Tyson Mega Dino Nuggets: Our MEGA Honest Review

If you haven’t seen it and don’t mind really basic plot spoilers, the bulk of the new Jurassic World movie takes place on an abandoned island where the biggest, baddest, and ugliest dinosaurs roam (including my personal favorite, Distortus Rex, a mutant species that looks like a cross between a T-Rex and a Xenomorph from the Alien franchise—it’s very cool). I assume these bigger, badder dinosaurs were the inspiration for the new Tyson Mega Dino Nuggets.

They come in a tremendous 5lb bag and the nugs themselves are twice as big as the Tyson Dino Nuggets you know and love. Now, we’ve tried Tyson Dino Nuggets in the past and they’ve never made enough of an impression to make our ranking of the best chicken nuggets (although, Tyson’s panko nugs are our current #1). Maybe bigger is better? We tried the new Tyson Mega Dino Nuggets to find out.

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Pros: The Sporked team was split on these. I absolutely hated them; my colleague Ariana Losch ate one and liked it enough that she cooked another batch. She shared those with our intern, who also liked them. Out of the air fryer, the coating is very crunchy and the chicken mush inside isn’t dry—so, hey, that’s nice. I will say that our intern defended her affinity for them by saying they were good for soy-based veggie nuggets and I had to break the news that what she ate and enjoyed was supposed to taste like chicken.

Cons: When they made these suckers bigger, I wish they would’ve made the flavor bigger, too. The coating, while crunchy, tastes like almost nothing besides bitter cooking oil. And the chicken—well, it might as well be soy.

Verdict: They’re severely underseasoned and unpleasantly mushy, but I suppose there is something nostalgic about their insipid blandness. Frankly, these dinos need more bite (or at least a really tasty dipping sauce).

Rating:

4.5/10

Sporks

About the Author

Howdy! I’m Gwynedd, Sporked’s managing editor. I live in Los Angeles and have access to the best tacos the U.S. has to offer—but I’m a sucker for a crunchy Old El Paso taco night every now and then. I’ve been at Sporked since 2022 and I’m still searching frozen mozzarella sticks that can hold a candle to restaurant sticks. Why you should trust me: I’ve been a journalist for 20 years (yikes), a consumer of food for 40-plus years, and I’m truly hard pressed to think of foods I don’t like (or that I can’t tolerate at the very least). Oh and one time I cooked my way through Guy Fieri’s cookbook and wrote about the journey through Flavortown. What I buy every week: Trader Joe’s Original Savory Thins. Fat free plain yogurt (usually Fage or Nancy’s). Honeycrisp apples. Sweet cream coffee creamer for my at-home Americanos. A frozen cauliflower crust pizza and some jarred mushrooms to top it with. Old El Paso Stand ‘N Stuff taco shells and Gardein Ground Be’f, even though I think “be’f” is a nightmarish contraction. Favorite ranking: Stouffer’s frozen dinners. I don’t own a microwave (I get my cancers the old fashioned way!), so I love taste testing things that I don’t really buy to eat at home. Least favorite ranking: Soy sauce. Don’t get me wrong, I love soy sauce—but consuming that much sodium in one sitting is probably illegal in some countries. Our frozen enchilada taste test was a close second; the smell of microwaved corn tortillas still haunts me.