Accidental Fun Nuggets

As a kid growing up, I remember microwaving frozen chicken nuggets as a meal or snack. It was a thing that I really liked, and it always reminds me of my childhood.

Recently, I added some of these frozen chicken nuggets to my grocery delivery order. With us not really leaving the house very much, comfort food has been a big thing over the last year. And I would say that for me, these nuggets are very much in that category.

They’re also in the “not super healthy processed food” category, to boot.

We do our ordering through Instacart, and I got a notification that what I picked wasn’t available. And would I be ok with a substitute. At a glance, the substitution was really similar and I thought it was just that the breading was different. When the groceries arrived… I saw this.

Fun nuggets. Packaging clearly designed for kids. I was immediately reminded of the Jammie Oliver cooking segment where he showed a group of children how nuggets are made (basically blending together a ton of things), and formed a kind of slime into a rough nugget shape.

He did this in a dramatic fashion, fully expecting the children to be grossed out by the process. And to be grossed out by seeing what actually went into a “nugget.”

But instead, when he asked if any of the kids wanted a nugget… he was flabbergasted by the fact that nearly all the kids said that yes, they still wanted those nuggets. Despite what they had just seen.

And so here I am, reader. A grown adult, heating up a plate of fun nuggets. Which are clearly designed to appeal to children. And shaped so as to gloss over the fact that these things are really just not healthy at all for you to eat.

And here I am, ignoring these clear warning signs. Ignoring the playfully fun dinosaur shapes. Choosing comfort over everything else, during a global pandemic.

Fun, fun.

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