Remember when this picture went viral, with one Facebook user jokingly trolling us all pretending that she actually ate a "medium rare" chicken dish?
It was alarming at first, but once we realized it was a joke, we all got back to our normal lives and forgot about the raw chicken.
Until now.
A new article has surfaced highlighting the food trend of chicken sashimi — basically raw chicken served up as a dish in a restaurant — and it actually exists.
Food and Wine claims that chicken sashimi can mostly be found in Japan, with some restaurants in America serving the dish, too.
The meat is usually prepared by searing or boiling it for just 10 seconds which Michael Doyle, regents professor of food microbiology at the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety, told Food and Wine "is an insufficient treatment to kill harmful microbes such as campylobacter and salmonella … on raw poultry."
Basically, it sounds gross and quite dangerous — and the internet agrees.
This tweet probably sums up our feelings on the matter:
