I think light chicken meat tastes better than dark, hands down, always. I always thought dark meat was used because it's cheaper, or because they have to use it in something to get rid of it. I never knew it was because it was a traditional recipe thing - TIL, thanks!

Edit pound for pound, dark meat is less expensive than light, so cost may still be a factor, but it means I can still hope to find a place that makes a more luxurious General Tso's, etc, with white. Still, lucky for you that you prefer the cheaper stuff! It's like, I still prefer Taco Bell to fancy restaurants that make tacos with surloin slices or some crap - just give me ground beef, for christsakes.

100%, but the context was around overly processed chicken made of "beaks and arseholes" as my mum used to say.

Also, generally speaking, chicken nuggets are low quality reformed chicken. I appreciate that anecdotally your experience is different. I wish i had grown up eating those nuggets as they sound excellent. However, for the majority, I'm certain that it's the shit nuggets most people were brought up on.

The point about the chicken mash is not the main point. Merely an observation about the caveat in my main point that the statement about orange chicken being orange and chicken is essentially just listing ingreadients.

Like saying cake is just flour eggs butter and sugar.

Yeah. Orange chicken is just orange sauce and chicken nuggets. Of course it is.