If you’re unaware, when these chickens are being pumped with growth hormones and s*** the muscle fibers in their breast’s are bursting which creates this “woody” or crunchy texture. It’s f***ing terrible, and I mostly eat chicken breasts but I’ve had it.

I’ve been getting my chicken at H-E-B, and their quality is usually better than the HCF/cheap brands, but it keeps happening even with their chicken breasts and after today’s lunch I’m done with it.

So what to do?

I could just switch to thighs. Chicken thighs are objectively tastier but the breast are better for cutting szn.

I could switch to roasting a whole chicken every 2 days. Just eat a half a chicken a day.

I wouldn’t mind switching to fish but you can’t be bringing fish to work.

Should I find a better brand of chicken breasts? Any recommendations?

What do we think

I usually only see this in the cheapest brands

Higher quality chicken should be a safer bet

isn’t this what they were rapping about in Rappers Delight

Just switch to chicken thighs tbh, if that’s the problematic source of fat in your diet then you’re doing well in life

Eat half a chicken a day

Both are great options tbh, you can learn how to butcher a whole chicken in like five mins and then you have that skill for life

just googled the lyrics

why cant u bring fish to work

i wasn’t even joking, pretty sure when news about this started spreading people cited the song as a popular example of this being documented

diabolical stank

HEB natural brand used to be good but they raising the price while quality declines

They have a “central market” higher end store but there’s not one near me

Yeah I spatchcocked a chicken a couple weeks ago. Was a lot easier then expected

Makes the whole back office stink

You the guy microwaving fish at work??

no i dont really bring food like that. i eat fruit and a pb sandwich as my lunch at work lol

I love thighs though, so convenient and taste amazing obviously more fat and slightly more calories but if you can make the tradeoff somewhere else in your diet id rock with that

Cage free field raised whole chicken for breast

And thighs + legs as standalones

I’ll wanna go vegan when I think about the evil ungodly things that go on in food manufacturing industry….like those two words shouldn’t even go together “food manufacturing” but that’s pretty much what it is

Disgraced director Woody Chicken

Idgaf anymore

Does it have a bald spot and beer belly?

idk i get my chicken at COSTCO

if your chicken got a woody, that’s a rooster

I have not experienced this