{"id":8558,"date":"2013-04-16T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8558"},"modified":"2013-04-16T07:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:31:37","slug":"how-chicken-nuggets-took-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-chicken-nuggets-took-over-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How Chicken Nuggets Took Over The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041613_1128_HowChickenN1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Half a century ago chicken came on the bone and resembled a bird. Today the era of on the bone chicken appears to be coming to an end, giving way to boneless chicken:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Up until the 1970s fast food chains didn&#8217;t have product offerings beyond burgers and fries. However federal guidelines around the 70s began to discourage Americans from eating red meat.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover the price of beef began to rise, causing fast food chains to desperately search around for alternatives.<\/li>\n<li>Chicken was an attractive option since it was cheap and thought to be healthier than beef.<\/li>\n<li>McDonald&#8217;s led the charge trying out chicken pot-pies and bone-in fried chicken. Only deep fried boneless chicken chunks resonated with customers.<\/li>\n<li>Now boneless chicken has become so common that one KFC executive jokes that young people today no longer know that chicken has bones in it.<\/li>\n<li>Most chains from Chik-Fil-A to Burger King have abandoned on the bone chicken. KFC was the last holdout and it too recently announced plans to introduce boneless chicken menu offerings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the history of chicken nuggets, what Colonel Sanders would have thought, and the problem with chicken margins over <a href=\"http:\/\/business.time.com\/2013\/04\/15\/say-goodbye-to-bones-how-the-chicken-nugget-won\/?xid=rss-topstories&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/business.time.com\/2013\/04\/15\/say-goodbye-to-bones-how-the-chicken-nugget-won\/?xid=rss-topstories&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29\">Time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half a century ago chicken came on the bone and resembled a bird. Today the era of on the bone chicken appears to be coming to an end, giving way to boneless chicken: Up until the 1970s fast food chains didn&#8217;t have product offerings beyond burgers and fries. However federal guidelines around the 70s began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/041613_1128_HowChickenN1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8560,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions\/8560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}