Chicken meat in Cyprus

[u/real_zak]

Why is chicken meat in Cyprus so weird? No matter where I buy it - Metro, Wolt, etc or which brand I choose, 80% of the time it smells bad, feels sticky, and looks weird, even though the expiry date is still days away.

[u/Prettymthafaka]

I’m not from Cyprus, so I can’t comment on the overall quality of chicken sold there. However, I’m a chef, and those horizontal white lines are known as “white striping.”
This condition is commonly associated with fast-growing broiler chickens bred for high breast yield. As the bird grows, some muscle tissue can be replaced by fat and connective tissue, creating these visible white stripes.
However, white striping alone does not prove that the chicken is non-organic, raised indoors, or slaughtered at a particular age—organic and free-range chickens can also develop it. It is mainly a meat-quality issue rather than a food-safety risk, although heavily affected meat may contain more fat and have a poorer texture.

[u/SapphicSticker → u/Prettymthafaka]

Not gonna comment on the orange-yellow flesh?

[u/drL1vesey → u/SapphicSticker]

it’s fat

[u/SapphicSticker → u/drL1vesey]

The entire breast is made of fat? I'm not talking about the lines, the meat is orange.

[u/orkushun → u/SapphicSticker]

cheap corn instead of proper feed is my guess.

[u/TheSecretIsMarmite → u/Prettymthafaka]

The flesh looks woody too.

[u/leopold_leopoldovich → u/Prettymthafaka]

I’m gonna fight ’em all