In a bad luck shot for fans of frozen cooked cooked meat nubbins, the USDA announced Sunday it is recalling around 60,000 pounds of chicken breast nuggets due to the possible presence of “flexible rubber material.”
As reported by USA Today, the nuggets were made by Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation and are sold as four pound bags labeled “Pilgrim Fully Cooked Chicken Breast Nuggets” with a “batch code of 0127 and establishment number ‘P-20728′” printed in the packaging. It’s worth noting that this is not a national recall, and the potentially contaminated nuggets have only been distributed to four states: Arizona, Idaho, Oregon, and Texas.
With retreats like this, it can be difficult to get an idea of how wide the impact is. After all, the National Chicken Council It says that in 2019 the United States produced 9.2 billion chickens for fattening, with a collective weight of 58.3 billion pounds (before the butcher shop). Compared to that, 60,000 pounds of golden brown childhood nostalgia snippets doesn’t sound that bad.
Consider this though: 60,000 pounds of chicken nuggets sold in four-pound bags is 15,000 bags, a not insignificant number. That number of pounds of chicken nuggets is also equal in weight to about 4.5 adult African elephants, which as you know is the standard comparative unit of measurement for large volumes of any type of food. There are many elephants!
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