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Chicky Nuggies or Chicken Nuggies is slang or babytalk for chicken nuggets, a food popular with children. Although the slang began circulating online in 2011, the term chicky nuggies became associated with Baby Yoda in December 2019.

Origin

On May 11th, 2011, The HotDamnTV^[1] blog captioned a photo of filmmaker Michael Moore as "Moore becomes outraged that they only included 4 dipping sauces for his chicky nuggies" (shown below). Slang terms were used in this article to mock Moore.

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On May 31st, 2019, YouTuber Jaboody Dubs uploaded "Red Copper Pan Dub" which dubbed an infomercial adding a recipe for what they call "dank chicky nuggies" (shown below, left). The video gained over 5.7 million views and 87,000 likes in four years. A year later, on May 7th, 2017, YouTuber Si Hi uploaded the animation "need chickie nuggies" (shown below, right).

On November 11th, 2017, Redditor Strawberry_Swisher97 posted a pennywise image with the caption "When mom says chickie nuggies are done" to r/memes^[2] and received over 90 points (89% upvoted) in three years. On May 25th, 2018, Urban Dictionary^[3] user The Dankest Farmer defined "dank chicky nuggie" as "(Noun):Chicken nuggets of the dankest variety,high quality nugs dawg." On November 7th, Redditor AlreadyEvan posted another image mentioning "chickie nuggie" to r/memes_of_the_dank.^[4]

Baby Yoda's Chicky Nuggies

On December 14th, 2019, Redditor SwagFish03 received over 20,900 point (86 % upvoted) in a month for an image in which Baby Yoda says chicky nuggies to a frustrated Adam Driver on r/cringetopia^[5] (shown below, left). Redditors began associating Baby Yoda the affinity for chicky nuggies. On December 29th, 2019, Redditor ButterflyGalaxy posted another Baby Yoda still with the caption "Me opening the oven to get my chickie nuggies" to r/meme^[6] and accumulated over 5,600 points (96% Upvoted) in a week (shown below, right).

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