• Brits Don't Love "Chlorinated" US Chicken

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 11 18:35:54 2025
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    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/i-tried-chlorinated-chicken-us-uk/

    I tried chlorinated chicken – even after roasting it’s pale and
    doesn’t get crispy

    Britons may have to embrace the US practice of washing birds
    in chlorine. But is this a health hazard, or a welcome
    low-price alternative?

    . . .

    She's right - unbleached chicken DOES brown-up
    more nicely.

    HOWEVER ... what good is 'brown' if you drop dead
    from one of half a dozen nasty bacteria living on
    the bird ?

    Food contamination has been escalating in the USA.
    USED to hear about it every couple of months - now
    it's a couple of times a week for urgent recalls.
    Some like to blame it on 'immigrants', but mostly
    there's just been a post-covid "Who Gives A Shit ?"
    attitude (or is that Gen-Z attitude ?) about a lot
    of things - including quality control.

    If the UK is talking about anti-bacterial washes
    then The Problem has moved THERE also.

    Now, there MIGHT be some 're-conditioning' concoction
    that can be painted on the bleached bird just before
    cooking to restore the better characteristics - some
    enzyme/minerals mix, not just brownish dye. Invent
    it and GET RICH.

    Oh, better incorporate in the USA since the UK tax-man
    will want to steal 99.9% in these dismal days. Even
    Bad King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham were more
    generous with the peasants :-) Oh, there'd also be
    a big US market, and US presence = no tariffs.

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  • From J Carlson@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 11 18:19:57 2025
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    On 4/11/2025 3:35 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/i-tried-chlorinated-chicken-
    us-uk/

    I tried chlorinated chicken – even after roasting it’s pale and
    doesn’t get crispy

    Britons may have to embrace the US practice of washing birds
    in chlorine. But is this a health hazard, or a welcome
    low-price alternative?

    . . .

      She's right - unbleached chicken DOES brown-up
      more nicely.

      HOWEVER ... what good is 'brown' if you drop dead
      from one of half a dozen nasty bacteria living on
      the bird ?
    You don't encounter *any* bacteria from chicken if you cook it to a sufficiently
    high temperature, you stupid twat.

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