Thread: Chicken again!!
View Single Post
  #17 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Serene Vannoy Serene Vannoy is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 2,223
Default Chicken again!!

wrote:
> On Apr 15, 12:27 pm, Omelet > wrote:
>> In article >,
>> Mr. Bill > wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:19:57 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
>>>> Usual supermarket fare nowadays needs all the help it can get.
>>> This is not a trick question...not trying to judge....but do you smoke
>>> cigarettes?

>> Funny, I wondered the same thing...
>>

> No, and I don't think I'm unusual in decrying the usual state of eggs
> and chicken. I sometimes buy "free range organic" chickens and their
> taste sometimes contrasts favorably with Foster Farms. Sometimes not,
> but in any case the factory chicken is undeniably bland. Occasionally
> out in the country we'll find a place to buy eggs from "home raised"
> chickens and the yolks will be more brightly colored and stand up
> taller and taste better. You don't think so?


We consider ourselves pretty savvy/picky/whatever about food around
here, but we bought some local, home-raised eggs from chickens raised in
a big yard eating bugs. Nobody who ate them could tell the difference
in taste, though it's true the yolks were brighter.

Serene
--
42 Magazine, celebrating life with meaning. Inaugural issue is here!
http://42magazine.com

"But here's a handy hint: if your fabulous theory for ending war and
all other human conflict will not survive an online argument with
humourless feminists who are not afraid to throw rape around as an
example, your theory needs work." -- Aqua, alt.polyamory