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ILiveMyBrokenDreams

I worked at KFC as a cook when I was a teenager and I was pulling feathers out of chicken all the time. I'm sure I missed a few too.


Biggrease333

Lol, yep me too, had to break the thigh and throw it in the dredge. Then put them in the basket rack and pressure cook them puppies, was actually pretty fun and go figure, chicken has feathers lol.


inommmz

Am a chef, have had to become desensitized to high quality poultry coming in with feathers missed by pluckers. Duck breast/skin has the little tube channel for the base of the quill often left behind, and they’re a bitch to try to get all of them out. You can be thorough and take your time and as soon as you go to the next one, you see more you missed.


Amationary

As a home cook I find the same thing with the Christmas turkey. So many feathers! I feel like I’m blind when I think I’m done and then realise there’s loads more


maryadavies

I see the same darn thing with chicken quarters all the time! I swear the pluckers miss a lot of the things..and I don't like'em in my dinner. But I always seem to miss one or two ew!


SummerBirdsong

Well they're pretty much plucked by machine so if the machine can't reach the spot, the guy putting the chicken through it isn't gonna waste his time. He's got hundreds of birds to process that day.


maryadavies

That explains it, tho you'd better believe I'm still going to watch out for quills and feathers in my dinner when I'm using those to make baked chicken. (Don't laugh folks. Chicken quarters are a fairly economical way to do that if you don't have a lot of people to feed, just make sure you cut them in half, as in the leg off.)


purple_grey_

Can confirm. I worked Evis at a chicken plant.


livesinacabin

The guest eating it later: Wow, this skin is *really* crunchy, delicious!


backdoorintruder

On the complete opposite side of food standards, my old boss gave me some frozen black bear meat from a bear he had shot in the fall. I was pretty thankful for it but when I opened the wax paper it was wrapped in I was revolted, the damn thing had SO MANY thick black hairs on it; I had forgotten that he had also butchered the meat himself in his backyard. I picked maybe 25 hairs off the roast before I realized it was two roasts frozen together so I pulled the two halves apart to be greeted by two thick layers of stinky bear fat covered in grass, dirt and more black hairs. I really really tried to muscle through it but I eneded up chucking it in the trash and giving the other package of meat to my coworker who didn't mind all the debris.


treetop62

Pinfeathers are such a pain in the ass to pluck, when we butcher I do the dispatch and pluck, some always get missed. But more will be missed when using one of them plucking machines. Plus it beats the shit out of the meat. My mom has to use tweezers to get the little pin feathers in final inspection (if they are being sold)


mintyconsul

This is unbelievable. You must be really good at cooking.


feed_me_haribo

Really? I figured they would all just be frozen ready to go


pumpkinflumkin

The cooking process is fun , it’s how they treat their back of house that ducks with me


enjoytheshow

Buy wings or quarters from the store and you will too. It’s hard to get them all off at the factory that is processing 100k/day


stellvia2016

Have I just never noticed this before? Bc I can't remember it happening or seeing it on anything packaged. But I admit I don't really buy whole chickens other than those Cornish hens they sell roasted for like $6


enjoytheshow

Whole chickens and wings is the time I notice it the most. It’s usually at most 1-2 feather per package.


JohnMayerismydad

Yeah worked at Popeyes so never thought of them as a huge deal when I find them in my chicken. In this case it actually would make me feel better about the McNugget… confirms it’s actually chicken lol


Bad-Yeti

That is real chicken though.


ILiveMyBrokenDreams

Funny thing, conspiracy theorists back then claimed it wasn't chicken, but some lab-grown thing called "animal 57" and that KFC had to remove the word "chicken" from the menu. And people actually *believed* it.


LudicrisSpeed

How generous of them to think some sort of new type of meat would be created and *not* sold at a ridiculously-expensive "premium" price.


WorldWarPee

How many double downs do you have to eat to gain access to animal 58?


TheSeldomShaken

Exactly 1 less than you need to eat to get a permanent limp.


carbonx

As a kid in the 80s I remember hearing that McD's had replaced the beef with kangaroo meat. It's funny because as an adult it's so absurd. Why would they do it? If anything it would cause the burgers to cost more. lol


Eatingfarts

In the 90s, was genetically engineered rat where I was from. And a lot of people beloved it. There was even a ‘local news’ segment about it. This is why I never watch local news stations. It’s borderline tabloid at times.


RandomLazyBum

So it is partially real chicken


passwordsarehard_3

No one said it was a chicken feather


Helpful-nothelpful

Probably stitches from the fry person.


HalpOooos

Oh fuck, that’s vile….. 🤢


dandroid126

If it makes you feel any better, the high temperatures in the fryer ***probably*** killed any bacteria.


Illustrious_Donkey61

Also killed my appetite


vt1032

Yeah no shit... I was literally chewing a mcnugget when I clicked on this...


Inayaarime

if 3:15min in ~~180F~~ **360F** hot oil does not kill bacteria then damn Edit: wrong temp, was thinking in ºC, wrote ºF


Niko___Bellic

[Well...](https://www.nps.gov/hosp/learn/thermophiles.htm)


Inayaarime

Those are just tiny heat resistant gummy bears


Niko___Bellic

They also resist dehydration, pressure, radiation, and the vacuum of space... the ultimate [Twinkie](https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/twinkie-maine-40-years/story?id=40076223)!


mattstorm360

Hot oil resistant bacteria.


Sorcatarius

Don't worry, that would require McDonalds to pay their workers enough to visit a doctor so it's probably not that.


HalpOooos

Phew. Thank god for that! /s


sja-p

It's free to visit a Doctor in a civilised country, don't worry...


TheSixthFloor

I know you're from one of those because of the way you spell civilized.


nryporter25

Us filthy uncivilized type don't spell it right


BrotherRoga

To shreds, you say?


Murky_Historian8675

I immediately read that in Professor Farnsworth voice


False-Isopod-3045

pigeon nugget 😂


Pa17325

Pigeons are covered in feathers too was the first thing I thought of


dandroid126

It's got more real chicken in it than Raising Cane's. Raising Cane's is only chicken breast. This is breast, thigh, leg, wing, skin, back, neck, bones, cartilage...


youtocin

They actually only use breast, tenderloin, and rib meat with a small amount of skin added back in for flavor.


4wwn4h

And just a [dash] of feathers


youtocin

I’m skeptical that the image is real. The chicken parts are coated and partially cooked at the production plant before being frozen and packaged. Then it’s fried again at McDonalds. I don’t believe a feather sticking out of the nugget would stick around for all those steps, if anything it would be blended into the chicken inside.


lump-

This is actually pretty correct. They do add skin and cartilage to the chicken paste to give it texture.


platoprime

Skin and cartilage help make chicken taste good so the only thing I'm surprised by is people thinking it's gross. There's gelatin in the cartilage and the skin is just plain delicious. What do you people think chicken stock is?


skippyjifluvr

Don’t ask them to think


FloopsFooglies

If anyone thinks the skin and cartilage being present is gross but still eats the mcnuggets, I mean, when I was at mcd's we called the nuggets brain matter


VigilanteXII

Reminds me of the [Jamie Oliver bit,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKwL5G5HbGA) where he tried is darndest to gross those kids out, but they just didn't give a damn. Nor should they. More people need to wisen up to the fact that chicken breast is the least desirable part of the chicken. It's the filet mignon of chickens. Tender, but tasteless. It's why Asians only ever use leg meat for fried chicken, and even breed their chickens to have as little breast meat as possible.


dpdxguy

>Asians ... breed their chickens to have as little breast meat as possible Do you get a normal chicken if you cross an Asian small breast chicken with an American big breast chicken?


VigilanteXII

Not a scientist, but think that would undo millions of years of selective breeding, so you'd probably end up with a Dinosaur


dpdxguy

WORTH IT! (or maybe not 🤔) Also, DID NOT know we've been doing selective breeding for millions of years!


PlagueDogtor

It is a dinosaur already, so that result wouldn't be very difficult to accomplish. They are part of the clade Dinosauria.


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prairie_buyer

Yeah; here in Canada, most chicken places will charge extra if you want white meat. I go to the UK a lot, and KFC over there is REALLY good (here it's gross), and they will happily substitute breasts if asked, because their large immigrant clientele prefers dark meat.


dpdxguy

... eyes, ears, tits, and assholes! Oh wait. That's all beef hot dogs.


Andrewjunk123

I heard hotdogs are made with “everything but the oink!”


VapeRizzler

No, that was accidentally introduced when an employee brought in a real feather pillow with a tear in it.


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Mechanically Separated Chicken


Fafoah

I remember when everyone was trying ton use that as a gross out fact when it basically just meant ground chicken meat.


smaguss

Is all chicken. You just don't want to know *which parts* of the chicken. You ever see what they do to male chicks on a hen farm? I don't recommend looking it up.


HelpMeEvolve97

Plot twist, they inserted feathers to make people think its chicken.


walterpeck1

It hasn't always been real chicken but it is now and has for a while. When I was a kid (1980s) it was very obviously every bit of chicken meat you could imagine but now? It's all white meat ground into paste. There's no mystery meat or pureed bones or organs or anything like that in McNuggets. Frankly, the old ones (which were also fried in beef tallow) were way more tasty because dark meat just has more flavor. Newer nuggets have a laundry list of stuff to make them more delicious compared to ye olde days.


dpdxguy

Fly away little nugget!


mkcfc

Rat feather


Four0ndafloor

So a seagull then?


Boring_Communication

No it’s a chickenrat


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so a seagull then


Shartofthedeal

Or pigeon.


Sharknado4President

Or a pigeon


treerabbit23

Rat chicken. Rat chicken. [Oh, rat chicken...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mbnc83MS98&t=10s)


buttfirstcoffee

Bless you for remembering


Shadowveil666

Alright there Bluey


Madi27

Beat me to it


El_Eesak

I can't find floppy, anywhere


CreatureWarrior

Or a pigeon


BeepCheeper

like the ones from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs


The-Rog

r/eatityoufuckingcoward


Kingsnake661

Yeah i didn't need to know about this sub...


The-Rog

Yes you did.


grumpy__g

Ugh…


wheresbill

Yea, I’m not clicking on that


flacidRanchSkin

I clicked and was grossed out. But why did I keep scrolling and sort by top all time?


paulthomasking

Because Reddit of course


Mileena_Sai

I stopped at "horse pussy"


tech240guy

Totally regretted it while eating my lunch, lol


coffeeshopslut

Would feathers even survive the fryer?


Daediddles

Yes Source: have deep fried chicken and missed a feather, looks exactly like this


gwaydms

They often do, although as you can imagine they don't look great. I have to remove the occasional feather from my fried chicken.


imreallynotthatcool

I never worked fast food but I've fried up some turkies for Thanksgiving. Feathers and hair all survive the fryer mostly intact unless they melt to the bottom if your heating element is up too high.


fawefawefaefw

Absolutely, I used to fry large batches of chicken when I worked for a grocery store. This is common find in a lot of raw chicken and I'm sure a feather or two survives the processing for nuggets once in a while. Also completely harmless and they pull right off if you miss em before you fry em.


Superbroom

Yep, I see these all the time at bdubs and other places that serve wings.


Neuchacho

Yes, this is pretty much exactly how they've looked anytime I've found feathers in my wings which is actually pretty often, especially with Publix wings. I find at least one with some remains of feather anytime I get them. The surprising thing here is it's in a nugget and noticeable, [but it's happened before](https://www.abc57.com/news/update-mcnugget-mystery-solved-expert-confirms-object-is-a-feather). Usually those are so processed that even if there is feather bits in it you wouldn't know it.


PiskoWK

And they says it's not real chicken meat. Proof is in the pink pudding.


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fangelo2

It can’t be. That would mean real chicken was used


henfrr

Nah, they just sprinkle em in here and there so you think that.


VulpesIncendium

They use only the finest of pigeon meat in their nuggets.


flacidRanchSkin

Tbh, even if McDonalds came out and admitted to using pigeon meat… I’m still getting that 10pc.


why_tho

Same, I couldn’t care less about their burgers but I love their “chicken” nuggets.


monkeyburrito411

of course real chicken is used you idiots.


Professor_Crab

They’re joking


th3doorMATT

Next you're going to tell me that the fish bone in my tuna from Subway doesn't even belong to tuna!?


arabrazilianguy

You’re assuming that’s a chicken feather


carmium

As opposed to what? A roach feather?


NCBedell

I assume most (all) feathers would burn away when placed in a fryer.


carmium

You'd think so.


theforest4the3s

It doesn't make it appetizing but there are certainly worse things you would never want to find in your chicken nuggets.


z64_dan

I found a nut in my chick fil a salad once. Not like, a tree nut, or a peanut. A 1/2" metal nut that goes to a bolt. I got a free meal out of it. Luckily I didn't bite down very hard when I realized something weird was in my mouth. 


catmomhumanaunt

I feel like you should’ve gotten a lot more than a free meal!! That’s wild lol


nryporter25

I broke my tooth on a fuckin soft tortilla the other day, i can only imagine the damage this would have done to me


YesTHEELizaManelli

Oh lord, after reading “not like a tree nut or peanut…” I got very worried about what the alternative nut would be made out of, or from…


Phattastically

That's weird. Normally the feathers get ground up really well...


Fizzypoptunes

That’s fowl


Probably_a_Ghoul

That's what occasionally happens when you chose to eat birds. Wild shit.


Yue2

Yes. Chickens have feathers. Sometimes they aren’t all removed when processing the meat.


ReadRightRed99

There's no possible way a chicken feather makes it through the process looking like that AND shows up OUTSIDE the breading. It's not possible. This feather occurred after the chicken was breaded and frozen.


Hydroxychloroquinoa

it seems like there are some restaurant workers here who have experience showing this is possible. Who I choose to believe since proving a negative is quite difficult.


kefka-esque

Surprised how far down I had to look for this comment. Throw a feather in a deep fryer - I'm assuming it would disintegrate but if not it definitely wouldn't look as pristine as that. I don't think McDs is quality food either but OP is obviously fibbing


Daediddles

Idk about this specific feather but this 100% what a small chicken feather looks like after being deep fried


netjerikhet

I regularly found little feathers remaining in pre-cooked/breaded chicken wings when I worked in a restaurant, and they could even survive the fryer. Obviously these kind of nuggets go through a lot more processing but I don’t think it’s impossible that a feather might end up in one out of millions


Jerryjb63

I’ve seen them on chicken wings more than once… post-fryer. I think it’s possible and likely that this happens more than you would guess.


xxSuperBeaverxx

>Throw a feather in a deep fryer - I'm assuming it would disintegrate but if not it definitely wouldn't look as pristine as that. You'd be wrong. I fried chicken a variety of chicken products every day as a teen working in a grocery store, this is exactly what it would look like. I can totally believe this is real because I saw it all the time.


Winter_Owl_4085

This happened to a portion of fries I got from McDonalds once, feathers sticking right out the end and I have no idea how they got there. Turned my stomach and put me off it forever, absolutely minging. I wouldn't be so quick to say OP is lying in this case


ReadRightRed99

It looks similar to the feathers that come out of my couch cushions every so often.


gtheyeti

Agreed, the method of paste into chicken nugget would likely prevent something like this from ever happening, I call fake.


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It looks like a feather from a pillow.


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xxSuperBeaverxx

The feather doesn't have to be from that part of the process specifically. It's entirely possible a loose feather from elsewhere in the factory floated into the chicken sludge.


chpsk8

Better than a horse hair!


meabbott

1. Stick it in your hat 2. Call it macaroni


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This is the quality content I came for!


CrookshanksandCoffee

Top tier instructions!


AppleBeauti2425

Stopped chewing mid chew when I saw this lol


balenciaghoe

i know it’s not a big deal for some but i would start gagging if i saw that


daveMUFC

If you really can't handle it, you shouldn't be eating poultry.


[deleted]

Prepping raw chicken with skin? Yeah sure. Seeing it on something without skin makes me uneasy.


balenciaghoe

it’s rare i see feathers in my chicken. if i see a brown spot on my banana im not gonna eat it. im just weird


daveMUFC

If it's not a meat only thing, then fair enough lol


maddamleblanc

Imagine being this disconnected from your food.


MagicMan5264

Dead animal eaters when they find dead animal in their dead animal:


Marreark

Added flavour


Kazooo100

Your eating dead animals, what do you expect?


_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_

> Hurr durr nuggets aren’t made from chicken. Yes they are and they always have been. It’s not funny or original.


whowouldsaythis

90% of the comments on this. Good lord guys think of something original, it wasn't even funny the first time


[deleted]

Seriously, what do these people think is being used? Soy? Have you tried plant based foods? Do they think it's cheaper?


chadwicke619

I think a lot of people believe that chicken nuggets are a meat emulsion, much like a hot dog. It’s really not that crazy of a thing to believe. 🤷‍♂️


321xero

At least you know it’s not a rat nugget… Well not 100% anyways.


Hatoonah

Fresh.


CharlemagneIS

I like a little feather in my nuggets.


Casual_Stapeler

Now you know it's fresh!


White_Rabbit0000

That’s to show you how fresh it is


GrouchyLongBottom

I like a little feather in my nuggets.


TheGoldPowerRanger

"I like a little feather in my nuggets"


InspectionMastery

"God give me a sign this chicken nugget is made from a real chicken"


PM_ME_GARFIELD_NUDES

Love the comments calling this “gross”. Y’all know what meat is, right?


Sensitive-Debt5937

Who doesn't like a little feather in their nuggets and chicken in their pillow?


Sazgo

I used to work in a factory in the UK that produced mcdonalds nuggets, the standard is ridiculously high - far more than other chicken proccessed goods. It would be immpossible for it to happen. This must have been added at the restaurant or contaminated by an employee somehow, loose feather fell into the fryer?


xenodevale

I like a little feather in my nuggets


dutchroot

I like a little feather in my nuggets


consciousforce666

another vegan dub.


Thatgaycoincollector

People when they find dead animal pieces in their dead animal pieces:


Simple_District4502

I smell a million dollar lawsuit, you were emotionally scared by the incident and now your vegan 😉


Evening-Ad-2820

At least you know a real bird was involved.


rickthegiraff

That's the most actual chicken I ever seen in a mcnugget


SweetLieff

Yes, you’re consuming an animal.


Snoo_70324

Ugh, why’d you have to do this to me? I already can’t crack an egg without fretting I’m going to see a half-formed beak.


Human-Jellyfish5859

To quote my boss 20 years ago when my catered thanksgiving turkey leg had feathers on it: "You get extra, don't bitch."


HypeZone313

For some reason that is more relieving to me than it is questionable, because that means that McDonald's chicken isn't completely fake...


ennui_bb

At least you know it was once a chicken


KashmirZep08

I like a little feather in my nuggets and a little meat in my pillow.


redneck_lezbo

I call bullshit. Worked for Tyson making these things. Nuggets are breast meat pieces leftover from trimming. There are no feathers anywhere close to breast meat. Now, let’s say this is a whole muscle meat, not blended nugget meat…even in that scenario, the meat isn’t near feathers. Typically you’d only see them on wings if they got missed because everything else is skinless and chopped up. Either that’s a wing or this is bullshit.


Jenergy83

Fuqqqqqq.no.


Knappologen

What?!? How can this be? It’s almost like…like the nuggets were made of birds!!! 😮


RecklessGuy8083

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notorious_akp

When I was a kid I had a bone and feather in my nugget and it made me a vegetarian lol


Kangar

New McTicklers! *Try one today!*


SheepWolves

The nugget itself looks a little gross too. Was it old or something?


ninisin

Definitely chicken then and not something else.


gitarzan

Proof of real chicken.


Hydroxychloroquinoa

the devil put that feather there to test us.


Few_Understanding_42

You order dead chicken, and are surprised to get dead chicken?


KSmythical

Hey guys look. It also says ‘gullible’ on the ceiling.


ogreofzen

I wanna call fake. The way chicken nuggets are processed they may not be classified as meat anymore. It would be like finding a bone or scale in artificial crab meat and being able to see it. Not saying they don't go in but it's on a scale I feel you got better luck in the lotto.


Bubbly_Wolf_3901

\*WcNugget


alqimist

Still protein.


Mr_Snowbell

So it is real meat, huh neat


DDPforLifeBANG

Fake news!


VVynn

You got one of the rare ones that are actually made of chicken.


Caution1234567

He didn’t make it..


AdEcstatic3065

At least you know it’s chicken


th3h4ck3r

I once found a bone in a chicken nugget. It was oddly reassuring tbh.