The fast-food chain has announced that it will soon allow certain antibiotics to be used in the chickens it raises, citing supply issues.

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.

    • reddig33@lemmy.world
      272·
      9 months ago

      It has a conservative Christian cult following due to the founder’s political and religious views.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      215·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • helpme@sh.itjust.works
        61·
        9 months ago

        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.

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        KFC in North America could learn a thing or two from KFC in China. It’s their McDonald’s.

      • Dark Arc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        One thing I do like is that they have (the option of) whole grain buns… I’ve been unable to find that elsewhere.

      • SeaJ@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 months ago

        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.

      • bjorney@lemmy.ca
        0·
        9 months ago

        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.

      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
        33·
        9 months ago

        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.

        • intensely_human@lemm.ee
          25·
          9 months ago

          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

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
      51·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • TK420@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      It’s because the jesus is fresh with every meal, christian’s really eat that shit up

    • 4am@lemm.ee
      33·
      9 months ago

      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

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
      44·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      01·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, I mean, their stuff is okay but pretty unexciting IMHO. They might be inexpensive, kinda the Taco Bell route.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      46·
      9 months ago

      Reliable/consistent, fast.

      No one gives a shit about the politics of the company outside of the permanently online