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Default rotisserie chicken - where does it come from?


> wrote in message ...
> Janet Bostwick > wrote:
>> You know those rotisserie chickens that you buy at the supermarket, the
>> big
>> box store and the like? Who does the preparation on the birds? Are they
>> delivered in a vat of marinade to the store? Is there a Rotisserie
>> Chicken
>> Central that you order x number of cases of prepped birds? All brined
>> and
>> tied? Do they come frozen? Or does each store prep their own chickens?

>
> I'm sure that most stores prep their own. There *may* be a source
> for pre-prepared chickens, but I couldn't find any doing a quick
> search of some likely commercial food suppliers. I didn't look hard.
>
> I did find lots of places selling rubs for making rotisserie chicken,
> so I suspect most places just buy large quatities of fryers and
> apply a rub.
>


Speaking of which, when I have bought these chickens they have a nasty taste
from the rubs. Hard to describe, but nothing like home roasted chicken.