Summertime Chicken
What's with chicken these days? Have folks quit buying McNuggets or something? I went power shopping for food today and bought chicken leg quarters for $0.29 a pound.
This 6.47-pound mess of chicken cost me $1.88. Six legs and six thighs for $0.32 a set. Three meals for two people for $0.64 a meal. And, that $0.32 thigh-leg combination is the same one (quarter chicken dark) for which you pay $6.50 to enjoy at Boston Market after they throw in a few mashed potatoes and some green beans!
I have empathy for chickens these days. How would you feel going around knowing that your only reason for living was to eventually die for someone's dining pleasure and your legs are going to be sold at retail for a lousy $0.29 a pound?
At these prices, I'm thinking about finding a way to make gasoline out of chicken parts!
And, while I was in the food store, I bought blueberries, two for the price of one. Wouldn't you just know that they were Canadian blueberries? Yup. First tomatoes and now blueberries. What's next? Chickens? Don't know for sure but, folks, I'm drawing a line in the snow at Canadian collard greens.
Serious.
This 6.47-pound mess of chicken cost me $1.88. Six legs and six thighs for $0.32 a set. Three meals for two people for $0.64 a meal. And, that $0.32 thigh-leg combination is the same one (quarter chicken dark) for which you pay $6.50 to enjoy at Boston Market after they throw in a few mashed potatoes and some green beans!
I have empathy for chickens these days. How would you feel going around knowing that your only reason for living was to eventually die for someone's dining pleasure and your legs are going to be sold at retail for a lousy $0.29 a pound?
At these prices, I'm thinking about finding a way to make gasoline out of chicken parts!
And, while I was in the food store, I bought blueberries, two for the price of one. Wouldn't you just know that they were Canadian blueberries? Yup. First tomatoes and now blueberries. What's next? Chickens? Don't know for sure but, folks, I'm drawing a line in the snow at Canadian collard greens.
Serious.
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