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McDonald's Chicken Nuggets are Pink Slime

The video shocked the world—what in the heck was this cotton candy-colored sludge and what was it doing in our chicken nuggets?! As it turns out, though, McDonald's has been serving white meat chicken nuggets for quite some time, and denies the use of so-called "pink slime." Instead, they have a process that grinds up chicken breast, chicken skin, and other ingredients and shapes them into their iconic nuggets. 

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