14 DAY TRIAL // KFC has been accused of many things and criticized for even more, but one of them isn’t that it’s serving customers deep-fried rat. This was a claim made by a California man last week, and KFC made sure to set the record straight by having the alleged rat DNA tested.
It turned out it wasn’t a rat in the first place, but just a rat-shaped piece of chicken breast, if photographed from a certain angle. Dixon owes the fast food chain an apology, and chances are he won’t get off without one, at the very least.
KFC responds after story goes viral
Devorise Dixon took to Facebook to post photos of the alleged rat he allegedly found when he ordered a chicken menu. He even said that he knew something was wrong with the piece of meat when he took his first bite: it felt rubbery and tough, not chickeny at all.
The man also claimed that the next day he went back to the KFC place he’d bought it from, and that the manager admitted he had gotten a deep-fried rat and apologized.
The story went viral, with media outlets from all over the world picking it up. Considering it seemed to confirm some of the worst fears possible about junk food, this wasn’t the surprising part.
The fact that Dixon refused to answer calls from KFC was. According to the fast food giant, they tried to contact him repeatedly on all possible channels, including on the Facebook page where he made his story known.
He refused to answer, but he had said that he wanted to sue them for what happened.
In between that moment and today, he got himself an attorney and he handed over the alleged rat for testing. KFC says that it’s not a rat.
Story was fake
“Recently, a customer questioned the quality of a KFC product, and this received considerable publicity given the sensational nature of his claim,” a KFC spokesperson tells ABC News in a statement. “On Friday, the customer's attorney turned over the product in question for testing at an independent lab, and the results officially confirmed what KFC knew all along - the product was chicken and not a rat as he claimed.”
KFC had maintained the piece of meat was chicken all along, after obtaining other photos of it than the 2 Dixon posted on his Facebook.
Apparently, from a different angle, the piece looked exactly like what it was: chicken breast.
Rumor online has it that KFC has demanded an apology from Dixon for all the bad media it got them. If he knows about it, he’s yet to act on it, but even his Facebook friends are urging him to do it, unless he wants to see himself slapped with a major lawsuit by the fast food giant.
