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A woman went viral on TikTok after claiming to have discovered something in her Popeyes meal that she alleged was not chicken, but rather, a fried rat.
User Abigail (@abigailcaudy11) records her opened Popeyes box where a large object suspiciously in the shape of a rat sits above a half-eaten bed of fries.
This isn’t the first time someone has claimed to find a fried rat in their fast-food meal. This draws on a longtime urban myth of the “Kentucky Fried Rat,” a debunked claim that a customer received a deep-fried rat in their KFC order. While a Popeyes customer alleged to have found a fried rat head in her order in 2016, her claim remains unproven, per Snopes.
Another viral TikTok video shared last year revealed a rat-infested kitchen in a Washington, DC Popeyes, which led the location to be permanently closed due to health code violations, according to the New York Post.