The storyteller heard this story in the supermarket where she and her husband both work. People were pretending it was a true story.

During a hot summer, a man became unwell at the checkout. He started perspiring heavily and fell to the floor, having lost consciousness. The store employees phoned an ambulance, and guess what? The male nurse took the man's hat off and saw a frozen chicken hidden under it. The reason he has become unwell was that it was so hot and he had hidden the ice cold product on his head. It was not sweat, but water from the chicken thawing out that dripped down his face.

There are other versions of this story, involving stolen fish fingers or a woman trying to perform this theft with steak, so that she even had blood running from under her hat and down her face.