date:Dec 29, 2012
made of it. (Mechanically separated chicken may have been an ingredient in early commercial nuggetsit extracts the maximum amount of meat from carcasses, and Baker used it in other productsbut McDonalds changed its recipe in 2003 to use white-meat pieces, and the rest of the industry followed. The National Chicken Council says the paste now appears only in hot dogs and lunch meat.)
Bakers family prefers to think of him as someone who did his job thoughtfully and with pride, and who could not h