Safeway is facing criticism from customer who tweeted a photo of what appears to be a chicken foot in a page filled with chicken breasts.
Twitter user Lindsey J. wrote: “Hey, @Safeway, does this look like ‘chicken breast’ to you? I’m vomiting.” She apparently tweeted the photo from a Safeway in Phoenix, Ariz. “39th and Happy Valley in Phoenix, AZ,” she elaborated.
She later joked at Safeway, saying they should give her “free icecream for life or I call the police and tell them it’s a human hand.” She added: “Clearly the ice cream tweet was a joke, friends.”
But Lindsey said her “initial reaction was shock, of course, and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It was disgusting. I tweeted the picture to Safeway and they responded almost immediately asking what Safeway store it was, and said they were going to contact the store immediately,” according to NewsBreaker, citing her in an e-mail.
She confirmed with another man standing nearby, who “agreed that it was disgusting,” she wrote.
Safeway, in a statement to NewsBreaker, wrote that “we are looking into the photo you’ve provided and will respond following a thorough investigation.”
One of the commenters on NewsBreaker’s Facebook page, Ramond Vagell, said that “it’s chicken feet and it’s food. Get a grip America.”
“I don’t understand. They sell chicken feet, hearts, gizzards, necks. All of it. Most of the central and south american cultures cook with it. I can see how something like this would’ve happened, but wow, her response was just ridiculous,” wrote another user.
Chicken feet are commonly eaten in other countries, especially China.
Earlier this month, 46-year-old expired chicken feet were found in an illegal food storage site in China, according to the South China Morning Post.
“The entire processing facilty had a fishy and foul smell,” local official Li Jianmin was quoted as saying. “You just couldn’t stand it after one or two minutes.”
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