Dad makes horrifying Costco rotisserie chicken discovery he initially thought was 'just fat'

Yahoo

30-06-2025

A dad-of-six has shared his disgust upon discovering the packaged Costco rotisserie chicken he brought home was infested with maggots.
Liam Jamieson, 50, purchased the product from a Liverpool store (Waterloo Road, Vauxhall) but his partner was forced to put it in the oven to "keep it out of the way".
She first rang the alarm bell over a lumpy, white substance inside the sealed packet, and while Liam initially thought it was "just fat" he soon realised the disgusting truth.
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Liam the ECHO : "We've bought cooked chickens from [Costco] in the past and had no problems.
"My partner put it in the oven out the way of the worktop. She always checks the food to make sure it's okay. She got the chicken out to get ready to cook it, and she shouted me in, 'come and have a look at this!'
"There were white things inside the bag. She took a picture and zoomed in, and then we could see the larvae. It nearly made her sick.
"If it had been me, I would have just ripped the bag open and not seen it. But my partner always checks everything, and we're lucky she did."
Upon the grotesque realisation, Liam phoned the store which he claimed advised putting the chicken back in the freezer and returning it when convenient.
Yet, he put the chicken in a carrier bag and left it out of the way.
He intended to bring it back to the store on the following day, though when he later looked in the bag he noticed yet another horrendous discovery.
The larvae had hatched, with the flies "crawling all over the place".
Upon returning the chicken to the store, Liam says he was given a £20 Costco voucher, along with assurances an investigation would be carried out.
Liam said: "We couldn't eat anything that day. Even now, it makes me feel sick. When we're eating our dinner, I can just see the little things in the chicken.
"It's affected my kids a lot more. They're funny eaters anyway, but now when we buy anything, they're checking for maggots. They're standing in the kitchen watching us make the food, checking there's nothing there."