Well, given that chicken is mostly tasteless, and nuggets are highly flavoured to make them appealing, that's not surprising at all. Might have been made out of cardboard if you can mix it with the right things to get the consistency close.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS_S.A.
[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-39311336
[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/world/americas/brazil-foo...
This is a huge misunderstanding. Chickens only are tasteless if you are eating tasteless chickens.
Despite cooking it the same way, the Kampong chicken in Malaysia tastes very different from the chicken served in an osteria chilometro zero in rural Italy, which once again is distinct from the HuNan mountain chickens found in rural China.
And don't get me started on chicken in the Kyoto countryside, which was one of the most surprising things in my trip to Japan. Never knew chicken can taste like that.
Flavor-wise, there are 2 things that keep me coming back for more. 1) The chicken doesn't just have flavor, it tastes good. 2) The fat in the pork is freaking delicious.
That's not usually what people mean when they say "tastes like chicked" though.
That's not what the video demonstrates. The video demonstrates that they made chicken nuggets made from lab grown meat taste like real chicken nuggets.
> all the folks making vegetarian chicken substitutes that don't taste very much like chicken
Are there really no vegetarian substitutes for nuggets that taste the same?
There are confounding factors. This thread is about taste / flavour alone.
Wrong. The thread that started with my comment was specifically responding to "it tastes just like a real thing".
> That was the word used in one of the comments, but in the video in question, the reporter said she "wouldn't know the difference."
Fair point. I didn't watch the video (unfortunately I can't at the moment), so I was responding specifically to the parent comment. That's on me.