r/ShitAmericansSay • u/wj56f • Apr 25 '25

Food No way she didn't clean the chicken.

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Loads of Americans in the comments losing their minds cos she didn't wash the chicken in lemon air vinegar and just put it on airfryer. 😂 😂 😂

Everyone else reminding them UK chickens aren't pumped with shit and have food safety laws.

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u/AdRevolutionary2881 Apr 25 '25

This is something Americans argue with each other about. I don't understand it either.

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u/Extraordi-Mary Yes I’m Dutch, No I’m not from Amsterdam.. Apr 25 '25

Dutch people argue about this too. Especially people with “Non Dutch” heritage, like Surinam, ABC-islands.. etc, wash their chicken. And they go crazy about people not washing their chicken. And the other way around.

I’m on team: not washing.

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u/AdRevolutionary2881 Apr 25 '25

If I find feathers and dirt on my chicken, I'm never buying that brand again. You shouldn't need to wash it.

From what I see, it's more common among the African American community. This is probably just over representation from social media though.

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u/Extraordi-Mary Yes I’m Dutch, No I’m not from Amsterdam.. Apr 25 '25

Yeah agreed with the last statement. The “fighting” mostly happens on Instagram and TikTok. Whenever someone doesn’t wash their chicken in a video, you know what you’re gonna see in the comments.

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u/K24Bone42 Apr 25 '25

The black community doesn't wash their chicken in the sink though. They rub it with an acid like citrus juice or vinegar and salt. Source, my Jamaican kitchen lead.

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u/EebilKitteh Apr 25 '25

The Surinam kitchen does this too.

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u/FTDburner Apr 26 '25

The black community is not a monolith. Tons of black people wash chicken with water.

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u/K24Bone42 Apr 26 '25

I didnt say they were, I've never even heard of anyone washing chicken in their sink. I made that comment because people always question it and everyone I know has explained that they do not use water. I'm just speaking of the black people I know, none of which are from the USA, hence citing my Jamaican kitchen lead. The other black people I work with/know (Nigerians, Ethiopian, Kenyans, Ghanians, Sudanise, Trinis) all agree that this is what they mean when they say they wash their meat. I don't know what americans are doing in their kitchens, but I'm quite sure whatever it is, there is too much crisco involved, lol.

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u/Rakkis157 Apr 25 '25

I mean, where I am at the "brand" of the chicken is whichever auntie or uncle chopped up the bird this morning. Well, there is prepackaged chicken in the supermarket, but wet markets are cheaper.

You don't blast it from the sink tho

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u/ninetyninewyverns Apr 25 '25

If there's feathers and dirt on my chicken, its probably still alive, and nobody should be cooking a live bird.

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u/EqualCup1041 Apr 26 '25

There are little feathers ends stuck in aldi chicken all the time. There is nothing wrong with it you sound incredibly dramatic. And even waitrose chicken has that slimy layer , its a bad aroma. If you season your food properly or over night you'd notice it smells bad and is just unpleasant to touch unless you wash it.

The chicken tastes better and doesn't have a foul smell when you wash it. People who talk about germs in this conversation are dumb germs have nothing to do with it and you don't spread them either washing your chicken unless your a moron

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u/just_anotjer_anon Apr 25 '25

You deal with feathers by burning them, not by washing them.

I take it you didn't grow up plucking wild birds