Another poster posted this a year ago, but I am noticing the same thing. Their post didn’t have any answers to it, so I am technically reposting.
Just moved to the south of UK and supermarket chicken – that’s Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco (my house is too far from Lidl so I don’t shop there although my wallet would have preferred it, so I don’t know the quality of chicken there) – have loads of leftover feathers. I spend at least 10-15 mins washing 2 chicken thighs to get rid of the leftover feathers. In that time, the thought that’s repeating in my head is: “Why does this chicken have so many leftover feathers???” Of course it’s more convenient to buy skinless but sometimes I want that crispy chicken skin, you know what I mean?
I lived in northern UK 10 years ago and this wasn’t an issue IIRC.
Anyone knows why this is the case?
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Can’t say I’ve noticed.
But if you do find feathers, pluck them out, with your fingers or with tweezers. Washing won’t remove them, it just spreads germs.
A huge proportion of staff doing butchery in slaughterhouses and meat packing plants were from mainland Europe and went home when their economies picked up and after 2016.
You now have fewer and less experienced staff trying to work faster. Required standards have dropped to try to reduce price rises, too.
What a plucking joke.