The Saucisity (PDF)
April 24, 2019
I once gave a lunch lecture about chicken nuggets. Here is the accompanying paper. This is a joke, don't take it too seriously. The abstract follows.
The right amount of sauce on a chicken
nugget used to be difficult to quantify.
With a new proposed physical quantity and
its unit of measurement a standard sauce
dose can be tuned to a persons personal
preference. The saucisity s is defined as
a volume of sauce per amount of nuggets.
Introducing the Ronald, rss “Ron, a unit
of saucisity referring strictly to McNuggets.
One Ronald is defined as a litre of sauce
per kilonugget. Furthermore, an analysis of the menu of McDonald’s is done
and a model that describes combinations
of chicken nuggets is presented.