I can get a whole chicken for around $5, and then make soup from the carcass for less than $1…I guarantee it tastes better than the can as well.
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$5 for a whole chicken? We wish, the area I live in use to be filled with cheap local small farms, but local politicians and all the wal-mart style mega businesses have squashed that. Local grocery store chains are now owned by corporations. Nothing is owned by anyone who lives here anymore. It is sad. Anyways, back to the memes.
A large whole chicken in Tesco is £4.80 (£3,20 / kg). So that’s $6.06 ($4.04 / kg)…I always thought food prices in the UK were higher than the states? What with import prices, us being an island dependant on foreign imports, Brexit etc etc…
Perhaps there’s just more corporate greed in the states…
We usually buy meat directly from farmers. A representative price for chicken would be around £14/kg ($18/kg). Yes, food here is expensive. But remember that this is high-quality free-range chicken from small-scale producers. My wife and I have an emphasis on quality and animal welfare when buying meat, instead of just opting for the cheapest meat available. Since this will be more expensive, we have reduced the total amount of meat we consume, and compensate with vegetables.
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Wow, tesco’s finest free range is nowhere near that, but there may be very different rules about what can termed free range here compared to the US of course. Pork is pretty cheap here, so I eat pork a little more, lamb is eyewateringly expensive given that sheep outnumber people in Wales by three to one…I eat steak maybe two or three times a month, and occasionally brisket, as it is cheap and easy to cook, and delicious if done correctly, which is braised in beef stock and red wine…SLOWLY…
I tend to eat chicken thighs, as again they’re cheap, but also have more fat / flavour than more expensive parts like breast, and I buy chicken wings for the same reason.
Oh here’s a meme then…to stays on topic…
We can get cheap(*) pork here as well, but the pork we get from the small-scale farmers that emphasize quality and animal welfare, and that raise their pigs outdoors and let them do what pigs want to do (dig for food) is just SO much more tasty and better than the cheap mass-produced pork from the supermarkeds. Yes, of course you can get quality pork from the supermarkeds, but not quite as good as this.
(*) everything is relative.
I suddenly have a yearning to fly to Spain and eat Iberico ham, with a cold crisp beer, reading a damn fine book.
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Oh their gawd, that last one made me larf…
Oh no don’t tell me you are buying Resurrection soup? The only soup endorsed by Donald J Trump for this holy week.
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