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Chicken Nuggets True Inventors

@celticeagle (189915)

Boise, Idaho

February 3, 2022 12:54pm CST

If I told you that chicken nuggets were discovered by McDonald's you'd probably believe me, right? Well, you'd be wrong. A food science professor by the name of Robert C. Baker invented them in a Cornell University laboratory. He called them "chicken sticks" and mailed the recipe around America to hundreds of companies. They later profited on the chicken nuggets, as they came to be called, and Baker never patented his creation.

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@DaddyEvil (174558)

• United States

3 Feb 22

Wow! Poor guy could have made a fortune.

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@celticeagle (189915)

• Boise, Idaho

4 Feb 22

Yah, what a bugger. His choice though I guess. Maybe he didn't know he had that option. You'd think he would though.

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@celticeagle (189915)

• Boise, Idaho

5 Feb 22

@DaddyEvil ......That's true. And he probably didn't realize what a favorite they would become.

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@DaddyEvil (174558)

• United States

5 Feb 22

@celticeagle It's entirely possible he never thought about chicken nuggets catching on like they did, too.

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@LindaOHio (222527)

• United States

4 Feb 22

It's almost always the inventor that gets the shaft!

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@celticeagle (189915)

• Boise, Idaho

4 Feb 22

Seems like it.

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@marguicha (230349)

• Chile

3 Feb 22

I even bet a housewife in a far away farm could have invented them

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@celticeagle (189915)

• Boise, Idaho

4 Feb 22

I would have thought the same.

@flapiz (23530)

• United Kingdom

3 Feb 22

Thanks for this trivia. It's funny I'm just having chicken nuggets now for dinner.

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@celticeagle (189915)

• Boise, Idaho

4 Feb 22

Funny how those things go.

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