Hi I'm Amanda, and we're here at Cargill, London where we make all the chicken products
for McDonald's Canada.
Katie from Victoria asks,"Do you actually put the whole chicken in and mix it to make
chicken mcnuggets?
That's what they say at school."
Well Katie, I've been a deboning specialist here for nine years, and I can tell you, we
do not grind up whole chickens.
I'm gonna debone a chicken, by hand, so you can see, what parts we use and what parts
we don't.
We make a cut down the back so we're able to remove the skin.
We remove the drumsticks.
We make a cut so we can remove the wing.
Cut along the wishbone, hold that down.
Remove the wing.
Then we remove the breast and the skin from the chicken.
This normally goes on a table down to a skinner machine which will remove the skin, so you're
left with a nice breast.
Then we break the legs.
We can get into the bone easier.
A couple cuts to remove the thigh bone.
Check it again, make sure there's no bones.
Thighs get removed.
And then down the keel bone, to separate the tendon.
So, these are the things that we don't use in our products, and these are the things
that we do.
We've got white meat, breast and tenders used for things like nuggets or grilled.
And then we've got our dark meat on our thighs, a little bit of skin is used in some of our
products.
Thanks for your question, and I hope we've answered it.