Chicken snacks: Kobi McLaren from Echuca IGA Express with a range of chicken products. This Saturday is World Chicken Nugget Day.
Ordering a pub meal for kids on a Saturday night is not usually a difficult assignment; “nuggets and chips, thanks” is generally the speedy reply to any inquiry.
Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content
Saturday, November 13, is World Chicken Nugget Day. And yes, it is a thing — and has been since its inception in 2016.
According to Uber Eats, last year Australians ordered more than 83 million chicken nuggets.
The nugget was invented by food scientist Robert C. Baker in a laboratory at Cornell University in New York in the early 1960s.
The current world record for the most chicken nuggets eaten in a minute was set last September, when a Washington DC man ate 315g of chicken nuggets in just 60 seconds. That’s a little bit over 15 nuggets in a minute, or one nugget every four seconds.
Leah Shutkever of the United Kingdom holds the record for most nuggets eaten in three minutes, a massive 775.1g.
Empire Kosher Poultry, a giant of the chicken production world, decided to go big to gain some attention for its products in 2013.
It made the largest ever chicken nugget, weighing as much as 720 regular nuggets.
It was deep fried in a 2273-litre fryer and measured 150cm long and about 60cm wide.
18°C