I remember when McDonald's introduced the Chicken McNugget. I was about 10 years old, and it opened up a whole new realm of fast food for my family. Since I was so ridiculously picky and wouldn't eat hamburgers (I was also dumb), we could only go to Roy Rogers, home of perfectly seasoned, crispy and greasy fried chicken. For my parents, the introduction of the McNugget meant that the family could eat someplace else. No longer tethered to the Double R Bar Burger, my dad could finally get a Big Mac. For me, it meant that I had another fried vehicle with which to scoop up chocolate shake.
Then McDonald's had to go and screw it all up. A few years ago, they changed the recipe to "all white meat" in an effort to make the tasty chicken tidbits more healthy. This is absurd for a number of reasons. One: dark meat tastes better. Period. Two: these are breaded and deep fried pieces of reconstituted chicken. Please don't tell me that the marginally lower amount of fat resulting from eliminating dark meat from the McNugget somehow makes up for the enormous vat of oil that bathes them in a golden fried glow. Three: see reason one.
Nevertheless, I find myself drawn to the drive through to get those not-as-delicious-as-they-used-to-be McNuggets, partly because there's a McDonald's about 2 minutes from my house, and partly because the French fries are and always will be the best. Now, before you get all up on your high horse and tell me that, in fact, there are better fries out there and that I need to go to thus n such French bistro to get REAL frites, I say just simmer down there. Although I'm from Virginia, I'm no yokel, and I have had real French French fries. And yes, in an absolute sense, they are better than McDonald's. However, until Le Pichet offers fried chicken and opens a drive through window so that I can get tasty fried morsels while maintaining sanity as my 6 month old sleeps in the backseat, Mickey D's wins, hands down.
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