Subway sues journalists for reporting its chicken is only 50% chicken—and loses

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[–]Tiwaking 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Bwahahahahahaha!!

They sent samples of Subway chicken, along with chicken from A&W, McDonald’s, Tim Horton’s, and Wendy’s, to a lab at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, to test how much of it was actually, you know, chicken. They weren’t expecting anything to come back as 100%—things happen during processing and seasoning—but most of the tests came back showing between 88.5% and 89.4% chicken DNA. Except for Subway. Subway’s “oven roasted chicken” tested as 53.6% chicken and its strips were 42.8%. The rest was soy protein. Perhaps, they thought, there had been a mistake in the lab. But when they tested again, the results were the same.

SOY PROTEIN

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soyway

[–]Myrkskog 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I guess you have to be wilfully ignorant to continue eating at fast food establishments in this day and age.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's funderful!

If I hadn't already put something on I'd race to my Subway a block away to tell them (and buy some chicken thing). Peterborough, Ontario is close enough to Windsor to expect it's not different here.

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    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    but you must