Supermarket Fried Chicken

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Below short informal Yahoo News lifestyle article today evaluating fried chicken from 3 supermarkets. Interested this person that normally is not a frequent meat eater because for the last 6 years I've been retired, have been buying a small piece or two of fried chicken from Safeway maybe twice a month...because it is so oddly delicious.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tried-fried-chicken-3-different-133200430.html

Although the article author slightly liked the Safeway fried chicken most, a more interesting amusing read are all reader comments below it numbers of which surprisingly shared that same opinion. Most big supermarket chains much like fast food franchises work to make their store cooked foods very consistent from store to store so customers better trust what they are getting. A common news comment complaint is that the 3 chains currently do not have stores in many states with Safeway outside Washington DC just in The West especially Northern California, Oregon, Washington. Corporate supermarkets over decades across the country have endlessly been involved in Wall Street bean counter monopoly changes. Of course Yahoo is based from the SFBA so just evaluated what was locally available. There are many Safeway supermarkets locally that tend to have high prices and their deli counter individual fried chicken pieces are oddly one item priced cheaply though those prices are not shown on signage.

Numbers of comments also praised their local available supermarkets like it was some kind of sporting event to root for. Of course with comparisons, many ordinary people hilariously blabbering like kids, habitually in common conversation tend to promote whatever they did, they bought, where they went, what they saw, what they wear, who they like, what they prefer blah blah blah.

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David, I have tried many the only accpetable I have found is Tom Thumb, I do not know what chain they are in. I have one piece in the fridge right now waiting for trash day. I took one bite and knew no, this is not fresh chicken. I put it in the fridge to wait for trash day.

I worked by a Tom Thumb for about 16 years. I could stop there in the morning and get a wonderful breakfast, scrambled eggs, biscuit and bacon cheaper and better than the McDonalds next door. I could go there at lunch and get a protein and 2 veggies, cheaper and better than fast food.

The grocery stores these days have decided that they are going to just throw crap out there and hope for the best. The chicken is old and dried out, dangerous. The vegetables look 2 weeks old. Believe me. I wish there was one place I could go to get a nice healthy meal and dessert either there or to go. This is the downfall of America, so many cities/towns have had cafeterias to go for lunch, dinner, for weekends or after church. They all started to disappear before and were gone after covid.

I just don't get it. We are the boomers and the boomer parents, do they not know what we want; We want a nice quite meal with many choices. We do not need entertainment or noise. Just choices to have a nice quite healthy meal.

Trust me, in the south if you open a good quality cafeteria you would get rich. This is what the older generation want and pray for. It does not have to be an eat in restaurant, many of us older folks would be fine with pick up or delivery, You could even set up a delivery service for meals without an eat in option. As long as the food is good and reasonably priced you would have a built in customer base, I am sorry I am too old and tired to set it up or I would be providing a wonderful service to our older community.

If anyone has connections to Furr's or Luby's that used to be in our areas, please let them know we want them back!!!!!!!!!
 
I have been getting it at my local grocery. I think it's from rotisserie chicken that wasn't sold, so they break it into pieces and sell the pieces separately. Usually its too dry.
 
I buy fried chicken strips from Raisin’Cain, a chain restaurant in Texas and other Southern states. It’s quite tasty. If I want a nicely fried chicken breast, I get a meal to go at our locally owned cafeteria along with mashed potatoes, cream gravy and a veggie. Don’t do that too often though - too fattening and the price has increased to almost $15 for a full meal! Yikes!
 
The only supermarket in reasonable distance that makes fried chicken on premises is awful, but I suppose if they called their chicken tenders "chicken toughies", no one would be tempted to buy them and they are also super salty. I've also gotten sick from what I suspect was chicken left on their hot table too long. They also have rotisserie chickens, but they are getting expensive - almost $10 for one these days. They used to be $4.99.
 
YES, I agree that I can make some tasty fried chicken at home. Since my husband passed I usuallu just make cheicken tenders from boneless breasts that I cut up. All in all it is quite a job with the mashed potatos, gravy and veg. I usually only do it when the grandson comes to spend the night. It is one of his favorites just like it was for my son.

Sometimes I want a piece of fried chicken but I know I can't get that at the grocery deli. Now it is either do it my self or go to a fast food chicken place. Just to get one breast costs the same as a whole chicken. Not going to do that again, just cook it at home and save the money!!
 
Chet said:
I have been getting it at my local grocery. I think it's from rotisserie chicken that wasn't sold, so they break it into pieces and sell the pieces separately. Usually its too dry.
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Salmonella is widespread in chicken in part because of the often crowded and filthy conditions in which they are raised. Nearly 1.35 million Americans get sick from salmonella every year, about one-fifth of those cases come from chicken. The reason your chicken is so dry is because it's deliberately overcooked to ensure that any salmonella present in the bird is killed in the cooking process.
 
Out west, we have Popeyes, Kroger, Safeway, Albertsons (tied to safeway) Winco, Walmart, Costco and Trader Joe's. I've never tried anyone but Winco/Walmart cold I've done Winco/Walmart/Kroger(with nice price drop)

I'll never have Walmart rotisserie chicken. I worked for 8 months at tge store, and the head office said "You're doing it wrong" If a bird didn't sell hot, you stick it in the cooler.

Then, if it sat on the grab and go cooler for 2-3 days. THEN you drop the price. By then it's dried out and I wouldn't give 25 cents!

But I preferred hot rotisserie anyway
 
There was a place in town that specialized in delectable rotisserie chicken. They were cooked perfectly. That was the only place I purchased take-out food besides the occasional pizza. The original owners sold the place several years ago, and the guy who bought it screwed up the works and changed everything, and nothing was as good. He had a goldmine but didn't understand how to run a business, and he went out of business two years later. No wonder.

I understand the convenience and appeal of prepared foods from the supermarket and other places. Especially if someone doesn't like to cook or can't. I know I'm the odd man out because I don't buy them. I'll continue to prepare my own food for as long as I'm able. God help me when I can't.
 
Our Safeway "superstore" uses an independent vendor who offers a wide variety of Chinese dishes, including fried chicken. It's okay, not great. But their char siu BBQ pork is as good as any Chinese deli in Chinatown, so I prefer buying that.

More often we buy organic rotisserie roast chickens from one of the natural foods co-op stores in a neighboring city. Not cheap but they're the first and only ones we've found that make a roast chicken that isn't overcooked. Still juicy, even the breast meat. Well worth the driving time and cost.

Could I make it at home, cheaper per pound? Sure. But sometimes I don't feel like going through the hassle. Or the store doesn't have my preferred brand (Rosie's, not Rocky's or Mary's). Or it's already a nasty hot spell of weather and I don't feel like heating up my oven so I can make my AC in turn do even more work.

We do love fried chicken but haven't found a reliable source yet. Don't like the current style of extra-crispy.
 
Acme supermarket in Brigantine, N.J. used to have the best fried chicken I've tasted besides mama's homemade. And we have a take out place near us that specializes in chicken and didn't hold a candle to it. When staying at the timeshare, the shuttle would take us shopping across the bridge to Brigantine. We started out getting the roasted chicken the "discovered" the fried. I'd get 3 or 4 pieces if I was there alone and more if my husband was with me. That chicken was so good that I (who normally don't eat the skin) froze the skins to take home so I could warm and eat them like people eat pork rinds. The last couple of times I went there, I noticed their recipe must've changed because it just wasn't that good. At one time, my husband told me that Acme used the same recipe as Pathmark (a now defunct supermarket chain in the tri-state area). Funny, even though it was local, I never thought to buy fried chicken from Pathmark.
 

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