King of Big Wheels

It's been bugging me for quite some time now, and this weekend I took action. I ordered 20 pieces of Chicken McNuggets from McDonald's, and I was right! There are only three distinct shapes for McNuggets. Yes, they look random and almost "natural". Let me tell you, there's nothing natural about grinding chicken parts down and squirting them into three different molds.

The round:

Nothing fancy, just circular. Diameter still fits into the dipping sauce container, but not too small either. Basically, looks like a mini version of the moon from that black and white movie with the "rocket ship" shoved in some guy's eye.


The diamond(?):

I don't know what this shape is. Sorta diamond shape, like the blue diamonds from Lucky Charms cereal. (When they used to have blue diamonds and not the 'disappears in milk' BS they have now... but that's another blog). Maybe this shape is kind of a shark fin? I dunno. Tastes like chicken.

The Gumby:

This is my favorite, and the one that tipped me off to the whole "there's only three nugget shapes" theory. I mean, look at it. What part of the chicken is that? That's Gumby dammit. Out of the 20 pieces I got, 10 of them were this shape. 10!

And out of the 20 pieces, they all fell into these three shapes. Granted, some were more deformed than others, but it was obvious. Here's something to think about for the day: imagine me sorting a box of chicken nuggets by shape so I can take digital pictures. To blog about. Cause there are the kinds of things that get stuck in my head for months at a time.