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Why have they gone out of fashion in super markets ? Back in the old days you always got the giblets in a little bag inside the chicken so you could boil them down quickly for a quick stock for your gravy. But now they seem a thing of the past, are we getting so namby pamby that people cannot even see those without trhinking "ooh nasty" so the supermarkets do not stock it anymore? Same with bacon, apparently rind on the bacon, which I believe gives it extra taste and texture, is only fit enough for the "basics/value" lines. The posh stuff is perfectly trimmed into a pleasing shape that makes it look expensive. I'd like a bloody great roll of bacon with the word DANISH in blue down the side and some 40 year old woman putting it in the slicer and asking how thick I wanted it. Rind and all.
Having said all that I did say this to my mum, age 80 so used to rationing and being thrifty, and she said that when I was a small child she often went to Bury and Heywood markets and they sold broken eggs cheap and chickens for a lot less that had lost a leg or such. I can't imagine that happening nowadays.
Perhaps we need a new PHSupermarket where you can buy chickens with giblets, bacon in rolls sliced by a woman with a Danish tattoo, chickens with one leg and eggs cracked but still good. At least as much would not go to waste. Perhaps we need World War III to get us back on track and appreciative of the whole animal, not just the nice bits in a fancy wrapping.
It does make you wonder how much wasteage their is now if they are throwing all the stuff away which we used to eat in the past, or is it all now going into pet food?
We are getting too fussy....
Having said all that I did say this to my mum, age 80 so used to rationing and being thrifty, and she said that when I was a small child she often went to Bury and Heywood markets and they sold broken eggs cheap and chickens for a lot less that had lost a leg or such. I can't imagine that happening nowadays.
Perhaps we need a new PHSupermarket where you can buy chickens with giblets, bacon in rolls sliced by a woman with a Danish tattoo, chickens with one leg and eggs cracked but still good. At least as much would not go to waste. Perhaps we need World War III to get us back on track and appreciative of the whole animal, not just the nice bits in a fancy wrapping.
It does make you wonder how much wasteage their is now if they are throwing all the stuff away which we used to eat in the past, or is it all now going into pet food?
We are getting too fussy....
miniman said:
There's your neck, beak, bumhole and everything else.
I remember as a child when traveling to Granny's house on a Sunday was a special event.
Eating roast chicken and having Hovis brown bread (with butter spread on and then scraped off again ready for buttering the next slice) was a huge treat.
Kids today eh?
People nowadays are so spoiled that chicken is an everyday food. I'm not that old, but I remember when chicken was a once a week treat.
Every part of it was used, including the giblets, which were roasted and boiled for stock. Or eaten. I don't fancy the neck or gizzard quite so much, but am very partial to a heart or a liver.
Nowadays I reckon most people have no idea even how to joint a whole chicken, never mind what to do with the giblets, and would most likely toss them out even if they were provided.
I can quite see why chicken processors retain the innards (all of them) and sell these to pet food / chicken nugget manufacturers.
Every part of it was used, including the giblets, which were roasted and boiled for stock. Or eaten. I don't fancy the neck or gizzard quite so much, but am very partial to a heart or a liver.
Nowadays I reckon most people have no idea even how to joint a whole chicken, never mind what to do with the giblets, and would most likely toss them out even if they were provided.
I can quite see why chicken processors retain the innards (all of them) and sell these to pet food / chicken nugget manufacturers.
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