I just can NOT eat store-bought chicken now, since...

[bigredfeather]

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay :

We in the Red Meat Industry say the chicken meat is merely a carrier for condiments.

Jim

What do you mean by this?​

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

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What do you mean by this?

It implies that the Chicken Nugget/White Meat products sold have no taste and need a condiment (ketchup, BBQ sauce, ranch dressing, etc.) to make them tasty.

Therefore, a "Carrier for condiments".

Jim

 

[chicks4kids]

We are in the same boat.

After processing our own birds this summer, we haven't bought any chicken from the store...we can't even bring ourselves to buy chicken when we go out to eat either. No KFC, no Penguin point, nothing. After doing our own processing, and knowing what I had to do to have a beautifully clean bird, I have little faith in a slaughterhouse to make it just as clean as I prefer.

 

[Bossroo]

Last Friday night, my wife and I together with our group of 14 other couples, attended an event at a fancy Hotel banquet room with huge windows on the banks of the Columbia River. The feature entertainment was the annual boat parade. They were all decorated out in bright Christmas decorations and chugged by stem to stern for about an hour. Very Beautiful!!! Several of us ordered organic pork loin chops with cherry sauce. Others ordered halibut, lobster,shrimp or organic grass fed steak. Well, the pork and steak came with scerated steak knives, and they needed it. All of the pork and steak eaters agreed... our pork chops and steak were so taugh that it required quite a bit of sawing to cut through, chewed like shoe leather ( like an OLD spent sow that is best made ground into sausage) and as for the cherry sauce, BLAH horrible. The steaks required plenty of peper seasoning and A1 sauce to help it. Most of the ladies in the group gave up after a bite or two and left that meal. I must admit that this carnivore left half of his meat uneaten ( I NEVER leave even a scrap). This wasn't our first time with this experience at restaurnats recently, so it must be the quality of the meat. The fish and lobster was prepared to perfection according to those that ordered it. I will, from here on out, only order steak or pork that is CORN FED for at least 90 days. Or, I just may have to break down and order fish as I have given up ordering chicken years ago.

 

[StupidBird]

Bossroo, how disappointing. Chefs must not know how to treat the leaner cuts, or just had an old critter or something. Our first farm to freezer beef is much leaner than store bought and I cook accordingly. It has always been tasty for us. Sorry you had that experience.

 

[Bossroo]

This awful experience just didn't happen only here at only this one time as I had similar results in Cal, Ore, and Wa. recently. Where they serve corn fed beef... wonderful !!! I have ordered Bison, which is very lean , I found to be no where near tough. If I and 2 other volunteers ( a Superior court judge, and a high school football coach) can bar b q almost 500 corn fed beef steaks in one afternoon for a school fund raiser and not get complaints of toughness, one would surmise that a chef at a fancy hotel might have a clue. I have raised, butchered, and cooked my own beef, lamb, pig and goat for decades with great success. This kid has learnt his lesun reel gud, i bee aint gonna ordr no gres fid cow orr hogg fum ristrant no mo'.

 

[Buster52]

Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay :

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We in the Red Meat Industry say the chicken meat is merely a carrier for condiments.

Depends on how it is raised.

And that pretty much goes for all kinds of meat.

 

[MissPrissy]

This is what slow food is about. Food grown well and lovingly by people who really do care. Food cooked without haste or tossed in the microwave. Real food. Good food. Flavor filled food. Slow Food.

It takes more than an afternoon run to the grocery to make a patter of fried chicken or a roasted chicken.

It takes time to hatch (21 days), to grow (8 weeks), to process (a day to process, a day or two to rest), to prepare for cooking (30 min to 1 hour), to cook (an hour), to serve. 3 - 4 months minimum from start to finish to put the chicken on your plate.

Slow food = Good food.

 

[Fancie]

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Thats so great you name your food....


lol


I have to do that next easter when we have duck again....


Yeah thats Ralph and Dixie


....People looked at me funny when they found out I raised the birds myself....

 

[Buster52]

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This has really hit home for me recently. This is my first year raising my own meat birds. For today's office Christmas party, my contribution was free range turkey raised from day old poult. I had a much different feeling about this contribution than in my hastily purchased ones of the past. It hit me as I watched with pride as my coworkers partook of this turkey. I had daily interaction with it, protected it, delighted in how it and the others ran to me for treats, sat with it the evening before processing, processed it, cooked it, and served it to my friends and family in attendance. I was proud of that bird.

Not only did it taste much better than any other meat I could have contributed, it just felt different. I could share the story of this bird. That's another advantage of home-raised over store bought.