Chickens & Tomatoes
When I went to town yesterday, I bought a whole cut-up fryer for $3.90. Two wings, two legs, two thighs, two breasts, one gizzard, one liver and one neck. The labeling was somewhat inaccurate, however, because no two pieces in the package came from the same chicken. It was a chicken collage, if you will, with parts from eleven different chickens. Picasso would have loved it.
Anyhow, this "whole chicken" was composed of those eleven parts and I figure that, discounting the neck, I can get three meals out of this one package for a total chicken cost $1.30 per meal. And, I didn't even have to kill the chicken!
So, I cooked up a mess of chicken for dinner tonight, including the liver (for me) and the gizzard (for Sam) and had it with an ear of yellow corn ($0.25) and a green garden salad that included two of my Canadian tomatoes. Now, it takes two Canadian tomatoes to make a salad because they are kinda small. But, if you think about it, they have to be small because summer is way too short in Canada to grow big tomatoes. Anyhow, eleven Canadian tomatoes cost me $1.99 on sale for half a kilogram of them and that brings the tomato cost of my salad to $0.36. Adding a little something for the other salad ingredients, I'm pushing $2.00 for tonight's dinner.
Not bad. Except for one thing.
I paid $0.99 a pound for the American chicken and $1.81 a pound for the Canadian tomatoes!
What's wrong with this picture?
I tell you, it has to be that NAFTA thing.
"Eat mor chickin."
Anyhow, this "whole chicken" was composed of those eleven parts and I figure that, discounting the neck, I can get three meals out of this one package for a total chicken cost $1.30 per meal. And, I didn't even have to kill the chicken!
So, I cooked up a mess of chicken for dinner tonight, including the liver (for me) and the gizzard (for Sam) and had it with an ear of yellow corn ($0.25) and a green garden salad that included two of my Canadian tomatoes. Now, it takes two Canadian tomatoes to make a salad because they are kinda small. But, if you think about it, they have to be small because summer is way too short in Canada to grow big tomatoes. Anyhow, eleven Canadian tomatoes cost me $1.99 on sale for half a kilogram of them and that brings the tomato cost of my salad to $0.36. Adding a little something for the other salad ingredients, I'm pushing $2.00 for tonight's dinner.
Not bad. Except for one thing.
I paid $0.99 a pound for the American chicken and $1.81 a pound for the Canadian tomatoes!
What's wrong with this picture?
I tell you, it has to be that NAFTA thing.
"Eat mor chickin."
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