"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:25:54 -0700 (PDT), Bryan-TGWWW
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>> On Sunday, September 14, 2014 4:28:13 PM UTC-5, Tara wrote:
>> > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:38:05 -0700, sf wrote:
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>> > > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:29:35 -0500, Tara >
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>> > >> http://www.budgetbytes.com/2014/09/s...dijon-chicken-
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>> > >> thighs-sweet-potatoes/
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>> > > Thanks for posting, that is my kind of dish - I have all the
>> > > ingredients
>> > > on hand.
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>> > Looks good, doesn't it? Please report back if you make it.
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>> What kind of f-ing idiot pays >$2.80/# for chicken thighs?
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> The kind that doesn't live where they dump chicken on the market for
> under $1 a pound. Boneless, skinless thighs are now $2.99 lb and I
> think it's a good deal.
>
Chicken was not cheap when I lived in CA. At least not on Alameda. And
when you looked at the meat cases, far more space was dedicated to chicken
than any other meat. It was quite popular there. My dad said they could
get away with the high prices because there was such a demand for it.

Years ago I used to talk to a woman online who lived somewhere in the South.
I want to say TX but not sure. She would bulk buy chicken thighs when they
were really cheap. I was living on Cape Cod at the time. I was amazed at
how much cheaper her meat was than what I could buy.

I also will never forget something that I once saw on one of those court
shows. The just gave a scenario to a low income woman about what she would
do if she had one chicken thigh. She had two small children. The correct
answer was to take that chicken thigh and pad out the meal with some cheaper
things like potatoes and divide the chicken between the three people. The
woman then looked at the judge like she was an idiot. And then said since
there was only one, she would just eat it herself and the kids would never
know!

Always amazes me when people can't think things through. One of the people
who commented on the chickpea recipe said that he only had dried chickpeas
and he didn't know how to covert them to the given recipe. Did he just have
to soak them? Okay, maybe he didn't buy the chickpeas. Maybe they were
given to him. But he obviously has the Internet. He could have looked up
how to cook them.