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Kentucky Fried Chicken is not from chickens but from genetically altered, artificially sustained organisms.
See the hoax here.
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Is it true?
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No. It is a hoax, or at least an urban legend.
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| Why? |
Gadzooks! Giant featherless, beakless mutant chickens pulsating with nutrient-conveying tubes! Oh, the humanity!
While rumors about fastfood ingredients have been popular for many years, it is difficult to regard this email as anything other than a clever play on past rumors.
- No study of KFC has been done at the University of New Hampshire
- KFC does not raise its own chickens (mutant or otherwise) but buys them from poultry producers
- Kentucky Fried Chicken became KFC in 1991 (not exactly recently)
- KFC refers to a number of its products as 'chicken,' (Original RecipeŽ Chicken, Tender Roast Chicken, Chunky Chicken Pot Pie, and in its nutrition information here.
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| When? | December 1999 |
| Comments |
At least it is more original than yet another email forwarding hoax.
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Urban Legend Zeitgeist: KFC Mutant Chickens