"Best damn chicken in the state!"
Posted on 01/28/2026 5:08:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
Some Costco customers are crying fowl over the big-box chain’s popular $4.99 rotisserie chickens, saying they contain preservatives in spite of the company’s claims to the contrary, according to a new lawsuit.
Two California-based people say Costco “has systematically cheated” consumers “out of tens — if not hundreds — of millions of dollars” by advertising the poultry as being free of preservatives.
The class-action lawsuit, filed last week in San Diego federal court, alleges that Costco makes the claim despite the fact that the rotisserie chickens contain sodium phosphate and carrageenan.
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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’m so fussy about what I eat, I never eat takeout of any kind.
For one thing, everything is too salty.
Don’t get me started on quality and animal cruelty. And sanitation....
"Best damn chicken in the state!"
Indeed.
We get a rotisserie chicken from Smart and Final. Get one meal the first night, then make sandwiches for next day lunch, then use rest of the chicken in soup, chicken & dumplings, tacos or enchiladas. Never have gotten sick. The grand kids call it having a “Roasty Chicken” 😜
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.
I would tell you a story about a girl who only ate vegetables,
but you have probably never heard of her-bivore.
Smart.
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.
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