Depending on product injecting salt water is necessary - one reason is to form it into nice shape, the other is to inhibit bacteria that could produce botulin toxin in the product.
There should be a class action lawsuit against Tyson and Perdue,.etc. We pay by the pound for chicken, not saltwater.
Not in sane places, it doesn’t.
so basically only the usa does it.
I wonder if even with the sodium the value still exceeds that of roasting a whole $20 chicken for hours.
At $6.99 I highly doubt it. That’s $2.33/lb
And if they add caramel, they can advertise it as salted caramel chicken! I mean, why not? Everything else is salted caramel. Disgusting stuff.
While I agree salted caramel isn’t great I can see why people like it, the ol salty sweet combo
Pumpkin Spice Chicken.
Brace for the ice limit.
In the US they do. In Canada it’s illegal.
Canadian women also don’t get as many boob jobs.
Yup, here in the EU illegal as well.
I moved to Portugal last year and I can say that the supermarket chicken here does need a lot more seasoning (to my taste) than US chicken did. I am hoping it will help cut down my overall salt intake.
In Norway, chicken without added salt and water has become the norm after producers were made to inform how much of each is added. Also, one of the triopol groceries here has wholly switched from Ross chickens, so that is a good trend for animal welfare.
Great way to cheat the customer and also ruin recipes that don’t take into consideration that cups of salt water will come out while cooking the chicken.
this is what got the wife and I to start gettin organic which dod not seem to get the injections. Normal chicken was so bad my wife started callin it frankenchicken. We have noticed they must have backed off a bit as we have gotten it once or twice on extreme loss leader sales and it was not quite as bad as we remember. Still the organic seems better and the cost is offset by actually getting meat instead of water.
Buy meat at the butcher’s
I remember growing up seeing Foster Farms commercials saying they don’t do this. It was the main theme of nearly all their ads.
When I was a teenager, I got a job at the local Foster Farms plant. My job was part of the process of injecting the chicken with saline. 😬
My job was part of the process of injecting the chicken with
Bruh
Were those the commercials with the chickens in the convertible coming to California from the Midwest?
I think that was one. It was a whole series of a couple of chickens trying to pass themselves off as Foster Farms chicken but they always got called out for being plumped and not natural.
They also do this to beef, pork, and a bunch of other meats in the US. The higher water content is part of the reason preservation methods don’t work as well.
For instance, trying to make Jerry out of water injected beef means you have to dry out the added water in addition to what was in the meat to start with, and you can’t use the post drying weight to calculate if it is dry enough.
Plus poking the holes to add the water is one more vector for bacteria…
Poor Jerry
Hey he started both those wars.
Huh, I don’t remember that episode of Seinfeld.
Jerry was the name of ze germans in ww1.
Funny you mentioned Jerry seinfeld, I used to really like him until I found out he’s a big Zionist. So he is a Nazi himself fyi. Fuck that guy Larry David’s okay.
Mandatory “in the US”.
While this one is technically legal in the EU, it would require labeling the salty water as an ingredient if it changes the weight significantly.
I can assure you that meat in the Netherlands is also filled up with water. Pretty much all meat sold in the super markets will when cooked first release the water, causing the meat to boil for a bit before it is evaporated. They don’t have to mention it on the packaging if it’s below 5%, which means in reality it’s closer to 10%. Since the Netherlands exports a lot of meat, it’ll be all over at least Europe.
It’s labeled in the US. You’ll see language like “may contain up to N% x, y, z solution” etc.
However that would require us to read
Is it legal? It used to be illegal.
Adding salty water to food is perfectly legal, as both salt and water are allowed ingredients for processed food. Lying about it is not.
Well… Not really in Denmark. At least not salt water.
Packaging on chicken often has it written on the from if there is any water inside, and if I’m not mistaken, it’s not allowed to exceed a certain percentage.
There may be reasons why people might specifically want to buy chicken with water inside, so some supermarkets here sell both, one that has an statement on the amount of water inside, and another that will say “ikke tilsat vand”.
not allowed to exceed a certain percentage
America fired all the inspector-types, though, as conservative governments usually do on about day 1. So now consumers get to protect themselves the same way they ‘did their own’ epidemiological research in the last pandemic.
This is been a thing since Reagan though, it gets worse under the Republican administrations but it does not get much better under the Democrats. We get more fucked every cycle.
The turkeys I buy on sale in bulk when I can, 50 cents a pound, have 15% of a salt solution with some other salted bullshit some phosphate or I don’t know I’ve been meaning to look it up. Probably not great for you though knowing the US Food supply.
