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Default buying old meat from supermarket

Seerialmom wrote:
> On Sep 2, 4:03 pm, val189 > wrote:
>> It has been rumored that supermarkets use chickens past the pull-date
>> for their rotiss chickens. The price alone steers me away from 'em.

>
> They sell way too many of those chickens (in general, mind you) to be
> "old" chickens. I tended to buy mine at Costco, and they go almost as
> fast as they're put into the warming trays.



The ones Costco uses are quite different from the 2-pack of whole fryers
they sell. The rotisserie chickens are larger (3lb *after* cooking) and
are brined in a sugar/salt/seasoning solution.