A KFC customer in the UK is fuming mad — and claims to have missed days of work due to mental distress — after he bit into his order of fried chicken only to find a bit of mystery material that appeared to be some sort of organ.
Convinced he’d stumbled upon a chicken brain in his KFC, the man took the item in question back to the restaurant, where he was offered an apology and a full refund (about $24). But that wasn’t sufficient, he says.
“I had to take days off work because I was feeling so sick and I have lost money,” he tells the Swindon Advertiser. “The company have only offered to give me the cost of the meal back and that is not acceptable.”
Upon looking into the matter further, KFC claims the organ in question wasn’t a brain but a chicken kidney:
We always try to ensure the highest standards in all of our stores. However, on this very rare occasion, the chicken was not fully trimmed prior to cooking.
We have contacted our suppliers, who have identified the item as a kidney.
While there was no health risk, we agree that this is unsightly.
In spite of this statement, the customer remains convinced his initial impression was correction. “It is clearly a chicken brain and no matter what anyone else says I know what I found,” he says.
The main is now considering legal action against the chicken chain.
For pictures of the evidence, check out the original story here.
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Let’s see…he’s eating fried chicken, from the torso, and he finds a brain? A kidney is so much more likely. I doubt this guy would know the difference anyway. Anyone who has ever prepped their own chicken should know how ridiculously unlikely it would be to mix the contents of a chicken head with the torso pieces…and yet how easy it could be to not detach all of the organs…
I don’t know if any of you every worked in a KFC (i did for a very short time), but the chicken comes to KFC with the kidneys attached. (“chicken was not fully trimmed prior to cooking.”)
There are people whose sole job is to prep and cook the chicken all day, and if you have to trim off a kidney alll day you are bound to miss one…
Lame article.
And? It was cooked wasn’t it? Maybe the OP should become a vegetarian. You can eat the dead flesh, fat, and muscles of the chicken but other parts make you sick for days at the thought of it?
Have you guys never had gotten this before?
You get it in many of your whole chickens, and I’ve gotten it numerous times in commerical fried chicken. Wish I had thought to getting a refund or suing….
I’ve had chicken brain. It’s not all that bad. And I know plenty of other people who have eaten kidney. Suck it up, America.
I was never sure if it was a kidney or other organ but they are found in a bony cavity near the backbone of a thigh cut. When in fried chicken they tend to be grey on the outside and pink on the inside and are soft. They DO sort of look like brain matter so I can see how the OP might’ve made that mistake but even when I first saw them as a kid, I knew enough about basic anatomy to know they are not brains.
Anyways, they are delicious and I consider it a treat to find one when eating a chicken thigh. I wasn’t aware that people would complain about finding more meat in their meat.
um, it’s chicken. You’re eating an animal. I don’t get it. They just got a bonus of extra organ–full of vitamins and nutrients!
I must blame the OP on this one. It’s chicken; why would you be surprised to find chicken…. in chicken?
This man is acting like a chicken.
Nothing is scarier than a chicken joint calling a piece of chicken unsightly.
Does no one know that meat is from living creatures anymore?
They have no problem eating the legs, wings, breast, pretty much the whole chicken, but throw a little brain into their diets (lord knows many need one) and they get pissy.
What a psycho, obv never cooks for himself. Whenever you get chicken legs, there’s bits of organ left on them. You have to clean them or wee bird kidneys are left, look like kidney beans. They’re bloody but edible, people have eaten organ meat just like muscle meat since the beginning of time. I wouldn’t have even called the store, unless it was particularly messy on more than half the pieces.
brain: http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/sites/agilestaging.library.cornell.edu.avian-atlas/files/avian_atlas_assets/VIT%20E-SELENIUM%20-%20018A%20×750.jpg
kidney: http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/sites/agilestaging.library.cornell.edu.avian-atlas/files/avian_atlas_assets/3.4.08.DSC00282%20×420.jpg
Don’t look if you have a weak stomach.
Oh, come on. I looked at the photo in the article. I find at least part of those in about 1 out of every 30 to 40 thighs that I eat there (or is it breasts? I can’t remember off-hand.). It’s not that big of a deal.
You’re eating an animal that was once alive and possessed the equipment required for living. Human finger in your chicken … UNACCEPTABLE. Chicken part in your chicken … live with it or do your own slaughtering.
Okay, first of all, that does not look like a brain. If anything, it’s a kidney or the gizzard. Two, whatever it is, it’s not poisonous, and it didn’t make him physically ill. In fact there are some people that do eat the brains and or kidneys of animals. And three, I doubt he missed work because he was sick; he couldn’t go to work because of these pesky dollar signs covering up his eyes.
WAAAAHHHHH someone put MEAT in my meat!
(not a vegetarian)
So he missed work because he felt sick after biting into something? Something that was probably a kidney/liver? Sick enough to miss work? Did he go to the presumably free doctor to see if something was wrong or did he just “feel” sick as in grossed out?
Can I sue a movie company if they make a movie that grosses me out so much that I feel too sick to work the next day?
I thought that America was the only place where people are this sue happy. Doesn’t the UK have a loser pays deal as far as law suits?
chicken brains are only slightly less delicious than kidneys, which in turn are slightly less delicious than the gizzard and heart.
Oh, for god’s sake. What a wuss. I always cook and eat the kidneys, liver, heart, etc. that come packaged with whole roasting or broiling chickens. Yum – organ meats!
Honestly, going all the way back to my childhood, I’ve always found pieces of unidentifiable organs in the KFC breasts–it’s part of why I don’t eat there anymore. To me this isn’t a new or surprising story.
He’s from England, home of kidney pie and blood pudding, and that fermented fish paste stuff?
And this bothers him?
This happened to a friend of mine in the cafeteria when we were in high school
I would be grossed out if I found either at KFC, but I have knowingly eaten both a brain and kidney while traveling. I didn’t really want to, but sometimes you just have to. I tried the brain because my cousin was raving about it. It wasn’t a whole brain, it was in India, so it was a curry. It looked and tasted like tofu crumbles. Not a big deal. Kidney is much grosser, but I was at an izakaya and I kind of had to eat the mystery yakitori I ordered.
So can anyone verify here whether it is a kidney or a brain? I’ve seen my share of turkey and chicken giblets over the years, and have not run across a kidney like that.
I thought they ate “kidney pie” in the UK.