The First Chicken Nugget Sent Into Space, And Twitter Users Celebrated

Chicken nugget is a product made from chicken meat that is either breaded or battered.

Before consuming, the popular fast food item, as well as the widely sold frozen evergreen dish for home cooking, is usually deep-friend or baked.

The simple preparation of the product makes the crispy and crumbling coating of the juicy piece an all-time favorite.

While generally regarded as unhealthy, chicken nuggets are so popular all around the world, and have been used in food challenges, social media phenomena, and many forms of public notoriety.

The most popular, was when a 16-year-old high school student from Nevada named Carter Wilkerson, asked the fast food chain Wendy's on Twitter on how many retweets it would take for him to get free nuggets for a year. Wendy's answer was "18 million".

Although the young Wilkerson didn't reach the previous agreed number of retweets, Wendy's gave him what he wanted, simply because his tweet was one of the most retweeted tweet on Twitter.

And this time, chicken nugget again caused the internet to experience another social media phenomena.

It happened when the first ever chicken nugget was sent into space by a British supermarket chain to celebrate its 50th birthday in 2020

Island Foods is a British supermarket chain headquartered in Deeside, Wales. The company is known for for selling frozen food, including prepared meals and vegetables, as well as non-frozen grocery items such as produce, meat, dairy, and dry goods. The company has an approximate 2.2% share of the UK food market.

The British supermarket company has tweeted a video of a chicken nugget sent into space as a part of its birthday celebrations.

The tweet, and the video, took Twitter by storm.

It quickly received hundreds of thousands of views, when netizens couldn't get enough of it, and celebrated the "out of the world" nugget event hilariously.

In the video, the chicken nugget was said to have taken off from "somewhere in North Wales," and reached beyond 30 kilometers above the Earth surface in a time period of 45 minutes. The nugget then descended back and landed safely to the ground with a parachute as shown in the video.

Some Twitter users called the event as the best news in this already-dreary 2020.

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Andrew Staniland, trading director at Iceland Foods, said that:

“2020 is a huge year for us as we celebrate our 50th birthday, and we wanted to find ways to mark the occasion, just like anyone celebrating a birthday in lockdown. What better way to show that our products are out of this world than by sending one of our customer favorites into space."

"We’ve all changed the way we shop in recent months and frozen food has never been so popular."

“We’re looking forward to continuing to celebrate our 50th year with customers and thanking them for their support.”

Iceland Foods partnered with Sent into Space, a team of experts in the field of stratospheric exploration, who brought in the vessel for the nugget to travel in, as well as the avionics, auxiliary satellite tracking and integrated camera support system.

The nugget was sent into space using a meteorological weather balloon filled with a gas that’s lighter than air, capable of carrying the small cargo up to the the stratosphere.

Launched from a farm at Deeside, the brave nugget soared high above UK.

Chicken nugget is already a frozen staple food by many, with more than 10 million pieces sold per week through Iceland Foods.