I saw a thread recently with Americans discussing who washes their chicken in the sink before cooking it, which is a concept I'd literally never even heard of in Europe.
Never had to wash a chicken breast in my life, but, the FDA allows for a chemical rinse, but does not require it. I buy smaller, higher quality chicken breasts because they taste better compared to the bloated, plumped, and cheaper packs, so the chicken I buy may not get this chemical process.
That being said, there is no shortage of sanitization steps in packaged products that will leave residue on food. I'm more concerned that the FDA allows the chemical bath to make up for the shortcomings in animal welfare at production facilities that leads to contaminated chicken in the first place. That bothers me more than a small amount of chlorine on the meat.
The washing is to get any residual poop off the chicken. If the chicken was rinsed in chlorinated water, running water over it for a few seconds won't do anything.
Several years ago protocol was changed to not wash chicken because it was found the water splashing was more dangerous than sticking the chicken in the oven to kill any pathogens.
It was a thing until recently when it was found washing is more likely to spread disease from splashing than just sticking it in the oven to kill everything.
Can you define "recently"? I've been cooking for ~20 years now, and I also took a food-and-nutrition class in highschool which had a pretty significant unit on food safety and cross contamination. I'm confident saying that washing chicken was not the norm at least as far back as 2006.
Chicken production is horrible everywhere, but in USA it is next level disgusting.
Besides the chlorine treatment, which they have to do because the production is unsanitary, they also ship the frozen chicken to China, where it's chopped up, only to be send back to USA, still frozen.
Trump was angry with UK not wanting to import it.
It makes no sense that sending a frozen chemical shit chicken all over the world, should somehow be better or cheaper than simply raising a chicken in Europe and just chopping the head off.
We have all kinds of different labels to differentiate eggs. Consumers still buy a lot of the cheapest.
In my opinion it would make sense to outlaw the production of those instead of leaving the choice of animal welfare to the wallet of the consumer.
People do all kinds of stupid stuff that they don't need to do or shouldn't do. But yes, this is one of those stupid things that some people might do in America. I've never known anyone that does this.
I've been unlucky enough to stumble upon a YouTube video of a guy doing a live stream where he is going to cook fried chicken and someone commented he should wash the chicken.
I would do it with whole chickens, to get off all the excess saline solution they package it with, but not to try and sterilize it. That's what cooking is for
This one time someone tried arguing with me and trying to say that american food is fine and europeans only don't like it cause they're snobs and that it should be imported without regulation because "free market" or whatever, and I was just like "my fellow american, I've been eating this garbage my whole life and I can tell you with confidence that the difference in quality between it and European food is palpable. You don't even need lab testing to tell you american food is garbage."
And he basically just changed his tactic from calling me a snobby european to calling me a euraboo, and continuing to deny that there's anything wrong with american food and that European regulators are simply trying to capture the market. So I asked him if he'd be alright with importing Chinese cars to the US and he basically had an aneurysm. Fucking capitalists, man...
I was feeling pretty gaslit though. No matter how many facts and research I gave him about industrial practices and corporate capture of regulators, he just kept denying that there's any problem and doubling down that the real problem is European countries refusing to import this garbage, and waxing eloquent about how the consumers deserve to be able to choose to ear american-produced garbage food if they want to. I kept telling him nobody wants too and he was like "so let people import it," not seeing how businesses would inevitably choose the cheapest option thereby taking away the consumer's ability to choose the higher quality locally produced and healthier options...
This took place on lemmy, too. Wasn't even reddit.
Garlic powder is just so easy though. I wouldn't chop up a clove of garlic just to put on fries or whatever, but I'd sprinkle some with some paprika, salt and pepper, and make them taste fucking amazing with almost zero effort.
It's also something I can always have on hand. Whole garlic is nice and all, but I have to use it within a few weeks/months or it starts to go bad. Garlic powder I can keep around for years and I'll usually run out before it expires.
Garlic salt is a cool concept but I prefer atomizing my seasonings to be able to control the ratios myself. With mixes you're kind locked in to the ratio the manufacturer chooses.
Do what you want though, I'm not here to judge. I just like using garlic powder.
I will never forget volunteering with a magat just after the election and her being like 'just wait! Everything is going to get cheaper in a month or two!' A huge part of me would love to chat with her now. How you like $4-5 gas?
For real. She's 59 but looks like she's about to be 38. If it's surgery, they did a way better job than on Michael Jackson, cause nothing looks fake or pulled too tight.
The more news about RFK Jr. I see, the more convinced I am that the brain worm is not only alive and well but possibly in control of what this guy does. I know it sounds stupid, but if brain parasites could hold public office, it would look like this.
It seems like a known fact that Americas chicken products are riddled with disease and we see in your media that you basically have to treat it like biological waste when it is raw
Seems inevitable that any relaxing of rules will cause this kind of outbreak as you can’t keep it under control normally
Heavenly Spices has issued a nationwide recall of its Garlic Powder after the product was found to be potentially contaminated with Bacillus cereus, a bacterium that can cause foodborne illness.
Generally don't buy food from dollar stores, i think... nutso prices per unit.
I think it mostly appeals to the people who can't get to a larger market, don't have time, or can't buy larfer quantity, i guess. The usual poverty traps.
Alright, do people in the US only get eggs with ridges and flat surfaces in a V shaped box, or did the poster just attach an AI photo because they couldn't find a bloody egg photo on the Internet?
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Lots of American food is actually banned in the rest of the world, especially the EU.
Good thing the US has a great healthcare system.
https://www.fodmapeveryday.com/12-american-foods-banned-from-store-shelves-in-other-countries/
I saw a thread recently with Americans discussing who washes their chicken in the sink before cooking it, which is a concept I'd literally never even heard of in Europe.
That's not a thing most Americans do, just an fyi.
It's not, but only because doing so causes even more problems, even though there's reason to do it
Maybe I'm out of the loop here, but can people safely eat raw chicken in Europe?
You have to cook chicken in the US. I kinda figured that was a global thing.
Yeah you have to cook chicken everywhere, people wash the raw chicken in the US because of the chemicals the meat has been soaked in
> people wash the raw chicken in the US
No they do not
No, we really don't.
Also most of the chickens have just been simply brined. The only "chemical" you find in there is sodium chloride.
Never had to wash a chicken breast in my life, but, the FDA allows for a chemical rinse, but does not require it. I buy smaller, higher quality chicken breasts because they taste better compared to the bloated, plumped, and cheaper packs, so the chicken I buy may not get this chemical process.
That being said, there is no shortage of sanitization steps in packaged products that will leave residue on food. I'm more concerned that the FDA allows the chemical bath to make up for the shortcomings in animal welfare at production facilities that leads to contaminated chicken in the first place. That bothers me more than a small amount of chlorine on the meat.
The washing is to get any residual poop off the chicken. If the chicken was rinsed in chlorinated water, running water over it for a few seconds won't do anything.
Several years ago protocol was changed to not wash chicken because it was found the water splashing was more dangerous than sticking the chicken in the oven to kill any pathogens.
The only thing that leads someone to thinking this is true is brain damage
It was a thing until recently when it was found washing is more likely to spread disease from splashing than just sticking it in the oven to kill everything.
Can you define "recently"? I've been cooking for ~20 years now, and I also took a food-and-nutrition class in highschool which had a pretty significant unit on food safety and cross contamination. I'm confident saying that washing chicken was not the norm at least as far back as 2006.
Sorry, I'm old now so "recent" is messed up in my mind. Pretty sure I learned the change from Alton Brown Good Eats 1999.
Chicken production is horrible everywhere, but in USA it is next level disgusting.
Besides the chlorine treatment, which they have to do because the production is unsanitary, they also ship the frozen chicken to China, where it's chopped up, only to be send back to USA, still frozen. Trump was angry with UK not wanting to import it.
It makes no sense that sending a frozen chemical shit chicken all over the world, should somehow be better or cheaper than simply raising a chicken in Europe and just chopping the head off.
US chicken is not chlorinated any more. This myth just won't die in Facebook.
anything cage free, range free are horrible. you are looking for pasture raised, or expensive garden raised.
We have all kinds of different labels to differentiate eggs. Consumers still buy a lot of the cheapest. In my opinion it would make sense to outlaw the production of those instead of leaving the choice of animal welfare to the wallet of the consumer.
People do all kinds of stupid stuff that they don't need to do or shouldn't do. But yes, this is one of those stupid things that some people might do in America. I've never known anyone that does this.
I've been unlucky enough to stumble upon a YouTube video of a guy doing a live stream where he is going to cook fried chicken and someone commented he should wash the chicken.
He did. With dish soap.
That's just reaction baiting at that point
The guy was genuinely miffed by having people laughing at him because he was about to wash the chicken with dish soap.
So much so, he did it nonetheless, while saying out loud "you wanted me to wash the chicken, I be washing the chicken".
It was genuine.
Streaming steaming with reactions. It was not genuine.
He should have used a bath bomb and candles.
That would have been entertaining.
That's not really a necessary thing as far as I can find. It's more of something that people do because their parents and grandparents did it too
I would do it with whole chickens, to get off all the excess saline solution they package it with, but not to try and sterilize it. That's what cooking is for
Americans have a lot of mythology around chickens fed by Facebook.
This one time someone tried arguing with me and trying to say that american food is fine and europeans only don't like it cause they're snobs and that it should be imported without regulation because "free market" or whatever, and I was just like "my fellow american, I've been eating this garbage my whole life and I can tell you with confidence that the difference in quality between it and European food is palpable. You don't even need lab testing to tell you american food is garbage."
And he basically just changed his tactic from calling me a snobby european to calling me a euraboo, and continuing to deny that there's anything wrong with american food and that European regulators are simply trying to capture the market. So I asked him if he'd be alright with importing Chinese cars to the US and he basically had an aneurysm. Fucking capitalists, man...
I was feeling pretty gaslit though. No matter how many facts and research I gave him about industrial practices and corporate capture of regulators, he just kept denying that there's any problem and doubling down that the real problem is European countries refusing to import this garbage, and waxing eloquent about how the consumers deserve to be able to choose to ear american-produced garbage food if they want to. I kept telling him nobody wants too and he was like "so let people import it," not seeing how businesses would inevitably choose the cheapest option thereby taking away the consumer's ability to choose the higher quality locally produced and healthier options...
This took place on lemmy, too. Wasn't even reddit.
That article has inaccurate information JSYK, brominated vegetable oil was banned in the US before the article was published.
I'm sorry
And jalapeños as of yesterday. Taylor Farms again.
It's a conspiracy by Big Mayo to keep flavor out of food, I tell ya! They'll come for the sriracha next!
My wristwatch has a secret hot sauce dispenser
that's your radial artery and you really should leave it alone
Deep cut
Siracha already dead since it's not the same anymore
He America...
Y'all winning yet?
What a strange breakfast you must have been playing.
Wait what happened with garlic powder? This shit keeps happening so fast I can't keep up...
It's a Canadian recall. Not sure why it's being attributed to RFK Jr.
At this point, fuck it. Why not?
I can’t argue with that logic haha
praise stencho i have four other types of garlic if we gotta get rid of our dessicated shit.
i was just about to buy a new pound of garlic salt, too.
Garlic powder is just so easy though. I wouldn't chop up a clove of garlic just to put on fries or whatever, but I'd sprinkle some with some paprika, salt and pepper, and make them taste fucking amazing with almost zero effort.
It's also something I can always have on hand. Whole garlic is nice and all, but I have to use it within a few weeks/months or it starts to go bad. Garlic powder I can keep around for years and I'll usually run out before it expires.
Garlic salt is a cool concept but I prefer atomizing my seasonings to be able to control the ratios myself. With mixes you're kind locked in to the ratio the manufacturer chooses.
Do what you want though, I'm not here to judge. I just like using garlic powder.
I just like to sprinkle the garlic salt on my pizza crust. And any underseasoned pizza we accidentally buy
That sounds like a good use for it
Yeah, if I'm cooking I get fancy with the garlic too. But like, little scissors pizza needs some help with he flavor
Eggs and groceries were a symbol for the election of Trump
Now groceries are expensive and eggs are dangerous to eat
I will never forget volunteering with a magat just after the election and her being like 'just wait! Everything is going to get cheaper in a month or two!' A huge part of me would love to chat with her now. How you like $4-5 gas?
People have actually justified it by saying adjusted for inflation it's actually cheaper
i love the loss of purchasing power, how about you?
Lol yeah sure. Cause we've all gotten such great raises!! /s
Poetic really.
And Trump is in the catering cart at the airport chowing down.
Elect Rapepublicans, get a sicker, poorer, and globally hated America.
Hate is a strong word, but in this case, not strong enough. Despise, loathe, lament.. Idk so many options
To be fair, the civilised world has always sneered at 'Murica, for good reason
We used to just laugh at you, now we hate you to the point that "made in america" is a negative thing.
I heard about the Jalapeño peppers but now garlic powder too???
and eggs too? wtf, had to go look that up to verify it. And yep... eggs too. We're so fucked.
I guess making people not buy groceries is a way to make them cheaper.
i think eggs always had the salmonella problem, chickens naturally carry the bacterium in thier gut. thats why you dont eat cookie dough raw.
Whereas the wife and I made cookies a few days ago, and being that we're in the UK, I was eating raw cookie dough.
I did keep getting told off, admittedly, but it was worth it :D
All you LIBTARDS have TDS! I don't remember ANYONE complaining about THIS during BIDENS Administration!
-Super Seriously Smarty Republicans!
trump dick sucking syndrome
Don't forget the jalapeños.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/08/04/chipotle-pulls-jalapenos-in-salmonella-outbreak/91168769007/
I was going to say, she must have missed that
I'm sorry, what the fuck happened to garlic powder???
It makes vampires nervous, so the Republicans won't have any of it.
it wont repel mitch mcconnel, becauses hes a different kind of undead, a lich.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/food-products/a73219082/garlic-powder-recall/
Oh damn, the us fucked up even that?
Didn't US voters choose Trump allegedly because of the egg prices?
Well, I guess they still got all the racism.
They had the benefit of the doubt in 2016.
In 2024 his voters were just racists and nothing more. "NPC" was Republican projection too.
What's up with the garlic powder? Didn't know you could screw that up to be honest.
Vampirism is spreading like wildfire in the US
Nicole Kidman agrees.
For real. She's 59 but looks like she's about to be 38. If it's surgery, they did a way better job than on Michael Jackson, cause nothing looks fake or pulled too tight.
bryan johnson is trying to stay young forever by sucking his sons blood. and yes he looks vampiric.
I heard about jalapenos, but not about garlic powder. Sure wish we had a government that wasn't full of total pieces of shit.
Is America great again yet?
Don’t forget salsa, guacamole, and jalapeños.
I’m eating a burrito bowl right now. It feels like I’m gambling with my life. But fuck it’s delicious.
If you aren't gambling with your life, are you truly living? he asks while eating a burger with lettuce on it
The more news about RFK Jr. I see, the more convinced I am that the brain worm is not only alive and well but possibly in control of what this guy does. I know it sounds stupid, but if brain parasites could hold public office, it would look like this.
Are we sure it's just a brain worm and not an actual Goa'uld?
goa'uld are too smart and prefer strong hosts.
Is this still the country that banned Kinder Eggs?
"regulated"
Regulated kinder eggs, but not firearms.
Your country is literally a joke.
No, jokes are funny.
Literally
tHiNk oF tHe cHiLdReN
I stand "corrected".
Add almost anything from Taylor Farms, that company that paid drumpf $1 million
https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/outbreaks/shell-eggs-07-26/index.html
I suppose its technically a nationwide recall, but it seems like there are only a handful of States impacted at least.
73 of the 90 something cases reported in Texas. How surprising
Good, let them eat eggs
Yeah, but I bet they are really cheap now. So... Good work America, I guess that's what you wanted?
With the increased destruction of wetlands and water usage, he’s also technically draining the swamp.
He's drained that big square one in DC twice now...
They promised cheaper eggs but did they promise healthy eggs?
they promised salmonella eggs, also known as diarrhea eggs.
But think of all the shareholder value that's been created!
Are we tired of winning yet?
Honestly I'd be scared to eat anything in or from the US.
TBF his family did warn us that he's mental.
Yeah but conservative voters REALLY identify with felons, rapists, pedophiles, and brain damaged drug addicts.
It seems like a known fact that Americas chicken products are riddled with disease and we see in your media that you basically have to treat it like biological waste when it is raw
Seems inevitable that any relaxing of rules will cause this kind of outbreak as you can’t keep it under control normally
Half the people meant to control these things have been fired.
now its just a worms controlling everything.
More than half. It's now three people. That's 115 million to one.
i think because chicken carry salmonella naturally thats why.
Can't complain about egg prices if you can't buy eggs.
First get your population sick with food made for cockroaches, then charge them thousands to heal themselves.
A perfect system, really.
We can’t eat garlic powder rn?
Yah news to me…ohh lovely
Heavenly Spices Garlic Powder Recalled Nationwide Over Bacillus cereus Contamination
Is it just that brand? Or does it get repackaged with a million different generic labels?
Cause I've never heard of that one but I don't know if that means I'm safe...
Me neither. Quick internet search shows it limited to Canada stores…so not sure what the impact in the US is. Wonder if it is sold stateside as well.
The recall affects garlic powder sold in Dollarama stores across Canada and online
Oh huh, interesting. I wonder how it relates to the US health agency then, incompetent though they are...
Incompetent being the key word, they are likely “looking into it” and will issue an advisory in a couple weeks lol
Apparently a garlic powder sold in Canada
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/food-products/a73219082/garlic-powder-recall/
Ahh it's in Canada. Thank you so much for the link!
Sure! I use garlic powder a lot so I had to check 😅
Avoid any US sourced food. It's all contaminated with shit.
I would except I live here. So I avoid what I can
Good to know.
Generally don't buy food from dollar stores, i think... nutso prices per unit.
I think it mostly appeals to the people who can't get to a larger market, don't have time, or can't buy larfer quantity, i guess. The usual poverty traps.
Make America Healthy Again... Fuck me.
If bacon and tomatoes go down, y'all are really fucked. Good luck over there!
I heard a report on NPR that food inflation was stable because lettuce prices have plummeted.
:/
So, is this Trump technically fulfilling his campaign promise of lowering egg prices?
They believe they are killing the weak, leaving young fit workers.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/food-and-drink/general/these-recalled-eggs-could-still-be-in-your-fridge-see-list/ar-AA29xTlh
Listen up liberals...
cant eat anything anymore
Joke’s on all of us- RFK is actually solving our obesity crisis by allowing all our food to be contaminated.
I guess shitting yourself constantly will eventually lead to weight loss
Got my giant box of garlic powder a couple of weeks ago. I'm hoping I'm good until this blows over.
Yeah I have a few years worth.
i ain't convinced all of these recalls aren't fake so they can further drive up the price of eggs and garlic
If it turned out that's what they did, my reaction would be: "Of course they did."
They did that with sugar in the 1970s
Sadly, most people won't learn anything from this. We need a way to get the average idiot informed.
Can't est jalapenos either
Alright, do people in the US only get eggs with ridges and flat surfaces in a V shaped box, or did the poster just attach an AI photo because they couldn't find a bloody egg photo on the Internet?
Just cook your eggs. Chicken also has salmonella. We cook it.
just boil your water!
Can I just get a list of safe foods?
Diet soda, and your lucky to have even that peasant.
Just eat Dump’s McD order and be lovin it. Oof.