Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A has sparked a social media backlash after announcing that it will soon allow certain antibiotics in the chickens it raises, citing supply issues.
Chick-fil-A restaurants in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico will transition “from chicken raised with No Antibiotics Ever (NAE) to chicken raised with No Antibiotics Important to Human Medicine (NAIHM), starting in the spring of 2024,” the company said in a statement posted on its website this week.
I don’t get the popularity of Chick-fil-A. Bland sandwiches and little variety.
The peach milkshake slaps but the food sucks. Popeyes is better for God’s sake.
Of course I stopped going entirely after they said they stopped donating to LGBTQA+ groups and then got fucking caught doing it yet again so yeah fuck Hate Chicken
It is pretty much the pinnacle of “white people fried chicken”. American KFC (because Asian KFC is godlike) comes close but so many people never grew up beyond eating chicken tenders and bones scare them.
So you have inadequately seasoned chicken tenders soaked in pickle juice and people lose their minds.
And the strong focus on Christian Values, err, “Good service” means that nobody will ever be faced with the horror that is the realization that their satisfaction is not the only reason that someone is working in fast food.
Reliable/consistent, fast.
No one gives a shit about the politics of the company outside of the permanently online
Your forgot expensive too.
Everything is expensive now
You are right. I’m going to cry in a pillow now
I’d cry in my pillow but I can’t afford one. Cries in late stage capitalist pre-apocalyptic dystopian Zeitgeist
It has a conservative Christian cult following due to the founder’s political and religious views.
They don’t give a shit about LGBT lives, but they sure do give a shit about antibiotics… I’ll give you a single guess as to why.
Turns frogs gay?
Extremely gay
No it doesn’t. It’s just generally immensely popular.
No, it’s both.
Yep. It was popular before that information was spread far and wide. After the information spread a certain group of people are now die hard fans.
First off, remember it’s fast food, standards are abysmal.
But it’s an actual piece of chicken, that’s actually prepared correctly.
If you got it in a sit down restaurant or even pub, you wouldn’t comment on it.
But compare it to any other chicken sandwich you could get from a drive thru in the last 20 years and the hype makes sense.
No matter where you are, if you see a chicfila you know you’ll get a decent chicken sandwich that isn’t ridiculously expensive.
A burger place isn’t going to do chicken as well as a dedicated chicken place, and KFC is a joke, so the only real competition for that niche is Popeyes on a national level.
I guess you can still call it good but they switched to Tyson on the East Coast like 10 years ago and yeah it’s bland and generic.
Popeye’s is better. I’ve had Chick-fil-A once (bought for me) and it was exactly what it looked like: a chicken sandwich. It was a bit bland and watery.
Let me guess, someone bought it for you, let it sit in a bag for an hour, and then gave it to you…and you judge the entire franchise off this one experience
That’s a fucking weird guess. No. It was a client on site and Chick-fil-A was about 5 minutes gotten the road. It would be weird for my client to have ordered mine an hour before the fifteen people I was training.
My question is…why the fuck are you so defensive of a mediocre fast food chain?
Because it’s good chicken, and I think it’s hilarious that the groupthink has extended to where people are pretending it’s not, because that’s better politics.
If juicy=flavorful then sure, it’s flavorful. I look for more though.
KFC in North America could learn a thing or two from KFC in China. It’s their McDonald’s.
Fast food also varies so much across the US. I talked up Chick-fil-A so much after having it in Texas, and then when I brought my girlfriend to one in Florida it was garbage.
I’ve identified the issue…
Dave’s Hot Chicken would like a word with you.
It’s also pretty expensive
Well if there was one within a thousand miles of me Maybe it could
Twenty years ago? Probably?
Ten years ago? Doubtful
But the past few years have seen most of the fast food fried chicken places go hard on chicken sandwiches. And even mcdonald’s has stepped up their game to being actually pretty decent.
Mostly chikfila just coasts on their recognition from 20 years ago and the zealots who refuse to try anything else.
Incidentally you can tell which universe a person is from by how they spell Chik-fil-a
You spell it the way it was spelled in my original universe
One thing I do like is that they have (the option of) whole grain buns… I’ve been unable to find that elsewhere.
I think you’re just being contrarian.
For me, their menu hits the perfect spot of being simple yet flavorful. But the big thing is consistency. CFA is the only major fast food chain I can go to where the line moves incredibly fast and my order doesn’t get fucked up. Even with customizations. And it’s the same experience regardless of location, airports included.
Not enough fast food places have good salads, or healthy options in general. Their Cobb salad with either a sliced spicy chicken fillet or nuggets hits like a salad you’d get from a decent cafe.
Right wing chicken chain has loyal right wing followers
This is the only explanation that makes any sense.
That they do not. My brother, a staunch Trump supporter who actively would spend money at CFA over their donations to anti-LGBT groups in the 2010s and banned his kids from going to Starbucks stopped letting his family eat at CFA over having a DEI officer.
May 2023 and first I heard of it. I think this one got no attention.
To your edit, yes. This is Lemmy. Very strong echo chambers and if you don’t agree, you are wrong.
This place is getting worse by the day.
Their fries didn’t even have salt when I tried them
Seriously. It’s like being in love with average quality.
In my city, the dive bar makes better chicken sandwiches. How depressing that people live like that.
I prefer “Dave’s Hot Chicken”. Large boobs, and lots of spice.
It’s because the jesus is fresh with every meal, christian’s really eat that shit up
Yeah, I mean, their stuff is okay but pretty unexciting IMHO. They might be inexpensive, kinda the Taco Bell route.
They’re not inexpensive.
Taco Bell isn’t that cheap anymore. I ate there not long ago for the first time in years and it was over 10$ for the basic taco combo, not even Supreme. And they sucked. They were almost completely devoid of fillings. They are on my eternal shit list now.