Lately, much of the chicken we've gotten from the grocery store has had a really nasty texture. So we made a point of buying Purdue all natural, no hormones, blah, blah. It's better, but I'm eating lunch right now and several pieces of my chicken breast are just NASTY! It doesn't taste any different, really, but the texture... It's kinda tough and rubbery... just feels nasty when I bite into it. WTF??? I'm starting to wonder if those animal rights activist whackos might be onto something with their anti cage complaints against chicken farmers! I hate to say anything that gives those whack joba any credibility at all, but we're going to try chicken from the local Amish market - which will probably cost triple - and hopefully it's better...
WTF are they doing to chicken???
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cloudstrife1218
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I know exactly what you're talking about! Just had some chicken the other day with the same issue.
Get_Swole
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Yup it sucks, tough as shit. I buy some I think pilgrims from Walmart, not much fat on it, 1.99 a pound, and I cut it against the grain with sheers into strips so it cooks up quick since I cook most of my meals right before eating, it helps out some and is not too bad. I totally understand though not near as tender and juicy as it used to be. I cant afford to buy all the organic crap at 3.50 a pound, I would need a 2nd job just for groceries.
cloudstrife1218
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Yea it does suck. But you get what you pay for
cloudstrife1218
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I think they r trying to kill us all off.
Lol! They might do it, too!
We spend about $500/month on groceries, and it's just my wife and me, mainly. Our daughter is just out of college and hardly eats at home. Foodbis EXPENSIVE!
I have been eating almost a pound of chicken a day (1 large breast), but am now relying more on fish, the chicken's been so nasty! You have to really watch that "organic" shit, too. Lots of $$ for a label. "Organic" is pretty loosely defined, it ain't what you think it is....
dorian123
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that's true, no shit it's organic what the fucks that mean? that it wasn't grown in a lab?
look at the sea salt fad-it's still sodium
Organic is just because it gets put through USDA inspected plants that slaughter and inspect them. And it costs a fuck ton like 4 or 5 a chicken even at bulk cost. As opposed to literally quarters for cheap industrial chickens with no regulations.
Yea organic is a loose term and you can throw all the defined organic pesticides you want on there but at the end of the day it's not the same round up and mustard gas we soak and make our vegetable actually PRODUCE genetically day to day.
There's a reason certified organic shit is expensive. But if you find a place that sells what they claim is organic but isint certified because of how much it'll cost it's a matter of trusting that company like an R downs or something.
All I know is chicken ain't ment to eat feed with other chicken ground into it cannibalism is shown to be horrifying for the structure and nutrition of chicken and fish and any animal really.
There's some very good studies and documentaries on the stuff out there bro I'd check em out cuz I wasn't convinced about making that switch for the longest time till I did some real in tes I've reading.
A farmer friend of mine told me what hoops a farmer has to jump through to get a crop certified organic, but I forget the details, it's been too long ago now. But I do remember thinking that even if I buy "organic", it doesn't really mean I'm getting what I thought was organic.
I'm NOT saying that "organic" - whatever that really means - isn't a good idea. In fact, like I said in my original post (I think), we're going to try buying from the local Amish market, in hopes that theirs is closer to truly "organic" and actually is 'good'!
The last few times we bought chicken, we got Purdue "cage free, no hormones", etc. It did NOT say "organic", but it DID cost damn near $5 a pound! And some of it STILL is like shit. It's better than the 2.49 chicken, but still not real good. So hopefully we get some truly organic, natural-raised chicken that looks, feels and tastes like chicken! These birds they're selling are a long ways away from the ones my granddaddy used to wring the necks of in the back yard... These ones you don't have to pluck the feathers off of, but....... hell, maybe they modified them to grow without feathers now and that's why they're like rubber!
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Yea i think the only true way is to go to a farm and buy straight across with the farmer.
We bought chicken from the local Amish market this week - for $5.29 a pound!! - and it is fantastic. Looks like, tastes like chicken. Zero fat, zero trimming required, take it out of the package and cook it. For the $$, that's how it better be, but at least someone knows how to raise chickens that taste like chicken!
I'm sure getting it from local ranchers is why you're getting good chicken consistently. What we've gotten from the store and in restaurants lately - and not limited to one locale, either, we recently were in FLA (we live in the northeast) - has been hit or miss at best, sometimes downright inedible.
Powderguy
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That's just crazy! I see a ton in the stores with added stuff to it and heard some people complain but never had it myself. I thinks its the added stuff they feed them and the shipping, plus it depends on how its cooked and thawed how it tastes. If its frozen to cooked it can be rubbery.
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