Isi Klaim (Berbagai Versi) :
"Seorang pelanggan yang mengambil beberapa ayam goreng dari outlet makanan cepat saji menemukan bahwa adonan tersebut sebenarnya dari sepotong tikus goreng"
"An old lady ordered out for Kentucky Fried Chicken. She was eating along when she noticed teeth; she pulled back the crust and discovered she was eating a rat. She had a heart attack and died, and her relatives sued Kentucky Fried Chicken for a lot of money."
"There was a wife who didn't have anything ready for supper for her husband. So she quick got a basket of chicken and tried to make her dinner look fancy with the pre-pared chicken. Thus, she fixed a candle-light dinner, etc. When her and her husband started eating the chicken, they thought it tasted funny. Soon to find out it was a fried rat."
"DON'T EAT FAST FOOD!!! I WENT TO KFC YESTERDAY AND BOUGHT A 3PIECE CHICKEN TENDER. AS I BIT INTO IT I NOTICED THAT IT WAS VERY HARD AND RUBBERY WHICH MADE ME LOOK AT IT. AS I LOOKED DOWN AT IT I NOTICED THAT IT WAS WAS IN A SHAPE OF A RAT WITH A TAIL. IT SENT DEEP CHILLS THROUGHOUT MY WHOLE BODY! I'VE BEEN FEELING WEIRD EVER SINCE. I BOUGHT THIS IN COMPTON, CA ON WILMINGTON AND 120TH. I'VE NEVER SEEN CHICKEN LIKE THIS BEFORE ITS SICK!!!"
Hoax atau Fakta :
HOAX.
Analisis :
Kisah "Kentucky Fried Rat" adalah salah satu legenda urban tertua mengenai 'kontaminasi makanan', dan beberapa elemen kisahnya yang menyebar sangat mudah untuk dijelaskan. Dalam konteks 'restauran cepat saji', restauran yang dibahas haruslah sebuah kios ayam goreng agar bisa dikaitkan dengan tikus yang disamarkan sebagai makanan. Setelah restauran tersebut berdiri sebagai salah satu penjaja ayam goreng cepat saji, restauran tersebut akan menjadi Kentucky Fried Chicken. Karena, seperti yang dituliskan penutur cerita rakyat Gary Alan, "Frekuensi asosiasi legenda urban terhadap perusahaan besar sangatlah umum dan menjadi salah satu hukum dari cerita rakyat."
Zaman sekarang, bagaimanapun, banyak outlet KFC yang mendapatkan ayamnya sudah dibumbui, dan karena itulah tidak mungkin salah satunya ada tikus yang tidak sengaja dibumbui dan digoreng.
Pemilihan tikus sebagai kontaminan juga sangat mudah, yaitu: tikus pernah ada di dalam produk makanan sebelumnya, dan mereka memiliki ukuran yang tepat untuk kemudian dikira sebagai potongan ayam.
Tikus adalah hama, dan simbol dari hal-hal yang kotor. Fakta mengenai ayam-tikus biasanya dimakan dalam dalam kegelapan adalah salah satu perangkat plot untuk mencegah penemuan resep "rahasia", meski beberapa mempertimbangkan hal tersebut sebagai salah satu aspek lain dari legenda juga.
Jadi, apa yang sebenarnya legenda ini ingin katakan? Seiring dengan masyarakat yang semakin terurbanisasi (dan fanatik), kita menjadi kurang terlibat dalam mempersiapkan makanan, kita jadi sering makan di luar ketimbang di rumah, menyajikan makanan cepat saji dibandingkan dengan yang disajikan melalui proses yang lebih lambat, dan membiarkan persiapan makanan kita di tangan orang lain tanpa pengawasan. Dan hal ini terjadi bukan pada penyaji makanan lokal yang kita kenal dengan baik, tetapi karena waralaba perusahaan makanan cepat saji anonim dan pegawai-pegawai tanpa wajah mereka. Kombinasi dari rasa bersalah atas ketidakbertanggungjawaban atas hal ini (proses penyajian makanan) dan rasa tidak percaya kita terhadap korporasi diekspresikan sebagai rasa takut bahwa entitas penyedia makanan cepat saji yang tidak memedulikan kita akan menyajikan makanan yang ternoda yang disiapkan dalam kondisi yang tidak higienis karena kelalaian, kemalasan, ataupun niat jahat.
Wanita seringkali menjadi korban dari legenda ini mungkin karena mereka dianggap lebih lemah dari pria, tetapi mungkin juga karena kisah ini memperkuat gagasan bahwa wanita telah meninggalkan peran tradisional mereka sebagai penyaji hidangan dalam keluarga (dengan konsekuensi yang tragis). Penutup cerita umum yang paling akhir terjadi ketika korban mengajukan tuntutan di muka hukum terhadap restauran. Permohonan maaf secara personal tidak lagi terlihat layak: waralaba korporasi impersonal harus diperangi dengan sistem pengadilan yang impersonal juga.
Dalam rubrik "You Deserve a Beak Today" Newport News, Virginia, pada 28 November 2000, sebuah kepala ayam goreng bertepung dilaporkan ditemukan dalam sebuah box sayap ayam yang dibeli di McDonald's. Katherine Ortega mengatakan dia menemukan 'McNoggin' ketika memilah-milah sayap ayam di rumahnya untuk empat orang anggota keluarganya (Sedang ada market test untuk sayap ayam goreng di area tersebut).
Link Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4peC31MgLE
Beberapa klaim yang terkenal :
Pada 30 November 2000, keluarga Ortega memngumumkan mereka menyewa seorang pengacara dan mempertimbangkan tuntutan hukum terhadap McDonald's. Para ahli hukum berpikir keluarga tersebut akan memenangkan ganti rugi tidak lebih dari beberapa ribu dolar (bahkan jika kepala ayam goreng tersebut benar-benar ada) karena tidak ada seorangpun yang memakannya atau terkena kerugian fisik karena ayam tersebut.
Katherine Ortega berpose dalam beberapa foto sambil memegang kepala ayam tersebut, dan mereka yang telah melihat gambarnya mengatakan bahwa adonan goreng yang terlihat di foto tersebut (terlihat) sama seperti yang digunakan pada sayap ayam. McNoggin tersebut, bagaimanapun, tidak pernah diteliti oleh ahli. John E. Smith, pemilik McDonalds dan dua rekannya, mengatakan pada waktu itu bahwa "Kesempatan saya untuk melakukan investigasi menyeluruh tertunda karena saya tidak diberikan kesempatan untuk meneliti objek yang menjadi permasalahan tersebut. Meskipun saya telah meminta beberapa kali untuk melihat objek tersebut, konsumen ini menolak untuk memberikan kesempatan itu kepada saya".
Seorang petugas penegak hukum dari Departemen Agrikultur Amerika Serikat yang memeperhatikan kasus ini tidak dapat menjelaskan mengapa kepala ayam bisa sampai berakhir di dalam pesanan sayap ayam goreng milik Ortega. Hal pertama yang dilakukan dalam proses pemotongan ayam hidup menjadi daging ayam adalah pemenggalan kepala, dengan kepalanya yang langsung dibuang. Sisa bangkainya kemudian masuk ke proses selanjutnya (di mana ayam dimasukkan ke dalam air mendidih untuk melepaskan bulu-bulunya). Meski prosesnya sebagian besar mekanis, operator pabrik membantu proses pengeluaran organ dalam dan seorang Inspektur USDA bertugas akan memeriksa setiap ayam. Kemungkinan ada kepala ayam akan lolos melalui proses ini sangatlah kecil.
Yang dapat kami ketahui, pada akhirnya tidak dapat ditentukan apakah Katherine Ortega adalah seorang penyebar hoax, atau apakah seorang pekerja di pemotongan McDonald's memutuskan untuk bersenang-senang sedikit, atau apakah ada kesalahan yang sangat fatal pada prosedur proses pembuatan makanan di pabrik yang menyebabkan dihasilkannya McNoggin.
Pada September 2003, Tony Hill, seorang pastor di Baltimore, mengklaim dia menggigit tikus yang ditepungi di outlet Popeye's fried chicken di kota itu. Popeye's menolak untuk berkomentar terhadap kasus tersebut, tetapi komisioner kesehatan kota menyatakan pada waktu itu outlet Popeye yang dipermasalahkan pernah mengalami masalah hama tikus sebelumnya dan sempat ditutup dua kali karena kondisi yang tidak sehat. Sejauh yang kami tahu, tidak ada resolusi mengenai kasus yang dilaporkan ini.
Pada Juni 2015, Devorise Dixon dari Watts, California, mempublikasikan sebuah foto di Facebook mengenai apa yang diklaimnya sebagai tikus goreng yang ditemukan dalam kotak ayam goreng KFC:
"DON'T EAT FAST FOOD!!! I WENT TO KFC YESTERDAY AND BOUGHT A 3PIECE CHICKEN TENDER. AS I BIT INTO IT I NOTICED THAT IT WAS VERY HARD AND RUBBERY WHICH MADE ME LOOK AT IT. AS I LOOKED DOWN AT IT I NOTICED THAT IT WAS WAS IN A SHAPE OF A RAT WITH A TAIL. IT SENT DEEP CHILLS THROUGHOUT MY WHOLE BODY! I'VE BEEN FEELING WEIRD EVER SINCE. I BOUGHT THIS IN COMPTON, CA ON WILMINGTON AND 120TH. I'VE NEVER SEEN CHICKEN LIKE THIS BEFORE ITS SICK!!!"
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| Salah satu foto yang diposting Dixon (jarak dekat). |
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| Salah satu foto yang diposting oleh Dixon |
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| Pemillik akun Facebook Devorise Dixon |
Simak di link berikut :
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=956577071075092&set=a.190597711006369.53676.100001684247646&type=1
KFC mengindikasi melalui Facebook bahwa mereka sedang menginvestigasi isu tersebut dan tidak melihat ada bukti yang dapat mendukung klaim serta mereka tidak dapat menghubungi Dixon :
"KFC menanggapi klaim konsumen dengan sangat serius, dan kami akan meneruskan investigasi mengenai masalah ini. Ayam goreng kami bervariasi dalam ukuran dan bentuknya, dan kami saat ini tidak mempunyai cukup bukti untuk mendukung klaim ini. Kami berusaha keras untuk menghubungi Tuan Dixon, dan kami meminta dia untuk kembali ke restauran bersama produk yang dia laporkan untuk diteliti, atau dapat hubungi kami di 1-800-Call-KFC."
Kemudian, korporasi KFC menyatakan klaim ini sebagai hoax :
"Seorang pelanggan membuat klaim serius mengenai KFC dan menolak untuk bekerjasama dalam investigasi. Gambar asli yang dipublikasikan oleh pelanggan tidak menyertakan angle kedua (yang terlihat di bawah) karena itu dengan jelas menunjukkan sebuah daging ayam putih dilapisi tepung buatan tangan. Berdasarkan ini, dan fakta bahwa dia menolak siapapun untuk melihat produk tersebut, kami berkesimpulan untuk percaya bahwa dia bermaksud menipu publik dengan hoax ini dan kami akan pertimbangkan berbagai pilihan (untuk menangani kasus ini)."
Sikapi dengan bijak, semoga bermanfaat.
Salam Internet Sehat!
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English Version :
The "Kentucky Fried Rat" tale is one of the hoariest of food contamination urban legends, and some elements of its spread are easy to explain. Within the context of fast food restaurants, the offending eatery has to be a fried chicken outlet in order for the rat to be suitably disguised as a piece of food. Once the restaurant is established as one that serves fast-food chicken, it becomes Kentucky Fried Chicken because, as folklorist Gary Alan Fine writes, "The frequency of attachment of an urban legend to the largest company or corporation is so common as to be considered a law of urban folklore." (These days, however, many KFC outlets receive their chicken pieces pre-battered, and thus one of them could not "accidentally" batter and fry a rat.)
The choice of a rat as a contaminant is also easy: rats have turned up in food products before; they're the right size and shape to be mistaken for pieces of chicken
Cartoon of the legend (especially when fried in batter); and rats are vermin, symbols of filth and decay. The fact that the rat-chicken is usually eaten in the dark is a plot device to prevent premature discovery of the "secret," although some might consider it an important symbolic aspect of the legend.
So, what does this legend have to say? As our society becomes more urbanized (and frenetic), we become less and less involved with the preparation of our own food, frequently dining out instead of eating at home, scarfing a quick meal rather than enjoying a leisurely one, and leaving the food preparation entirely in the hands of others. And these others are not local restaurateurs we know well, but anonymous corporate fast food franchisees and their faceless employees. The combination of our guilt at abdicating this responsibility and our mistrust of corporations is expressed as fear that fast food entities who don't care about us will serve us tainted food prepared under unsanitary conditions, due to carelessness, laziness, or sheer malice.
Women are most often the victim in this legend probably because they are considered more vulnerable than men, but perhaps also because this tale reinforces the notion that women have abdicated their traditional role as the family's meal preparers (with tragic results). The ultimate in impersonal endings occurs when the victims file a lawsuit against the restaurant. A personal apology or settlement is no longer feasible: the impersonal corporate franchise must be battled in the equally impersonal civil court system.
In the "You Deserve a Beak Today" category, on 28 November 2000, a breaded deep-fried chicken head was reportedly found in a box of chicken wings purchased at a McDonald's in Newport News, Virginia. Katherine Ortega said she discovered the McNoggin while divvying up the wings at home for her family of four. (Fried chicken wings were being test-marketed in that area.)
Link Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I4peC31MgLE
On 30 November 2000, the Ortegas announced they had hired a lawyer and were contemplating a lawsuit against McDonald's. Legal experts didn't think the family would win an award much higher than a couple of thousand dollars (even if the fried chicken head were real) because no one ate the piece or was physically harmed by it.
Katherine Ortega posed for a number of photographs of her holding the chicken head, and those who viewed the pictures noted that the fried batter on the item looked to be the same as that used with the chicken wings. The McNoggin, however, was never examined by experts. John E. Smith, owner of the McDonald's in question and two others, stated at the time that "My ability to conduct a thorough investigation has been delayed because I have not been given an opportunity to examine the object in question. Although I have made several requests to see this object, the customer refuses to give me that opportunity."
An enforcement officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who looked into the case was at a loss to explain how a chicken head could have ended up in Ortega's order of wings. The first thing that happens in the processing of live chickens into poultry parts is their beheading, with the heads immediately being discarded. The carcasses then go on to the next stage (which is being dropped into the boiling water to de-feather them). Though the process is mostly mechanized, a plant operator helps with evisceration (the removal of the bird's internal organs) and an on-site USDA inspector is supposed to check each and every chicken. The chances that a chicken head could have made it through this process are very small.
As far as we know, it never was determined if Katherine Ortega was a deliberate participant in a hoax, if a poultry plant worker or McDonald's employee thought he'd have himself an innocent bit of fun, or if something went severely wrong with the food processing procedures at the plant and thus a McNoggining actually took place.
In September 2003, Tony Hill, a pastor in Baltimore, claimed he bit into a batter-fried mouse at a Popeye's fried chicken outlet in that town. Popeye's declined to comment on the matter, but the city health commissioner stated at the time that the Popeye's outlet in question had had rodent infestation problems before and had been closed two other times for infestation or unsanitary conditions. As far as we know, no resolution to this case was reported.
In June 2015, Devorise Dixon of Watts, California, posted a photograph to Facebook of what he claimed was a batter-fried rat found in a box of KFC chicken tenders:
DON'T EAT FAST FOOD!!! I WENT TO KFC YESTERDAY AND BOUGHT A 3PIECE CHICKEN TENDER. AS I BIT INTO IT I NOTICED THAT IT WAS VERY HARD AND RUBBERY WHICH MADE ME LOOK AT IT. AS I LOOKED DOWN AT IT I NOTICED THAT IT WAS WAS IN A SHAPE OF A RAT WITH A TAIL. IT SENT DEEP CHILLS THROUGHOUT MY WHOLE BODY! I'VE BEEN FEELING WEIRD EVER SINCE. I BOUGHT THIS IN COMPTON, CA ON WILMINGTON AND 120TH. I'VE NEVER SEEN CHICKEN LIKE THIS BEFORE ITS SICK!!!
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| Salah satu foto yang diposting Dixon (jarak dekat). |
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| Salah satu foto yang diposting oleh Dixon |
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| Pemillik akun Facebook Devorise Dixon |
Simak di link berikut :
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=956577071075092&set=a.190597711006369.53676.100001684247646&type=1
KFC indicated via Facebook that they were investigating the issue but had seen no evidence to support the claim and had been unable to reach Mr. Dixon :
KFC takes customer claims very seriously, and we are continuing to investigate this matter. Our chicken tenders often vary in size and shape, and we currently have no evidence to support this claim. We are aggressively trying to reach Mr. Dixon, and we request that he return to the restaurant with the product for testing, or call us at 1-800-Call-KFC.
Later, KFC corporate declared this claim to be a hoax :
A customer has made a serious claim against KFC and refuses to cooperate in the investigation. The images the customer originally posted do not include this second angle [seen below] because it clearly shows it's a piece of hand-breaded white meat chicken. Based on this, and the fact that he refuses to allow anyone to see the product, we are left to believe that he intended to deceive the public with this hoax and we are considering all options.
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Man claims KFC Fried up a Rat, KFC Wants to See Proof
This smells like “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!” Trending on my Facebook page, a guy who claims one of his KFC Chicken Nuggets was a deep fried rat!
Devorise Dixon posted this picture of his chicken nugget on his facebook.
He claims he tried to take a bite of it and it was hard and rubbery. Do you see a bite mark? Neither do I. According to these TV people Fox 59, Devoise talked to a radio station and told them the whole story. He also posted a video, pictures and this comment on his Facebook:
[Gambar]
“DON’T EAT FAST FOOD!!! I WENT TO KFC YESTERDAY AND BOUGHT A 3PIECE CHICKEN TENDER. AS I BIT INTO IT I NOTICED THAT IT WAS VERY HARD AND RUBBERY WHICH MADE ME LOOK AT IT. AS I LOOKED DOWN AT IT I NOTICED THAT IT WAS WAS IN A SHAPE OF A RAT WITH A TAIL. IT SENT DEEP CHILLS THROUGHOUT MY WHOLE BODY! I’VE BEEN FEELING WEIRD EVER SINCE. I BOUGHT THIS IN COMPTON, CA ON WILMINGTON AND 120TH. I’VE NEVER SEEN CHICKEN LIKE THIS BEFORE ITS SICK!!”
Here is the video.
[Video]
Lihat videonya disini :
Posted by Devorise Dixon on 14 Juni 2015
https://www.facebook.com/devorise.dixon/videos/958671024199030/
Diposting oleh Devorise Dixon on Minggu, 14 Juni 2015 (Pukul 03.09 WIB)
Devorise also claims he took the fried rat back to the KFC, they offered him a free meal and he refused, saying he was getting a lawyer instead.
KFC wants to have an independent lab test the thing. Devorise is hanging on to it.
Look at it! That looks like a big ole piece of white meat chicken. I just have a feeling rats are not white meat.
KFC has released a statement denying it served up fried rat. From the Huffington Post:
KFC says Dixon is misleading the public and that the object in question is just a piece of breaded chicken.
“A customer has made a serious claim against KFC and refuses to cooperate in the investigation,” KFC said in a statement sent to The Huffington Post. “Based on this, and the fact that he refuses to allow anyone to see the product, we are left to believe that he intended to deceive the public with this hoax and we are considering all options.”
The company said it made several attempts to get in touch with him, but he refused to talk directly or through an attorney.
“Our chicken tenders often vary in size and shape and this just happened to be an oddly shaped one,” KFC spokesman Rodrigo Coronel told HuffPost in an email.
Snopes, (the Internet rumour debunkers), just out and out says the fried rat tender claim is FALSE!
Sorry Devorise Dixon, unless you turn the rat chicken over for testing, I don’t think you will be getting paid. If It turns out you made it all up, you could be prosecuted. You could lose your job!
Come clean Devorise, before it’s too late. Rat yourself out!
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