The Pinnacle of Human Achievement

[captain_slinky]

It has been my belief for quite a while now that the absolute pinnacle of human ingenuity and achievement is The Chicken McNugget.

No, seriously... think about it!

We haver taken the bits and pieces of the chicken - the bits that even The Native American Indians, who are renowned for using every single part of the Buffalo, the bits and pieces of the chicken that make THOSE FOLKS say "Whoa, yeah... those bits? We can throw those away..." - We took that bucket of slop, ground it up, added some filler and some chemicals to it, dipped it in tempura batter, deep-fried it and VIOLA! EDIBLE FOOD! And not just *edible*, but SO EDIBLE that there are laws in place to protect you from eating them! Lawsuits against the restaurants that serve them because they made them so delicious that the people had no choice but to get morbidly obese off of them!

Imagine that... from something formerly deemed as unusable, to something so dangerous that the authorities need to get involved. Can you think of anything esle the comes even CLOSE to that?

Comments

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

How about beer? You combine water and grain, and in a little while you have beer. For several thousand years beer was served to people of all ages. It was part of everyday living.

In the U.S., in order to drink beer with an alcohol content, you have to be at least 21.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Beer is close, but all the other ingredients have other uses; the chicken McNugget is literally GARBAGE that has been made edible through scientific know-how and chemical manipulation. Incredible!