Cheap chicken

[slag]

I remember shopping with mom and she'd get chicken at the grocer's for under 50 cents a lb. I just can't bring myself to pay 10 bucks for a frozen or air chilled chicken. Chicken are super cheap to raise and market. They should be like 5 bucks or less.

 

[SlitheryDee]

The only cheap chicken I get anymore is those huge bags of leg quarters I can occasionally find at the supermarket. Like $7 for close to 20 leg quarters. I cook 'em up in the nuwave oven and they taste fine. I do really notice the difference between the different qualities of boneless skinless breasts when I buy them though.

 

[evident]

Jokes aside, raw chicken really is a dish in Japan......torisashi or chicken sashimi.

Anyone get chicken with what looks like the striations bodybuilders develop? I just picked some up from a local shop, no water added, that looks like the muscle is layered, almost like an onion, instead of being solid homogeneous piece of meat.

It's actually pretty good, but you probably only want to eat it if the chicken was prepared in such a way that it would be safe to do so. I've noticed that chicken in every country i've traveled to tastes exponentially better than what we have here in the US.

 

[Rakehellion]

The only cheap chicken I get anymore is those huge bags of leg quarters I can occasionally find at the supermarket. Like $7 for close to 20 leg quarters. I cook 'em up in the nuwave oven and they taste fine. I do really notice the difference between the different qualities of boneless skinless breasts when I buy them though.

39 cents a pound at the store near me. After you trim off all the fat and bone, it's still a great deal, but my Victorinox can't handle it anymore.

 

[DrPizza]

Has anybody done a rigid double-blind tests between that and regular chicken? Won't be remotely surprised if they couldn't tell any difference.

I would be surprised if they couldn't taste a difference. It's amazing that citiots miraculously think "angus beef is better" - great advertising led them to "know" this. But, they're oblivious to the various breeds of chickens and what the chickens are being fed. The chickens in grocery stores reach 8 pounds in 8 weeks. They're fed very cheap feed. Those chickens wouldn't even be able to live long enough to breed - they'd die of congestive heart failure first. (The parents are two different breeds, the chicken that's most commonly sold is a cross.)

So, if the choices are a chicken that's been bred to produce lots of muscle tissue rapidly, with the lights on 24/7 so they eat all day and night, eating very cheap feed

versus a heritage breed chicken that's much slower growing that forages on bugs & grasses with good added grains

... someone would be seriously lacking taste buds if they couldn't tell the difference.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm curious as to how it can be both "free range" and vegetarian.

They pay Mexicans to follow them around and yell "PUT THAT DOWN!", then smack them in the back of the head.

 

[Ns1]

I would be surprised if they couldn't taste a difference. It's amazing that citiots miraculously think "angus beef is better" - great advertising led them to "know" this. But, they're oblivious to the various breeds of chickens and what the chickens are being fed. The chickens in grocery stores reach 8 pounds in 8 weeks. They're fed very cheap feed. Those chickens wouldn't even be able to live long enough to breed - they'd die of congestive heart failure first. (The parents are two different breeds, the chicken that's most commonly sold is a cross.)

So, if the choices are a chicken that's been bred to produce lots of muscle tissue rapidly, with the lights on 24/7 so they eat all day and night, eating very cheap feed

versus a heritage breed chicken that's much slower growing that forages on bugs & grasses with good added grains

... someone would be seriously lacking taste buds if they couldn't tell the difference.

to add to this, anyone who has eaten chicken outside of the US knows that US chicken sucks.

big + bland =/= better

 

[soulcougher73]

Im always amazed at what companies are allowed to do to food production. Makes me want go vegan and grow my own crap.