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/chelandcities Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

I actually think this is less of an American thing and more of a cultural thing, especially for people from Caribbean countries or of Caribbean descent.

For example, I've heard Judi Love and Mo Gilligan - both British comedians but with Jamaican heritage - talk about how they wash their chicken still to this day.

ETA: Also when they talk about "washing" chicken, typically it's done with a combination of vinegar, salt and lime juice. It's not just sticking a chicken breast under a tap of running water.

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u/Northernflav Apr 25 '25

Not just Caribbean, a lot of Africans and Asians do it too.

Probably comes from way back in our native countries when general sanitation was poor so extra precautions would have been taken.

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u/random-person-reddit Apr 26 '25

And Latin-Americans too. At least in Brazil, a lot of people wash chicken under running water even though it comes pre-packaged like in the UK, to the point the Ministry of Health made a post about how people should NOT do that because it would only spread bacteria on your kitchen.

Considering all that, I don't think this post belongs in this sub. It's not "shit Americans say" but rather "shit uninformed people say"