I don't understand this sentence: they are 90% nugget and only 10% meat. What is nugget? I thought chicken nuggets mean chicken meat. What's the difference between "nugget" and meat? "Look at chicken

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I don't understand this sentence: they are 90% nugget and only 10% meat. What is nugget? I thought chicken nuggets mean chicken meat. What's the difference between "nugget" and meat? "Look at chicken nuggets for instance. People think they're eating meat, but they're 90% nugget and only 10% meat."

5 de sep. de 2021 7:29

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I think it's a jokey way of saying that. nuggets are not really pure meat. I'm sure the 90%/ 10 percent figure is exaggerated here, but I'm also fairly sure that in a chicken nugget there are are quite a few other ingredients: coating, cereals, flavourings, additives, preservatives etc. So that what you are actually eating is quite a long way from pure meat. I think you can describe this kind of exaggeration as 'hyperbole'.

5 de septiembre de 2021

The original meaning of nuggets is small pieces of gold that you find in certain areas when you break up rock looking for gold... These are the nuggets that most people know about today 😊 -->

5 de septiembre de 2021

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