Costco customers complain about ‘slimy and awful’ chicken that’s become ‘weirdly spongy’ and a ‘0/10 strikeout’ | 8Z45CU8 | 2024-04-28 17:08:01
Costco customers complain about 'slimy and awful' chicken that's become 'weirdly spongy' and a '0/10 strikeout' | 8Z45CU8 | 2024-04-28 17:08:01
COSTCO customers are complaining about the quality of a usually beloved product.
Costco has long been applauded for its quality food but recent customer experiences have shoppers slamming the wholesaler's poultry quality.
The retailer's Kirkland Signature brand of chicken thighs and breasts has come under fire for its texture and packaging.
Costco sells bulk boneless skinless chicken thighs, packaged in separate groups of cuts in vacuum-sealed plastic so that customers can take out only what they plan to use.
A customer recently took to Reddit to explain how this packaging system does not work and ultimately makes cooking the meat gross.
"Everything about these things baffles the mind," they wrote.
"There's no perforation, no dotted lines, just about two [millimeters] of sealed plastic between each blister pack that if you aren't cutting so perfectly, you're going to slice one open and all the juice will spill out over your counter."
The "juice" they describe is just one part of the struggle in cooking with these cuts of meat, as there are other factors that are increasingly unappetizing, according to the poster.
"Why is there so much liquid in these packs? Each of the [six-packs] of chicken has like a quarter cup of slimy chicken juice in it that no other chicken from any other grocery store has," they continued.
One commenter pointed out that most major grocers include an absorption pad in their meat packaging to reduce moisture, but Costco seemingly does not.
Beyond the struggles of getting the chicken out of the package, the poster also took an issue with the condition of the raw meat.
"The thighs are just slimy and awful and the liquid is a serious problem every time. This time, the thighs are also weirdly spongy, and just everything about this is a 0/10 strikeout," they ranted.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> The Redditor's concerns were not unique, as plenty of other customers joined in on the disgust, telling stories of returned merchandise and disappointing meals.
"I quit buying them because I was so grossed out by opening them. Just nasty," wrote one user.
"I cooked them last night and told my wife we have to buy them elsewhere [because] the juice was making me sick," another added
One person pointed out that the juice issue occurs before even leaving the store.
"I feel like half the bags of chicken are already leaking before you cut them. It's amazing they don't have some hand sanitizer in the area, they're all covered in chicken juice," they wrote.
Some have just abandoned Costco's meat department altogether.
"I go to a local butcher for my meat and poultry. Costco chicken thighs are gross," an ex-customer wrote.
In a separate post, a Costco shopper had similar quality complaints over the store's raw chicken breasts.
Shoppers have also noticed other cuts of Costco chicken missing the quality mark (stock image)[/caption]
"I would never buy chicken breasts at Costco, no matter the price. It's all woody," they wrote.
Throughout over 200 comments, many other shoppers agreed with their assessment.
"I tried to buy Costco chicken breast a handful of times and I've always been dissatisfied, which is rare. It's either woody or it will have a really bad smell when I open it up. I've resorted to just buying chicken elsewhere," added one poster.
GREEN CHICKEN DISGUST
In early April, one customer cut into their roast chicken to find green-tinted meat that repulsed them.
"Is this normal? We cut into our chicken for dinner and it's green. I have no idea what it could be," they wrote in a Reddit post, accompanying an image of the food.
People under the post about the green chicken debacle posited that the bird was likely suffering from a disease that reduces blood flow to the muscle tissue, causing it to die off and present as green called ischemic myopathy, or "green breast."
"In these large birds, the superficial and deep pectoral (breast) muscles are very large, almost too large for the blood supply," the US Department of Agriculture notes on its website.
"When these birds are very active and flap their wings a lot, they can damage the blood supply to the deep pectoral (also known as the breast tender) muscle. Muscles without blood supply dies. The muscle turns green during this process and appears fibrous like green wood."
Despite the plausible explanation, other Redditors were disgusted by the food quality and slammed Costco.
"Oh my, I gagged. Not normal," shared one commenter.
"Regardless if it's safe or not, I would personally be too skeeved out to eat it," another wrote.
Some even linked the potential "green meat" condition to ethics on how the animals are kept.
"There's just no realistic way these days to find meat in a normal (or even a fancy natural type) grocery store that wasn't produced under horrific and disgusting conditions with tons of animal abuse," wrote one Redditor.
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