Nuggie Labs — the team hard at work in the laboratory
Est. 2026

A Very Serious Organization
Doing Very Important Work

We're putting a chicken nugget on every phone on earth.

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No, seriously.

The world's most popular snack has no emoji.

There are 3,790 emoji. 🍔 Hamburger. 🌭 Hot dog. 🍕 Pizza. 🍟 Fries.

But no chicken nugget. A snack consumed billions of times per day, beloved everywhere, and still not an emoji.

Petitions since 2017. Community outcry. Years of advocacy. And still: nothing.

We're fixing that. Nuggie Labs has developed the chicken nugget emoji and is submitting it to the Unicode Consortium to make it official.

Someone had to do it.

🍔Burger
🌭Hot Dog
🍕Pizza
🍟Fries
Chicken nugget emoji — the one that's been missingNugget ✓
3,790
emoji. Zero of them nuggets.
2017
Year of the first nugget emoji petition. Still waiting.

Meet the Team

Six exceptional individuals. One shared mission. An unprecedented commitment to the advancement of processed poultry representation.

Momma Dukes — Founder of Nuggie Labs
Momma Dukes
Founder

The one who started it all. Before Nuggie Labs had a name, a mission, or a tax ID, there was Momma Dukes—quietly holding everything together. One look and the entire lab falls in line.

Dr. Tendie — Chief Scientist at Nuggie Labs
Dr. Tendie
Chief Scientist

Three doctorates. Zero social skills. Believes the optimal breading-to-meat ratio is 0.618 (the golden ratio) and will fight anyone who disagrees. Banned from two food science conferences.

Saucé — VP of Dipping at Nuggie Labs
Saucé
VP of Dipping

Every nugget deserves the right dip. Maintains a personal archive of over 340 proprietary sauce profiles. Refuses to acknowledge ketchup as a dipping sauce. Will not elaborate.

Mrs. Crumb — Director of Operations at Nuggie Labs
Mrs. Crumb
Director of Operations

Thirty years behind the line. Hairnet starched. Serving spoon calibrated. Runs operations with the same efficiency she ran a 400-kid lunch rush—no nonsense, no leftovers, no complaints.

Crispy — Head Inspector at Nuggie Labs
Crispy
Head Inspector

There are exactly four official nugget shapes: the Boot, the Bell, the Ball, and the Bone. Crispy can identify all four blindfolded. Has rejected entire batches over a 0.2mm breading variance.

Dash — Seasoning Manager at Nuggie Labs
Dash
Seasoning Manager

“Just a dash.” That's the whole philosophy. Ironic, then, that Dash is the most intense member of the team. Once seasoned a prototype so perfectly that Dr. Tendie cried. Will not round up.

What would your emoji look like?

Upload a selfie. Get your own AI avatar in any style—nugget, anime, chibi, comic, webtoon, 3D, and more. Your digital alter ego, consistent across everything you share.

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Classic
Anime
Anime
Cartoon
Cartoon
3D
3D

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