A 25-year-old California man is claiming that KFC served him a delicious helping of Kentucky Fried Rat, instead of the three-piece chicken that he ordered.
Devorise Dixon posted photos of his alleged rat on Facebook, causing outrage on KFC's social media pages. Dixon claims that he visited a KFC on June 10, bit into a chicken tender, which felt "very hard and rubbery."
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KFC says that they have found no evidence to support that the fried object was a rat, and have been aggressively responding to claims on its social media pages.
@dolceharrys Our immediate investigation has found no evidence to support this. We're attempting to contact them to continue the process.— KFC (@kfc) June 15, 2015
A representative for KFC supplied Mashable with Dixon's original Instagram photo which was taken from a different angle, claiming that the photo is in fact chicken, not rat.
"After the post from this consumer surfaced, KFC made various attempts to contact him, but he refused to talk to us directly or through an attorney," said a representative for KFC. "We extended the opportunity to have an independent lab evaluate the product at our own expense, but the customer refused to provide the product in question."
And we have to admit, the second photo looks a lot less like a rat than the photo that has gone viral.
Meanwhile, Dixon claims that he has placed the tender in question in the freezer.
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