I don’t remember ever seeing/hearing the phrase “parts is parts” prior to about two months ago. Now I keep seeing it pop up in forum posts, web pages, etc. and I realized I don’t really know what it means or where the phrase came from. Can someone explain this phrase to me and/or give me some context about its origins?
Didn’t Wendy’s use this as a tagline a few years ago when they were comparing the actual white breast meat used in their chicken sandwiches as opposed to the processed, pressed and molded “meat” used by their competitors. If they did, good for them…apparently it worked on me if I still remember it!
It came about in the late-1980s or early-1990s, when there were a TV commercial for the then-relatively-new product of chicken nuggets.
Was it Wendy’s commercials that made fun of McDonald’s nuggets? Anyway, the commercial showed how Brand B’s nuggets were just made from all parts of the chicken, while Brand A nuggets were all chicken-breast meat. Some yokel working for Brand B would say “Parts is parts!”.
EDIT: Not nuggets – chicken sandwiches. That was it. **Hazle **is right.
came in to post my vague recollection of this and here it is, hmmmmmm parts
I’ve also been informed that pigs is pigs.