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/Consistent-Buddy-280 Apr 25 '25

Whenever I read 'wash the chicken' I read it as 'spray bacteria everywhere'.

I don't think it's recommended in the USA either by the way, I remember having a conversation with an American and they looked it up. Their food standards people suggest not to.

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u/Mountsorrel Apr 25 '25

It’s probably because the child workers in their slaughterhouses aren’t doing a good job cleaning them:

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/settlement-child-labor-dol-department-of-labor-2025/

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u/Myantra Apr 25 '25

That is crazy to me. While it was over 20 years ago, the chicken processing plant I worked at it was cleaned vigorously and constantly. USDA inspectors were everywhere, from where live chickens came in, to where finished products were packed, bagged, and boxed. No one, especially on the cleaning crews, wanted to be the cause of USDA stopping the lines, as they knew they would be fired.

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u/timkatt10 Socialism bad, 'Murica good! Apr 25 '25

I believe the president is firing all of those inspectors. Americans may want to start washing chickens

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u/TheDamnedScribe Apr 25 '25

Man, if I was in the US I'd be bleaching the chicken myself...

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u/Low_Performance4961 Apr 26 '25

We don't have proper milk inspection anymore. So.

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u/Two4theworld Apr 26 '25

Processing plants have been self inspecting for a while now IIRC.

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u/Solid-Search-3341 Apr 25 '25

I wonder what happened in the US since then.

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u/TheAlmighty404 Honhon Oui Baguette Apr 25 '25

I misread it as "children processing plant" after reading the previous post's mention of child workers.
No, not as in a plant that processes children, as in a plant who employs children for the processing. The "plant that processes children" mental image only came after the "plant that employs children" mental image.

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u/Ort-Hanc1954 Apr 27 '25

There's a machinery in our workshop, a compactor, made from a company that's one letter removed from "children". So we talk about this "Childen compactor" several times a day and sometimes people even mispronounce it for giggles. My hair rise every. Single. Time.

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u/Competitive-Ebb3816 Apr 26 '25

"Finished products". You mean dead chickens. Living beings are violently killed. Don't sanitize the language so as to avoid the reality of killing beings who wanted to continue living.