The accepted history of the chicken nugget is told, with slight differences, in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Fast Food Nation, and Behind the Arches, a 1986 chronicle of McDonald’s that the corporation cooperated with (and sent me, when I asked them for comment). He wanted to be sure the farmers would get the best prices for their birds.” When he’d buy a dinner, he would want to get the most calories for the price. “He grew up in the Depression, not having enough food to eat. ![]() “I think you have to understand him as a person of his time,” Baker’s oldest son Dale, now 66, told me. ![]() ![]() It’s a mixed legacy for a man who wanted only to increase the market power of upstate New York’s poultry farmers-men whose families have since left the business, because the changes wrought by nuggets made it unprofitable.
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