Applegate Farms Gluten Free Chicken Nuggets

Where I bought it: Draeger’s

How Much: $7.29

This is the first explicitly gluten free product from Applegate Farms I’ve tried. I was pretty excited when I saw these in the freezer at Draeger’s (Fancy pants supermarket in Blackhawk [cough Danville], Los Altos, Menlo Park and San Mateo, CA).

These are pretty good but don’t live up to my memory of the claim-to-be-chicken mcnuggets I grew up with (prior to the whole white meat craze). I think the culprit is the slightly mushy texture of the ground chicken insides. It’s all uniform and just well… ground chicken. The nuggets I remember has some questionable chunks in them and that reconstructed chicken texture… some how a good thing when looked at from the nostalgic perspective.

In the end I guess I can’t really hold that against Applegate Farms. I’ve got some unreasonable and some could say, disgusting, standards that I’m holding them to.

So, in the end I say good nuggets… would be better as tenders (whole pieces instead of ground).

Oh and as a dipping sauce I used: Mayo mixed with Sriracha sauce and some paprika. Yum.