Chicken Prices

[Chuckie]

I remember when my Mom would cook chicken and she cut up one bird. Dad got what he wanted first. Then I had two brothers and they would grab a what ever they wanted. I remember always eating the back and a wing.

The wing was not the piece of chicken anyone wanted, but if one was left, it would be consumed. Now when I go to the store, the wings are higher than the thighs and much higher than the leg quarters.
I would like to cook the wings for the dogs for a higher collagen source. It has more collagen beause of the bones and cartlidge, connective tissue and the skin.

A 4 lb pack of wings cost more than a 10 lb bag of leg quarters. Go figure. A frozen bag of wing sections cost $12.84 @ $3.21 lb. And a 10 lb bag of leg quarters is $8.47 @ .84.7 lb.

Chicken feet are even more. $3.28 lb. But not going to put chicken feet in any of my cooking utensils. Just can't handle that for some reason. Looks like their hands.

Then I read an article where it says that your body can't use the collagen in cooked chicken, then the next articles says that you get great collagen from this. Everyone wants to sell you a supplement instead of eating the right foods.

I always liked the dark meat of chicken more than the white meat. No flavor and dry.

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

I'm pretty blessed because where we live there's a chicken plant and every year they put on a benefit to raise money for something I don't really remember what the benefit was for
you can buy chicken for $1 a pound , your choice whole or cut up this year we bought 275 lb.... the downside was it took three of us 4 hours of vacuum packing..

 

[Dave]

I'm pretty blessed because where we live there's a chicken plant and every year they put on a benefit to raise money for something I don't really remember what the benefit was for
you can buy chicken for $1 a pound , your choice whole or cut up this year we bought 275 lb.... the downside was it took three of us 4 hours of vacuum packing..

The real downside would be having to eat 276 lb of chicken.

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

We just had a party and it is great for big parties. Had a little camp fire.

 

[Ouachita]

I’ll never waste food, but I grew up on chicken, and chicken eggs. From about age 18 until age 30, I couldn’t eat much chicken meat and no eggs. I still can’t eat much chicken meat but have come to enjoy eggs again.

When I was growing up, we only had beef on special occasions, and it was mostly hamburger or brisket, sometimes tenderized round, and ALWAYS well done!

I was 18yo when I had my first real steak, in all of imagined places, Albany NY, at a place called Spicer’s Bar and Grill. It was built in to the local Comfort Inn near the airport, else I’d have never found it.

They had a menu with a Bishop, a Queen, and a King ribeye. If it hadn’t been for my coworker, I’d had never known the answer to the question “how would you like it cooked?”. He suggested medium rare and to this day I can no longer tolerate a steak cooked beyond medium rare.

We always got the 18oz Queen ribeye because the 24oz King was a bit too much to sleep on when at 9pm, still had to shower and wake up at 4am.

It was very well charred crispy on the outside, and still very pink and juicy, and warm, on the inside. As an 18yo (+40) I’ve still never had another Queen ribeye that good.

Our job allowed us to frequent that place several times over a period of a few months, but that ended. I know my taste have changed and my mind can be biased, but it’s still the best I’ve ever had.

If you’ve read all of this post to this point, you’re probably wondering how we got here from chicken!

I can answer that with a very straight face.

Chicken sucks. Beef rules. There is a difference, but there is no comparison.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

I love me some beef, but a fella has to balance it out with some chicken, turkey, pork, fish, etc from time to time.

 

[kenny thomas]

Eat beef. Run over chickens.

 

[Ouachita]

I love me some beef, but a fella has to balance it out with some chicken, turkey, pork, fish, etc from time to time.

If yer talkin about Thanksgiving and Easter, I’m good with that.

 

[Dave]

If I were completely out of beef and had to eat chicken...... I would go up on the hill and shoot a fat deer and not worry about when deer season is closed. It would probably be a doe too. (no doe season here)

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

I'll eat just about kind of bird. Bacon wrapped Dove breast on the grill is excellent. Love quail.
Most ducks good when cooked right however. ...
Not only did I hate digging that goose pit every year after the corn was cut and freezing my butt off sitting in it just to eat that greasy goose. Not worth it.

 

[sstterry]

I’ll never waste food, but I grew up on chicken, and chicken eggs. From about age 18 until age 30, I couldn’t eat much chicken meat and no eggs. I still can’t eat much chicken meat but have come to enjoy eggs again.



I was 18yo when I had my first real steak, in all of imagined places, Albany NY, at a place called Spicer’s Bar and Grill. It was built in to the local Comfort Inn near the airport, else I’d have never found it.

They had a menu with a Bishop, a Queen, and a King ribeye. If it hadn’t been for my coworker, I’d had never known the answer to the question “how would you like it cooked?”. He suggested medium rare and to this day I can no longer tolerate a steak cooked beyond medium rare.

 

[farmerjan]

Eat beef. Run over chickens.

UNLESS... you get the Alpha Gal tick disease where you are allergic to ALL RED MEATS and mammalian products like milk and all "real" dairy... Then you better get used to and LIKE to eat chicken and turkey and fish and seafood...
Can't even eat mashed potatoes made with milk and butter... or baked with sour cream...

Talk about a PITA diet to read all the labels... But it beats being as sick as I was feeling from the allergic reactions I was having... and there are all sorts of things made from milk products that have been causing a reaction too... I have a pretty severe case.....

It still SUCKS.....

 

[greybeard]

Wings are more expensive than quarters simply because of the high demand for wings.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

If I were completely out of beef and had to eat chicken...... I would go up on the hill and shoot a fat deer and not worry about when deer season is closed. It would probably be a doe too. (no doe season here)

I'd starve to death before I ate venison from round here. They taste like cedar trees and are about as chewy as well. Ha

 

[ClinchValley86]

I’ll never waste food, but I grew up on chicken, and chicken eggs. From about age 18 until age 30, I couldn’t eat much chicken meat and no eggs. I still can’t eat much chicken meat but have come to enjoy eggs again.

When I was growing up, we only had beef on special occasions, and it was mostly hamburger or brisket, sometimes tenderized round, and ALWAYS well done!

I was 18yo when I had my first real steak, in all of imagined places, Albany NY, at a place called Spicer’s Bar and Grill. It was built in to the local Comfort Inn near the airport, else I’d have never found it.

They had a menu with a Bishop, a Queen, and a King ribeye. If it hadn’t been for my coworker, I’d had never known the answer to the question “how would you like it cooked?”. He suggested medium rare and to this day I can no longer tolerate a steak cooked beyond medium rare.

We always got the 18oz Queen ribeye because the 24oz King was a bit too much to sleep on when at 9pm, still had to shower and wake up at 4am.

It was very well charred crispy on the outside, and still very pink and juicy, and warm, on the inside. As an 18yo (+40) I’ve still never had another Queen ribeye that good.

Our job allowed us to frequent that place several times over a period of a few months, but that ended. I know my taste have changed and my mind can be biased, but it’s still the best I’ve ever had.

If you’ve read all of this post to this point, you’re probably wondering how we got here from chicken!

I can answer that with a very straight face.

Chicken sucks. Beef rules. There is a difference, but there is no comparison.

You ever tried to Pittsburgh a ribeye at home? I agree with you, there is no better way to grill a steak. Ive never had the Queen's ribeye from that restaurant, but use to Pittsburgh a many when I was a grill cook, sure will spoil ya.

 

[greybeard]

I've had steak cooked that way but didn't know there as a name for it...

 

[Ouachita]

You ever tried to Pittsburgh a ribeye at home? I agree with you, there is no better way to grill a steak. Ive never had the Queen's ribeye from that restaurant, but use to Pittsburgh a many when I was a grill cook, sure will spoil ya.

That's certainly what it was in Albany. I've never heard the term, but yes that's how I do them on the grill

 

[ClinchValley86]

That's certainly what it was in Albany. I've never heard the term, but yes that's how I do them on the grill

Id grab about a quarter stick of butter on a skewer and stick it in top of the steak. The butter would melt and run down and across the steak, eventually hitting the open flame. Engulfed the entire time. Minute or two per side. Making me hungry thinking about it. Havent done it in quite a while.

Im a med rare to medium guy, myself. I need the middle to be warm. I am officially craving one now.

 

[Dave]

I'd starve to death before I ate venison from round here. They taste like cedar trees and are about as chewy as well. Ha

While our venison isn't as good as beef it is a whole lot better than chicken. A lot of people here grew up on venison. Beef was for selling deer were for eating. Elk are better but not as easily available here.
I had a friend who grew up in the southwest. His mother was Navajo. He said his preference in meat was this way
1. The "neighbor's" beef
2. Venison
3. Burro
4. Mutton
My preference in meat growing up was.
1. Beef
2. Venison
3. Salmon and we ate way too much salmon
We very rarely had any pork or chicken

 

[Chuckie]

I am going to have to look that movie up. Don't believe I have seen this one. Looks like a winner.