When information becomes too much information.

If you knew what went into your food these days, there is a high chance you wouldn't eat it. There are those who argue that food should be as nature intended it to be, au naturel and without chemical preservatives. The truth is, if that were the case, you probably wouldn't eat it, for the simple reason that it would be ugly.

You know those polished apples you see in the supermarkets? How your mom tells you to always pick the ones that aren't bruised, don't have pockmarks, discolorations or imperfections of any sort? Now think about it. How natural does that seem to you? That a perfectly ripe apple would just sit in an orchard somewhere and remain unmolested by any form of vermin.

Yes, it isn't natural at all. And now, you must be wondering just what they do to these fruits to make sure the vermin stay away. And now, this is the scariest part. You can actually find out, because of this huge resource called the Internet.

One fine lazy Sunday, I had the misfortune to wonder just what McNuggets were made of. I always assumed that they were you know, made of chicken meat, just the leftover bits that nobody wants, then it all gets ground up and made into nuggets. By bits no one wants, I always assumed like the ass of the chicken, some of its internal organs, or some shit like that.

Well, turns out I was half right about that. Turns out the reality was far grosser. Doing a simple search on Google with the search term "Chicken McNuggets", I found out that the processed meat that went into nuggets is called machine-processed chicken, which is what some greedy poultry businessman came up with to I kid you not, squeeze more chicken out of chicken than once thought humanly possible.

Basically, his premise was to invent machines that used pressure to separate every single morsel of chicken flesh still stuck to the bone, so he could maximise every scrap of meat. You aren't even that thorough when you eat chicken man, half the time you leave meat on the bones when you throw them away. Well, it turns out that the end product of this process is a pink goop, not unlike play-doh. And this is the same shit that goes into sausages or any other kind of processed meat product.

This is what McNuggets are made of. If you think it looks like strawberry ice cream, that's what I first thought too.

If you thought that was gross enough, you should read about what they do to it. Apparently, the product is so unpalatable and bacteria ridden, they use ammonia to sterilise it, before flavouring it with chicken broth. This is basically saying that you have to put the chicken back into it so that people know its chicken. And then they add some chemical that's butane-based (like lighter fuel) called TBHQ to it so it stays fresh longer.

To me, anything in the ingredients list that is abbreviated is a bad sign, because it is a sure sign that it's some chemical that isn't natural, and it's probably something they don't want you to know too much about either.

Ironically, knowing all this shit is still not going to stop me from eating it. If there is anything I've learnt about life, it is that if you worry too much about what you are putting into the system, you will never enjoy food again. To me, a life of not ever eating another McNugget is a fate worse than death, so well, who cares.

It may be toxic, it may be disgusting, but its so damned delicious. I'm loving it.