I never trusted those chickens...you get what you pay for...
“There oughta be a law” ... against lawyers.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Get real. Any chicken, cooked or raw, being kept on display for hours at room temperature almost has to have some form of preservative as a first line of defense against salmonella. People are fooling themselves if they think otherwise. If no preservative used, that meat would need to be refrigerated or refrozen after only a few hours, similar to a creamy potato salad. Too much time used up putting the meat in and taking it out again.
“...and the other one wants four whole fried chickens and a Coke”
Two people....
These chickens are a main staple of my diet.....whatever wrong is happening with these chickens, hopefully will be cleared up...
I like the chicken and so does our cat ,LOL
Class-action shysters taking a suction on a deep pocket. Among the absolutely worst of parasitic vermin plaguing America. A pox on them all.
It’s likely not the chicken but the brine they soak the chicken in before putting them on the spit. Some people make a big stink over the type of salt used in the brining process. How do think the flavor gets into the chicken if not from the brine? Personally, I think they do a pretty good job with the brine, although I use plain old kosher salt on mine in a brine tub and then season it right before putting it on the spit.
The $5 chickens go out of Costco faster than they can cook them, the same with their $5 pumpkin pies that are as big as a pizza pan.
Sodium phosphate is used for other purposes in food. It acts as an anti-oxidant. By comparison, vitamin c has antioxidant properties, so is it a “preservative?” and carrageenan is not used as a preservative, but is a natural polysaccharide derived from red edible seaweed. It used mainly for thickening products.
Sounds like a greedy lawyer and a vexatious ignorant litigant mated.
We get them from time to time — 2 chickens for our family of 6 gives us a dinner (w/ fixins), leftovers for salad or sandwiches & then the carcasses go into a stock pot for bone broth. Not surprised they have some additives, it’s obvious they’re brined.
I love those chicken, taste great! And an unbeatable price. It’s probably a loss leader for them.
The preservatives help me stay young.
I can’t even look at those chickens any more. When one of our cats was on the downturn toward the end of her life, the only thing she would eat was the skin from these chickens. We bought so many!
During her whole life she loved Kirkland brand canned peas. No other brand.
“Oh, THOSE preservatives! We weren’t counting them.”
THE most unhealthy, garbage tier goyslop globohomo chicken you can buy. People who buy this are ignorant fools
Costco’s chickens have sodium phosphate and carrageenan that are commonly used in many foods. If there is a health reason that you should avoid foods with them, your doctor should advise you which foods to avoid. Some foods have low levels and would not need to be avoided.
phosphate and carrageenan won’t do a thing in the levels used. Carrageenan is used as a thickening, emulsifying and stabilizing agent in ice cream, yogurt, custards, jellies, cream cheese, cottage cheese and other dairy products as well as chocolate products, pie fillings, salad dressings, soups, soymilk, and as a fat substitute in processed meats, and in toothpaste.
“Some Costco customers are crying fowl over the big-box chain’s popular $4.99 rotisserie chickens”. It better be a three-legged chicken for five bucks.
neither sodium phosphate nor carrageenan are preservatives ... sodium phosphate is an emulsifier, stabilizer, pH buffer ... carrageenan is a cheap thickener used in cheap dairy goods [though it’s known to cause gut inflammation] ...
carrageenan is bad news, and high-quality foods don’t use it, e.g., daisy brand dairy products, high quality yogurts, and haagen daz ice cream, which uses NO thickeners of any kind because they use enough milk fat in the ice cream that they don’t need to artificially thicken it, unlike practically every other commercial ice cream in the USA ...
all that crap and much more are on the costco rotisserie label, so it’s a bullshit lawsuit, but being in california, some judge will probably fine costco a gazillion dollars anyway ...