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No Chickenjoy: Jollibee closes Philippines outlet after woman finds fried towel in meal
AsiaOne ^ | JUNE 02, 2021 | Mardiah Haslan

Posted on 06/05/2021 3:56:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Many Filipinos enjoy Jollibee's fried chicken but one woman found no joy in her meal.

On Wednesday (June 2), Alique Perez took to Facebook to express her disgust when the Chickenjoy meal she had ordered via a food delivery app turned out to be something else.

Perez was trying to give her son a bite when she found it hard to slice the piece of fried chicken.

When she tried to open it up with her hands, she discovered — much to her surprise — that it was a deep-friend towel.

"This is really disturbing... How the hell do you get the towel in the batter and even fry it?" she wrote.

Perez shared two video clips showing her inspecting the 'fried chicken' saying that it 'looks like a real chicken' from a certain angle and adding that it was her 'worst experience ever.'

She also voiced concerns over food safety, writing, "I can't even think of the other Chickenjoys" that were fried together with the towel.

The 'essence' of the towel would have contaminated the oil and the batter that coated the fried chicken, Perez added.

Within a day, her Facebook post garnered over 90,000 likes, 1,800 comments and 81,000 shares.

In response to the viral post, Jollibee announced on the same day that it will temporarily close one of its branches in Bonifacio Global City, Philippines.

The fast-food chain said that the outlet will close for three days starting June 3 as it "thoroughly reviews its compliance with procedures" and retrains staff to ensure that this incident will not happen again.


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1 posted on 06/05/2021 3:56:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

It’s to soak up the grease, you dummy.


2 posted on 06/05/2021 3:58:53 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: nickcarraway

I stopped at a Bush’s Chicken in Groesbeck Texas. While driving, I bit into a chicken breast. To my dismay, it had no meat! It was a breaded bone. Maybe they cut the meat off for their chicken tenders and accidentally??? dropped the scrap into the breading. Or maybe, they were all snickering when I drove away.


3 posted on 06/05/2021 4:03:29 PM PDT by Deepeasttx ( Sensitivity/diversity training sessions are just reeducation camps without walls....for now.)
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To: nickcarraway

Sounds like Popeye’s—breaded cardboard.


4 posted on 06/05/2021 4:06:10 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Fungi

McDonald’s is looking better every minute.


5 posted on 06/05/2021 4:09:01 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s one thing about the Philippines that I experienced, they are very strict about their standards.


6 posted on 06/05/2021 4:13:41 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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“retrains staff”

Up till now, training had never specifically said not to deep-fry towels ... so how were they to know?


7 posted on 06/05/2021 4:15:28 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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When she tried to open it up with her hands, she discovered — much to her surprise — that it was a deep-friend towel.

Guess it depends on the towel. Now an old dish towel might be kind of chewy, but maybe some deep-fried Viva paper toweling might be ok.


8 posted on 06/05/2021 4:23:39 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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9 posted on 06/05/2021 4:32:42 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s a new product - fried towel... :-)


10 posted on 06/05/2021 4:39:56 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Rest In PEACE, Rush H. Limbaugh III. You are missed already...)
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To: nickcarraway

If finding out, when you go to cut it, that a piece of chicken is actually a towel is your “worst experience ever” you’ve lead a pretty charmed life.


11 posted on 06/05/2021 4:58:59 PM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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Also MUCH better than finding out your towel is a chicken.


12 posted on 06/05/2021 4:59:52 PM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: nickcarraway

Did someone lose their towel? Towelheads...jeez.


13 posted on 06/05/2021 5:03:13 PM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz )
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To: Deplorable American1776

Plant based?


14 posted on 06/05/2021 5:03:29 PM PDT by cp124 (Family and friends, pay to play government.)
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To: Larry Lucido
I remember Dolly Parton advertising New Breeze with Bleach Borax and Brighteners.

1972 Dolly Parton & Porter Waggoner BREEZE DETERGENT COMMERCIAL

15 posted on 06/05/2021 5:18:49 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: nickcarraway

That could be a hit at state fairs, eat then clean up!


16 posted on 06/05/2021 5:19:56 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Larry Lucido
I remember that detergent.

All of my grandmother's bath towels came from Breeze detergent boxes.

17 posted on 06/05/2021 5:23:52 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be that's for sure.)
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To: Do_Tar

Yep this story is bs. If a small towel fell in the batter and got fried it’s a pretty simple accident to understand. They quote the customer like a food expert saying the “essence” of the towel infected all the other chicken pieces. I don’t think so.


18 posted on 06/05/2021 6:02:55 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Do_Tar

“Also MUCH better than finding out your towel is a chicken.”

LOL! If I had a nickel ...


19 posted on 06/05/2021 7:36:33 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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"That could be a hit at state fairs, eat then clean up!"

This thread could be a classic!

20 posted on 06/05/2021 8:39:31 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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