Former PE worker. Orange chicken is whole chicken breast and chicken nuggets is like a sculpted chicken pureé
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Physical Education?
Not sure of this is a real question but in case it is, Panda Express
It's real, I don't go around studying and memorizing abbreviations of fast food places.
Ahhk damn... I only take culinary information from Physical Education teachers.
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Aren't a lot of the innards aside from meat also ground up in said puree?
Glad they're using the whole chicken
75% more chicken per chicken.
Not just the innards, but the outtards, too. They grind those baby chickens up whole
Those chicks might end up in cat food, but it wouldn't be allowed in US nuggets.
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Outtards lol
these idiots who spend time outside
Yummy
Yeah, so? Organ meat is rich in nutrients, most often B vitamins, Iron, and vitamin A.
Interesting. I thought most Chinese places use cubed chicken thighs.
Sorry, what? Err, yes, of course it is... i mean, its not quite chicken nuggets in the fast food sense, its cut pieces of chicken breast fried in batter and tossed in sauce as opposed to mashed up and reformed chicken anythings battered and tossed in sauce so its a little higer quality.
Forgive me, but it's like saying a snickers is just a mars bar but with nuts in.
Or fries are just potato strips cooked in oil.
But yeah.
Most things are things
If you work in a decent restaurant, the sweet and sour chicken is the light meat. We used dark meat for General Tso's, Orange Chicken, and Sesame Chicken. It tastes better.
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Do you realise you can make chicken nuggets out of actual chicken?
Think of them as mini schnitzel chunks, they are amazing.
They were a staple of our household growing up, and it’s what I think of when someone says “chicken nuggets”
100%, but the context was around overly processed chicken made of "beaks and arseholes" as my mum used to say.
Also, generally speaking, chicken nuggets are low quality reformed chicken. I appreciate that anecdotally your experience is different. I wish i had grown up eating those nuggets as they sound excellent. However, for the majority, I'm certain that it's the shit nuggets most people were brought up on.
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Chicken nuggets are usually made by making ground chicken but orange chicken is a solid chicken breast cut into chunks. The texture is totally different and texture plays a huge part in taste. Not that it would be bad if it was chicken nuggets. I'm actually surprised that you can't just get orange or lemon sauce at McDonald's because those would be bomb as fuck.
Yeah, and it's awesome! Same with Lemon Chicken. I want to experiment with a peach sauce.
Orange chicken is made from orange and chicken? Big if true
I have an orange. I have a chicken. Ungh. Orange chicken.
Thanks for unlocking that memory, gofsckyourself
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Wendy's tested this concept I guess about a decade ago. The commercial ran check out Wendy's new Asian creations. I looked at the wife we both said f*** yeah and headed right over.
In the promo material in store it looked like hand breaded pieces of chicken lightly covered in a thick sauce. It was like general tso's and orange chicken had a baby. And then we ordered and it was six of their tiny little crappy frozen chicken nuggets barely tossed in a little bit of a nugget sauce. I never went back to Wendy's.
If you really want to blow your mind, look up the ad campaign when they introduced Chicken Nuggets in the 1980s. It was very much inspired by tempura fried chicken, so nuggets are literally the fast food version of the kind of chicken underneath the orange chicken sauce.
Unless you go to basically a non franchise, non chain, actual asian/chinese restaurant/take out place... yeah basically if you dont do that, you are getting pretty much reconstituted chicken puree doused in... not really even real orange chicken sauce.
As with much modern food in America... its got waaaay more sugar and is missing other vital parts of the original way of making it.
Real orange chicken from a real chinese place tastes significantly different, and varies from place to place if they actually make the sauce on site. Usually a different medley of spices and oils... way more flavorful than extremely sweet orangeness.
Orange chicken is not a traditional food in China. It was invented in the USA at chinese take out restaurants using locally available ingredients.
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It's pretty easy to make at home too. I make vegan orange chicken often.
Edit: the downvotes you get the minute you mention the "v-word" are hilarious. Some of you people are so touchy about a stranger on the internet just having a nice time and eating whatever food he wants to, god damn.
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I mean, gong-bao chicken is also just diced chicken tossed in sauce, and san-bei chicken is, too. Beef Wellington is just half-ass cooked beef in pie crust.
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