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That's not really a high bar, though; I've always thought that Chicken McNuggets taste like something you'd get out of a Star Trek-style food replicator program

That's not really a high bar, though; I've always thought that Chicken McNuggets taste like something you'd get out of a Star Trek-style food replicator programmed by an AI who has a lot of data on chicken meat but has never actually tasted chicken. I still like them, don't get me wrong. Sometimes I want to eat a machine's dream of chicken. But they're somehow already pretty far from actual chicken, even though that's what they're mostly made of.

martin_a 3y ago
Of course it's not a high bar, but I think that's the point. People eat lots of food for the taste, not for the highest quality of ingredients. So, if we'd just call them "nuggets" from the beginning on and would have given no implication of the material they are/have been made of, nobody would say anything right now. Only when you start replacing the little low-quality chicken meat with something that was grown with less ecological impact, people go wild, although the final product tastes the same.