Best I can guess is maybe they had a fried chicken sandwich that had strips of bacon too? But not really a huge loss -- bacon is definitely not any kind of classic topping for fried chicken, the way it is for burgers. I mean, I love bacon but I don't want it with fried chicken. Bacon adds crunch and chewiness to a burger; fried chicken is already crunchy and chewy.
I'd rather eat bacon than hormone infused chicken, fully grown in less than a month, pressure fried in a crust of MSG saturated dough, which is supposedly halal and Colonel Sanders actually hates. In fact I just went to the Italian store and bought almost half a kilo of porchetta because of what I read here. It'll keep us well fed for at least two days and has all the collagen my wife otherwise gets from awfully tasting expensive supplements.
>I'd rather eat bacon than hormone infused chicken, fully grown in less than a month
They're both hormone free.
"Under Federal law, hormones are only approved for use in beef cattle, swine**, and lamb production. There are no hormones approved for use in the production of poultry, goat, veal calves, mature sheep, or exotic, non-amenable species"
The typical preparation of bacon basically involves it frying in its own fat. I'm not sure how pressure frying is any more worse. Moreover bacon contains nitrates and nitrites, which is known to cause cancer, unlike msg
I think you're misunderstanding whether Halal means. Halal just means the food adheres to Islamic laws. It says nothing whether it's safe or healthy. Unless you're a practicing muslim (which seems unlikely), it shouldn't be part of your consideration one way or the other.
They must be doping them with something because I’ve encountered chicken bones that aren’t even fully formed inside of chicken thighs that are above average in size.
My MIL used to be a food scientist and spent a few years working with Tyson. She hosted a party once with chicken wings twice the size of my hand. I refused to partake of them especially since she wasn’t allowed to tell me how they got so big.
>They must be doping them with something because I’ve encountered chicken bones that aren’t even fully formed inside of chicken thighs that are above average in size.
So your reasoning for thinking there's a conspiracy to hide hormones in chickens involving the federal government, various poultry companies, and the thousands of farmers they subcontract out to, is that you saw a few chicken thighs that looked too big for their bone, and your MIL had a NDA with the company she worked for? The official explanation is "better breeding and growing conditions"[1]. Is there a reason you don't find that plausible? We can see how much of an impact breeding can make on dogs, for instance, and chickens are bred so big that they develop health problems[2]. Maybe the chicken you saw really did had underdeveloped bones relative to how big it was, but it's not because of "They must be doping them with something", it's just how they were bred.
i do not know as much about it, but from my very surface level understanding, that is more a fee you pay to certify your process, whereas halal needs protection money by the quantity
You realize that KFC chicken is just the same chicken you buy at the supermarket?
It's an urban legend that KFC somehow raises its own chicken that is somehow different, whether genetically, chemically, or speed of growth.
I mean, if you prefer the taste of pork over chicken then great.
But the idea there's anything uniquely bad about the chicken supplied to KFC is just factually untrue.
Also, since you really like Italian food, you might be surprised to find that Parmesan cheese is chock-full of MSG. Which is a major reason why it's used so much in Italian cuisine to impart flavor. MSG isn't bad -- it's umami, just like NaCl is salt.
We don't buy chicken at the supermarket. Our parents raise chickens.
Fake supermarket parmesan? Probably. Parmigiano Reggiano DOP, not really.
"The only additive allowed is salt, which the cheese absorbs while being submerged for 20 days in brine tanks saturated to near-total salinity with Mediterranean sea salt."
> Moreover bacon contains nitrates and nitrites, which is known to cause cancer, unlike msg
We don't buy bacon treated with nitrates and nitrites. That's 95% of supermarket bacon. We mostly end up buying prosciutto, which is just dried, salted and nitrate free or use home made bacon, which is basically 100% pork fat in my country. The Italians also make it, it's called lardo and it's cured with herbs. We only cure it with salt and smoke it. I'm not much of a fan of 100% pork fat or lard, but it does make good fries.
I used to work at a Canadian KFC and it's just like you guessed, occasionally we'd have a special sandwich for sale for a limited time that had strips of bacon on it. Normally we wouldn't have any pork products on the menu, and when we did have bacon I'm pretty sure it was microwaved.
They're a chicken restaurant.
Best I can guess is maybe they had a fried chicken sandwich that had strips of bacon too? But not really a huge loss -- bacon is definitely not any kind of classic topping for fried chicken, the way it is for burgers. I mean, I love bacon but I don't want it with fried chicken. Bacon adds crunch and chewiness to a burger; fried chicken is already crunchy and chewy.