Posted on 02/13/2022 8:39:49 AM PST by mylife
The National Chicken Council expects Americans will eat nearly 1.42 billion chicken wings while watching the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams this weekend, but many restaurants and bars, including a local business, are having trouble getting a hold of this fan favorite food.
The Growler Guys in Eau Claire said throughout the pandemic and even before the big game, they've had a difficult time sourcing certain cheese curds and one of their wing sauces.
Because of this, they've had to discontinue those items from their menu.
Co-owner Greg Haugen said it's also hard to get a hold of chicken wings and said they saw a 100% increase in the cost.
In order to continue to provide wings and a living wage for their staff, they've had to make menu adjustments.
"We've taken a price increase on some of our menu items to help absorb some of the increase costs for the products, the actual raw goods, but also to make sure that our employees and team members are able to handle some of those cost increases that they're seeing in their everyday life as well," Haugen said.
Haugen said surprisingly, beer prices haven't changed much, and if people want to try any of their 60 beers on tap, the Growler Guys will be giving away free beer for a year to 10 customers during their 4th anniversary event on February 26th.
Another bar we spoke with said at one point, they were out of Jack Daniels for five weeks.
A different one said they've had trouble getting wings, coffee, bread and liquor.
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WTF? gimme a dozen boneless for $10
I am a thigh guy: bone-in with skin.
Buy a damn chicken...cook it...pull it apart, slather it in barbecue sauce...and make a big ole sub or fill Ciabatta rolls.
I agree, but they have been hard to get here :(
the point here is supply shortages and rampant inflation.
Spicy crisp grasshoppers?
Here is my favorite whole chicken recipe. So easy and way better than those already cooked rotisserie chickens from the supermarket.
Cover the bottom of a dutch oven with thickly sliced sweet potatoes seasoned with salt, pepper and olive oil. Cook on stovetop at medium high for seven minutes. Exactly seven minutes. Do not turn. Let the bottoms get nicely blackened.
Meanwhile pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
After 7 minutes, place trussed 3-6 pound whole chicken on top of the sweet potatoes, breast side up, glistening with olive oil and seasoned with salt, pepper, paprika, thyme and garlic powder.
Cook with lid on for exactly one hour.
Cook with lid off for exactly one hour.
Remove dutch oven from the oven and let rest for exactly 15 minutes.
Lift chicken onto a cutting board and see how the meat slides right off the bones. Both white and dark meat are juicy and delicious. Scoop the sweet potatoes, now perfectly blackened and drenched in chicken juices, onto the plate.
One of the best meals ever. While you are eating, fill dutch oven with water and boil. It will then clean super easy while you are putting the dishes away.
This too.
I like to make up some balsamic vinegar and brown sugar and marinate and baste the chicken with it. Chicken is seasoned/rubbed with Rita Fajita (Earl Campbell’s seasoning is good to with a little Tony Cachere’s in there) mix beforehand.
Especially good when grilled over mesquite coals.
If you spatch the chicken, it cooks faster and more evenly. *cut in half, basically
Yummy! It’s like chicken candy!
Works well with pork too!
had trouble getting wings, coffee, bread
So, can’t even have bread and circuses? Is that clown dude available?
hell, return the carcass to the dutch oven, without cleaning and make soup!
I’m serving alcoholic chicken this year. I found several on skid row.
Ummm the clown is the president now...
One and a half inch ribeye with tater and salad for kick off.
Am I invited? :)
That is not good!
Chicken livers are still cheep down here (1.70 or so a lb) I grill them wrapped with cheap bar-s bacon and jalapenos.
rumaki is always a hit but bacon is $8.99 :(
Have not seen a whole chicken at Brookshire’s in the last 3 months. And we have chiken plants all over E. Texas (as you know; its crazy)
I can buy a whole grass-fed chiken from the local Mennonite farm for 10 freaking dollars....I will stick with livers.
I am going to the river next weekend to hunt hogs.
Stop complaining! It could be worse. You could be the chicken!
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