Chicken

If You Bought Any of These Chicken Products from Target, Trader Joe’s, or Amazon, Throw Them Out Now

USDA didn't have a list of products for consumers to avoid during the initial recall of 10 million pounds of chicken last week.

Scientists Crack the Mystery of When Eggs First Emerged as a Culinary Craze

Archaeologists say they’ve found evidence showing that humans in Central Asia began to raise ancient chickens for their eggs as early as 400 BCE.

Here Are a Dozen Fresh Memes About the Egg Price Crisis

Egg prices are up 300% in some parts of the country, but these grade-A, free-range memes will keep you satiated while you avoid going to the grocery store.

No One Was Talking About NyQuil Chicken Until the FDA Told Everyone Not to Talk About It

The agency warned against a "recent" social media trend of cooking chicken in NyQuil last week, but the bizarre recipe hadn't been trending in months.

KFC’s Beyond Fried Chicken Tastes Like KFC’s Fried Chicken

If you already like the Colonel's offerings, Beyond Fried Chicken is going to be no different. And that's a good thing.

Why TV Is So Bad at Covering Climate Change

It's stupidly hard to get cable news to pay attention to the most important story of our lifetime.

Stop Kissing Chickens

If there's one thing everyone should know about birds by this point, it's that kissing them is extremely stupid.

CDC Warns Americans to Stop Kissing Birds, You Salmonella Freaks

Looks like it’s once again time for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to play the role of buzzkill. In the midst of a new outbreak of Salmonella bacteria linked to pet birds, the CDC is warning feather lovers: Please don’t smooch or snuggle your backyard chickens, ducks, or other assorted poultry. Birds and…

PSA: Boiling Chicken in Yellowstone’s Hot Springs Is a Crime

Three men have been banned from Yellowstone National Park for boiling chicken in the park’s hot springs. That’s because it’s against the law to approach the springs, but really boiling is not a good way to prepare chicken at all and should be considered a crime on its own. In August, three middle-aged dudes brought…

Tyson Launches Its First Plant-Based Protein Brand to Compete With Beyond Meat

Tyson Foods is launching the company’s first plant-based protein brand, called Raised & Rooted, that will feature vegetarian nuggets that taste like chicken and blended burgers that still contain beef but are arguably more healthy. Tyson’s new brand will compete with Beyond Meat, one of the first companies along with Impossible Foods to make a…

69,000 Pounds of Tyson Chicken Strips Recalled Over Concerns They May Contain Pieces of Metal

Tyson Foods has recalled nearly 70,000 pounds of frozen chicken strips shipped to more than 20 states over fears that they could be tainted with fragments of metal, according to federal officials. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Thursday that the recall of Tyson ready-made strips was issued after it…

CDC Ends Investigation Into Chicken Salmonella Outbreak That Sickened 129, But More Could Fall Ill

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week that it ended its investigation into an ongoing Salmonella outbreak linked to various raw chicken products. It was unable to identify a common source during the outbreak that sickened dozens since it started in January last year, the agency said. The multidrug-resistant outbreak strain, Salmonella…

American Company Recalls a Million Pounds of Cafeteria Chicken

A company producing ready-to-eat chicken is recalling 933,272 pounds of its ostensibly schoolhouse cafeteria-bound product. That’s equal to 26.5 million McNuggets, based on prior Gizmodo calculations. That is so much chicken.  Oklahoma City-based OK Foods, inc.* is recalling chicken produced from Dec 19, 2016 through Mar 7, 2017. This comes after five complaints brought a United…

How Many Chicken McNuggets Are in the Big Chicken?

By now, you’ve definitely seen or at least heard of The Big Chicken. He is large. He contains multitudes. And he is most certainly real. While I’m not a chicken expert myself, judging by his phenotypes (i.e. extremely large and incredibly fluffy), he’s likely a Brahma chicken—a massive bird originally from India, traditionally kept as…

Pity the Chicken That Laid This Egg Inside an Egg

This isn’t a miraculous occurrence or a trick. But it is very rare. The technical term for the process of a chicken incubating an egg inside another egg is called a counter-peristalsis contraction. Basically, an egg that wasn’t quite ready went back up inside the hen’s reproductive assembly line and another egg formed around it.…

KFC Is Giving Away Sunscreen That Makes You Smell Like Fried Chicken

The summer is drawing to a close, but there’s still time to catch some rays, get a glowing tan, and smell like extra crispy fried chicken. Kentucky Fried Chicken—or KFC as it likes to be called now—is giving away tubes of sunscreen that make you smell like you’ve slathered yourself in the Colonel’s secret 11…

Charlie’s Back At It Again With His Blue Pants!!

I don’t know, man. Don’t ask me why the chicken is wearing blue pants. Don’t ask me where the chicken even got his blue pants. Just enjoy the silly inanity of a chicken running around the yard like a total goofball while wearing blue pants. I don’t know if the chicken likes wearing his blue…

Archeologists think they’ve pinpointed the spot where chicken became one of the world’s most popularly-eaten foods: A dig in an ancient city in Israel yielded a trove of chicken bones, dating back to 400 B.C.E., likely from the first instance of a chicken food craze ever.

Shake Shack’s first ever fried chicken sandwich looks like perfection

Shake Shack, perhaps the best burger chain in the world and if you disagree you probably need to see if you can get a new tongue, just announced their first ever chicken sandwich, a fried chicken sandwich that looks like the Platonic ideal of what a fried chicken sandwich should look like (if you like…

The Science of Why Chicken Goes Bad So Quickly

Food-borne bacteria are the primary cause of spoilage and food poisonings. Thriving in moist, low-acid environments where lots of protein is present, pathogens like Salmonella, Campylobacter and E. coli live with the bird during its life and stay with its meat after slaughter; likewise, other bacteria, such a Acinetobacter and Pseudomonads fluroescens, putida or fragi,…