The 50 Piece McNugget

Posted by kluckmeister on October 25, 2010 · 12 Comments 

I took this out of my blog about Vegas to make it a separate post for my food category.

After the Stratosphere we were pumped up with adrenaline so I decided to call Jerrod’s bluff. He had been telling me non-stop since we arrived that Vegas was the only place in the world where McDonalds sold 50 piece McNuggets. We had tried to check this out the night before (well actually earlier that morning since it was 6am) but the regular menu had been removed for the breakfast menu (duh). After another loooong walk back towards the strip (remind me never to stay at the Stratosphere) we made it to McDonalds and my eyes lit up like the Christmas lights of “that guy” on the block that always has to outdo everyone else’s decorations in the state (or maybe he just hates electricity and wants to kill it all who knows). At the moment I HAD to pay the $10 just on principle. Who else can say they bought (and subsequently entered into a self proclaimed contest to finish) a 50 piece McNugget ON their birthday in VEGAS? Again I have to preface this story by saying neither Hunter, Jerrod nor I like McDonalds chicken nuggets. In fact, we dislike them very much. They look like they’ve been shaped by cookie cutters from walmart to depict an odd-shaped cartoon leg (foot included) and a shape that looks eerilee similar to a chicken egg (maybe in an effort to subliminally convince you what you’re eating IS in fact chicken). So needless to say Hunter and Jerrod were not very excited about my coining of “the 50 piece McNugget Challenge” (Copyright pending. Ronald McDonald if you want this slogan I will need royalties).

THE CHALLENGE: Some of you might have noticed that there are were odd number of people (3) trying to eat an even odder number of nuggets (50) and you may have asked, “How many nuggets did each of you have to eat?” To that I say, good question reader. Luckily for us, we had a math major in our midst (Hunter). We decided that the fairest way was to have two people eat 17 McNuggets and the last person eat 16 (which was ultimately decided to be Jerrod since he complained so much we just wanted to shut him up). I have to say it did not get off to a great start. I was hoping that all of the nuggets would come out in one big box (so I could take a picture and post it here). However, as many people have done before me, I overestimated McDonalds. Instead of one big box the nuggets came out in 5, 10 piece nugget boxes. Lame. Although some of the allure and granduer was lost, we continued with the challenge. Hunter took the early shift covering his 10 piece before I was even halfway through mine. It was about that time that he and Jerrod started making fun of me saying that it was my idea and I was barely eating. Well they would EAT their words (inbetween mouths of what I hope was chicken meat). My strategy of slow and steady paid off and the time I hit 12 nugs Hunter and Jerrod looked like they were about McPuke. I finished my McQuota of 17 nuggets and watched the guys struggle. With constant poking and prodding from me in which I complained that this was the only bday present I wanted from them, they slowly inched their way through.

Unfortunately it was not to be. We couldn’t tell how the individual nugget count went but I’m willing to bet Hunter had a few more than J-Rod. Overall we came 4 short of our goal. A dissapointing result but probably for the best because within thirty minutes of finishing I took one of the biggest McPoops of my life.

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