The year of the chicken nugget (2017) and the chicken sandwich wars (2019) might have paved the way for fried chicken's latest role: star of a Netflix show. Next month, the streaming giant is releasing a bizarrely fun-looking comedy based on a Korean web cartoon called, fittingly, 'Chicken Nugget.' Voiced over in English, the show depicts a father and his intern's attempts to save a young woman who turned into a bite-sized morsel of crunchy protein.
The premise of 'Chicken Nugget' is silly, of course — but the show underscores the bird's soaring global popularity. As countries get wealthier, people eat more meat, and they're choosing chicken in particular. Average poultry consumption was 32.8 pounds per person in 2021, compared with 15 in 1991, according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
