Woman gets chicken salad from Costco. Then she opens it up—and is disgusted by what she finds: ‘Sorry but the ingredients?’

When you pick up a ready-to-eat meal in the refrigerated section at Costco, you expect it to be, well… ready to eat.

But when one woman opened her container of Costco's chicken salad made with rotisserie chicken, she found it confusing. And very concerning.

What was wrong with this Costco chicken salad?

“My Costco chicken salad is literally raw,” TikTok creator Tammy Morris (@tammy.morris79) wrote in the video's text overlay. The clip shows the label on the packaging up close.

The ingredients list has cooked chicken breast as the first ingredient. However, the packaging also has “safe handling instructions” printed on it.

That label says, in full:

“This product was prepared from inspected and passed meat and/or poultry. Some food products may contain bacteria that could cause illness if the product is mishandled or cooked improperly. For your protection, follow these safe handling instructions.

-Keep refrigerated or frozen. Thaw in refrigerator or microwave.
-Keep raw meat and poultry separate from other foods. Wash working surfaces (including cutting boards), utensils, and hands after touching raw meat or poultry.
-Cook thoroughly.
-Keep hot foods hot. Refrigerate leftovers immediately or discard.”

Morris then shows what the chicken in the salad looks like. It's clearly pink and has a glossy sheen similar to raw chicken.

This appearance could be normal for dark thigh meat, for example, but the ingredients list specifically mentions chicken breast, which should be completely white or beige.

It seems that the safe handling instructions, which advise customers to “cook thoroughly,” and what's on the ingredients list just don't match up.

“Pretty sure that the chicken in my chicken salad is raw,” Morris says while continuing to film the salad up close.

“Have always loved Costo's chicken salad on their croissants, but this time I bought it in a container by the premade meals,” she added in the caption. “Yes, it was sealed when I opened it, and it was definitely uncooked chicken mixed into it. I am not bashing Costco, and I did return it for a refund. My issue is, what if someone else bought this, especially from the same batch, and HAD actually eaten it and gotten ill.”

Her video got over 1.1 million views.

Should customers cook the Costco chicken salad?

From the comments, it's clear that no one can exactly parse out what went wrong here.

“Cook thoroughly,” one person wrote, attaching a screenshot of the safe handling instructions Morris showed in the video. However, most consumers would not know how to go about properly cooking a prepared salad.

“It's dark meat not raw,” another said. But as stated above, the ingredients list clearly mentions only chicken breast, not thigh.

Others agreed with her assessment.

“Was expecting this to be an exaggeration…. that chicken hasn't even seen the SUN since the feathers got plucked,” one commenter wrote.

One person who said they work at Costco also found it unusual.

“I work in the deli at costco and we only use the precooked pack of chicken that we sell for this product. This seems sketchy to me,” they wrote.

Morris responded that she had purchased Costco chicken salad many times before.

“I have bought their chicken salad in the square containers for years, but this was in the premade meals section so I thought I would try it,” she wrote.

@tammy.morris79

Subplot News cannot independently verify whether this salad is ready to eat. It has reached out to Costco via contact form for comment and to Morris via TikTok direct messages.

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