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America is running low on chicken. Blame covid-19, a sandwich craze and huge appetite for wings
msn ^ | 4/30/21 | Reis Thebault

Posted on 05/02/2021 5:03:21 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

It’s not like we weren’t warned. The doomsayers predicted this months ago: “A MASSIVE CHICKEN WING SHORTAGE IS BREWING,” blared the headline of one trade publication in early February.

But it turned out to be so much worse.

Bloomberg News, on Thursday: “Fried-Chicken Craze Is Causing U.S. to Run Low on Poultry.”

In other words, not just wings, but chicken in general. Or, as Bojangles put it in a recent tweet about their tenders: “we’re experiencing a system-wide shortage :( But they will be back soon!”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: chicken; chinachicken; covid19; fastfoodfromchina; foodshortages; poultry
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I went by Popeye's yesterday and the store was closed for "technical reasons".

Time to stock up on frozen chicken for the apocalypse!

1 posted on 05/02/2021 5:03:21 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Eat more pork!

2 posted on 05/02/2021 5:06:01 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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At least the intersections where Chik-Fil-A’s are located won’t be blocked anymore due to the drive-up window lines snaking out into the streets. Now if there were only a crappy coffee shortage to end the Starbucks traffic impeding lines.


3 posted on 05/02/2021 5:11:24 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Except bears. Bears will definitely kill you.)
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To: Old Yeller

Gonna have to buy a rooster and turn some of these eggs into chickens.

Anyone want to help me pluck a few?


4 posted on 05/02/2021 5:27:14 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

This is BS!!! I’m in the Poultry business and business is BOOMING!!


5 posted on 05/02/2021 5:36:20 AM PDT by afchief
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But do you have enough supply to meet the demand?

I have noticed a couple fast food places “run out” during business hours.


6 posted on 05/02/2021 5:48:20 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

not just wings, but chicken in general.

Next time you have nothing to do, contemplate the number of chickens that are “processed” everyday to supply just your state.

Chick-Fila, KFC, Bojangles, McDonalds, every bar in town that serves Buffalo Wings, cat food etc., etc...


7 posted on 05/02/2021 5:58:11 AM PDT by Paisan
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For those who cook at home, there are plenty of options to get fresh chicken.

Nothing better than a whole chicken cooked slowly in a dutch oven at home - with maybe some carrots, potatoes and onions surrounding it. The meat falls right off the bones. Way better than even rotisserie.

8 posted on 05/02/2021 6:01:51 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Is this why I’m now hearing roosters crowing in my suburban neighborhood?

Or could it be from illegals the government is shoe-horning in?


9 posted on 05/02/2021 6:14:54 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: afchief

Create a crisis. Never let a crisis go to waste.


10 posted on 05/02/2021 6:15:08 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Bon of Babble

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and thus clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”—H.L. Mencken


11 posted on 05/02/2021 6:17:04 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“A MASSIVE CHICKEN WING SHORTAGE IS BREWING” aka The Sky is Falling!


12 posted on 05/02/2021 6:19:26 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

I understand the use of the word “crises” to define everything going on started with JFK.

Now everything in politics is a “crises” in need of fixing - with the requisite demand for higher and higher taxes.


13 posted on 05/02/2021 6:48:10 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I blame the wings restaurants. What are they doing with the rest of the chicken? We should just go looking for wingless chickens walking around on the streets. Should be easy to catch with a net if Stallone can catch them bare handed.

Can’t let this happen. Does anyone have an idea of how many large breasted women this will unemploy?

wy69


14 posted on 05/02/2021 7:07:08 AM PDT by whitney69
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S___! I know s___'s bad right now, with all that starving bulls__, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.
15 posted on 05/02/2021 7:10:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: billorites

*chuckle*


16 posted on 05/02/2021 7:13:50 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Tried the Zaxbys entrant to the chicken sandwich wars yesterday. It was delicious and the breast was roughly twice the size of the bun.


17 posted on 05/02/2021 7:16:04 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Old Yeller
At least the intersections where Chik-Fil-A’s are located won’t be blocked anymore due to the drive-up window lines snaking out into the streets.

The nearest Chik-Fil-A is adjacent to an In-N-Out Burger. That is one busy parking lot.

18 posted on 05/02/2021 7:16:09 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Yet another shortage.

Not a scarcity.

How many does this make?

Anyone else thinking enemy action?


19 posted on 05/02/2021 7:18:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Plenty of fresh/frozen at grocery store, your problem is a Freezer. Chinese crap, 13 cu ft. nothing bigger, a 5 cu ft chest is $219, was $100 last year. The 3 upright units were at the NAVY BASE, chest Kroger’s. Not selling. Freezer plants shut down to make VENTALATORS.


20 posted on 05/02/2021 7:19:09 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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