"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> "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).
>
>
Chicken was still about 10¢/lb. And of course there was boneless, you could
have chicken any way you wanted for the same 10¢/lb, the butcher would
prepare it however you liked... and in many areas there were live chicken
markets, so you got to pick... couldn't get fresher. In 1950 there weren't
stupidmarkets like nowadays, back then hardly any grocery store sold fresh
meat... you went to a butcher or a live chicken market.