The use of beef ingredients in grilled chicken just seems wrong to me, and we believe most consumers would agree," said Steve Carley, CEO of El Pollo Loco.
KFC doesn't see what the big deal is. "Small amounts of beef flavors are commonly used in seasonings for many food products, for both restaurant and retail use," a spokesperson for the chain told the LA Times.
"For Kentucky Grilled Chicken's topical seasoning, beef flavors account for only 0.2% of the total seasoning," he added.
Still, El Pollo Loco thinks people will want beef-free chicken. You can check out their new ad campaign at their new website: Beefychicken.com.
El Pollo Loco has a beef with KFC's grilled chicken [LA Times] (Thanks, Cy Guy!)
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]]>Get off your high horses and get over yourselves. Fast food is only marginally "food" at best. If you're honestly concerned about what you're actually eating, you don't eat fast food in the first place.
If it's tasty, eat it. Beef is tasty, it should be in everything. Along with bacon.
]]>@Borax-Johnson:
I'll be forwarding the bill for my occular seperation shortly
@RedwoodFlyer: french fries should have three ingredients only
Potato, residual frying oil, salt
]]>BTW, I believe the reason that McD's put beef juice in their fries is because they earned their reputation for the best fries in the early days of the corporation when they cooked french fries in beef tallow. Now they use various vegetable oils, and the fries are a shadow of their former glory.
I am allergic to milk products. I ask about them wherever I go. If you have a reason to not eat some foods, it is your responsibility to ask about their presence in food you didn't make. It is also the responsibility of food makers to clearly state what is in their food if asked.
]]>Or even worse yet expecting that a restaurant chain will cater to my beliefs and serve what I want.
Sorry, but when you eat out, you take your chances.
]]>I use chicken broth when making pork stir-fry
Oh, did I mention I'm trained in the Culinary Arts and going off to a Culinary Art's school for 2 years in the next few months?
]]>Healthy my ass.
Actually, most of the menu at KFC has MSG in it.
]]>@CumaeanSibyl: My wife's grandmother makes a really good beef tenderloin. I once asked her what was the secret...she leaned in close and whispered in my ear:
"I sprinkle Accent all over it!"
]]>@XianZomby: Paying attention to what? Did I miss the class in elementary school on how shampoo is made out of beef?
]]>I bet if I started asking the waitstaff at restaurants if there was any beef or pork in the chicken they'd look at me like I was crazy.
]]>If anyone has eaten there it's f'in cafeteria food...disgusting horrible crap...at least the franchise in Winter Park, FL is...have stayed far far away from the one that just recently opened up in Virginia Beach, VA for fear of more slop passed off as edible food.
]]>LOL!!! Oh the little picture in my head at that...
]]>French Fries:
Potatoes, vegetable oil (canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavor [wheat and milk derivatives]*, citric acid [preservative]), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color), salt. Prepared in vegetable oil ((may contain one of the following: Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness), dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent).
CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK *(Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients).
How I loathe commenters who like to pretend they know wtf they're talking about.
]]>@ChuckECheese:
No please.
Do get started on the Chicken Fried Steak.
I want to have it for dinner!
mm. with biscuits and gravy...
*drools*
She didn't have any problems with the KFC chicken. I'm guessing that .2% of the seasonings (which are sprinkled on the chicken) aren't enough to cause a reaction.
]]>Beef byproducts are in all kinds of things: soap, shampoo, flavorings, medication, etc:
If it's a surprise you're getting beef byproducts in something, you haven't been paying attention.
]]>@Coles_Law: I get paid, by the, comma.
]]>@david.c: They used to, but have since stopped, and their fries are as vegetarian as something in a McDonalds can be. However, their hashbrowns do have beef flavoring added.
]]>MSG is primarily extracted from seaweed, and is present in nearly all asian food.
The net effect of MSG is to increase your sensitivity to the other flavors in food. You can add it to pretty much anything and it will seem to intensify the flavors.
An interesting thing to do is to just taste a tiny amount of MSG alone. The horrific flavor you'll experience is actually what your mouth tastes like.
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]]>It is now news. Mcdonalds got in trouble because it didn't list it as an ingredient in the fries. KFC obviously did or pollo wouldn't even have known about it in the first place. Thus, no problem. No firestorm. Read the damn ingredients.
]]>Of course it told people. If you had looked at the nutritional ingredients, you would have seen so, just like the pollo people did. The whole point wasn't whether corn had beef in it. I was pointing out that THAT is how there might be beef tallow used in the creation of grilling chicken. You have to oil it up somehow so it doesn't get dry on the grill. They probably just decided to use tallow. No story here.
]]>You know what would make this better?
Bacon.
]]>@YouInTheBack: 0.2% by volume is not 0.2% of taste. I bet you can at 0.2% of some spices -- habenero for example -- and you'll know. There are plenty of spices that make up less than a percent of the overall volume but add plenty of taste.
]]>@pecan 3.14159265: But then you can apply the same logic to fat. Beef is the tissue. Fat is the fat. You can get fat from lots of animals besides the cow.
]]>The original problem with MSG was back in the 70's some Chinese restaurants heavily loaded their food with MSG, thus the phrase "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome." But no Chinese food is MSG free as some is naturally occurring in soy sauce and tamari.
]]>Please pass the bacon-salt!!!
]]>@Dansc29625: Yeah, I wonder what his vaunted grilled chicken would taste like if he had to kick out 1000 pieces an hour. And what his profit margin would be looking like.
]]>@CumaeanSibyl: MSG is the victim of a smear campaign. I watched something on the food network where they tested it, and unanimously the judges, who were trained chefs, found that food tasted better with it. They also split a room in half and gave half food with, and half food without MSG, and determined that only around 1% of people actually had reaction to it. Most of the people who claimed to be allergic were full of it.
]]>Do vegans eat butter because it comes from milk which comes from an animal?
]]>Since it more or less goes without saying that foie gras comes from force-fed geese, I can only assume that you mean you force-feed your family with the stuff.
This raises the further question of whom you find favour with through this activity.
]]>Milk also comes out of goats.
]]>Random Guy: You got chicken in my beef!
KFC marketing : GRILLED CHICKEN* (now with more beef flavor!)
]]>As a practicing Beegan (I only eat beef) I welcome this news.
Remember, if God had intended us to be vegetarians, He wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
]]>Last time I checked, butter comes out of a cow. I'd say it's not the least reasonable thing in the world to make the argument that butter is beef.
]]>Amen brother. I have severe food allergies that are kind of rare. It makes it hard for me to go out to eat. But you know what? I don't NEED to eat out. It's a treat. If you are making food that I can't eat, then I can either find out the hard way or cook my own food.
]]>Oh wait ... isn't that what McDonalds does to their fries and didn't it cause a HUGE firestorm?
No news here huh?
]]>No, while delicious, beef fat will never rival MSG's deliciousness.
]]>Yes, clearly they added it because they are beef mongers who will stop at nothing to contaminate everything with beef!
And clearly there are no important ingredients in anything that make up .2% or less. They are only added for fun!
]]>It is quite common that I will eat a hamburger, and have a chicken reaction. Why? Because the burger was fried on a pan that chicken was fried in.
It's annoying as shit to not be able to trust the food that contains "no chicken" but I have learned to deal with it.
Allergic to beef? You'll get no sympathy from me. Plenty of places are totally free of beef because it's more expensive. Try finding a place that makes burgers but does not also serve fried chicken, or fried fish (I am allergic to fish as well).
]]>I find favor with force-fed foie gras Fridays with family!
]]>It depends on your caste. Brahmans cannot eat any animal products. Additionally, they cannot eat potatoes or other roots.
]]>Hinduism isn't what you would call an organized religion. There aren't exactly strict rules. Some hindus are vegetarian (very few are vegan, because milk, butter, honey and yogurt are used in certain prayer ceremonies), but some eat meat.
Some only eat fish (common in Kerala, where "vegetarian" food often includes fish), some will eat fish and shellfish but not chicken, some will eat any meat except beef, some will eat all meat. It really depends on family practice and personal choice.
(My grandparents don't eat eggs or wear leather, but my dad will eat any meat, including beef. My mother eats fish and shellfish but nothing else. I don't eat beef or any bovine. We are all hindus.)
As for KFC, I find this extremely distressing. I never tried their grilled chicken but if I had I would be pissed off that they never disclosed that their chicken contains beef.
]]>Oh they're losing regardless of whether or not they go to KFC.
]]>I had no idea, KFC. I'm glad I never tried your grilled chicken.
I'm going to email popeye's to see if there's any beef in their chicken. This is definitely not something I thought I had to worry about.
@Canino: I've implemented "Squirrel Mondays" where we only eat what I can hit with my van on the way home from work!
I may start working in the occasional raccooon...
]]>As a meat-eater, beefy chicken (beecken? chickeef?) is close to the perfect animal. If there's a way to splice in bacon DNA....
]]>pretty much what I was thinking
]]>Ok pecan, so you got me to laugh this morning i will admit it.
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]]>@YouInTheBack:
I guess it wouldn't be a big deal... exscept for someone like me who is actually allergic to beef and having that on there would make me ill...
Aside from the person who for one reason or another is choosing not to eat beef, I don't think it's "wrong." "Weird," perhaps.
Other commenters have said things like "I don't season my chicken at home with beef."
Maybe your homemade chicken would be THAT much better with a nice li'l rub of MSG and beef fat. You won't know until you try :-)
]]>For KFC to claim it was adequately disclosed by burying it on a PDF on their website MIGHT satisfy some jury is someone with a beef allergy goes into anaphylactic shock, but it is not going to satisfy community outrage by people who don't eat red meat (or only eat halal/kosher red meat) when they find out KFC was pulling this stunt. If it's such a small component of the recipe, then why can't a non-meat alternative be found? Can't they use chicken flavoring and chicken fat? Or Soy?
]]>Where can I get me some of those? Maybe it'll help me out.
]]>Aren't Hindu's Vegen? Why would they care if chicken has beef in it? There not supposed to eat meat at all? I know they consider Cow sacred
]]>@Megladon: No one is going to stop eating beef on mondays
I am! I've implemented "Venison Monday" at my house.
]]>No one is going to stop eating beef on mondays
]]>There are some very nice recipes that involve mixing different sorts of meat, but if I order a piece of plain chicken, I expect it to be made with chicken and... chicken.
Also, I would never characterize anything from KFC as "healthy," even if it's grilled, but there's "unhealthy" and then there's "hey, let's add a lump of suet."
]]>And yet funny enough I DONT use beef flavoring when I use real spices, and real herbs when making my chicken. And guess what KFC
My grilled chicken kicks the shit out of yours in taste.
]]>When you order French Onion Soup in most restaurants it is filled with beef stock.
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