{"id":11542,"date":"2021-07-30T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11542"},"modified":"2023-01-27T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T21:53:02","slug":"nuggetopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/30\/nuggetopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggetopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/we-live-in-a-golden-age-of-dinosaur-chicken-nuggets-11627482268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We Live in a Golden Age of Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018fun nugget\u2019 boomlet taught makers to use fewer spikes, leave room for breading; now, perfecting Baby Yoda\u2019s ears<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0Ellen Byron<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dino Chicken Nuggets\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bdr-KnKw5Xs?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If Mark Tolbert could redesign his company\u2019s Tyrannosaurus rex chicken nugget, he would make the neck slightly slimmer and the head a bit bigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe head slopes down a little too much,\u201d says Mr. Tolbert, a senior manager of the innovation center at Perdue Farms in Salisbury, Md. \u201cBut put some ketchup on it and you can\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Tolbert speaks wistfully of the Triceratops, which consistently ranks as one of the most popular dinosaurs but so far eludes nugget-makers. \u201cWe\u2019d never be able to make a chicken nugget with three horns coming out of its head,\u201d Mr. Tolbert says. \u201cThat\u2019s a three-dimensional shape.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Major food companies can see a dinosaur-nugget boomlet. Parents buy them to motivate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/your-kids-a-picky-eater-apps-and-meal-services-can-help-11600779600?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">picky youngsters<\/a>&nbsp;to clean their plates. Young adults eat them to spark childhood nostalgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And rising sales during the pandemic have prompted companies to consider what\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tysons-new-nuggets-swap-in-peas-for-chicken-11560422820?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\">other nugget shapes<\/a>\u00a0might catch on\u2014beyond the Tyrannosaurus rex, Stegosaurus and Brontosaurus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/we-live-in-a-golden-age-of-dinosaur-chicken-nuggets-11627482268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal We Live in a Golden Age of Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets The \u2018fun nugget\u2019 boomlet taught makers to use fewer spikes, leave room for breading; now, perfecting Baby Yoda\u2019s ears By\u00a0Ellen Byron If Mark Tolbert could redesign his company\u2019s Tyrannosaurus rex chicken nugget, he would make the neck slightly slimmer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}