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.

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55 points

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.

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

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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.

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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

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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?

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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.

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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

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4 points

Dave’s Hot Chicken would like a word with you.

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3 points

It’s also pretty expensive

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11 points

Well if there was one within a thousand miles of me Maybe it could

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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.

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in Florida it was garbage.

I’ve identified the issue…

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

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If juicy=flavorful then sure, it’s flavorful. I look for more though.

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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.

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