A drumstick oozing red goo and chicken tenders with bones and metal sticking out were on the menu for the city’s school children, jurors in Brooklyn learned at the bribery trial of the Education Department’s former food czar.

A Brooklyn Federal Court jury got a gag-inducing look Monday at the chicken products Somma Food was sending to city school cafeterias in fall 2016 — including a gnarly photo of what a trial witness described as a “thick red liquid coming out of a bone.”

One school employee almost died choking on a bone he swallowed while eating a chicken tender and needed the Heimlich maneuver to save his life, but still, the schools kept serving Somma’s chicken, prosecutors allege.

That’s because of a bribery and kickback scheme between Eric Goldstein, the former head of the Education Department’s Office of School Support Services, and Blaine Iler, Michael Turley and Brian Twomey, the owners of the Texas-based Somma Food Group, prosecutors said.

Goldstein got into business with the Somma Owners to start his own beef supply company, Range Meats, in the hopes that they would sell products to the schools with his meat, prosecutors allege. In exchange, he’d steer the city school system’s chicken and yogurt business their way, they added.

The defendants deny the charges, with Goldstein’s lawyer contending he never took a bribe and was running an above-board beef business.

Somma’s food often didn’t pass muster, testified Debra Ascher, a former supply chain manager for school foods.

She rattled off a list of complaints, complete with photos, starting in September 2016. The complaints were kept in an incident log spreadsheet and she repeatedly raised the alarm in e-mails, she said.

Ascher described three incidents in which bones were found in chicken tenders in a single week in an e-mail to a Somma Food executive, writing, “This presents a real potential danger to our customers, not to mention something that is very unappetizing and alarming to find in this type of processed product.”

After a fourth bone incident, the chicken tenders were recalled on Sept. 20, 2016, but by Oct. 19, they were back on the menu, Ascher testified, with school staffers finding another bone in a tender on Oct. 27.

The gross chicken drumstick, with “red liquid oozing out,” was spotted on Oct. 24, she testified.

By the end of the year, School foods officials agreed to put Somma’s tenders back on the menu in January, with Somma’s drumsticks available to use as substitute meals for schools.

Ascher said the decision left her confused.

“I was very concerned about serving these products, for the children’s safety,” she said. She told her direct supervisor that Somma’s chicken should be pulled, because “someone almost died,” but her concerns were brushed aside, she said.

And more problems cropped up, she testified — a chicken tender with a bone in February 2017, and two tenders with metal inside the next month.

Prosecutors allege that the Somma execs paid Goldstein more than $66,000 and gave him their stakes in Range Meats in exchange for getting the tenders back on the menu.

Twomey’s lawyer, Tobey Romero, countered in his cross-examination that the chicken were a drop in the bucket, “one in a million” or “one in 12 million” complaints compared to meals served.