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Sunday, March 12, 2017

You Get What You Pay For?

Chicken watering photo 1, label showing weight and cost per pound.
Watered chicken photo 2 - weight of Styrofoam tray and fluid filled diaper.

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

And that's why you don't buy meat at WalMart. Preservative solutions are injected / added to extend the shelf life that's required to make it from the factory, through their distribution system, and to the point of sale. Always read the label and SEE what you're paying for. All all that preservative sodium and chemical solution is definitely bad for your heath.

Anonymous said...

This chicken was purchased at the Salisbury Giant in September of 2016.

Anonymous said...

$2.62 per pound for water, that's about $22+ dollars per gallon!

Anonymous said...

Can't you people read? The label in the 3rd picture very clearly states "chicken breasts with NO meat Contains up to 15% solution"

Anonymous said...

Why dont you ask your good Friend Day at Perdue whats up ??

Anonymous said...

Pump it up!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

That's "with rib meat", not NO meat. LOL! Yes I CAN read.

Anonymous said...

March 9, 2017 at 11:11 AM:

WalMart / Giant, it doesn't matter. Whoever is selling chicken labeled like that is doing it for the same reason. Point is, ALWAYS read the label on meat products and see if you're okay with what they add to the meat. Same way with turkeys. Many "fresh" turkeys are loaded with the preservative solutions, but some are not. If one is on a reduced sodium diet, then one must pay attention to the labels. Personally, I don't like the taste when they load it up with preservatives.

Anonymous said...

You paid about $1.43 for the tray, diaper wrapper and water. Not a bargain.

Anonymous said...

And that's if you used your bonus card.

Anonymous said...

Ask your friends at perdue

Anonymous said...

why don't you snowflakes grow your own chickens and process them the way you want?

Or just shut up and pay for them processed by someone else?

Oh, that's right, you just want everything for free.

If only you meatheads knew what it takes to get that chicken in a bag to the vast millions that eat them every single day.

What a bunch of hypocrites.

Anonymous said...

You sound like a snowflake waaaaaaaa

Anonymous said...

Purdue has also been doing this to pump up profits!

Anonymous said...

12:51pm....I hope your chicken is full of nuts, bolts and stones !! you flippen idiot! People are being scammed by the thousands and your advise is shut up and take it!?!?!?

Anonymous said...

12:51am Do you even know what the term snowflake is referring to? Because you are talking to adults that pay for their own food. That's why we are pissed. If I was using your money to buy this I would not care. So walk your sorry "buzzword" using self over to a bunch of children that you might be able to bully.

As far as wanting stuff for free again you show your lack of comprehension. Adding water to a product then charging us for the water as if it was the actual product is akin to a bait and switch. BTW "akin" means similar to, or like. Are you keeping up? Some how its become acceptable. Its not.

And yes I do know what it takes to get them to the millions of people. I have been to the chicken houses, the suppliers, the hatcheries, the processing facilities as well as the stores that sell them. You are not unique and you sound like a clown. All of that does not give ANY of the Perudes, Mountaires, Tysons the right to rip people off. Its not the stores. Its the companies producing the store brands.

Snowflake, really? Such an idiot.

Anonymous said...

The "Perudes" (Perdue), Mountaire, Tyson, Allens, etc are not ripping anyone off. This is an accepted practice in the industry. Why pick on chicken? Have you ever read the pork, beef and lunch meat labels of meat that is enhanced with coloring, water solutions, etc. If you don't want to buy it, leave it in the store. Why complain about it? Purchase non-enhanced, "value added" groceries.

Anonymous said...

3:47 the established practice of screwing the American people has always been going on in Washington, that is why we put Trump in there, to clean up the criminals! You must be a Clinton fan and like the status quo.

Anonymous said...

Grow your own chicken and chop their heads off.

Anonymous said...

If you went to pay more at least invest in quality, buy from a small scale poultry grower/processor.

Anonymous said...

The food we eat shouldn't even be called food anymore. It's so pumped up and injected with chemicals and poisons. I don't know how the chicken company employees can sleep at night the way they are selling such a bad product. It doesn't even taste good and stinks even worse ad stinks the whole house up when you cook and your hands stink for hours even after multiple washings. Growing up in the 60's and 70's very few people had all the ailments they had today and I never heard of anyone is school getting cancer. Now every school has students getting it. It had to be the food because humans were meant to eat food and not food laced with chemicals. The chemicals alter cells.
I agree with above. Buy from a small scale grower for chicken. It tastes better and doesn't have that putrid stench to it. You will be doing your family a great service by watching their health.

lmclain said...

12:51...The only question I have for you (and its coming from someone who grew up on a small farm and went to the henhouse every Sunday to grab a chicken and cut its head off and pluck it clean for Mom to cook for dinner) is this ---
If we DID grow our own chickens, would you be okay if we double the weight with water and charged you $20 a pound for it?
You seem to think that lying, cheating, and stealing (thats what is IS, by the way) is the right of those who produce consumer goods.
Keep cheering.

Anonymous said...

I remember when I was 5 years old. I was staying with my grandmother as my mother was in the hospital for an operation. Well after breakfast and my grandfather had gone to work. My grandmother went out to a shed she called the wash house. There she did her laundry. Then she went to a chicken pen and got two live chickens. I stood and watched as she put them on a block of wood and chopped their heads off. I remember thinking how funny it was they were running in circles with no heads. That afternoon when my grandfather got home from work dinner was ready and on the table. Boy my grandmother made some good fried chicken and we ate those chickens and were glad to have them for food. No preservatives just freshly killed chickens. Oh yeah they were pretty tasty too.

Anonymous said...

Backyard chickens are now legal in Salisbury. Go for it!!

Anonymous said...

Chickens are legal in the city but you can't have a rooster.