£2 chickens
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Re: £2 chickens
No such thing as 'rules'.
Also Coq au Vin is probably THE classic chicken dish and its RED wine. Likewise Chicken Chasseur.
With regards to my post, as others have said all your takeaway chicken is cheap stuff. When its curried/flavoured can you actually tell the difference, no way. The original point of using spices in food is to disguise the poor quality meat that was available.
Plain roast chuck? I bet no one can tell either by taste alone. By the time its has salt and pepper and been roasted with a little butter and garlic.
So that makes it down to the conditions they are grown in.
Hugh F-W went out of his way to follow the industry standards in rearing them for his experiment and one of the things that upset him the most wasn't the conditions they lived in but the fact that if a bird showed ANY signs of illness or disability it was killed there and then and not left lying around in the muck for days on end to ensure it didn't affect teh rest of teh birds.
I'm maybe fortunate that I can seperate the idea of an animal living for pleasure(Pets) from the animal being raised for food. It doesn't bother me in the slightest that an animal is killed so I can have a nice tea when I get in. If I had to kill it myself I would.
When I've had to have pets put down I get upset and I'm not adverse to shedding a tear but animals for food? they are just a means to an end.
When I bought my full lamb from the farmer it came literally as two halves for me to butcher. We showed it to Siobhan as we have always made the connection between teh food on her plate and the animals in the fields. Look at that lovely Moo Cow and equally, isn't it a lovely Moo cow pie). They are piggy butties etc. She wasn't bothered by it and I hope she continues to understand that food on her table comes from somewhere.
No such thing as 'rules'.
Also Coq au Vin is probably THE classic chicken dish and its RED wine. Likewise Chicken Chasseur.
With regards to my post, as others have said all your takeaway chicken is cheap stuff. When its curried/flavoured can you actually tell the difference, no way. The original point of using spices in food is to disguise the poor quality meat that was available.
Plain roast chuck? I bet no one can tell either by taste alone. By the time its has salt and pepper and been roasted with a little butter and garlic.
So that makes it down to the conditions they are grown in.
Hugh F-W went out of his way to follow the industry standards in rearing them for his experiment and one of the things that upset him the most wasn't the conditions they lived in but the fact that if a bird showed ANY signs of illness or disability it was killed there and then and not left lying around in the muck for days on end to ensure it didn't affect teh rest of teh birds.
I'm maybe fortunate that I can seperate the idea of an animal living for pleasure(Pets) from the animal being raised for food. It doesn't bother me in the slightest that an animal is killed so I can have a nice tea when I get in. If I had to kill it myself I would.
When I've had to have pets put down I get upset and I'm not adverse to shedding a tear but animals for food? they are just a means to an end.
When I bought my full lamb from the farmer it came literally as two halves for me to butcher. We showed it to Siobhan as we have always made the connection between teh food on her plate and the animals in the fields. Look at that lovely Moo Cow and equally, isn't it a lovely Moo cow pie). They are piggy butties etc. She wasn't bothered by it and I hope she continues to understand that food on her table comes from somewhere.
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I hope she does not think you can eat cow pies. She might get a shock if she picks one up in a field and takes a bite
I hope she does not think you can eat cow pies. She might get a shock if she picks one up in a field and takes a bite
....LOL
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Thats a COW PAT mate
Perhaps your parents were having a joke on you
I hope she does not think you can eat cow pies. She might get a shock if she picks one up in a field and takes a bite
Thats a COW PAT mate
Perhaps your parents were having a joke on you
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Those are the CHEAP chickens Eric. We can pay $10.00 for a chicken. What would you think of that?
People on a limited income aren't going to worry about where the chicken came from. They are going to be far more concerned about where their next meal is coming from.
Those are the CHEAP chickens Eric. We can pay $10.00 for a chicken. What would you think of that?
People on a limited income aren't going to worry about where the chicken came from. They are going to be far more concerned about where their next meal is coming from.
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Whether a chicken costs 20 quid or 2 quid, once its on a plate with mash and gravy i couldnt give one. Might sound horrible but animals are our food. Thats the way it is, and how its always been.
Whether a chicken costs 20 quid or 2 quid, once its on a plate with mash and gravy i couldnt give one. Might sound horrible but animals are our food. Thats the way it is, and how its always been.
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Being a single person I don’t buy whole chickens unless I want to have chicken for several days on the trot.
It may be that my memory is playing tricks on me or my taste buds have died but it seems to me that the chicken that we buy today is totally tasteless compared to the chicken that I used to eat many years ago.
I guess that’s why we have chicken gravy – to give the meat some taste.
Being a single person I don’t buy whole chickens unless I want to have chicken for several days on the trot.
It may be that my memory is playing tricks on me or my taste buds have died but it seems to me that the chicken that we buy today is totally tasteless compared to the chicken that I used to eat many years ago.
I guess that’s why we have chicken gravy – to give the meat some taste.
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I accept that as a person gets older and older there is deterioration in the efficiency of the old taste buds but then I wouldn’t be able to taste steak, apple pies and all sorts of other things, would I?
It is the same with the so called wet fish. It too is tasteless but then it has been lying about half frozen for several weeks before being sold as wet fish.
I’ve eaten cod, hake, halibut, trout, salmon etc within a couple of hours of it being caught and they all had taste. Today the only taste that you get is from the various sauces that can be poured over fish.
50 years ago we could take a trip to Fleetwood and buy fish that was caught that day. Cod tasted like cod and hake like hake. Plaice had its own unique taste.
Your chicken might taste ‘bootiful’ to your kids but they don’t have anything to compare it with. We doddering old goats do.I think you must be cooking it wrong, that or ya taste buds are gone
my chickens taste 'bootiful' as my kids say
I accept that as a person gets older and older there is deterioration in the efficiency of the old taste buds but then I wouldn’t be able to taste steak, apple pies and all sorts of other things, would I?
It is the same with the so called wet fish. It too is tasteless but then it has been lying about half frozen for several weeks before being sold as wet fish.
I’ve eaten cod, hake, halibut, trout, salmon etc within a couple of hours of it being caught and they all had taste. Today the only taste that you get is from the various sauces that can be poured over fish.
50 years ago we could take a trip to Fleetwood and buy fish that was caught that day. Cod tasted like cod and hake like hake. Plaice had its own unique taste.
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After watching a programme about battery chickens a few weeks ago,, i now only buy free range,,, same with eggs,,,,,
After watching a programme about battery chickens a few weeks ago,, i now only buy free range,,, same with eggs,,,,,
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It irritates me how it takes tv programmes to make people think. No offence to you Grannyclaret, but I assume you had enough knowledge and intelligence before any tv programme to associate the words 'battery farm' with cruel treatment to animals and harsh living conditions.
Where would some of us be without television eh?
It irritates me how it takes tv programmes to make people think. No offence to you Grannyclaret, but I assume you had enough knowledge and intelligence before any tv programme to associate the words 'battery farm' with cruel treatment to animals and harsh living conditions.
Where would some of us be without television eh?
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It certainly made me feel guilty....the chap in that programme was non caring ,,and as long as he got his wages .diddent bat an eyelash..
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Just like most people dont think twice when they buy a pack of eggs or a cheap chicken. Yet its strange that most people dont care as much when they surely must be fully aware of the conditions chickens are kept in in those types of places. KFC is widely known for its battery farming and most of your youngsters will probably have some idea of what battery farming is.
I think its like the Holocaust for chickens.
Just like most people dont think twice when they buy a pack of eggs or a cheap chicken. Yet its strange that most people dont care as much when they surely must be fully aware of the conditions chickens are kept in in those types of places. KFC is widely known for its battery farming and most of your youngsters will probably have some idea of what battery farming is.
I think its like the Holocaust for chickens.
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There are a lot of people in this world who cannot afford to get ethical about what they eat......a lot of them in this country too.
In an ideal world it would be good if everyone could choose ethically reared food......but until then, there are always going to be people who put the feeding of their families before the welfare of the animals that are killed for food.
There are a lot of people in this world who cannot afford to get ethical about what they eat......a lot of them in this country too.
In an ideal world it would be good if everyone could choose ethically reared food......but until then, there are always going to be people who put the feeding of their families before the welfare of the animals that are killed for food.
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