Chicken nuggets salvaged from freeway crash and donated to Salvos

Thousands of chicken nuggets have been rescued from a truck crash in Melbourne and served up at a Salvation Army meal centre.

About one million McDonald’s chicken nuggets were damaged in the Hume Freeway crash on Thursday morning. While a majority of the nuggets had to be discarded, about 200,000 were donated to the Salvos.

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After inspection, the nuggets were put into cold storage and are now being dished out to the city’s people in need.

“It’s amazing to see the impact of something as simple as chicken nuggets can have on people,” Salvation Army Major Brendan Nottle said today.

“It’s just been sensational.”

There are enough chicken nuggets to last several weeks, Major Nottle said.

With AAP