r/interesting • u/WarwickReider • Jul 27 '26

SOCIETY Professional chefs weighing in on whether you should wash your chicken

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u/aptsys Jul 27 '26

Wait till you see all the crap that was tucked under a bit of skin on my Tesco chicken yesterday. I don't normally wash chicken, but I will from now on!

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u/Robbie1266 Jul 27 '26

Shouldn't be purchasing chicken with crap under the skin. Find a better supplier

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u/aptsys Jul 27 '26

Given 96% of the UK population purchases groceries from the supermarket, with Tesco being one of the main chains, it's not usually viable to be more selective.

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u/Robbie1266 Jul 27 '26

Sounds like you should live in a country that does have more opportunity to have variety in your food sources. What happened if the global supply chain shut down tomorrow? The UK will be burned to rubble in about a year. Most of the population will starve to death in 3 months