Now with REAL Chicken

Madison, Andrew and I were discussing our trip to Waco tonight. They are heading back to Dallas for the weekend. It is Cliff’s birthday and they have some activities planned for Friday night so he asked that I bring them tonight.

As we were eating lunch today, we were discussing where to stop for dinner tonight – our Waco Tradition. I personally loathe most of the fast food giants – McDonalds, Burger King and the like and luckily, my kids too prefer the more upscale eateries such as Chick-Fil-A and Subway. Madison of course suggested Magic China as she has a fondness for fried rice, sweet and sour chicken and hot tea. Andrew, however, prefers more traditional food aka chicken nuggets. So Madison suggested that she and I east at Magic China and we stop on our way at Wendy’s and pick up Andrew’s favorite meal – the 10 piece chicken nugget and fry combo. To our amazement, he said he would no longer be eating at Wendy’s! Madison asked him why and he said he was really bothered by a recent commercial he saw in which Wendy’s was advertising their NEW chicken nuggets that are “NOW made with real chicken”. He wonders now, as do many, what the heck are actually in the aforementioned chicken nuggets?

Now, I have told my children they may ask me any question and I will give them the best answer I can but that even though I am older than dirt – there are a few things I do not know. This is one of those questions that I do not have a good answer for and in all honesty, I am scared to death to find out. It is kinda like asking what exactly is in a hot dog . . . Andrew and I do not eat hot dogs either (well once a year at the fair we share a corn dog, but that is deep fried and doesn’t count as a hot dog any longer). I mean seriously, I will go to Sonic and order a foot long chili cheese dog and ask them to hold the weenie . . . which always gets a chuckle or “What did you say?” and I tell them all I want is the bread, chili, cheese and onions. I refuse to ask the question “What is the chili made of?”