Re: buying old meat from supermarket

Seerialmom wrote:
> On Sep 2, 4:03 pm, val189 <gwehr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> It has been rumored that supermarkets use chickens past the pull-date
>> for their rotiss chickens.  The price alone steers me away from 'em.
> 
> They sell way too many of those chickens (in general, mind you) to be
> "old" chickens.  I tended to buy mine at Costco, and they go almost as
> fast as they're put into the warming trays.


The ones Costco uses are quite different from the 2-pack of whole fryers 
they sell. The rotisserie chickens are larger (3lb *after* cooking) and 
are brined in a sugar/salt/seasoning solution.