Posted on 03/15/2006 7:22:52 AM PST by mathprof
Prof. Robert C. Baker '43, famous for inventing the chicken nugget died Monday at the age of 84. Baker was a member of Cornell's faculty in the departments of food science and poultry science for 40 years. Over the course of his tenure, he developed 47 new poultry meat and egg products and published 290 scientific papers.
The products he developed include chicken and turkey hot dogs and various kinds of cold cuts, in addition to chicken nuggets. Baker traveled to 24 different nations to work with food companies to develop these products and became known as the "Edison of the poultry industry."
Baker was inducted into the American Poultry Hall of Fame in January 2004 in recognition of his work in the agricultural industry.
Nearly 60 years ago, Baker wanted to come up with a way to sell more chicken, so he developed his own barbeque sauce and opened a barbequed chicken stand at the New York State Fair.
"It's a vinegar, oil and eggs-based recipe that was designed to increase chicken and egg sales," said Reenie Sandsted, Baker's daughter, at the 1996 New York State Fair.
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Bird flu ?
( from what part of the chicken does the nugget come ?)
It wouldn't be much of a Poultry Hall of Fame without him!
I don't even want to think about how many chicken nuggets are socked away in my colon. Pencil erasers are more digestible.
It's probably easier to list the parts that aren't in them than all the ones that are...
Disposing of the obvious.
Well, isn't that intresting.
Where do your nuggets reside?
Of course Bubba gave the vinegar based bbq sauce a thumbs up. Anyone with any bbq savy knows that REAL bbq sauce is tomato based.
That picture looks like bull fries.
Wendy's chicken nuggets are the best.
My daughter is going to be CRUSHED when she hears this.
If she had her choice, she would eat nothing but chicken nuggets and french fries.
I am not sure how I'm going to break the news to my kids!
A few boxes of chicken nuggets ought to make a nice tombstone and should last well into the next century.
Freepers, I'm ashamed. All these posts and nobody has made the obvious "Parts is Parts" comment.
Please people, focus like a laser beam. This is too important to miss.
My daughter will be devastated today when I break the news.
Chickens rejoice.
He was a good man, raised many natural and (I think-- adopted children very well), was a Republican and at one time ages ago was my boss.
He will be missed.
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