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Default Mystery of the rat-shaped KFC chicken is solved: It's a bird

On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 19:24:42 -0400, Travis McGee >
wrote:

> http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...622-story.html
>
> Mystery of the rat-shaped KFC chicken is solved: It's a bird
> Customer say KFC served me 'finger lickin' rat
>

<snip>
> Dixon, they said, has refused to communicate directly with KFC officials.
>
> On June 12, Dixon posted the photo on Facebook, and within hours an
> investigation was launched.
>
> Dixon claimed to have purchased the meal at a KFC at Wilmington Avenue
> and 120th Street, but the restaurant owner said security video doesn’t
> show him as an actual customer.


Thank goodness for security cameras.

>
> From the beginning, KFC said Dixon’s claim was a hoax.
>
> On Wednesday, the company released a photograph showing various angles
> of the chicken. It appears a bite was taken from the rat-shaped piece,
> exposing white meat.
>
> But Dixon said last week he knows what he bit into.
>
> “Honestly, it doesn’t matter what others think I know what I bit into
> and what it looks like never in life have .. seen a chicken strip with a
> long tail,” he wrote.


If he thought he was served a rat, why didn't he pull the coating off
and take another picture to prove it? The mystery would have been
solved rather quickly.

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