Re: buying old meat from supermarket

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.



I've worked in a deli for 18 years now. We have never used the
chickens from the meat department.They do not weigh the same, so even
if we wanted to, they would not represent the weight and ingredients
(doesn't have the seasoning ours come with). And that would be false
advertising. We take our used fryer oil and chicken grease to a barrel
that is stored in the meat department. They have 2 barrels there for
the meat department for the cuts of fat and old meats that did not
sell. They go to a recycle place that pays for it.


Our deli chickens are ordered specifically for the deli and  come 8 in
a case, and have for the last 17 years that we have sold hot food.
They used to come frozen. It has been years since they switched to
fresh, never frozen chickens. We sell about 7 cases on a typical day.
They sell so well that we have to cook extra chickens to cut up for
our chicken salad. And when we do our special sale for $5 each, we
sell about 220 of them in a single day.

They don't have time to get old.

As for the claim about seasoning to cover  the smell...  The seasoning
is on the chickens when they come in. It isn't added to cover a smell.
It helps the chicken brown nicely and gives a nice mild flavor.