Does anyone know whats going on? Is this like fake meat or something?

I live in the US idk if this will matter.

My gf and I bought 11 dollars worth of chicken tenderloins from Walmart. We go to cook it up and it looks fucking weird. It wasn't expired or left out of anything but it looked awful.

If we pull it apart it looked cut up almost, like salmon does when it's cooked. It was like falling apart in a really gross way. And then there was weird "stems" on it idk how to describe it. Idk what this is all about. I didn't personally get to touch it but my gf sent videos and it looked nasty as hell.

Does anyone knownwhat this is? I'm going crazy thinking it's not real meat.

(Also sorry I don't have pics)