What ?

Do you mean the thigh and drumstick separated ?

@Tropical_Willie No. They broke the main bone in each thigh. They did it when I was an employee all the time.

@all Is there anyone who used to work in the KFC who can explain?

Was it widely done? Or was my supervisor being a jerk?

I don’t think so. I’ve not noticed nor heard of that, and a web search doesn’t quickly turn up anything like that.

Sounds like sabotage to me, as a broken thigh bone would be annoying and possibly introduce bone splinters that people might eat.

The closest thing I found was concern about broken thigh bones in some industrial chicken (not specifically KFC) indicating the chickens may have been particularly abused while alive.

That’s weird. I’ve eaten it often and never had that, thar I’m aware of.

I just called KFC. They said that it is normal.

Maybe North of the border.

@Tropical_Willie Ok. Call your local KFC and confirm for us?

And confirm why???

@Dutchess_III just for giggles. Not important.

I worked for KFC for 4 years mostly part time while going to college (back in the 70’s).
We dislocated all the femur bone-hip joints so that they would cook faster and more uniform.
We never “broke thigh bones”.

I used to cut up whole chickens for Mom. This was before I you could buy chicken parts. Yeah you separated the bird at the joints.

@gondwanalon Thanks that might be it.

@Dutchess_III Thanks.

Perhaps something in the preparation/cooking makes the bones softer/more brittle, making them easier to break.
Not that they are sturdy to begin with, being bird bones and all.
They say that you can easily kill a dog by feeding it chicken, because the dog will break the chicken bones, and the sharp pieces will perforate its innards.

A cooked chicken bone is dangerous for dogs.

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When I worked at KFC, we did that to insure the chicken was fully cooked.

@filmfann You did what? Separate the bones at the joint, or actually break the thigh bones?

We popped the bone out of the joint.

@filmfann That’s it. Thanks. My mistake.

Ah, see I thought from your original question you were talking about snapping the thigh bones.

Me too @Zaku.

Never knew the Colonel was so brutal. Poor chickens. Finger lickin’ good anyway.

I always assumed there was some machine processing problem if I ever saw a broken chicken thigh bone.

Not as far as I know.

I worked at KFC as a teenager and they did break the bone of chicken thighs so that they cooked faster, and were done when the white meat cooked in the same batch was done. White meat, breasts and wings cook faster than dark meat, legs and thighs. If a fry cook didn’t “break the chicken” and cooked it anyway, the thighs would be severely undercooked and somewhat bloody