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store fried chicken

shortbreadlover — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:10:02 GMT

i was at the store the other night and i bought some fried chicken. when i went to serveit, i nltice the one piece had a feather on it that had been fried.

i called the deli manager and told him. he told me that they did not pluck the chicken there. they only fried it there. i toldhim that he had better tell the employees to be more careful.

i was given a replacement and i watched asthey put the pieces in the box. there were sereral other pieces in the window that had fried feathers on them.

i am calling the health dept on monday. thisis unacceptable to me. itis the supplier's fault, but still the workers should be more careful

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VaBelle35 — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:40:14 GMT

I've experienced that at both Giant and Harris Teeter.

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RedTop — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:44:02 GMT

As good as this chicken smells at times, I never buy it. Mainly, I just don’t trust the safety of food products in any of the deli areas around here.

I am not in these stores often enough to keep track of how fast the meats and salads sell. I do pay attention to the inspection reports by the health department, which increases my desire to be cautious with food prepared by anyone but me.

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shortbreadlover — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:44:32 GMT

so it must be a national supplier. i can't fathom how they get away with it. i will complain everytime. people need to be proactive about such things.

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september — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:48:48 GMT

Although it would have been preferable to have the chicken plucked better, a feather isn’t a health issue.

I eat fish and have to pluck out bones. I eat some types of meat and have to cut out fat and bones. Removing a feather isn’t a big deal, in my world.

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RoughDraft — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:51:45 GMT

I'm surprised a feather survived being deep fried.

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Cakers3 — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:52:30 GMT

Why would anybody purchase the chicken a second time? Even watching carefully while the new purchase is put in a box-if there is a hint of unsanitary practices then the feathers are not the issue.

I've seen a stray feather/hair or two through the years on raw poultry and from what I understand they are harmless. Skeeve worthy yes. Harmful, no.

Considering feathers from processing poultry are used as part of the feed for other poultry, pigs, etc. you are going to eat those feathers one way or another. LOL

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Carmie — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:52:57 GMT

What happens if you find a seed in a cherry pie, or stems in a can of green beans, or pebbles in a bag of dried peas? It happens all of the time.

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Cakers3 — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 02:00:05 GMT

How big were these feathers?? They should have burned off anyway, especially being fried.

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croemer — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 02:10:18 GMT

Yuck...that is like finding a hair in your food. As soon as I see that its over... can't eat it.

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bikerbabe — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 02:21:01 GMT

Just the smell of fried chicken makes me nauseous. Easy pass for me.

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september — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 02:32:53 GMT

@croemer wrote:
Yuck...that is like finding a hair in your food. As soon as I see that its over... can't eat it.

Not the same thing. A human hair in your food, is a foreign object. A chicken feather in a piece of chicken, is not.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 02:43:47 GMT

Never heard of anybody dying of a fried feather. At frying temperatures it would be sterilized so what's the big deal? Much ado about nothing.

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Reever — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 02:51:53 GMT

Ive found a feather or two in fried chicken over the years I took no issue with it..its a natural part of the bird. the US Food Adminsitation would laugh at your complaint after they hung up with you. Ive also found human hairs in my food. I just discard that portion and eat around it. I don't believe in wasting food when so many people around the Globe are starving.

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croemer — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 03:30:09 GMT

@september wrote:
@croemer wrote:
Yuck...that is like finding a hair in your food. As soon as I see that its over... can't eat it.
Not the same thing. A human hair in your food, is a foreign object. A chicken feather in a piece of chicken, is not.

But its foreign to my eyes, therefore my mouth will not eat it...I will be nauseous.

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RoughDraft — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 04:07:26 GMT

You know what else is in fried chicken? Bones!!!

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aubnwa01 — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 05:50:11 GMT

We've probably all eaten far grosser & worse things, the difference is we didn't see them before they went down the hatch!

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KingstonsMom — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:58:21 GMT

@shortbreadlover

I would contact the corporate headquarters of the store in question.

DD works in the fast food industry for Popeye's Chicken and the chicken they receive raw commonly has small feathers still attached, but they have an employee who removes any feathers and any excess globs of fat or skin before the chicken is marinated, then fried.

I think the Deli manager is not doing his job by making sure his employees do this.

I would also address the Deli manager's flippant response to you, that would've really ticked me off!

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Reever — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 15:47:11 GMT

Folks this is overblown. If we ever worked in meat processing plants many would likely turn vegan. This is a natural phenomena. Food by nature is never sterile. That's we have billions of bacteria in our gut that processes it. The human body is amazing. A few stray hairs is the least of the problems with our food supply .... Pesticides, E Coli, salmonella, Mad Cow disease, waxy resins used on vegetables.etc.

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ALRATIBA — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 15:52:02 GMT

I've never seen "store fried" chicken but for years and years I've purchased whole rotisserie chickens from supermarkets and other stores all over the West Coast, East Coast and a couple of states in the South..

Never once had any issue.