Potentially VERY stupid question re:chicken

[winnybella]

You know how some chickens come with a small metal clamp on a wing?

Well, I leave it when I roast a bird. I'm making a chicken soup now and forgot to take the clamp thingy off.

So, my question is: is it ok? Will the clamp have leaked the erm...heavy metal nasty chemicals whatever they're called into the soup?

Didn't taste it yet.

Oh come on...tell me: have I ruined the soup? Can't find anything on the internet.

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I have never, ever bought a chicken with a metal clamp on. Where are you buying your chicken?

Ah. France, you see. It's a little metal thingy attached to the wing with the producer's name.

I also don't know what you mean....

Is it a soft metal or hard, picture maybe?

neither have I!

I have never bought a chicken with a metal clamp in either.

I don't see how it would have ruined it. I mean we cook in metal containers and stir things with metal spoons.

Can't find a photo. No clue if soft or hard metal.

True, Seth, I guess I was thinking how aluminium, lead etc is not good for you.

But I'm being silly, aren't I?

DP just came back and looked at me when I asked him. He said it's probably tin and it'll be all right. It's soft i.e. I can bend it iyswim.

I think I need to get out more instead of worrying about things like that

I wouldn't worry cos it's just a one-off. I mean, suppose there is aluminium in it, people get effects from cooking their food in aluminium saucepans for decades, not from doing it once. And the clamp is presumably pretty small so this is a small surface area to leak out of. And how is it different to cooking with aluminium foil?

I think when we become parents the 'worrying about daft safety things' bit of our brain swells to epic proportions

True.

It'll be fine. I don't always take the metal clamp off before I cook and I've never noticed the difference.

Have left the metal tag on the wing a good few times before, and am still here to tell the tale!