date:Dec 29, 2012
calling on frozen-hamburger supplier Keystone Foods to mechanize chicken-chopping and fish-stick popularizer Gortons to perfect a coating that would cling.
McNuggets debuted without advance warning in 15 Knoxville, Tenn., McDonalds restaurants in March 1980 and blasted through the stores sales records. Word of the new product spread so quickly among franchisees that Keystone built a processing plant in 100 days to keep up with the expected demand. When they rolled out nationwide in 1981,