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Default those supermarket rotisserie chickens

On Sun, 04 Sep 2016 07:51:38 -0400, Don Wiss >
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>On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 00:50:17 -0500, Sqwertz > wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 03 Sep 2016 22:54:54 -0400, Don Wiss wrote:
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>>> This afternoon I bought my fourth cooked chicken from Whole Foods. Each
>>> time they have gotten heavier. First was 2.5 lbs. The next slightly more.
>>> The third was 2.75 lbs. The fourth was 2.8 lbs. And this was net of the
>>> plastic container.

>>
>>All supermarket/Costco chickens have little white dates/hour tags on
>>their packages. Learn to decode those tags (or ask the staff) and
>>you'll always get the most recent juicy chicken.

>
>You are correct. But they do put the newest on the bottom shelf, and move
>the ones there up to the top shelf. And I am eyeballing them to pick the
>heaviest.


You have quite the gift there that you can discriminate whole
chicken's weight differences in their package by a couple three ounces
by eye... even I'm not that good hefting women's tatas naked in my
hands.