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Man Injects McNuggets With BBQ Sauce
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Jamie Feldmar
Published Jul 5, 2011
Modified Jul 5, 2011
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Don't try this at home: a food blogger had the brilliantly twisted idea to—for reasons unexplained—inject a pile of leftover Chicken McNuggets with Tangy Barbecue Sauce, using an (also unexplained) leftover syringe. Behold!
As blogger J. Kenji Lopez-Alt puts it, "Sometimes life presents you with opportunities that are simultaneously utterly ridiculous but simply too good to pass up on." Indeed it does! Bravo, Lopez-Alt, for bravely going...there. They tasted "exactly like you'd think," he reports, and predicts that the sauce-infused McNuggets will hit the market within the next six months. Which actually is entirely plausible, considering that McDonald's already made a syrup-infused pancake sandwich ("Whoever invented the syrup-infused pancake used in McDonald’s McGriddle breakfast sandwich should be added to Mt. Rushmore," noted one astute critic).
What's next? Syrup-infused Meat Munchkins? Oh, right. Nevermind.
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