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1:27 am EDT

Foster Farms corn dogs

I purchased a box of Foster farms Corn Dogs and usually when I purchase boxes of your Corn Dogs the side of the box is glued shut where you open. This box was not glued, but shut. I was cautious to eat any as I do not know if there was any exposure or possibility of contamination. I did call and speak with a Foster Farms associate who directed me to this page for further answers from Foster Farms. Thank you.

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Foster Farms individually wrapped fryer thighs upc 35059

I bought the product for $10.54 and I refrigerated product right after returning from the market.The freeze by date showed to be 8/25/2018. So, I kept it in the meat section of our refrigerator the whole time. I finally took the product out and tried to cook the chicken on 8/24/2018 and it smelled god awful and horrible. I demand a refund or replacement of the product.

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11:53 am EDT

Foster Farms jumbo corn dog double dipped in honey

I purchased 4 corn dogs out of the freezer section on August 15 by 10:22 pm. They have a best by date of 09-19 -18. They cost .70c a piece.

Then drive right home and put them in the freezer.
The next day at noon we put the corn dogs in the microwave and heated at least the recommended time and a little more time to be sufficiently heated to desired warmth. They were eaten outside and my boys complained they were moldy and green on the inside. One boy even threw up. I'd be happy to mail/email the receipt and mail the package wrapper to you, but wanted this resolved in a timely manner.

Sincerely

Diane Okhrimenko
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2:26 pm EDT
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Foster Farms whole roasting chicken

I only buy Foster Farm Chicken products. I raise chickens as pets and for eggs, myself, so am very aware of weight. I was quite disappointed after buying a supposedly 6.33 lb chicken and knowing it sure didn't look like or feel like an over six pounder, I decided to weigh it on my professional food scale. I was aware there might be some difference minus the blood, after removing it from the bag but NOT the amount of difference I found! When a recipe calls for a 6 -6 1/2 lb chicken and you think that's what you're getting, the time cooking and seasoning will be quite different when what you really have is a 5 POUND CHICKEN ! That's right, the Foster Farm Chicken was labeled 6 .33 POUNDS BUT REALLY WEIGHED 5. 74 ! I couldn't believe it. I also weighed the saturated bloody/water enclosed plastic sealed package, that looked to be stuffed with paper towels and saw that it weighed 1.9 POUNDS ! WOW ! That was quite shocking to find that I was paying for 1. 9 pounds of bloody paper towels ! I certainly can't eat that, so I don't know why I was made to think I was getting and paying for a much​ larger chicken. I didn't bother weighing all the bloody water that was also enclosed, I did think it was an amount more than usual. Is this standard for your company? Am I expected to guess how big the chicken REALLY weighs upon purchasing? I thought it would be plenty for my family at the labeled weight, but it wasn't. While I would expect some slight difference, I wouldn't have expected such a huge difference. Could you please enlighten me how the weight is decided and how should I contemplate further purchases in regards to knowing what the chicken really weighs?
Thank you, Regards, Suzanne Boesing

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4:51 pm EDT

Foster Farms feedback re truck accident

I encourage Foster Farms to begin to work with animal advocates to provide more transparency around what is happening on farms and in slaughterhouses. You do know that this business is inherently cruel and to begin the shift now to a kinder, healthier and more sustainable business model and go plant based would be the thing to do. Animal agribusiness should also not be self regulated as we see by repeated undercover exposes. Please advocate for third party, arms length oversight.

Please work hard to get the charges dropped against the activist who tried to save one poor chicken from the truck accident. It would go a long way for PR for your company.

Thank you
Karin Nelson

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3:36 pm EDT

Foster Farms employees/"management"

A family member of mine has been employed with foster farms in Porterville, CA for a while now, excellent employee who loved his job! I have noticed since day one that there's never any punishment for employees NOT SHOWING UP FOR DAYS straight, coming to work DRUNK, smoking weed in the bathrooms! And other issues that have occurred and not punished by "MANAGEMENT" . BUT SINCE FAVORITISM OCCURS I GUESS THAT IS THERE REASON TO NOT FIRE THESE PEOPLE ? Some people don't even SPEAK ENGLISH AND HAVE MANAGEMENT TITLES !(Maria Pacheco learn English!) GET SERIOUS!The food IS NOT PROPERLY HANDLED AT ALL . OUTDATED ITEMS REDATED, FOOD BEING DROPPED AND PLACED BACK INTO WRAPS AND BOXES(ON MARIA PACHECOS WATCH) And to top it off my family member had his car break down and was late returning from his break AFTER NEVER HAVING A SINGLE ISSUE AT WORK. (AND EVERY ABSENCE HAD BEEN VERIFIED BY A DOCTOR) HE WAS FIRED . FOSTER FARMS NEEDS NEW MANAGEMENT AND NEEDS TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THAT BUILDING ! HE SHOULD OF RECEIVED A VERBAL WARNING NOT TERMINATION! GET BACK TO SCHOOL AND EDUCATE YOURSELVES ON MANAGEMENT SKILLS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NONE!

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10:58 pm EDT

Foster Farms chicken breast

I purchased a package of chicken breast fillets at my local target store and when i began to eat one of them i cut my mouth with a sharp piece of chicken bone. The chicken i purchased were boneless and as you can imagine it was quite disturbing to find a sharp piece of chicken bone in my piece of meat.
Please see the corresponding photos below. I think it's important to bring this to your attention.

Stephanie Battisti

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11:24 pm EDT

Foster Farms labor

Hello people here again rosita diaz from cherry location. Just wanted to remind you that foster farms abuses his employees and the chickens in facility. The way they kill the chickens is just cruel. Since I started working for foster farms I stopped eating chicken nit to mention my family after watching the documentaries of how they treat the animals its inhuman.

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12:56 am EDT

Foster Farms chicken breasts I bought from the redding walmart.

So I bought a package of yalls chicken breasts and as I opened the package I noticed some black objects buried within the skin of the chicken. They looked like they could have been some sort of fly eggs or type of worm that found it's way into the chicken as it was being processed by this company. Pay better attention, this [censor] is disgusting! Please do something about this.

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12:38 am EDT

Foster Farms all of the chicken!

They abuse the chicken and I was repulsed by seeing video and picture from a few of your locations which are dark ammonia filled sheds with workers that have nothing better to do then abuse the chickens! It is disgusting! American Humane Certified MY [censor]! My dad got food poisoning after eating your chicken! That was obviously before I found out how low quality the product is. I am definitely not vegan but am not for the way animals are raised.

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3:44 pm EST

Foster Farms frozen chicken nuggets and feces!?

One of the nuggets in my bad of frozen chicken nuggets from Foster farms had what looks like poop from something under the breading. At first it just looked like discoloration but after cooking and peeling back the breading layer it was much more visible that is was something disgusting. I️ am just happy I️ found it before eating any, will never buy foster farms products again

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7:25 pm EDT

Foster Farms excessive fat and skin on packaged chicken thighs

Purchase:
Foster Farm Chicken Thighs
5.25 lbs.
Purchased at Albertsons
Alton Pkwy Center
Irvine CA 92618

Request for Foster Farms production team to be aware of the issue raised. No refund needed.

The attached photos in themselves show the excessive 11 oz of chicken fat and skin found within my recent purchase. Allowing for bones, meat and sufficient skin to cover exposed meat of the purchased 5.25 lbs, the 11 oz described is unnecessary to raise the weight and cost to a customer.

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Mrs. Ferris
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Apr 24, 2020 10:51 am EDT
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I have been sick over the amount of fat in any Foster Farms chicken products. They even have fat on the boneless skinless chicken parts. I tell everyone I care about to just buy any other brand besides Foster Farms. I bought a rotisserie chicken from Sac and Save and it was as big and beautiful as the Costco rotisserie chicken. The minute I sliced into it, it oozed disgusting fat. I tries to remove as much as I could, but it was cooked and the damage was done. Not one piece of chicken wasn’t coated in fat. I finally boiled it a while and fed it to my dog. I told my daughter that it reminded me of Foster Farms, and I double checked the package. Sadly, they “proudly” advertised “First Street Rotisserie Chicken” and in smaller print “from Foster Farms” chicken. This fat is so ugly and bad for you. If Foster Farms was the only chicken available, I honestly go without. As an example, FF skin is so thick with fat that it a whole chicken has so much fat and excess skin on both ends, it weighs about half as much as the entire chicken. I searched the web to find out more about this fat thing and this is what I found. Why does anyone buy this brand?

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May 26, 2022 4:44 pm EDT
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I’m disgusted with the amount of fat. Wasn’t until I bought free range chicken from Jimbos then I realized what kind of [censored] they have been feeding us. Chicken thighs are supposed to be a dark meat. Roster Farms thighs seem more like belly fat. I guess it’s been a slow progression I hadn’t recognized but this has to stop. They are killing customers.

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Anarqi
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Oct 18, 2018 11:32 am EDT

I bought some Foster Farms chicken recently and it was full of fat too

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Tammy Gruder Hussin
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Nov 16, 2017 12:20 pm EST

Greetings. I am a consumer protection attorney and I am conducting an investigation into the practice of unfair chicken packaging. If you purchased packaged chicken and discovered an unusually high amount of chicken fat hidden under your chicken, I would like to hear from you. Please contact Tammy Gruder Hussin at [protected] or Tammy@HussinLaw.com. Thank you.

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Nov 02, 2017 10:13 am EDT

Same problem with thighs purchased at Smart and Final.
Excess skin deliberately hidden behind product. In CA it's called screw the consumer.
Won't be buying Foster Farm products again.

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2:00 pm EDT

Foster Farms mini corn dogs

I have a 3 year old boy that I struggle to get him to eat nutritious food. one of his favorites are corn dogs cuz they are fun to eat. I was shopping the other day and I picked Foster Farms mini corn dogs over the other brand of mini corn dogs because Foster Farms had a better price. I just open them today and I was disgusted on the shape the formation of most of these corn dogs some are attached to another some are deformed some are small some are Long. I put them down in front of my son and he looked up at me like are you kidding me you expect me to eat that. I wanted to try some of there other products but now I'm unsure because of the result of the mini corn dogs.

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Foster Farms Mini Corndogs Are Heinous
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Nov 07, 2018 11:23 pm EST

These mini corn dogs are [censored]ed up. The breading doesn't cover the dog. It's like wrapping a jigsaw puzzle around a meatloaf. The coating falls off like patchy zombie flesh. And it doesn't get crispy. I left it in until the outside started to burn and when I took them out, the inside was mush. I wouldn't be surprised if these monstrosities have made somebody jump off a balcony.

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Cyberat Rodent
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Jul 24, 2017 4:52 pm EDT

There's more to it than that, 100% of the pre-cooked chicken strips & cut non-breaded strips they sell are UNDER COOKED or Not Cooked at all.

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2:08 pm EDT

Foster Farms popcorn chicken

I bought the foster farms Popcorn chicken at Winco in Tulare Ca. My 15 year old son was going to bake them so he put them on a tray when he looked down thier was a dead
fly in the pan. It could not have just died and fell on the tray because it was frozen. That is discusting I always buy Foster farms but after this I think ill start buying another brand.

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Foster Farms wrongful termination

I had an appointment to attend the week before I was sick I did have the proof for that. I ended up with a sore throat/ strep. I have unable to go to a doctor because Merced county does not accept my insurance. Everything is in the process of being switched from San Joaquin county to Merced county. I've had stepped throat before so that os how I knew what it was and understood that we are unable to work sick around the raw chicken. I had spoken to HR, a woman I spoke to said they would investigate it. Which omwas quick because it only took 10-15 minutes after a receptionist had called me and said to come in and have security walk me to HR. Victoria passed me my check unemployment information and termination paper. That was not an investigation I went to work still a little sick to show some effort and was sent home by my supervisor NOT due to being sick but for missing those days I had called in sick. I went home early because I was falling asleep my body wasn't used to the schedule and I believe it takes time to adjust from 12:30am to 9:00am it was also more convenient because I was carpooling with a coworker whom didn't have their own ride I even let him take the car on my sick days I would also like to report. As I worked my trainer would yank on my wrists when I brought this to my supervisors attention she laughed smiled and said well that is your trainer I said a trainer isn't supposed to touch you or grab you with force and a guy would cough over the chicken as he packed it. Another employee would sneeze on her glove and touch the chicken before deboning it. Other coworkers would shove me when it was time to wash our gloves the guy who takes the skin while we deboned the chicken called me a maldito mayate on my first day i knew what it meant I've been called that when I was a kid but never at a workplace.

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1:59 am EST

Foster Farms organic chicken breasts

Todays date is March 3, 2017 and the last incident was some time in last month in Feb 2017. I have gone to Costco in Kauai, HI and purchased 4 separate packs of the 3 packs of organic chicken breasts and thighs for me and my family visiting from out of town and each time I have opened them up 4-5 days before the expiration date and the chicken has been bad. It has consistently had a fowl oder and has disappointed my dinner plans on several occasions. I don't normally do this but the chicken is not cheap and they've been large purchases. I kept the chicken in the freezer just in case someone needed proof but now its just taking up space as well.

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12:23 am EST

Foster Farms buffalo style strips

The other day I went to go buy groceries and I wanted to grab something fast and easy for my family after I got home grocery shopping. There were 4 of us and I was thinking we could have two each. When I got home I opened up the bag and it did not contain the amount it said.
The video explains it.
However, in the bag of chicken I bought it said it contained 8 pieces and there was only 6.

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11:34 am EDT

Foster Farms meat, pork and chicken

I recently purchased Boneless pork chops and Foster Farms chicken breasts. They were a real disappointment. I have previously purchased them and been happy with the products. The pork is incredibly tough, chewing my shoe would have been easier.
My problem with the chicken breasts is two fold, firstly they have been spongey in texture, secondly they have become so large that one breast is too large for two people. These appear to be no "spring chickens" as the expression goes. So, what's changed? I am not looking for a refund I just want to give you my input.

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I purchased 2 whole "fresh" Foster Farm Chicken on Friday for use on Saturday. Upon cutting them up on Saturday morning, I came across a large bright green growth on the inside cavity of the bird. Absolutely awful looking, I bundled up the carcas along with wrappings and receipt to return to Safeway, Orinda, in hopes that they would be as concerned as I...

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Foster Farms 1 inch bone found in boneless nuggets

My family found a 1 inch bone in their boneless chicken nuggets. Our 3 year and 19 month old couldve choked on this bone. We now live in fear of them choking on a hidden bone from foster farms in CA. They have not settled this matter with us and we are now going to take them to court. So buyer beware they let 1 inch sized bones into their products that children and adults can choke on! This is a very very dangerous situation!

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Jun 03, 2010 2:04 pm EDT

What health investigator do we call?

Update by Montana family
Jun 03, 2010 12:12 pm EDT

Well sure accidents happen...but it still isnt proven that it is a "chicken bone". If accidents happen...who is to say its not a rat bone or some lil bird bone. If so..."you eat it"!

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I worked at the plant in farmerville La in the cook plant on evenings. I was terminated while under the care of my physician. The ppl in human resource are very rude and unprofessional not to mention the supervisors too in the cook plant on evenings. Very unorganized place to work and not ran like it should. Worse experience ever.

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Patty McGuire
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Oct 22, 2023 12:12 pm EDT
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Bought 3 bags for dinner tonight, sweet chipotle. 2 of the 3 bags had NO SAUCE in the bag, that just ruins it for me... I only buy these because I'm crazy for the sauce,.

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Dec 31, 2022 8:32 am EST

Yes I’m Ricky dow from foster farms belgravia located in Fresno Ca, I was asking the leads and supervisor to come fix the label machine because o couldn’t scan the bar codes In .. they won’t let me take a photo of them

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Vicki “VJ” Jones
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Oct 22, 2022 6:06 pm EDT

I’m disappointed that 1 lb 2oz of added weight was added to my chicken, that’s highway robbery. I bought my fresh & natural no antibiotic chicken from city market I will never buy any of your products again. This is not the first time I’ve had this problem. You company essentially added $1.46 extra to my cost.

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Courtbob
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Aug 11, 2021 11:24 pm EDT

I just found a bone in my bag of orange chicken boneless! Luckily I found it and didn't swallow it !

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Sarah213
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Jan 27, 2020 2:53 am EST

Cooked some frozen corn dogs like we always do. Found a worm of some type in one of them . Will not be buying these anymore. Disgusting. I hope we have not eaten any with worms in them .

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Jul 29, 2019 8:29 pm EDT

I'm so mad! I've been feeding my son a bag of bones! His mouth bleed two different times before I realised it was the chicken nuggets full of bones! I hope his body can digest those bones and don't cause long term problems. I'm so freaking mad, scared and confused. We will NEVER EAT FOSTER FARMS ANYMORE...

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Robin Finlen
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Jan 22, 2019 2:18 pm EST

I purchased Foster Farms chicken patties with the serving size of 11 there's only 10 I'm very disappointed and had to remake another dinner your serving sizes should be correct
And they were very prices 6.99 for 11 supposedly

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ReeseZ
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Sep 06, 2018 3:34 am EDT
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I made a bag of your Foster Farms orange boneless chicken that's supposed to be fully cooked about an hour ago for me and my three and a half year old and a. I've bit into one of these boneless pieces of chicken and had a bone in it that cut my lip and I'm wondering what I can do about it now I've taken pictures and I need to know who to call

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Ritann
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Sep 01, 2018 10:22 pm EDT
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You seemed to have changed the recipe and quality of the chicken. We really liked it and brought it once a week. My friends also noticed a change in taste and are disappointed as well. We sure hope that you will consider going back to the other recipe and we will go back to buying it again.will you please answer me.
Thank you
Rita Jenkins

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Foster Farms reviews first appeared on Complaints Board on Jun 3, 2010. The latest review Foster farms corn dogs was posted on Nov 6, 2023. Foster Farms has an average consumer rating of 1 stars from 60 reviews. Foster Farms has resolved 0 complaints.
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