believe nuggets are made of minced-up chickens feet and ears, with added fat

chickens don't have ears ydick 😂

Msrisotto - it tells you that they are made from 61% chicken but it doesn't tell you what parts of the chicken. They are normally made from MRM (mechanically removed meat) so normally skin, feet, tendons, ears, nostrils etc - all the things that they can't sell as "normal" meat products. Also the bits that they have scraped up off the abattoir floor. (Studies have also shown that MRM often includes a percentage of animal faeces). Anyone who eats this muck or feeds it to their children needs to educate themselves.

As I said, I did order chicken feet, and enjoyed them, but that's perhaps because I'm open to all food and would order it from a menu.
All of you who are horrified, do you insist on all breast meat?
Or the ethical farm shoppers, where do you think the bits you don't eat go?

How many of you eat offal?

I went to a posh persons house for dinner once. They were vegetarian and I was expecting a culinary experience as I was not.

They gave me beans on toast. That told me!

Forgive me if I'm wrong Naice I may well be but I was under the impression that MRM isn't allowed to be labelled as meat in ingredients lists and must show separately, not contributing to the meat percentage in a product?

You mean chicken goujons?

Yep to everyone ... though it's a bit off topic now.

1. Chickens don't have ears.
2. It's a hell of a lot more ethical to eat all the animal.
3. It's usual, when eating all the animal, to mince it up ...
4. ... unless you're somewhere like China, where they aren't prissy.
5. MRM and that pastey goo are different things under European law ...
6. ... you are all quoting from Facebook, which [a] doesn't know chickens don't have ears, and [b] is about shamefully lax American food laws.
7. All food has legally allowable levels of faeces, insect parts and so on. Because nature!