My mind went straight to the gutter. LOL…I’ll never look at carving a chicken quite same now. 
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I know a good therapist if you need it. Cured me of having ill thoughts about watermelon. 
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I’m right there beside you TZ. 
And Smoky’s
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OOopsies!! 
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Spot on bro, they do that here. You lose the water after cooking and have not much chicken left.
Crooks 
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A man after my own heart. 
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OMG, I needed that. I was laughing all the way through the thread. Gotta love it.
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Lol regarding comment about how they add water it definitely is for weight. I work at a Bacon & Sausage factory for example where my Dad works in a managerial position and one day he explained to me that theres no money in bacon the money is in the water they can pump into it… food for thought!
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Wow, so it’s been going on for years but all of a sudden they are pumping a lot more into them eh?
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I guess so! He also said their most expensive product is the one with the most water in it so I wonder if that’s the same with chicken ect
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it must be. that is the only thing that makes sense. to bad I live in town. just one more mile and I could have had chicken on my land and a cow and a pig too. the only problem with that is I hate killing my own food but not so much I wouldn’t do it to save money and not get ripped off by unscrupulous fowl raisers.
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Even though I live in a Midwest farm town, there are certain animals not allowed within city limits. Someone in my neighborhood had chickens for awhile until someone must have turned them in or they eventually ate them. Now that I think about it, I really miss hearing that cock crow every morning…
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I raise chickens, for eggs and occasionally meat. raising them right I am afraid you would not save money doing it on a small scale. Average prices for whole broiler/fryer in the US is around $1.60 lb in the retail market. Buy one locale farm raised even here in WV where there a plenty of home flocks and you pay about $5.00 lb ( https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/data/averageretailfoodandenergyprices_usandsouth_table.htm ). But you would definitely find a different product on your table that is for sure.
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For sure. I grew up on a farm and we had chickens too. i hated when it was my turn to go get dinner.
yep, and chickens are one of those animals for us.
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I hated the pluckin’. Hard to get that smell out of your nose.
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Lotsa current tears shed over modern Meat Processing techniques/practices. We may be learning that some of the US mass-production strategies for raising and butchering meats is a little too close epidemiologicaly-speaking. Animals and Processors. Have to keep one thing in mind …there’s a lot of hungry mouths to feed.
What?! Nobody mentioned the latest gel-filled super-sized pad at the bottom in the styro-pack tray? It’s been the same for decades …like a little thin panty liner with fiber-fill …now it’s like a XXL Depend made to hold a whole day and nights “water” with some space-age “gellulose”.
Meat prices are def up, and surely anything to stay afloat financially is being deployed, but is our behavior being covertly modeled …to eat less meat? I mean you bought that 1.25 lb hunk-o-ground to make your prescribed spaghetti sauce, but after tossing that pink diaper at the bottom and straining off the watery-fat post-browning …it’s looking a little light …are we being put on involuntary diets?
Hey? Same with my last purchase of Graham Crackers. I opened the box and the packs didn’t even fill the box (!?) …and the crackers themselves were smaller. Since I’ve been dunking them in the same coffee cup for years, clearly they are F’ing smaller. Anybody who’s old enough to have bought groceries in the late 70’s remembers “inflation” impacting food sizes …or (earlier) how candy bars permanently shrank after the Cuban Sugar Embargo (now you’re really old if you relate to that one!).
Feels like “deflation” …try to not raise prices, just give you a little less? …It’s a C.O.N.spiracy!
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aha! good point.
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I wish i could shoot juice like that
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…like a comedy sketch: I can just see the fucker spraying more juice with every hole you poke in it 
Get on the raincoat!
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