Birds of a feather

When Raquel House stopped by her local Elkhart, Indiana McDonald's to pick up dinner last week she found something odd in one of her McNuggets: a feather.

“I started to feel like there was hair in my mouth, and that’s when I saw that there was white hair on my tongue; and I looked at my food, and there was feathers coming off the nugget,” House told a ABC57.com reporter.

Meanwhile, House filed a complaint with McDonald's but didn't want to wait for them to do the investigation so they took the McFeather to the owner/operator of Prairie Winds Nature Farm, where she both raises and processes chickens. After examining the object, she determined the strange object was a pin feather.

“It looks like a small pin-feather, from a broiler-type chicken that would be used for meat in just about any kind of processed chicken product,” Wolfe told ABC57.com, adding that the defeathering process can break the pin feather and lodge it in the bird’s skin.

On the upside, consumers may be a little relieve to learn that McNuggets are actually made from chicken....even if it is a pink, slimy, Play-Doh-y kind.

Tell a girl like doritos thats nacho cheese

In hopes of boosting sales, Taco Bell is trying on a new slogan for size. Taco Bell now wants you to "Live Mas!"

This departure from the company's most recent slogan "Think Outside The Bun" and the previous slogan of "Yo Quiero Taco Bell," also coincides with a menu revamp.

Taco Bell recently introduced breakfast options (aka "First Meal"), a new Cantina menu (think Chipotle-style) and a national launch of Doritos Locos tacos (instead of just your average tortilla shell, the this taco has a shell made of Nacho Cheese Doritos chips).

The brand is clearly try to reposition itself but I feel like these moves are all over the board and I am not sure "Live Mas" will translate into customers spending mas.

Death by Burger

A man actually suffered a heart attack while dining at Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas. The unnamed man was eating a Triple Bypass burger at the time of his cardiac arrest - he is reportedly alive and recuperating.

The incident comes just one year after the death of the Heart Attack Grill's 575-pound, 29-year-old spokesman. Also - if you weigh over 350 pounds, you eat for free...not kidding.

Throw some cheese on that bitch, Just bought a Big Mac

Apparently, fast food is bad for your health...but not for the reason you think.

When 37-year-old Evangeline Lucca bypassed the order screen and cut the drive-thru line at McDonalds on Friday afternoon, I bet she didn't know she was in for the shock of her life.

Authorities in Hope Mills, North Carolina reportedly used a stun gun on a Lucca who blocked a McDonald's drive-thru for 20 minutes after employees refused to serve her...because she cut the line pulling directly up to the window.

Lucca was subsequently shocked by deputies and charged with second-degree trespass.

In other frightening fast food news, a British man was attacked in a Glasgow KFC by two teenagers on Friday night. And by "attacked" I mean some kid bit his ear off.

Yep, that's right. The man was standing in line for food when he was confronted by three teenagers. He left without ordering but the harassers followed him out into the parking lot, where one of the teenagers apparently bit off half of the man's ear.

The attackers fled, and the biting victim was sent to a hospital. He had to undergo surgery to mend the ear.

when you dip, i dip, we dip

How many ways can you fry chicken?

McDonald's version of popcorn chicken has joined the well established poultry McFamily, along with Chicken McNuggets and McChicken sandwiches - well, at least for a limited time.

Chicken McBites are bite-sized bits of chicken breast meat, battered and fried, and come in three sizes: snack, regular, and "shareable." They are intended to be dipped into one of McDonald's dipping sauces: honey mustard, hot mustard, barbecue, sweet 'n sour, buffalo, ranch, chipotle BBQ or sweet chili (30-110 calories).

What I am really excited about is the fancy McBites box, designed with a convenient cutout to hold your dipping sauce :)

Twenty Twelve, I'm at the Superbowl

Kudos to Chipotle for this year's creative, Super Bowl promotion - this one cracks me up.

Besides being a pretty good deal (offering half off burrito boxes on Superbowl Sunday), the company's print ad pokes fun at the NFL's long-running restriction on the unauthorized use of the copyrighted term "Super Bowl."

So, Chipotle just spelled it out for us: "The Super Big Internationally Televised Professional Football Bowl Game."