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A Texas mother was completely stunned when the poultry she was preparing for dinner separated into stringy pieces of spaghetti.
Explaining pasta was not on the menu that night, the mom shared a social media post showing the raw chicken she was washing, coming apart in her hands.
“I think it’s that fake meat,” she writes on her now viral Facebook post.
The mother of two writes: “I been debating on posting this but since I had to see it so do yall.” The post, which also shows an image of chicken shredding into spaghetti-like strands, continues: “I was cooking my kids dinner a couple of weeks ago and was cleaning my meat like I normally do and when I went back to start cooking it turned into this (SIC).”
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Cooper, who shares she purchased the chicken breast from the budget supermarket Aldi, adds: “lol I think it’s that fake meat but I’m not sure anyways…I ain’t made chicken off the bone since.”
Online users jumped into the comments section, offering their opinions on the matter, some suggesting the chicken was 3D printed or grown in a petri dish.
“GMO lab meat,” writes another.
A third decides it’s “fake I don’t buy it anymore.”
Bigger breasts
So, there is more meat per bird and more profit to be made.
“Woody breast” and “spaghetti meat” might sound unsettling, but eating them won’t hurt you, according to industry experts.
But it will hurt the chickens, whose big bodies are too large for their little legs to hold.
Judging by numbers released from the National Chicken Council, broiler chickens – chickens grown for meat – grow a lot faster than in the past. In 2000, the average bird went to market at 47 days old, weighing 5.03 pounds, and in 2023, the average chicken still goes to market at day 47, but now the chubby chickens weigh in at 6.54 pounds.
Comparing these numbers to almost one century ago, broilers took 112 days to grow to a 2.5-pound market weight in 1925.
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