Coles customer notices something on this chicken breast that will make you sick
Chicken breasts certainly aren’t an uncommon sight in the trolleys of most Aussie shoppers, but thankfully few of them end up looking like the one in this story.
A Coles customer was horrified this week when, after completing her weekly shop, she unwrapped her chicken breast and noticed a nasty-looking green tinge.
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Stephanie Cooper, who lives in Geelong, took a photo of the chicken breast and put it up on Facebook, asking Coles, “what on earth is wrong with my chicken?”
The supermarket was quick to get back to Cooper, and said the green mark simply could be a case of the chicken “flapping its wings too much”.
“This looks like deep pectoral myopathy (DPM),” Coles wrote.
“Our National Quality team has advised that this is a green discoloration of the flesh than can make it anywhere from bright lime green to a deep khaki colour.
“This is caused by a degenerative disease in the chicken’s muscles when swelling occurs as a result of oxygen deficiency.
They reassured the woman that the marking is not harmful and that the taste of the chicken “would not be altered”.
The supermarket offered Cooper a full refund or replacement. This comes less than a week after a Coles customer found mould in Turkish rolls he fed to his son.
What are your thoughts? Have you ever come across something nasty in the weekly shop?