Posted on 12/21/2013 6:42:24 PM PST by lee martell
Today I went to a local supermarket in the Terra Linda area of Marin County, a little north of San Francisco. This large grocery store is but one of many belonging to a very popular grocery retailer. So, I bought six pounds, and eight ounces of chicken thighs at $1.79 per pound. After a little walk around comparison, I see most are within this price range. I end up paying $10.88, minus $1.21 with my Club Card, that equals a grand sum total of $9.67 out of pocket. The store is a great place to shop. The areas are clean. I even know some of the cashiers individually. The employees don't run away or openly sneer if you have questions about location. It's a huge store, and the less ambulatory or the tired have been known to shop from a golf cart. The store has a self check that I only use when in a big rush. I prefer not using the self-check, and let the paid cashier do the necessary thinking to get me through the line. So what am I complaining about? Well, the price. A few months ago, this same package of chicken thighs, wings or drums would have cost me much less. I am estimating, this pack of meat I just paid $9.67 for (with discount) would have cost me about $5.40 or so (with discount) only six months ago. What has changed? Maybe the gasoline for the trucks has gone up. They may be using diesel. The gas price has been somewhat stable at $3.45 to $3.90 up and down for the last year. Maybe the price has changed because people will keep buying it. Has there been a Chicken shortage in the states? That would be bad news for KFC.
A late friend of ours was a WWII vet. He and a few others spent months trapped by Japs on an island. They pretty much existed on “parrot”. To his dying day, he wouldn’t touch chicken.
When Wilbur was summoning Yog Sothoth
I was chilling a nice Tavel Rose'
It subtly compliments both the foul
and see-food aspects of the dish.
Cthuluhu ate all the chickens? Harris Teeter had a great price on chicken thighs the other day, but I decided to get the half-price ham instead. Then the next day, I got another ham in the mail. Cthuluhu’s fault, I’m sure.
” Then the next day, I got another ham in the mail.”
UnSPEAKable eee-VIL!
The product of a deranged mind!
My sister-in-law.
Truly epic level evil!
Nonetheless, I am programmed to send her a correct thank-you note on my good paper with my name on it.
(But seriously, we’ll eat both hams, too.)
Sugar glazed ham, so evil, so delicious.
I know. With sauerkraut and yellow mustard.
Slapped thick slice on bread..
Unnngh.
Stomach just gave me a “fus ro dah” hunger growl.
I think I found the problem:
“Terra Linda area of Marin County, a little north of San Francisco”
It’s getting to be time for me to eat, too. I see my coffee cup is empty.
Empty coffee cup: a plot by Jake to make the hyoomanss weak and easily manipulated.
Texas imports relatively little food from outside the immediate contiguous states. Texas is probably the most self sufficient state in terms of food production.
That used to be CA, but they killed off their farmland in the name of the Delta Smelt fish.
This is just wrong, there are twice as many chicken thighs as there are chicken breasts. If you know anything about economics and supply and demand, the more available thighs should cost half as much as the less available breasts. But they are all the same price per pound. This is obvious price-fixing and there should be congressional hearings. The price if chicken is probably more important to most voters today than Benghazi anyway.
and you are correct
To this day, the only way I can consume chicken is heavily coated with BBQ sauce, a frozen dinner with lots of spices (and tabasco sauce as necessary), or with quite a lot of salt, pepper, and perhaps some powdered garlic.
As I said, not quite the same but yes I quite understand.
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