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Good Food tastes and rates six supermarket roast chickens to find out which rules the roost.

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[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine getting paid to rate cooked chicken from bags.

[–] ijustdoeyes@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What? This is hard hitting journalism.

[–] skittlebrau@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Things like this are a guilty pleasure to read. There’s only so much death and destruction one can handle when skimming through the daily news.

[–] ijustdoeyes@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I get a kick out of stuff like this, also practical. I had no idea there were so many types coming of the rotisserie.

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

There's only one type to me, and that is "whichever is marked down for quick sale".

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What time of day did he buy the chicken? What was the control chicken like?

I interested but like... Cmon.

[–] hikarulsi@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

The journalist loves to know that more thorough study is needed

[–] LambChop@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know, right.

They're living the dream!

Better than this guy's job, for sure.

[–] talos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Roast chooks are so expensive these days. I swear just a few years ago they were much cheaper. Except the Costco one they are all $12-$13.50! I'm not going all the way to Costco for a chicken in a bag, though. I guess they lost their loss leader status.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Local charcoal chook might cost twice as much, but maybe twice as big. And you can get chips with chicken salt there. Paid $10.50 for a 1/4 + chips today.

KFC probably about sparrow size, and makes you feel queasy after. With soggy chips. And will cost you at least twice as much.

Roast chook even at $15 will get you at least a couple of meals. I'm impressed that the supermarket chooks stay moist in the fridge. Though that makes me wonder...pumped full of something??

[–] ijustdoeyes@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Though that makes me wonder…pumped full of something?

You can achieve the same at home if you inject the marinade which is what I expect they do

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I remember when they used to go for $8. These days I usually just wait till they're marked down to $5 or less.

[–] wscholermann@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woolworths country roast the obvious winner.

Based and Roast Chicken Pilled

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ijustdoeyes@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

"Bachelor's Handbag" is a great piece of Australian slang.