"Puester" wrote
>> > wrote,

>> In the 1950s Mom used to travel about 100 miles to a commercial cannery
>> to can whole chickens. It had to have been economically practical in
>> order for her to do that.

> I'll bet that in the 50's a whole chicken was something like 9-12 cents a
> pound.

Might have been a bit more. Battery chicken tactics took the price way
down. Used to be beef (even boneless) cost less per lb than bone in chicken
(and boneless chicken wasn't sold at all).