Posted on 04/29/2020 10:44:50 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
Goodbye, boneless chicken.
Food retailers across North America are swapping boneless chicken legs for less popular thighs and drumsticks as a wave of shutdowns at meatpacking plants has reduced supplies of sought-after cuts.
Covid-19 infections among workers at some of the largest meat processing plants in the U.S. and Canada have reduced slaughter capacity, and in some cases the types of cuts available. Outbreaks have shut down almost a third of U.S. pork capacity and the growing wave of disruptions has spurred plans by President Donald Trump to order meat-processing plants to remain open. In Canada, Cargill Inc. has idled its beef plant in High River, Alberta, which accounts for about 40% of Canada’s processing capacity while JBS SA’s beef plant in Brooks, Alberta, is running at about half capacity.
Quebec-based Goodfood Market Corp., which delivers meals on a subscription basis, said it will be substituting its regular boneless chicken for bone-in thighs, legs and drumsticks as the poultry industry shifts away from de-boning to ramp up production.
“Poultry suppliers are still facing labor shortages and many of them are operating with less than 50% of their regular workforce,” Goodfood Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Ferrari wrote in an email to customers. “To ensure the essential supply of chicken for Canadians across the country, the poultry industry as a whole is shifting away from de-boning chicken legs to increase their production capacity.”
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I'm afraid you may be right.
And, I am sadly wondering what all those unemployed folks who voted for him last time around are going to do this time around. It could be gruesome if they don't see the full picture.
There’s a big fat bunny living under one of my sheds who should be counting the days
There was 80,000 2018-2019 flu season. They don’t mention that.
LOL! I forgot about Boggs’ and his chicken obsession! In the 80’s I was making his Lemon Chicken Recipe. It’s good!
(After eating a dish of Lemon Chicken, Boggs got the most hits in a double-header in his career.)
Lemon Chicken
2 to 3 pounds chicken, cut in serving pieces
Garlic salt to taste
1/4 pound butter
1 1/2 to 2 cups lemon juice
2 teaspoons dry mustard
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Rinse chicken and pat dry. Sprinkle with garlic salt on all sides. Place in shallow baking dish.
Melt butter in sauce pan. Mix dry mustard and lemon juice into melted butter.
Pour mixture over chicken and bake for 1 hour, basting often.
How are the spamalopes doing?
They don’t, they kind of ooze over the ground like worms. :)
Yeah, never saw a boneless chicken leg or thigh.
Furthermore, how do you cut a hole in half?
You may have two whole hole’s, but they each are still a hole hole.
They are the most difficult kind to raise.
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They are one of the most destructive groups in the country! I hate the teacher's union. Have you seen all the BS/PROPAGANDA they're putting out now against home schooling? Lots of trash talk about home schooling now that kids are (hopefully) learning something at home.
Boneless chicken? How did it walk?
“Goodbye, boneless chicken.”
My dogs will be pissed when they hear this.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Rinse chicken and pat dry. Sprinkle with garlic salt on all sides. Place in shallow baking dish.
Melt butter in sauce pan. Mix dry mustard and lemon juice into melted butter.
Pour mixture over chicken and bake for 1 hour, basting often.
I am going to keep this one. Might come in handy...even for a stray cat or so. You never know....
Got 2 packs of chicken tenders this morning! Thank you President Trump for nipping this in the wing day 1 of the grat no Chicken scare of 2020:-)
“Time to consult Granny Clampett’s book: 101 ways to cook Possum.”
LOL I have an old 1920s Czech cookbook that has a recipe for “roast raccoon”, in which it notes raccoon is “rather gamey, season heavily”. If someone of that era is telling me it’s gamey, I trust that as factual.
It’s as if we’ve become even more stupid as a society in just a few decades. Like did we get this stupid in the Hong Kong Flu pandemic?
I know!
And what about those skinless sardines!
https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0102/hffoul.html
Chicken is a big hit with baseball’s Wade Boggs
snip -— East Coast chicken marketer Frank Perdue has recently taken Boggs under his wing. ``Perdue called me and said, `You’ve done more for the chicken industry [than anything] since we found out they don’t have much fat. If there’s anything I can do for you just let me know.’ ‘’
Faster than Boggs could say cock-a-doodle-doo, a six-month supply of Perdue’s chicken landed on his doorstep.
``Problem was,’’ said Boggs, ``a six-month supply for most families wasn’t enough for us. It only took us a month to eat those chickens. I eat one and a half a day, my wife Debbie and daughter Meagann eat another half between them.’’ Nike, their Persian cat, gets the scraps — if there are any.
That got teammate Bob Stanley to thinking — ``I think I’ll start eating nothing but filet mignon,’’ he told Boggs, ``Maybe someone will start sending me unlimited steaks.’’
(Lots of recipes in here.)
And what about odds and ends? If you have twenty-three odds and ends on the table and twenty-two of ‘em fall off, whaddaya got, an odd or an end?
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