£2 for a whole chicken!!!

N9eav

ASDA are selling whole fresh chickens for only £2. They are marked as 1550g, but I bought 2 that weighed over 1900g. I guess they must be minimum weight. Fantastic deal.

gritts

Not for the chicken.

Pay more and get a nicer free range or organic one.

Harty

I cooked a couple of these on Sunday for lunch, but when I was carving them they smelled funny. The meat was fatty and they didn't taste particularly nice.

Chickens from Aldi are very tasty. Small ones are about £2.03 and large ones about £2.95

HankMcSpank

Harty wrote: »

I cooked a couple of these on Sunday for lunch, but when I was carving them they smelled funny. The meat was fatty and they didn't taste particularly nice.

So foul then.

ginjim

N9eav wrote: »

ASDA are selling whole fresh chickens for only £2. They are marked as 1550g, but I bought 2 that weighed over 1900g. I guess they must be minimum weight. Fantastic deal.

is the head included?

skr00ge

Read the "River Cottage Meat Book" (ISBN:034082638X) and "Not on the label" (0141015667).

GIve yourself a blind tasting for the difference between organic, free range and battery chicken meat.

I now find it difficult eating processed chicken meals, as the meat feels funny. The texture is rubbery and strange.

Asda do organic chicken legs quite cheaply which taste great and are roughly £2 a pair. Roasted or slow cooked in a curry they are tasty and tick all the boxes. We just eat a little less meat but try and make sure its better quality, taste and welfare.

outbidder

I bet at that price the bird flu out the door!

PeteHerts

Some of these posts are clucking funny :rolleyes:

sausagefans

N9eav wrote: »

ASDA are selling whole fresh chickens for only £2. They are marked as 1550g, but I bought 2 that weighed over 1900g. I guess they must be minimum weight. Fantastic deal.

Gosh - does it worry you to think where the meat comes from for that price? I do understand it could be a loss leader to get people into the supermarket to buy other bits and peices but I am not sure I would be happy eating a £2 chicken.

Even though I am probably the UK's most prolific sausage eater (https://www.sausagefans.com is my site) I can honestly say if I couldn't get good meat I probably wouldn't bother to eat any at all.

This all probably sounds rather extreme for a £2 chicken. I would however, as someone else has said set up a taste test if you can you will taste the difference! I also know that there is cruety at most steps in the meat chain, however, I am sure there is much more lower down. There was an ethical food program on last night (I think) and it showed the extract of an advert illustrating that you use an oven to cook a normal chicken but often 5 or more are forced to live in the same space!

Just my 2p worth.

Over and out.

webuserisme

The 'UK's most prolific sausage eater' worried about the quality of the meat contained in a £2 chicken? Whatever next, lol.

mapryan

Putting aside the ethical questions of buying cheap chickens if I may, I think it's worth pointing out that cheaper chickens are slightly trading under false pretenses.

Chicken itself has to many people an image of a healthy meat, that if eaten on it's own is good for you. However, due to the short timespan from birth to supermarket shelf plus the lack of any exercise, means that these kind of chickens are reported to contain very high levels of fat:
"According to recent research by the London Metropolitan University, meat from cheap supermarket chicken contains as much fat as a Big Mac thanks to intensive farming techniques."
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=9&id=1694552005

The original report summary can be found here for those interested:
http://www.north.londonmet.ac.uk/ibchn/publication/issfal04_wang.pdf