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.

    • @[email protected]
      89•8 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]English
      75•8 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.

      • @[email protected]
        21•8 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.

      • BarqsHasBiteEnglish
        10•8 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
        9•8 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.

        • @[email protected]
          3•8 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

      • bjorney
        6•8 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.

      • SeaJ
        3•8 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.

        • @[email protected]
          1•8 months ago

          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

          • SeaJ
            2•8 months ago

            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?

            • @[email protected]
              2•8 months ago

              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.

              • SeaJ
                1•8 months ago

                Sorry but no, I’ve had a good amount of chicken sandwiches and it is decidedly mediocre and honestly no better than Wendy’s. You seem to think it’s not group think on the part of people raving about a mediocre chicken sandwich. That is a bit silly, don’t you think?

                I recall asking why they thought it was so good and most of them said it was the sauces that you can get. I think one or two people mentioned the service. The sauces were okay but nothing special. I can’t comment on the service but that is not something I generally care about for fast food outside of making sure my order is right.

      • Dark ArcEnglish
        1•8 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.

    • @[email protected]
      15•8 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.

      • @[email protected]
        1•8 months ago

        In my city, the dive bars make phenomenal chicken sandwiches, which cost 4-5 times as much as Chick fil A, who makes a good chicken sandwich.

    • @[email protected]English
      12•8 months ago

      Reliable/consistent, fast.

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

    • @[email protected]
      10•8 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

    • @[email protected]
      8•8 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.

      • @[email protected]
        5•8 months ago

        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.

      • @[email protected]
        1•8 months ago

        Not here. Here that’s the “normal” side, eating the homophobia jesus chicken is the minority.

        Of course, all of the lgbt people I know eat also there, so I don’t feel the need to be performative about it, my friends won’t deride me for going they’ll ask for de-ride there.