Trump’s Chlorinated-Chicken Offensive
Britain doesn’t want chlorine-washed poultry to be part of a future U.S.-U.K. trade deal. Norway offers lessons in how Washington can win over London.
by Yasmeen Serhan
Sep 09, 2019
3 minutes
American chicken isn’t too popular here in Britain, and for some politicians, it has even become a favored insult.
“We are not too keen on that chlorinated chicken,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Vice President Mike Pence in Downing Street last week. “We have a gigantic chlorinated chicken of our own here on the opposition benches,” he added, referring to the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Pence laughed at his host’s joke, but it wasn’t what he wanted to hear. After all, the United States wants to sell its products—including its
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