So, where can you get a good old fashioned ‘chicken’ because chicken soup no longer has a good flavor, either.
In fact I just learned that Australian lamb, grass fed, is why I do not like lamb anymore.
The lamb I liked is American lamb, grain fed. Grass fed lambs taste gamey-er, and evidently that is what Australians like.
Why we are buying them is still a mystery to me.
Also, why pork chops don’t make good gravy anymore - another mystery to me.
One last mystery to me that has nothing to do with food but as soon as I write this I’m sure everyone will understand and agree:
I live in Phoenix Arizona. Why isn’t there a train to both California for passengers, and to Flagstaff. Out here in the summer I’d be on that train every weekend, both up and over are cooler.
I’m sure a lot of people would be. But why no one has every made tracks up or down for passengers, when they make everything else, highways, in town shuttle train tracks...
Don’t get it.
The pork chop/gravy problem is that the consumer wanted leaner, less fatty pork and the pork producers complied. If you are able, but heritage pork.
I also live in Arizona.
Something horrible has happened to the ribeye steaks and roasts at Walmart over the last year. The fat doesn’t change texture when I cook it. It has no flavor (fine - it’s a walmart steak), but that’s not the problem. There’s a distinct difference in the texture. My family can’t stand to eat a walmart steak or roast any more. When I trim it up for soups and stews, I find these huge hunks of fat that’s still a hard, pure white, solid lump after cooking. Even the crockpot doesn’t touch it.
At first, I just thought it was weird and moved on, but it kept happening. I’m hunting for another place to buy meat in our town now.
A trip up 89 or the Beeline should answer that for you. You try building a rail line through those mountains.
“...chicken soup no longer has a good flavor...”
Maybe it’s time to use a new chicken. My Dad used to joke about the job of chicken dragger at the Campbell’s Soup factory. That was a guy who dragged a chicken carcass back and forth in a long vat of hot water. (Dad grew up during the Great Depression.)
“where can you get a good old fashioned ‘chicken’”
Tractor Supply or Atwoods sells the chicks and the feed for them.
Farmer's Market.
Be prepared to pay though the nose though and they will be frozen not fresh.
After the Democrats got their way with regulating fat content of pork, we can’t find a decent pork chop to fry.
Pork chops ain’t like the old fashioned pork chop. Tastes completely different.
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>> “The lamb I liked is American lamb, grain fed. Grass fed lambs taste gamey-er, and evidently that is what Australians like.” <<
“Why we are buying them is still a mystery to me.”
Because grain fed animals are unhealthy to eat!
Grass fed red meat is actually higher in omega3 fats than Alaskan Salmon!
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