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Chicken Nuggets: A Bitesized History

· 38 min · Episode 119

Episode Chicken Nuggets: A Bitesized History

0:00 38:05

The most famous chicken nugget of them all, the McDonald’s McNugget, turns 40 this year. So we’re asking, who invented the Chicken Nugget?

Enter food-scientist Robert Baker who came up with them twenty years before the McNugget was even a glimmer in Ronald McDonald's eye. Baker was a poultry alchemist who could turn a chicken into anything he wanted. And he did it all to try to save the chicken farmers he loved so much.

Editing and sound design by Stuart Beckwith, Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long

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