Nugget Is A Weird Word

[@NameExplain]

What comes to mind for you when you hear the word nugget?

[@Baconplays1318]

A chicken nugget

[@keks137]

Dankpods

[@AQFearfullMage]

An ipod.

[@johnburn8031]

Chicken nuggets 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@crowisbetterthanleon1036]

Nig-

[@Termina_]

The connection to Australia makes Dank Pods calling everything in his videos “nuggets” makes a lot more sense now lmao

[@Daleymop]

I didn't know we (Australia) had such an influence on origin of such a widespread word. Amusingly, Nugget is also still used here as a nickname for a short & stocky person.

[@kirabowie]

I had a budgie that was named Chicken Nugget. He lived to be 10 years, before he had to be put down & the vet said he had a very long life. 🙂 I miss him. 😭

[@lp-xl9ld]

I found it interesting that there's a connection between shoe polish and the word "nugget" that comes from New Zealand...especially when you consider that there's a popular brand of shoe polish (and other shoe care-related accessories) in the US called Kiwi

[@WayneKitching]

In South Africa, both brands (Nugget and Kiwi) are available. Nugget is also used as a generic word for shoe polish, but not necessarily coloured black

[@WallieTheRed]

My Vietnamese girlfriend asked me why the chicken nuggets she was eating were called so. Literally the other day. Thank you kindly 🙏

[@NiKiMa023]

Is it from eating chicken nuggets?

[@camdensnyder8894]

Growing up in Denver, I remember hearing about our basketball team, the Nuggets. As a young kid, I definitely thought they were named after chicken nuggets. I later learned it actually referred to gold nuggets, as reference to Colorado's history in the gold rush, but I definitely still think the Denver Chicken Nuggets would be a much funnier team name

[@kenaikuskokwim9694]

There was a Nugget team in Denver in the early 1950s which didn't last long. The modern team founded in 1967 was originally called the Rockets. (Speaking of "Team Rocket"! ) When the two leagues "merged" several years later, there was also a Rocket team in Houston. Denver's were forced to drop the name, adopting the older Nugget moniker.

[@kenaikuskokwim9694]

Two Rocket teams were one too many in a 30-team league. But the nine-team Canadian Football League somehow had room for both Roughriders and Rough Riders.

[@rustymustard7798]

Smokin' some fat nugs while watching this lol!

[@darreljones8645]

Some years ago, American restaurant chain Carl's Jr. ran an ad campaign for their chicken breast strips with the slogan, "Because chickens don't have nuggets."

[@mutantdog.]

Despite being corrected on this many times, I still insist on pronouncing nougat as ‘nugget’

[@WayneKitching]

I also follow Geoff Lindsay on KZbin, so I am fascinated by the way Patrick talks. He sometimes drops the 't' in 'nugget,' but not always. I wonder if some kids in the UK would spell 'nugget' as 'nugger' if they live in an area where people drop the 'to.' (Bri'ish people like Jamie Oliver, who calls yoghurt 'yogguh,' for example.

[@ourladyofdarkness2622]

Nugget is also an insult in Australia, along the lines of a dope or a idiot

[@elliottprats1910]

If you were American you wouldn’t be unfamiliar with nugget being associated with gold. We are taught in elementary school about the California gold rush, the 49ers (ie 1849 way before the claims you made in this video), panning for gold, Levi’s blue jeans, ect. It’s common for gold and nugget to be associated in the United States

[@Emperor_Oshron]

it kinda surprises me that you hadn't heard of gold nuggets before--i was already familiar with it thanks to cartoons (i'm certain there were some from Looney Tunes, but the one i remember most distinctly is from the _Timon & Pumbaa_ cartoon where Pumbaa finds a huge one and explicitly calls it a gold nugget)

[@ogdalovshka3457]

My favorite channel!!

[@zachneal5751]

These days in new Zealand the word nug often refers to a certain smokable plant, but I'm pretty sure it's just a shortening of nugget

[@elinakangas571]

kananugetti = chicken nugget. We had this word from English speaking world. I only recently learned word nugget has other meanings too. :)

[@Clancydaenlightened]

dat why i call my pet cat smokey and not nugget...

[@sizanogreen9900]

I always thought nugget had its origin in gold-nugget. As in Mc Donalds named their chicken-abomination after gold to make them more appealing. (^_^)'

[@hettyscetty9785]

In Scotland we call people nuggets meaning your a wee idiot that kind of thing, we also call people wee dafty's as well so its along the same lines as that.

[@Butt_Slayer]

I'm craving a Chicken Dafty now.

[@PrimmsHoodCinema]

What's up with the word Colonel? Why is it kernel?? Please help

[@foodgasm648]

deformation of the Spanish: Coronel

[@tomhalla426]

There were a fair number of Australians in the 1849 California Gold Rush. They had experience in placer mining in Australia.

[@PinkAgaricus]

Also there's DankPods who calls electronics (especially music players) nuggets. (Do I hear him singing "A Whole New Nugg" in my head after saying that? Yes.) I'm guessing the gold nugget gave the chicken nugget it's name because the chicken nugget if cooked right is golden brown.

[@charlespentrose7834]

Now I want chicken nuggets.

[@Nor-tc8vz]

Do one on Kernel and it's association from corn to computers.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

5:41 I mean... there's also kangaroos on the standard $1 coin, just saying.

[@00Mandy00]

"Golden nugget" is common in the US, and has been since at least the mid nineteenth century. I own several pieces of jewelry in that form, they are everywhere. I doubt game makers were avoiding "ball" as a euphemism for testicle, it's not very Japanese to be Victorian about body parts. They knew that Americans were familiar with gold being in nugget form and probably assumed all English speakers were. Gold nuggets are virtually synonymous with the "Old West", restaurants, casinos, and streets are named "Gold Nugget" all over the West, especially Nevada. It's still popular all over the world as I can attest, having barely heard English in the crowds on my recent visit in Monument Valley. The chicken nugget looks like a gold nugget enough and it seems natural to connect the two, for Americans at least.

[@WeavementSesestea]

1:31 They taste yeeeehaaaawww

[@gubjorggisladottir3525]

Nice nugget of an idea!

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

So... are potato nuggets not a thing anymore? Because I literally had some the other night. Also, I can't be the only one who finds chicken nuggets gross AF? Like... it's literally *chicken.*

[@opinionatedorganism]

A nugget isn't valuable in Australia, it's just any small thing.

[@pyglik2296]

numget

[@dekabmyco]

Nugget

[@crowisbetterthanleon1036]

I read the title wrong 💀

[@Somebodyherefornow]

:Skull_emoji: I understand…

[@Abraxium]

You think nugget is a weird word? Swedish has two absurd weird words for nugget used in daily speech. Jordgubbe = Strawberry. Jord = Earth, gubbe = old man. We used to call them jordbär, like other countries in our vicinity do (DK/NO = Jordbær. IS = Jarðarber. DE = Erdbeer) but no! The Smålanders (like the founder of IKEA) had to insist that this was the correct term in their dialectal tongue. Previous term was Ananassmultron = Pineapple-raspberry. The second is smörgås (maybe you've used the word smörgåsbord before), our word for sandwich. Smör = Butter. Gås = Goose. This is because back in the day when you were churning butter, lumps would appear on the top and "float around". Please take our naming rights away.

[@sdspivey]

GB has no gold nuggets, so you wouldn't have that in your culture.

[@er3689]

chicken nuggets

[@Coleo20]

While watching this video I had two different songs bouncing through my head: Nugget by Cake, which is *very* NSFW, and the other is Nugget Man by Paul & Storm, an ode to Robert C. Baker and his world-changing creation.

[@r0bkush]

👀🔥

[@brianedwards7142]

If it happens to people it's (rightly) taught in schools as a case study in cruelty and inhumanity. If it happens to animals it's just Saturday.

[@Baconplays1318]

Wow so earlyyy

[@winkleperiwinkle808]

a brand new nuuuug 🇦🇺🦘