Costco rotisserie chicken is to die for. I mean, literally. Motherfuckers waiting in line for that shit and don't you dare walk in front of the line when they start putting them in the case, you'll get killed.
“I’ve been eating Rotisserie Chickens at Costco everyday, one a day, for the last 25 years. It all started when Costco came to New York in the 90s, the first one was in Staten Island.”
But then he goes off the deep end about “LED light poisoning”
So... he thinks the laser "infects" his chicken, indirectly giving him "laser poisoning"... So his solution is to have them laser him directly, through the impenetrable barrier of a cotton t-shirt?
Are... are lasers only harmful if digested? Is the brief swipe of a laser some sort of catalyst for a chemical change in the chicken meat?
I live alone now, and I get less motivated to cook for just myself, but today I felt like I needed to eat healthy. I got a rotisserie chicken and made a nice sandwich with it, pulled most of the meat off the bone and put it in the fridge, then simmered the carcase with celery, onions, carrots, bay leaf, thyme, and salt until it was reduced way down. Strained that into a container, and tomorrow I'll make chicken soup with that, some more of the veggies, and some little potatoes I have leftover. I'll have several meals with a few cheap ingredients. Super cost effective, healthy, and delicious.
Just a few practical tips for those of you wanting to do this, but feel a bit nervous about dealing with the chicken carcass. Disposable gloves are your friend. Pull off every bit of meat you can possibly pull off. It can be frozen and then used for pretty much anything. You can throw it in tacos. You can put it in ramen soup.You can just eat it. You can share it with your dog or cat, if you can afford one.
If you have an Instant Pot cooker, I have the small three quart sized one, it makes it really easy and quick to simmer the carcass and get all that delicious bone broth. The bone broth can also be used for anything savory you're making that requires water like rice, instant stuffing, Ramen, couscous. You get the idea.
I can get frozen chicken bits pretty cheap. My cheap options right now look like a half a kilo plus sauces, or (with some walking) a full kilo, plus no extras.
That doesn't account for the time value of money. The reality is even worse because the price of the house is continuing to increase as you push the purchase off into the future. (I haven't done the math, but it could very well be increasing faster than $5 day, so in reality foregoing the rotisserie chicken doesn't make you make progress at all, but only fall behind slower.)
It's even worse, if you buy "cold" rotisserie chicken (literally the same just not kept warm under heat lamps so you have to warm it up if you want it hot) it was $2.77 last time I bought one at Walmart.
Why the price difference? Don't know. It's stored in the open cover "cold food storage" they use it which are probably similar cost to run as the heat lamps. That said for a chicken sandwich or chicken noodle soup such a better deal.
I know there was a time written on the bag, could of been from the previous day I don't know. That said if I buy a chicken, eat half, put the other half in the refrigerator I would still eat it the next day so...
Can feed a family yes, but isn't truly a meal on its own. Add some rice and beans, and now you've got a decent meal that has a tad more nutrition/balance than just straight up chicken.
You're right, it needs some veggies too. But honestly if you're having rice and beans, and something iron-rich like broccoli, then the chicken isn't even necessary.
But we all know the people complaining about this aren't advocating for vegetarianism...
It's like 12¢ a pack. The commenter was saying the out-of-touch billionaires will never be pleased and will continue to shame the poors no matter what they do. Even if you're eating the cheapest thing you can find, they'll still call it a frivolous expense because you're not a millionaire.
50% more or 100% more is a non-insignificant amount. Costco prices are often not great when compared to any other store. But that's why the $5 rotisserie chicken is special.
I hate having to fight by using my time to make sure all these shitty companies stay in check.
I wonder how many $5 rotisserie chickens a person would have to buy per year at Costco in order for the savings to make up for their $65 annual Costco fee?
Like the giant cans of tuna, I thought that was a great deal. Then I tried to eat 1.88 kg of tuna as a single person... I no longer have a costco membership.
"Millennials and Gen Z are splugering on clean water while trying to pay down their unbelievable debt from getting a 50 year mortgage on a cardboard box under the freeway overpass!!"
My debt ballooned to nearly 60K while in repayment, this administration will ensure I'm in debt to my eyeballs for the rest of my life. The Dems dragged their heels for too long to see changes. My generation is fucked and know what, the silents and boomers can eat a bag of dicks. Shovel them into a retirement home and forget about them existing.
because they use shitty frozen chickens and they cook them like 100 at a time and they only taste great because they are loaded roasted with chemicals/cheap ingredients. it's processed food, so it's cheap. the chickens use at the grocery store for roasting and like 5 bucks and then but 5 cents of crap on them and sell them for 10 bucks. it's also way more efficient to mass produce things than do them one at a time.
making your own chicken is more expensive because you're getting higher quality and fresher product and using highly quality ingredients. a decent whole 4lb whole chicken for me is 10-15 bucks, (20+ if you want a organic free range pasture bird) and I'm adding nice salt, nice olive oil, and fresh spices/citrus etc.
the home made bird is far healthier. but not as tasty because it's not loaded with crap.
To be fair, avocado toast is an actual scam and can be made home for cheap, while rotisserie chicken is legitimately expensive rn no matter how you get it.
Right but the discussion isn't if it is healthier, it is what is cheapest. If low income families lack the equipment or knowledge to cook a good tasting whole bird, rotisserie is a good priced option. The fact that the news outlet is calling that splurging is wild.
these chickens are a loss leader in order to get people to hooked on shitty premade food that is profitable for the stores so they never learn to cook better food.
i grew up poor. it was splurging for us to buy this stuff. our regular food was frozen and canned. even uncooked fresh food was a luxury for us.
i've had co-workers who feel the same way. kept fucking up at work, not showing up on time, and blaming everyone else for being mean to them. they were shitty people and work is much better without them around. being around competent people who take pride in their work and themselves is a joy.
edit: it's not a system dude. It's the choices you make. if you've made choices to make yourself a caged chicken and you hate it, you've nobody to blame but yourself. chickens don't have existential angst.
You've been reported. You seem to be arguing a completely different argument and lightly trolling. This is a warning or I'm going to give you a temp ban.
If you buy a rotisserie chicken, a seven layer dip and some tortillas all you have to do is make rice and you have enough food for a family or a single person for a couple days for cheap.
Rotisserie chicken now $7.99 at the grocery stores around here. They also roast them breast-down which makes the white meat greasy as hell, and hard to carve. I just buy a big thing of chicken strips, cook them at the beginning of the week, and use them for protein in every meal throughout the week. All my meals are based around this now.
"Rotisserie" derives from "rotate", as in the chicken is constantly being rotated as it's cooked. If it's being roasted breast-down (or breast-up, or any other consistent breast direction) then it's not rotisserie.
Yes. These are sold more cheaply now because it's a loss leader and they are pale imitation of the true product that they represent. They loaded with extra fat and salt, which is why people love them. Like they are literally injected with a solution of fat, salt, and chemical agents to tenderize the meat. It's the same as McDonalds, but people are under the delusion it is 'healthy' and 'natural' or something. It's processed food make for mass consumption at lowest possible cost.
A legit rotisserie chicken is 2-4x that cost and would not taste nearly as good because of the lack of fat and salt.
I make black bean based veggie patties; not because I'm a vegetarian, but because a can of black beans is cheap. I call them struggle burgers. I can't wait to be demonized for buying fucking beans. Fuck this timeline.
You are correct, they are. Wet beans saves me time from having to soak them. Lentils are they only ones I buy dry because they cook fast without soaking.
I never bother soaking em. Pressure cooker (instant pot) does the job. I don't throw away the liquid either, that's good vitamins. Just do the beans most of the way in stock and spices, throw in rice and quinoa, close it up and cook it the rest of the way. Super easy.
Protein, plus fiber, plus complex carbohydrates. What's not to love? Plus it makes a smaller environmental impact compared to farming poultry or larger animals. It was mind blowing to hear rags like the WSJ demonize the younger generation for eating avocado toast; it's a fucking cheap meal. Avocados were like $1 a pop and are a good source of fiber and health fat. I can't wait for rags like the WSJ to start publishing articles like, "How dare the poors waste money on eating!"
Are you sure? If we assume you saved 10 USD per day on food, that means you can invest 3,650 per year. If you do that for 50 years and assume 5% interests, you end up at 844,182.20 USD.
Inflation has been ignored to simplify it a bit, but it works in both directions: your money is worth less than today, but over time, as food is getting more expensive, you also save more and more money per day.
Not really realistic for my hometown at least.
I don't know any bank offering interest on saving deposits that is higher than 3%.
If I only didn't have to spend money on food and would save like 5000€ per year while earning the average salary in my town with 3% interest (which is already pretty optimistic) I'd have like 500,000€ in 50 years. While an average house would cost several million at that time (rn it's ~1 million €). I couldn't even buy a flat.
"Splurging“ on the absolute cheapest most preservative laiden meat available, cheapeer than fucking Spam, and Gut healthy jucis because they can't afford to go to a doctor.
It’s kind of wild how everyday groceries get framed as luxuries. Sometimes people are just trying to eat something convenient and affordable, not make a statement about their finances.
ready to eat hot food is a luxury. it's not groceries. groceries is stuff you have to prep and cook. if you want stuff you don't have to prep, or cook, it's generally going to cost you more, in either value or quality.
it's just that whole foods and other groceries normalized the concept of hot ready to eat meals being served in grocery stores. that was never a thing 20+ years ago. when i was a kid they had a tiny hot bar, and it was shitty. now my local whole foods 1/4 of the store is devoted to this type of product. and it's hugely profitable because people value convenience.
is international travel a luxury or a necessity? where I live, people think it's the latter and if you aren't traveling multiple times per year, they think you are living in poverty. that is regardless of finances and many people are going into debt to travel because they know it's not socially acceptable to not travel. i know 28 year olds making 30K a year who are dropping 5-10K a year traveling.
people's frames of reference for what a 'necessity' in 2026 is not exactly objective.
Ready to eat hot food that is cheaper than the ingredients to make it, is not a luxury.
Especially if it can be refrigerated and made to last for over a week, used to supplement other foods such like chicken quesadillas, chicken soup, broth and chicken salad.
Having to prep and cook is such a narrow minded way to look at things, and a way to look down at what people do to survive.
Does the fact that I can just bite into a tomato and eat it without preparation or cooking make it not a grocery? Hell, I can even do that with oatmeal if I'm down on protein and fiber.
Exactly. Additionally a lot of low income families lack the knowledge of how to properly prepare a chicken, or the equipment to do it well. When the difference is 20¢ a pound for an already seasoned and prepared bird its not really luxury prices. Luxury is like some $50 chicken wrapped in gold bullshit topped with exotic flower pistols.
These aren't properly prepared chickens. They are McChickens. They are fast food that is full of artificial crap to make it taste good.
Low income people eat a lot of fast food because it's an affordable luxury for them. That doesn't mean it's not a luxury, or that it's a good choice to make a regular part of your diet. Especially due to the long affects.
One of the first things you figure out when you get out of being poor is that paying more for food is not a luxury, it's a necessity for a higher quality of life overall. I got this lesson in college, which was the first time it was regularly available to me.
when I was 14 years old and eating shitty food everyday, I thought healthy food was 'gross' and 'crazy expensive'. I was wrong. I was just poor and trapped in a poor person's mindset and had no idea about long term costs because i was consumed with getting things as quickly as possible for as cheap as possible.
You keep going on and on aggrandizing your own very limited experience. "When I was young.... when I was poor... when I was in college.. after I wasn't poor". Do you hear yourself?
This might come as a shock, but not every low income person has the same opportunities you did or the same resources. Just because you found a path out doesn't give you license to oversimplify the many situational nuances that come with being poor, nor did it give you some special knowledge to lead you to think you've somehow solved poverty.
I'm glad you've bettered your financial circumstances, but you seem to have lost something else important along the way.
I grew up in a poor community and watched lots of people throw their lives away. They had just as much opportunity as I did, oftentimes, they had more than I did.
Being poor sucks, but nobody is coming to save poor people. They have to save themselves. That's how it's always been and how it will always be. Thinking that someday someone will come lift you out of poverty is the most surefire way to stay in it forever.
Call it self-aggrandizing if you want, but the reality of the world is harsh. And yeah it sucks, because the funny thing about working your way out of being poor is that poor people hate and resent you for it and start blaming you for their problems and demanding that you owe. I remember when I got my first job out of college and my old high school friends working minimum wage jobs at home started asking me for money and calling me a selfish greedy asshole for not giving it to them... the same one who dropped out of college because it was 'too hard'.
I agree that a rotisserie is closer to fast food, but I was saying most low income people are lacking any food education to make a properly prepared chicken. Most low income prople who are suffering the effects of dollars a day making a difference also lack the education of the why, where, and how they can prepare equivalent priced meals that are better for them. To some this is all they know.
I also got a lesson in college, a privalidge that you and I were able to afford that some prople genuinely never got the opportunity, and those people are the ones truly suffering from the effect of "luxury" rotisseries.
I know that. I have had partners and friends who were like this. Just because someone is all that you know, doesn't mean isn't a self-defeating self-impoverishing cycle of choices.
Just because a choice is easy and convenient and seemingly cheap doesn't make it a good choice. There are other choices, even if you don't know they exist. Especially with the internet in everyone's pocket. What is stopping someone from just looking up a recipe?
I think you misunderstand the general state of people suffering from the effects of companies forcing this upon us. For you and I it is as simple as look up a recipe and do it, some people truly do not know. They don't know to look for something else. They dont know if something is unhealthy.
These aren’t properly prepared chickens. They are McChickens. They are fast food that is full of artificial crap to make it taste good.
I literally used to make these. It was my fucking job to make them. They are literally just the whole chickens sold in the deli, the package removed, seasoned with a mixture of things like paprika, garlic salt, pepper, cumin, etc, rubbed down by a worker, and stuck into a rotisserie heater.
That's it. That is literally it. They're not manufactured any different. You could make the same thing at home for twice the cost since the cooked chickens are cheaper than the raw chickens. There is nothing devious or sinister behind the scenes. There are no extra hormones or microchips stuck into them. I was asked to go grab X amount of chickens from the shelf, season them, cook them, then put them in their containers and put them on display.
Your ability to make a mountain out of a grain of sand needs to be studied for how unhinged some human beings are.
Again, you worked for Hannaford. That's a higher quality more expensive store. You worked for one store under one process, YEARS ago no doubt.
Practices change. Food science changes. etc. It's not sinister, it's business. It's objectively the fact that store bought chickens from Coscto and the like are full of fillers.
Again, you worked for Hannaford. That’s a higher quality more expensive store. You worked for one store under one process, YEARS ago no doubt.
I did? That's news to me. Can't say I've ever heard of them before. I worked for fucking Wal Mart in a town of 3,000 people in rural Ontario. Also you said earlier in this thread that YEARS ago no one made rotisserie cooked chicken, so which one is it?
Your lies are starting to get exposed.
So it's clearly obvious you're a troll, an idiot, or just trying to shit on people struggling just to make it to tomorrow just so your pathetic emptiness has someone to look down on so you can feel better about how utterly shit your own life is. And if the latter is true, I don't feel sorry for you.
however engaging in poverty finance is a way to keep yourself in poverty as it prevents you from developing smarter and healthier behaviors around food and persisting in myths and thought patterns that are objectively unhealthy and defeating.
I know this from personal experience. cheap ready to eat food is awful for you and long term does way more damage to your health and fiances than learning to cook healthy food at home. cooking for yourself is objectively healthier as you get to control what goes into your food.
but yeah if you are narrow terms of gratification and raw cost, why not just grind up the chickens into hot protein paste and let the poors eat that? or perhaps we think there is more to life than calories and macronutrients?
fast food prices used to be similar, was that a healthy smart way to get calories? a burger and fries from mcdonalds used to be 3 bucks or so. for a lot of struggling people, it certainly was a standard option until recently and the one by me is still full of housing project kids everyday.
I did, but you're being a typical lemmy troll who refuses to acknowledge any counter point to your simplified narrative that lacks any context because you want to bite the ragebait that makes you feel morally superior for doing so.
the article is designed to make you upset and troll you by going at your bias that premade grocery store chickens are some sort of nutritional necessity that is liberating people from the doldrums of their suffering at the evils of capitalism... even though it the chickens being sold like this is really an evil of capitalism itself.
you can't have your pre-made chicken rage and eat it too!
I did, but you’re being a typical lemmy troll who refuses to acknowledge any counter point to your simplified narrative that lacks any
In fairness, like the troll you accuse everyone else of being, you have zero proof for your claim that these chickens have somehow been modified to be shittier for you, and that's why they're cheaper.
it’s just that whole foods and other groceries normalized the concept of hot ready to eat meals being served in grocery stores. that was never a thing 20+ years ago.
Sorry you apparently grew up in bumfuck nowhere, pal. The Hannafords in the sticks that I worked at in high school, more than 20 years ago, had plenty of rotisserie chickens, and had them long before I started working there.
You've gone and invented a massive conspiracy that ignores a simple reality. Offering rotisserie chickens as a loss leader is a simple and effective way to a) move whole chickens with minor blemishes and b) get people in the store with the promise of a cheap bird that almost always required you head to the back of the store, where they could count on you seeing several things "I may as well get while I'm here" to make up for whatever loss they sell the rotisserie chickens here.
I've worked in several major grocery stores in different regions, and never encountered any evidence of this nonsense you're so indignant people won't swallow wholeheartedly.
tl;dr: Show some proof or shut the fuck up, you muppet. Your own screeds do not count as proof, let's see some external links.
whatever proof i gave you you'd deny. you can google it. these chickens are overwhelmingly prepared with injections of salt, fat and butter and plenty of outlets have tested them and they have massive levels of sodium, saturated fat, and other stuff like preservatives and chemicals that makes them processed if not ultra processed foods.
it's not a conspiracy, it's how our food supply works.
Hannafords is small chain, we're talking about Costco and Walmart in this thread. Perhaps their chickens are better. I have been to a few of them in my area and they are an expensive store with more premium products. Whole foods has them too and theirs aren't cheap and are probably more natural.
no, what I'm asking is how a ready to eat food product that is cheaper than the raw materials alternative is considered a luxury in this context
I understand that ready to eat food itself is somewhat of a luxury, but that is not what is being discussed - what is being discussed is the cost of the food.
this is a version of fast food. that's why it's a luxury.
it's also a factor of true cost vs the fact these are sold at a loss and understanding the psychology therein that gets people to buy more than they otherwise would.
When the pre-made food is cheaper than uncooked food, how is it a luxury?
You think people should pay more for food, then bitch about people spending too much?
Get the hell out of here.
Also, from your previous comment:
it’s just that whole foods and other groceries normalized the concept of hot ready to eat meals being served in grocery stores. that was never a thing 20+ years ago.
I literally worked at the Deli in a wal mart in small town Ontario 20 years ago when I was in my late teens cooking the rotisserie chicken you're bitching about didn't exist.
You're either trolling everyone here, or a completely disconnected moron.
Lol you're changing the topic because you know he's right. If someone else cooks my meal for me, regardless of price, that's a luxury. If it costs $1 or $100, the act of another person preparing and cooking my food instead of having to do it myself is something I would consider a luxury. If it was free I would still consider the act of another person cooking my food for me a luxury. Its not about price or how much the ingredients cost separately.
Because if you don't consider having someone else make your food a luxury, what is it? Normal? Expected? Do you not cook your own food? It's wild you just call "troll" cuz he has a different opinion than you. If anything you and the people shadow boxing his comments are the trolls.
Lol you’re changing the topic because you know he’s right.
They've been changing the topic to try and shoehorn their own elitist opinion into something else. The entire topic is about cost. Not luxuries or people serving others. It's about money and how much things cost. The reason @TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world is being downvoted to hell and back is because they're missing the point from the beginning. If money is tight, why should people be forced to buy uncooked food and ingredients to make food at home, spend more money to do it, just to make some uptight person on Lemmy feel better about themselves?
If the already cooked chicken is cheaper, and money is tight for things like bills and electricity, buy the fucking cooked chicken. The only person who brought "luxury" into this was that idiot who completely missed the entire point of the conversation and the entire point of the post and had to stick his elitest fucking nose into everything.
Yes, I do cook my own food. I make dinner at home all the time. My partner cooks as well. Because we can afford dropping $20 on a club pack of pork chops, wrap a bunch in our vac sealer, and stick them in the freezer for future use. We have the means in order to store ingredients and have two freezers in our farm house and own a 14 acre property.
But we're the exception, not the rule in today's day and age. And guess what? I'll still order pizza and come home with that. Or get a rotisserie chicken because work sucked and I don't feel like cooking. And the fact that people like you and Tittyfrog genuinely care so fucking much about how other people spend their money and what they eat is remarkably pathetic.
And because I know they're going to read this comment too, to quote something they said...
The existence of $6 ready to eat roasters is seem some inherently good and worthy thing… but it isn’t when you start to ask why they cost so little.
When you are struggling to literally feel yourself, your kids, pay rent, fill your gas tank, and make ends meet paycheque to paycheque, you don't have the time or the energy to give a shit where the supply chain comes from. Some people are literally just trying to survive, and you talking down to people like that make you a fucking asshole.
Thanks for not really addressing anything I said and just jumping right back into your own stuff. That was cool. It let me know you didn't really read what I said, think about it, and formulate a response. Great stuff. Oh and you should scroll back up to the first comment in this chain and see that the original poster called it a luxury first, so I guess you didn't read that either. TittyFrog hasn't been the one calling people idiot, or pathetic, or asshole, YOU have been.
Maybe take a step back and read what I'm trying to say. We are talking about the idea of if hot and ready to eat food is a luxury item. Not food in general or how much it costs (which you keep bringing up when I'm telling you it's not about the cost). I don't really care how you spend your money lol, I wish my tax dollars could go towards providing food, water, and shelter to everyone instead of the military industrial complex and corporations. Most people are just trying to survive, you and me both and everyone else in this chain I'm sure.
Thanks. Yeah that's part of the point I'm trying to make.
But people don't see the world that way... they see premade food as some sort of normal thing. And ironically all the nutrionists and public health people straight up tell us that premade stuff is unhealthy and problematic in both terms of nutrition and cost. Cheap food is always full of additives and shitty stuff. Natural foods are not, but they cost more. Better food production practices and regulations, cost more, etc.
But people just want see the sticker price in front of their face and ignore all the things that go into that price and don't want to talk about them because acknowledging how the supply system works is 'trolling' because it makes them uncomfortable. The existence of $6 ready to eat roasters is seem some inherently good and worthy thing... but it isn't when you start to ask why they cost so little.
We increasingly live in this weird world were the notion of cooking your own healthy food is some form of class oppression and privileged or something. When what it does is give you way more control over what goes into your body and typically you eat less.
I guess you're right because there's an awful lot of nitrates, nitrites and salts in those things and they're mass produced so I guess there are a lot of long-term health costs involved.
Idk what's up with the downvotes. I think you're right, having someone else cook and prepare my food for me IS something I consider a luxury. Same as if someone else cleaned my dishes or did my laundry. I'm not commenting on the "quality" of the food, or the cost, just the idea of someone else cooking and prepping my food for me.
people aren't reading or thinking, they are just being outraged that their entitlement is being called out.
i get this a lot with travel too. travel is a luxury, but if you say that people tell you are a close minded asshole and that travel is a necessity for their well-being and happiness and if isn't for yours you are mentally ill.
millennials and gen z travel way more than ever and spend massive amounts on it and then cry poor about not being able to spend more on it.
life is expensive, but spending your money on luxuries like travel, ready to eat food, and food delivery and then whining about how expensive necessities are (housing, healthcare, education, groceries) is so straight up absurd. apparently everyone is broke all th e time and struggling, but when it comes to getting their grubhub, their pot, and their international vacation travel, they miraculously always have money for that.. and it can't be that these two things are maybe related?
I don't shop at Costco as its a US brand. I shop at grocery stores, Canadian ones. It is a loss leader everywhere. They take the whole chickens that are damaged or are close to shelf life and roast them.
Walmart and Sam's near me have started rationing theit rotisserie chickens, they only make a certain number per day and when they are gone they don't make any more.
The rotisserie is just to get you in the door. They sell it at a loss, but know you're going to buy a bunch of stuff once you get there. I guess ppl are now just going in to buy 1 or 2, 50lbs bags of rice and beans and dipping out.
Apparently in the full context, this is in reference to some upscale grocery stores with an overpriced $30 "luxury" rotisserie chicken meal.
Not that this makes it much better. First, this seems like a small splurge compared to going to literally any restaurant for more than two people. Second, I had never heard of it before this article went viral and neither has anybody else I've seen in the comments... So this cannot be very common.
My conclusion is that this article is not for us. It's for rich people to help them feel less guilty about everyone complaining about their lives getting worse.
Try to explain to them that we will never be as weathly as they are and how we will receive 0 inheritance from them because they planned out how to spend their entire retirement savings not knowing what end of life care actually costs.
Instant ramen/noodles cost a friggin' fortune where I live (Denmark) now as well. The price is on average 150 DKK pr kilo of what is essentially fried pasta with a sauce packet. This shit used to be the lowest of the low student food and now it's priced like a gourmet meal.
If you find the super bland stuff that only comes in 'chicken' flavour its like 7 euro per dry kilo (bought as seperate packets, its cheaper in bulk) which is almost a week of cheap calories to bulk out some vegetables or cut price sausage. Or you can get fancy and fry it up with an egg and leftovers.
You mean the chicken that's $7.99 CAD, that feeds a single person 5-6 meals before taking the carcass / left over bits and making a soup out of it that feeds me for even more days at the cost of only rice and veggies?
Wait are you telling me a chicken dinner and juice is more attainable than a home?? Could that be why?
There’s a reason young people are travelling and using their savings on entertainment, we know we will never own. Not until we take housing by force, so what’s the point of saving? I can’t even save enough to keep up with interest.
So yeah when I’m old I’ll be poor and the government will have to deal with me
this isn't healthy food anymore than KFC is healthy.
if you make it at home, it's going to be far healthier because it's not going to be loaded with crap to make shitty quality meat taste good... just like fast food does.
These comments keep getting downvoted but Costco roasters are full of anti drying chemicals.
They taste awful, but if people are used to fast food... they'll eat any shit.
they want to believe the convenient fiction that somehow these shitty mcchicken products are 'healthy' and a 'good way for low income people to get protein' etc. Just like a few years ago they are all outraged that McDonald's isn't cheap anymore.
A simplistic moralizing narrative is what people want about every issue. They don't want to get into the details or talk about how the sausage is made, because it's ugly and unpleasant. I bet you most of the people who are pro Costco chicken are also anti-factory farming, but they fail to draw the connection that factory farming is what makes meat cheap. The reason your pasture raised organici free range roaster is $25 for a 4 lb bird is because raising chickens that way is expensive.
GenZ complains about having so much debt and not enough income but they keep buying food! How can they expect to succeed when they waste their money so frivolously?!
..... That's what this headline reads like to me.
How dare you buy food with the money you should be spending on the interest you owe to the owners of the country.
Oddly beans are getting pricey, veg is almost out of reach and rice (at least around here) has tripped in price over the last decade. The rotisserie chicken is almost the last hold out for some.
On a side note I was looking into gruel (as I like to plan ahead) and the stuff to make it (oats, rice, and other grains) is now so expensive that I can say most people can not afford to eat gruel.
Reading the actual article, the lunacy and delusion is real. You don't even get three paragraphs in and they're using a sales engineer's thoughts to represent young people as a whole.
It’s depressing just how quickly and comprehensively Jeff Bezos has managed to destroy the WSJ. It used to be respected internationally, now it’s just a grubby little clickfarm.
In other news I'm learning depression era meals to make to save money. Made a fancied up Hoover Stew last week. It had a sausage in it instead of hot dog.
it's a loss leader because it gets you to buy the 6 dollar sides of potatoe, veg and cheese and the dessert and then you've spent 30-40 bucks. the 6 dollar mashed potatoes is very profitable.
it's all incredibly unhealthy too. full of margarine, salt, and chemical stabilizers for texture and shelf-life.
For $5 I could get a 3 ish pound bird, eat good for two days and boil whatever I don't eat with a $1 bag of mirapoux and salt, and have the best rice you've ever had for a fucking week! So assuming generously the rice cost $1.5, then I am making essentially 7 or more meals for $7.50.
"Man, however, is not a being whose exclusive purpose in life is eating, drinking, and providing a shelter for himself. As soon as his material wants are satisfied, other needs, of an artistic character, will thrust themselves forward the more ardently. However, if there's some rotisserie chicken available, you absolutely should grab that immediately, because that's a rare treat."
Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread, ch. 9
" Man shall not live by bread alone, but if you grab some of that damn good rotisserie chicken, mm-mmm, that's some good stuff." Jesus, Matthew 4:4
They are all drowning in dept that is expensive for no fucking reason, that they have because they trusted you when you told them that this is a best investment that they can ever make.
Their biggest mistake was trusting in you ability to crate and maintain the system that can benefits anyone else than you.
Don't just go away, be forgotten entirely. Die your second death shortly after your first one. If we survive long enough I want history books to say the Silent Generation but especially the Boomers were the worst generations to have lived. That they took every scrap for themselves and would not share a dime to those struggling. That their entire life should be considered a sham and shamed.
Splurging on double ply toilet paper that is free of bark. Recklessly spending on biannual toothbrushs. carelessly using their lunch break to eat instead of adopting mico-hussles. foolishly agreeing to pay rent instead of taking money out of their grandfather's equity built trust fund to buy expansive rental properties.
Ah, I see. You need to do research here, man. There's a specific situation you're not aware of.
These roast chooks are cheaper than fresh raw ones because they make them from fresh ones that are about to pass their use-by date. So, even though it seems like it makes no sense, it is actually true that a cooked chicken from the deli costs less than one you have to cook yourself.
They are like $5 near me. A regular chicken costs about what you said. But these are loss leaders to drive people in the door. A rotisserie chicken lasts me about 6 meals so its insanely cheap.
Yeah.. American prices haven't caught up with the rest of the world yet. As much as Trump has done to destroy your economy you're still not paying anywhere near the price of things elsewhere. Going to take more loss of power for the US dollar for things to align.
But, I'll bet that's still cheaper than a whole chicken, raw.. Right?
Yeah they're cheaper than raw chickens. The store tends to buy too much chicken and some expires and would have to be thrown out... Or they can roast it right away. It's kind of a famous economic parable at this point.
Also, it sounds like Trump is just destroying our economy less than your guys are lmao.
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CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works · 223 pts · 191d
You mean those cheap chickens they sell at grocery stores that can feed you for days?
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 102 pts · 191d
so they don't have to have healthcare. Don't forget that this is owned by Murdoch, a truly evil shit stain.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 50 pts · 191d
Costco rotisserie chicken is to die for. I mean, literally. Motherfuckers waiting in line for that shit and don't you dare walk in front of the line when they start putting them in the case, you'll get killed.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 36 pts · 191d
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 191d
isn't this the free pastrami for jewish people guy?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 191d
“I’ve been eating Rotisserie Chickens at Costco everyday, one a day, for the last 25 years. It all started when Costco came to New York in the 90s, the first one was in Staten Island.”
But then he goes off the deep end about “LED light poisoning”
https://oldjewishmen.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-the-viral-costco
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
So... he thinks the laser "infects" his chicken, indirectly giving him "laser poisoning"... So his solution is to have them laser him directly, through the impenetrable barrier of a cotton t-shirt?
Are... are lasers only harmful if digested? Is the brief swipe of a laser some sort of catalyst for a chemical change in the chicken meat?
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 191d
I live alone now, and I get less motivated to cook for just myself, but today I felt like I needed to eat healthy. I got a rotisserie chicken and made a nice sandwich with it, pulled most of the meat off the bone and put it in the fridge, then simmered the carcase with celery, onions, carrots, bay leaf, thyme, and salt until it was reduced way down. Strained that into a container, and tomorrow I'll make chicken soup with that, some more of the veggies, and some little potatoes I have leftover. I'll have several meals with a few cheap ingredients. Super cost effective, healthy, and delicious.
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 190d
This is the way.
Just a few practical tips for those of you wanting to do this, but feel a bit nervous about dealing with the chicken carcass. Disposable gloves are your friend. Pull off every bit of meat you can possibly pull off. It can be frozen and then used for pretty much anything. You can throw it in tacos. You can put it in ramen soup.You can just eat it. You can share it with your dog or cat, if you can afford one.
If you have an Instant Pot cooker, I have the small three quart sized one, it makes it really easy and quick to simmer the carcass and get all that delicious bone broth. The bone broth can also be used for anything savory you're making that requires water like rice, instant stuffing, Ramen, couscous. You get the idea.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 191d
Filled with chlorine
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 191d
The other other white meat.
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 191d
Baby!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 191d
Who let Justin Bieber in?
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 191d
I was thinking more Fat Bastard, but text isn’t great for conveying Scottish accents in general, let alone the single word response.
https://youtu.be/nixR6wVa4HY
umbraroze@piefed.social · 2 pts · 191d
I can get frozen chicken bits pretty cheap. My cheap options right now look like a half a kilo plus sauces, or (with some walking) a full kilo, plus no extras.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 183 pts · 191d
grue@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 191d
That doesn't account for the time value of money. The reality is even worse because the price of the house is continuing to increase as you push the purchase off into the future. (I haven't done the math, but it could very well be increasing faster than $5 day, so in reality foregoing the rotisserie chicken doesn't make you make progress at all, but only fall behind slower.)
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 25 pts · 191d
EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 191d
Yeah... I wish I didn't, but I get that reference...
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 191d
Me too budd, me too
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 191d
sigh same. We’ve been on the internet too long.
Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 189d
I'll just be satisfied with knowing what this guy is about to do, but not actually seeing the footage myself.
oozynozh@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 191d
hey man nice shot
vrek@programming.dev · 16 pts · 191d
It's even worse, if you buy "cold" rotisserie chicken (literally the same just not kept warm under heat lamps so you have to warm it up if you want it hot) it was $2.77 last time I bought one at Walmart.
Why the price difference? Don't know. It's stored in the open cover "cold food storage" they use it which are probably similar cost to run as the heat lamps. That said for a chicken sandwich or chicken noodle soup such a better deal.
JordanZ@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 191d
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 191d
I can’t speak for Walmart but I can confirm other grocery stores do that. Whatever doesn’t sell gets chilled for the following day.
vrek@programming.dev · 5 pts · 191d
I know there was a time written on the bag, could of been from the previous day I don't know. That said if I buy a chicken, eat half, put the other half in the refrigerator I would still eat it the next day so...
howrar@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 191d
Our local Costco has these. They're the previous day's chicken and are sold at a discount.
frostysauce@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
The cold ones can be bought with SNAP/food stamps as well a being cheaper.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 191d
$5 for a whole chicken? That's cheap as fuck. What does the WSJ expect gen z and millennials to eat? Their mom's cooking?
A single meal for $5 would be a deal. A rotisserie chicken can feed a family, or a single person could eat it for days.
This is just more "anyone who isn't a millionaire doesn't deserve to eat" rhetoric from the world's billionaires.
Also, as a 30y.o. millennial, I object to the characterization of the "oldest gen z" being 30. I've earned my place among 20th century-borns!
welfare_wizard@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 191d
New day, new generation, every single day
Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 189d
Can feed a family yes, but isn't truly a meal on its own. Add some rice and beans, and now you've got a decent meal that has a tad more nutrition/balance than just straight up chicken.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 189d
You're right, it needs some veggies too. But honestly if you're having rice and beans, and something iron-rich like broccoli, then the chicken isn't even necessary.
But we all know the people complaining about this aren't advocating for vegetarianism...
9point6@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 191d
What a way to live
etherphon@midwest.social · 92 pts · 191d
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 33 pts · 191d
If they were interested in doing favors for humanity, they wouldn’t be working at WSJ
pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip · 83 pts · 191d
It doesn’t matter what food you eat, it’s still too good for you. How long until the articles about “splurging” on instant ramen come out?
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 191d
You can afford instant ramen?!
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 191d
I had to work for my ramen.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 29 pts · 191d
Stop buying (checks notes) food!! 🥑😤
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 3 pts · 191d
Whats wrong with instant ramen?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 191d
It's like 12¢ a pack. The commenter was saying the out-of-touch billionaires will never be pleased and will continue to shame the poors no matter what they do. Even if you're eating the cheapest thing you can find, they'll still call it a frivolous expense because you're not a millionaire.
tatterdemalion@programming.dev · 2 pts · 190d
Instant ramen is more expensive than rotisserie chicken right now.
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d
Find an asian market near you. The ramen is so cheap there and it's way better than the ones in the supermarket.
tatterdemalion@programming.dev · 2 pts · 190d
I've started buying the frozen ramen (raw noodles) at my local asian market :)
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 63 pts · 191d
You’ll never afford a house if you keep eating FOOD!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 191d
You'll never afford food if you keep paying RENT!
Might as well reverse it
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 52 pts · 191d
In five years when its even more dire WSJ will be posting about how millenials are splurging on sliced bread and milk.
West_of_West@piefed.social · 22 pts · 191d
If Gen Alpha would just be happy with water they could own a home!
zakobjoa@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 191d
Hoarding all their functional kidneys instead of buying a starter home for eight million dollars.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 191d
you have 2 kidneys, get going and sell 1 kidney, 1 lung, some of your skin and liver.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 48 pts · 191d
The rotisserie chicken that costs $7 and is enough for two meals? That’s a “splurge”?
Ok, well I guess I should stop splurging on shoes and water too.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 191d
Isn't the Costco chicken famously $5?
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 191d
Yes, but there is also the membership fee for Costco. Basically any grocery store will have rotisserie chicken for $7-$10.
https://www.albertsons.com/shop/product-details.960464807.html
https://www.kroger.com/pl/rotisserie-chicken/0500200007
https://www.walmart.com/browse/food/rotisserie-chicken/976759_9569500_1001443_9284629_8331739
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 191d
50% more or 100% more is a non-insignificant amount. Costco prices are often not great when compared to any other store. But that's why the $5 rotisserie chicken is special.
I hate having to fight by using my time to make sure all these shitty companies stay in check.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
I wonder how many $5 rotisserie chickens a person would have to buy per year at Costco in order for the savings to make up for their $65 annual Costco fee?
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 191d
65 / 2 = 32.5
So it pays for itself in 33 chickens. Likely waaaaaaay before that because you’re saving on most other things as well.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 190d
Like the giant cans of tuna, I thought that was a great deal. Then I tried to eat 1.88 kg of tuna as a single person... I no longer have a costco membership.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 191d
You should definitely stop splurging on water. This is not just a matter of personal finances - your selfishness is hurting the AI industry!
pentastarm@piefed.ca · 45 pts · 191d
"Millennials and Gen Z are splugering on clean water while trying to pay down their unbelievable debt from getting a 50 year mortgage on a cardboard box under the freeway overpass!!"
-WSJ in 5 years probably
_lilith@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 191d
Most millennials are approaching 40. get off our balls WSJ you old fucks did this
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 191d
The desperation of maintaining a class war against millennials is a major indicator that the ruse is about to fail
ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 191d
Saying millennials makes it a bit more obscured that their headline is saying that "40 year olds are still swamped in unrecoverable student debt".
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 191d
My debt ballooned to nearly 60K while in repayment, this administration will ensure I'm in debt to my eyeballs for the rest of my life. The Dems dragged their heels for too long to see changes. My generation is fucked and know what, the silents and boomers can eat a bag of dicks. Shovel them into a retirement home and forget about them existing.
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 190d
Headline in two years: Gen Z'ers are splurging on food instead of giving their money to the rich.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 9 pts · 190d
"GenZ struggling to survive in the lower levels of MegaCity5. Their blood is too low in iron to keep the immortal rich alive."
Etterra@discuss.online · 4 pts · 190d
GenZ not eating nutritious meals is the leading cause of rejection for Soylent processing.
Krauerking@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 190d
Yeah that might be the most accurate to the blaming tone these kinds of articles write with and to what they will take from us.
Just need to jazz it up with some homemade slang to hide the sad bits and the immortal rich part.
"GenZ struggling in well stocked MegaCity5; "Fecal-de-Cal" diet blamed for lack of macro nutrients during their mandatory weekly Blood-Up donations."
toetallyautistic@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 190d
literally, the conservative culture of boot licking the billionaires never ceases to amaze me
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 190d
I'm hungry. When do we eat?
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 190d
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 34 pts · 191d
Splurging on the cheapest animal protein.. Wowee, really living it up in 2026!
Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 191d
Roast chickens are loss leaders and are often the cheapest chicken you can find in a regular grocery store.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca · 32 pts · 191d
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 191d
because they use shitty frozen chickens and they cook them like 100 at a time and they only taste great because they are loaded roasted with chemicals/cheap ingredients. it's processed food, so it's cheap. the chickens use at the grocery store for roasting and like 5 bucks and then but 5 cents of crap on them and sell them for 10 bucks. it's also way more efficient to mass produce things than do them one at a time.
making your own chicken is more expensive because you're getting higher quality and fresher product and using highly quality ingredients. a decent whole 4lb whole chicken for me is 10-15 bucks, (20+ if you want a organic free range pasture bird) and I'm adding nice salt, nice olive oil, and fresh spices/citrus etc.
the home made bird is far healthier. but not as tasty because it's not loaded with crap.
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 190d
Right but the discussion isn't if it is healthier, it is what is cheapest. If low income families lack the equipment or knowledge to cook a good tasting whole bird, rotisserie is a good priced option. The fact that the news outlet is calling that splurging is wild.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 190d
cheapest here and now comes at a long term cost.
these chickens are a loss leader in order to get people to hooked on shitty premade food that is profitable for the stores so they never learn to cook better food.
i grew up poor. it was splurging for us to buy this stuff. our regular food was frozen and canned. even uncooked fresh food was a luxury for us.
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 190d
Edit to add:
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 190d
i've had co-workers who feel the same way. kept fucking up at work, not showing up on time, and blaming everyone else for being mean to them. they were shitty people and work is much better without them around. being around competent people who take pride in their work and themselves is a joy.
edit: it's not a system dude. It's the choices you make. if you've made choices to make yourself a caged chicken and you hate it, you've nobody to blame but yourself. chickens don't have existential angst.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works MOD · 3 pts · 190d
You've been reported. You seem to be arguing a completely different argument and lightly trolling. This is a warning or I'm going to give you a temp ban.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 30 pts · 191d
If you buy a rotisserie chicken, a seven layer dip and some tortillas all you have to do is make rice and you have enough food for a family or a single person for a couple days for cheap.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 191d
Ok, that sounds amazing.
BigBenis@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 191d
If you saved that $5 instead of wasting it on food every day, then in 275 years you could afford the average house!
BanMe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 191d
Rotisserie chicken now $7.99 at the grocery stores around here. They also roast them breast-down which makes the white meat greasy as hell, and hard to carve. I just buy a big thing of chicken strips, cook them at the beginning of the week, and use them for protein in every meal throughout the week. All my meals are based around this now.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 191d
"Rotisserie" derives from "rotate", as in the chicken is constantly being rotated as it's cooked. If it's being roasted breast-down (or breast-up, or any other consistent breast direction) then it's not rotisserie.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
Sorry I should say it's packaged breast-down, so the breast are compacted hard and full of grease by the time you get it. Nasty way to do it.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 190d
Yes. These are sold more cheaply now because it's a loss leader and they are pale imitation of the true product that they represent. They loaded with extra fat and salt, which is why people love them. Like they are literally injected with a solution of fat, salt, and chemical agents to tenderize the meat. It's the same as McDonalds, but people are under the delusion it is 'healthy' and 'natural' or something. It's processed food make for mass consumption at lowest possible cost.
A legit rotisserie chicken is 2-4x that cost and would not taste nearly as good because of the lack of fat and salt.
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 190d
I make black bean based veggie patties; not because I'm a vegetarian, but because a can of black beans is cheap. I call them struggle burgers. I can't wait to be demonized for buying fucking beans. Fuck this timeline.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 190d
Check out Daddy Warbucks over here with his canned beans! Dried beans are even cheaper.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 190d
That lucky bastard! Lucky, lucky, lucky bastard.
I DREAM of the day I can revel in canned beans! No soaking! No spices! No massive pot!
lucky, lucky, lucky bastard
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 190d
You are correct, they are. Wet beans saves me time from having to soak them. Lentils are they only ones I buy dry because they cook fast without soaking.
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 190d
Every time I try soaking dry beans I forget about them and they get gross.
rbos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 190d
I never bother soaking em. Pressure cooker (instant pot) does the job. I don't throw away the liquid either, that's good vitamins. Just do the beans most of the way in stock and spices, throw in rice and quinoa, close it up and cook it the rest of the way. Super easy.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 7 pts · 190d
Beans were once seen as poverty food. In the great depression at least. They were the Ramen noodles of that era.
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 190d
Protein, plus fiber, plus complex carbohydrates. What's not to love? Plus it makes a smaller environmental impact compared to farming poultry or larger animals. It was mind blowing to hear rags like the WSJ demonize the younger generation for eating avocado toast; it's a fucking cheap meal. Avocados were like $1 a pop and are a good source of fiber and health fat. I can't wait for rags like the WSJ to start publishing articles like, "How dare the poors waste money on eating!"
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 190d
They are great. I was going to make a bean stew yesterday but this article made me go buy a roast chicken just to spite them. Beans are for tonight!
rbos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 190d
Yeah, avocados imported into Canada are expensive but if they grow near you I can see them being stupid cheap.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 191d
Rich dickheads not only want us to be deprived of the good things in life, but also to starve. I hate them.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 190d
Newspaper: Americans Eat Too Much Ultra processed food.
Same Newspaper: Look at these little shits splurging on veggies and chicken.
vane@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 191d
Gen Z are buying food, that is why they can't afford houses. What logic is that ?
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 190d
Have we moved on from Boomers bashing Millennials to them complaining about Gen Z, or is it Gen X complaining about Gen Z now?
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 191d
I could eat for free for the next 50 years and still not be able to buy a home
rbn@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 191d
Are you sure? If we assume you saved 10 USD per day on food, that means you can invest 3,650 per year. If you do that for 50 years and assume 5% interests, you end up at 844,182.20 USD.
Inflation has been ignored to simplify it a bit, but it works in both directions: your money is worth less than today, but over time, as food is getting more expensive, you also save more and more money per day.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 191d
Excellent! Now I just have to sort out the eating for free part and I'm all set!
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 190d
And live to 120 so you actually get to live in the house for awhile..
rbn@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 191d
I know some excellent public apple trees if you're in Germany one day. :P
krank55@feddit.org · 4 pts · 191d
Not really realistic for my hometown at least. I don't know any bank offering interest on saving deposits that is higher than 3%.
If I only didn't have to spend money on food and would save like 5000€ per year while earning the average salary in my town with 3% interest (which is already pretty optimistic) I'd have like 500,000€ in 50 years. While an average house would cost several million at that time (rn it's ~1 million €). I couldn't even buy a flat.
Routhinator@startrek.website · 4 pts · 191d
Yeah big banks in canada give like 0.1% interest, my credit union gives 0.3%
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 190d
And also then have fees.....
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
Houses are rising at 15% a year dude.
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 191d
tehmics@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 190d
"Splurging" on one of the most prolific loss leaders in grocery is certainly one way to say it. We're buying them because it's the cheapest way to eat
JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 190d
Up next: Gen Z splurging on costco hotdogs and mi goreng instant noodles.
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 190d
"Splurging“ on the absolute cheapest most preservative laiden meat available, cheapeer than fucking Spam, and Gut healthy jucis because they can't afford to go to a doctor.
Fucking ghouls.
sirscooter@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 190d
So we are not supposed to ....eat?
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 190d
The rich don't understand the purpose of food, having never missed a meal in their lives.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
Ending your sentence after "rich" would have been good enough to answer the question.
alejandra@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 191d
It’s kind of wild how everyday groceries get framed as luxuries. Sometimes people are just trying to eat something convenient and affordable, not make a statement about their finances.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -21 pts · 190d
ready to eat hot food is a luxury. it's not groceries. groceries is stuff you have to prep and cook. if you want stuff you don't have to prep, or cook, it's generally going to cost you more, in either value or quality.
it's just that whole foods and other groceries normalized the concept of hot ready to eat meals being served in grocery stores. that was never a thing 20+ years ago. when i was a kid they had a tiny hot bar, and it was shitty. now my local whole foods 1/4 of the store is devoted to this type of product. and it's hugely profitable because people value convenience.
is international travel a luxury or a necessity? where I live, people think it's the latter and if you aren't traveling multiple times per year, they think you are living in poverty. that is regardless of finances and many people are going into debt to travel because they know it's not socially acceptable to not travel. i know 28 year olds making 30K a year who are dropping 5-10K a year traveling.
people's frames of reference for what a 'necessity' in 2026 is not exactly objective.
Ifera@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 190d
Ready to eat hot food that is cheaper than the ingredients to make it, is not a luxury.
Especially if it can be refrigerated and made to last for over a week, used to supplement other foods such like chicken quesadillas, chicken soup, broth and chicken salad.
Having to prep and cook is such a narrow minded way to look at things, and a way to look down at what people do to survive.
Does the fact that I can just bite into a tomato and eat it without preparation or cooking make it not a grocery? Hell, I can even do that with oatmeal if I'm down on protein and fiber.
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 190d
Exactly. Additionally a lot of low income families lack the knowledge of how to properly prepare a chicken, or the equipment to do it well. When the difference is 20¢ a pound for an already seasoned and prepared bird its not really luxury prices. Luxury is like some $50 chicken wrapped in gold bullshit topped with exotic flower pistols.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 190d
These aren't properly prepared chickens. They are McChickens. They are fast food that is full of artificial crap to make it taste good.
Low income people eat a lot of fast food because it's an affordable luxury for them. That doesn't mean it's not a luxury, or that it's a good choice to make a regular part of your diet. Especially due to the long affects.
One of the first things you figure out when you get out of being poor is that paying more for food is not a luxury, it's a necessity for a higher quality of life overall. I got this lesson in college, which was the first time it was regularly available to me.
when I was 14 years old and eating shitty food everyday, I thought healthy food was 'gross' and 'crazy expensive'. I was wrong. I was just poor and trapped in a poor person's mindset and had no idea about long term costs because i was consumed with getting things as quickly as possible for as cheap as possible.
GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 190d
You keep going on and on aggrandizing your own very limited experience. "When I was young.... when I was poor... when I was in college.. after I wasn't poor". Do you hear yourself?
This might come as a shock, but not every low income person has the same opportunities you did or the same resources. Just because you found a path out doesn't give you license to oversimplify the many situational nuances that come with being poor, nor did it give you some special knowledge to lead you to think you've somehow solved poverty.
I'm glad you've bettered your financial circumstances, but you seem to have lost something else important along the way.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 190d
I grew up in a poor community and watched lots of people throw their lives away. They had just as much opportunity as I did, oftentimes, they had more than I did.
Being poor sucks, but nobody is coming to save poor people. They have to save themselves. That's how it's always been and how it will always be. Thinking that someday someone will come lift you out of poverty is the most surefire way to stay in it forever.
Call it self-aggrandizing if you want, but the reality of the world is harsh. And yeah it sucks, because the funny thing about working your way out of being poor is that poor people hate and resent you for it and start blaming you for their problems and demanding that you owe. I remember when I got my first job out of college and my old high school friends working minimum wage jobs at home started asking me for money and calling me a selfish greedy asshole for not giving it to them... the same one who dropped out of college because it was 'too hard'.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 189d
They might just hate self righteous dickheads with no empathy. From the context I have it’s impossible to tell.
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 190d
I agree that a rotisserie is closer to fast food, but I was saying most low income people are lacking any food education to make a properly prepared chicken. Most low income prople who are suffering the effects of dollars a day making a difference also lack the education of the why, where, and how they can prepare equivalent priced meals that are better for them. To some this is all they know.
I also got a lesson in college, a privalidge that you and I were able to afford that some prople genuinely never got the opportunity, and those people are the ones truly suffering from the effect of "luxury" rotisseries.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 190d
I know that. I have had partners and friends who were like this. Just because someone is all that you know, doesn't mean isn't a self-defeating self-impoverishing cycle of choices.
Just because a choice is easy and convenient and seemingly cheap doesn't make it a good choice. There are other choices, even if you don't know they exist. Especially with the internet in everyone's pocket. What is stopping someone from just looking up a recipe?
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 189d
I think you misunderstand the general state of people suffering from the effects of companies forcing this upon us. For you and I it is as simple as look up a recipe and do it, some people truly do not know. They don't know to look for something else. They dont know if something is unhealthy.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 190d
You're a troll. Go away.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
I literally used to make these. It was my fucking job to make them. They are literally just the whole chickens sold in the deli, the package removed, seasoned with a mixture of things like paprika, garlic salt, pepper, cumin, etc, rubbed down by a worker, and stuck into a rotisserie heater.
That's it. That is literally it. They're not manufactured any different. You could make the same thing at home for twice the cost since the cooked chickens are cheaper than the raw chickens. There is nothing devious or sinister behind the scenes. There are no extra hormones or microchips stuck into them. I was asked to go grab X amount of chickens from the shelf, season them, cook them, then put them in their containers and put them on display.
Your ability to make a mountain out of a grain of sand needs to be studied for how unhinged some human beings are.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 189d
Again, you worked for Hannaford. That's a higher quality more expensive store. You worked for one store under one process, YEARS ago no doubt.
Practices change. Food science changes. etc. It's not sinister, it's business. It's objectively the fact that store bought chickens from Coscto and the like are full of fillers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/opinion/sunday/costco-chicken-animal-welfare.html
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 189d
I did? That's news to me. Can't say I've ever heard of them before. I worked for fucking Wal Mart in a town of 3,000 people in rural Ontario. Also you said earlier in this thread that YEARS ago no one made rotisserie cooked chicken, so which one is it?
Your lies are starting to get exposed.
So it's clearly obvious you're a troll, an idiot, or just trying to shit on people struggling just to make it to tomorrow just so your pathetic emptiness has someone to look down on so you can feel better about how utterly shit your own life is. And if the latter is true, I don't feel sorry for you.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 190d
you can eat however you want.
however engaging in poverty finance is a way to keep yourself in poverty as it prevents you from developing smarter and healthier behaviors around food and persisting in myths and thought patterns that are objectively unhealthy and defeating.
I know this from personal experience. cheap ready to eat food is awful for you and long term does way more damage to your health and fiances than learning to cook healthy food at home. cooking for yourself is objectively healthier as you get to control what goes into your food.
but yeah if you are narrow terms of gratification and raw cost, why not just grind up the chickens into hot protein paste and let the poors eat that? or perhaps we think there is more to life than calories and macronutrients?
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 190d
since when was 3-4 meals of tasty protein for under $10 considered a luxury?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 190d
because it's premade food.
fast food prices used to be similar, was that a healthy smart way to get calories? a burger and fries from mcdonalds used to be 3 bucks or so. for a lot of struggling people, it certainly was a standard option until recently and the one by me is still full of housing project kids everyday.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 190d
you didn't answer the question
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 190d
I did, but you're being a typical lemmy troll who refuses to acknowledge any counter point to your simplified narrative that lacks any context because you want to bite the ragebait that makes you feel morally superior for doing so.
the article is designed to make you upset and troll you by going at your bias that premade grocery store chickens are some sort of nutritional necessity that is liberating people from the doldrums of their suffering at the evils of capitalism... even though it the chickens being sold like this is really an evil of capitalism itself.
you can't have your pre-made chicken rage and eat it too!
hraegsvelmir@ani.social · 9 pts · 190d
In fairness, like the troll you accuse everyone else of being, you have zero proof for your claim that these chickens have somehow been modified to be shittier for you, and that's why they're cheaper.
Sorry you apparently grew up in bumfuck nowhere, pal. The Hannafords in the sticks that I worked at in high school, more than 20 years ago, had plenty of rotisserie chickens, and had them long before I started working there.
You've gone and invented a massive conspiracy that ignores a simple reality. Offering rotisserie chickens as a loss leader is a simple and effective way to a) move whole chickens with minor blemishes and b) get people in the store with the promise of a cheap bird that almost always required you head to the back of the store, where they could count on you seeing several things "I may as well get while I'm here" to make up for whatever loss they sell the rotisserie chickens here.
I've worked in several major grocery stores in different regions, and never encountered any evidence of this nonsense you're so indignant people won't swallow wholeheartedly.
tl;dr: Show some proof or shut the fuck up, you muppet. Your own screeds do not count as proof, let's see some external links.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 190d
whatever proof i gave you you'd deny. you can google it. these chickens are overwhelmingly prepared with injections of salt, fat and butter and plenty of outlets have tested them and they have massive levels of sodium, saturated fat, and other stuff like preservatives and chemicals that makes them processed if not ultra processed foods.
it's not a conspiracy, it's how our food supply works.
Hannafords is small chain, we're talking about Costco and Walmart in this thread. Perhaps their chickens are better. I have been to a few of them in my area and they are an expensive store with more premium products. Whole foods has them too and theirs aren't cheap and are probably more natural.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 190d
no, what I'm asking is how a ready to eat food product that is cheaper than the raw materials alternative is considered a luxury in this context
I understand that ready to eat food itself is somewhat of a luxury, but that is not what is being discussed - what is being discussed is the cost of the food.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 10 pts · 190d
No no, you see when you pay any amount beyond what is absolutely necessary to survive then you are spoiled by luxury. /S
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 190d
is fast food a luxury or a necessity?
this is a version of fast food. that's why it's a luxury.
it's also a factor of true cost vs the fact these are sold at a loss and understanding the psychology therein that gets people to buy more than they otherwise would.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 190d
When the pre-made food is cheaper than uncooked food, how is it a luxury?
You think people should pay more for food, then bitch about people spending too much?
Get the hell out of here.
Also, from your previous comment:
I literally worked at the Deli in a wal mart in small town Ontario 20 years ago when I was in my late teens cooking the rotisserie chicken you're bitching about didn't exist.
You're either trolling everyone here, or a completely disconnected moron.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 190d
Lol you're changing the topic because you know he's right. If someone else cooks my meal for me, regardless of price, that's a luxury. If it costs $1 or $100, the act of another person preparing and cooking my food instead of having to do it myself is something I would consider a luxury. If it was free I would still consider the act of another person cooking my food for me a luxury. Its not about price or how much the ingredients cost separately.
Because if you don't consider having someone else make your food a luxury, what is it? Normal? Expected? Do you not cook your own food? It's wild you just call "troll" cuz he has a different opinion than you. If anything you and the people shadow boxing his comments are the trolls.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 189d
They've been changing the topic to try and shoehorn their own elitist opinion into something else. The entire topic is about cost. Not luxuries or people serving others. It's about money and how much things cost. The reason @TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world is being downvoted to hell and back is because they're missing the point from the beginning. If money is tight, why should people be forced to buy uncooked food and ingredients to make food at home, spend more money to do it, just to make some uptight person on Lemmy feel better about themselves?
If the already cooked chicken is cheaper, and money is tight for things like bills and electricity, buy the fucking cooked chicken. The only person who brought "luxury" into this was that idiot who completely missed the entire point of the conversation and the entire point of the post and had to stick his elitest fucking nose into everything.
Yes, I do cook my own food. I make dinner at home all the time. My partner cooks as well. Because we can afford dropping $20 on a club pack of pork chops, wrap a bunch in our vac sealer, and stick them in the freezer for future use. We have the means in order to store ingredients and have two freezers in our farm house and own a 14 acre property.
But we're the exception, not the rule in today's day and age. And guess what? I'll still order pizza and come home with that. Or get a rotisserie chicken because work sucked and I don't feel like cooking. And the fact that people like you and Tittyfrog genuinely care so fucking much about how other people spend their money and what they eat is remarkably pathetic.
And because I know they're going to read this comment too, to quote something they said...
When you are struggling to literally feel yourself, your kids, pay rent, fill your gas tank, and make ends meet paycheque to paycheque, you don't have the time or the energy to give a shit where the supply chain comes from. Some people are literally just trying to survive, and you talking down to people like that make you a fucking asshole.
Edit: Words.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 189d
Thanks for not really addressing anything I said and just jumping right back into your own stuff. That was cool. It let me know you didn't really read what I said, think about it, and formulate a response. Great stuff. Oh and you should scroll back up to the first comment in this chain and see that the original poster called it a luxury first, so I guess you didn't read that either. TittyFrog hasn't been the one calling people idiot, or pathetic, or asshole, YOU have been.
Maybe take a step back and read what I'm trying to say. We are talking about the idea of if hot and ready to eat food is a luxury item. Not food in general or how much it costs (which you keep bringing up when I'm telling you it's not about the cost). I don't really care how you spend your money lol, I wish my tax dollars could go towards providing food, water, and shelter to everyone instead of the military industrial complex and corporations. Most people are just trying to survive, you and me both and everyone else in this chain I'm sure.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 189d
Thanks. Yeah that's part of the point I'm trying to make.
But people don't see the world that way... they see premade food as some sort of normal thing. And ironically all the nutrionists and public health people straight up tell us that premade stuff is unhealthy and problematic in both terms of nutrition and cost. Cheap food is always full of additives and shitty stuff. Natural foods are not, but they cost more. Better food production practices and regulations, cost more, etc.
But people just want see the sticker price in front of their face and ignore all the things that go into that price and don't want to talk about them because acknowledging how the supply system works is 'trolling' because it makes them uncomfortable. The existence of $6 ready to eat roasters is seem some inherently good and worthy thing... but it isn't when you start to ask why they cost so little.
We increasingly live in this weird world were the notion of cooking your own healthy food is some form of class oppression and privileged or something. When what it does is give you way more control over what goes into your body and typically you eat less.
DigDoug@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
Because that's not what the conversation is about, and you know it.
If all you can afford for dinner is a supermarket roast chicken, you're not in a position to give a single iota of a fuck about why it's so cheap.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 190d
It is cheaper by weight. Also, it's seasoned, already made, and can make multiple meals. Costvo loses money on rotisserie chicken. Just like they lose money on hotdogs.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 190d
Rotisserie Chicken is cheaper than groceries. The expensive "luxury" is the grocery in this case.
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 190d
How is it a luxury if it's cheaper than actual frozen whole chicken?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 190d
because the true cost is hidden
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 189d
I guess you're right because there's an awful lot of nitrates, nitrites and salts in those things and they're mass produced so I guess there are a lot of long-term health costs involved.
These might help you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader
smh@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 189d
TIL eating at a soup kitchen (ready to eat hot food) is a luxury.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 189d
a soup kitchen is for the homeless.
the homeless aren't buying 5 dollar rotisserie chickens
sureshot0@discuss.online · 2 pts · 189d
Well, they can't, because you can't buy hot food with food stamps.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 190d
Idk what's up with the downvotes. I think you're right, having someone else cook and prepare my food for me IS something I consider a luxury. Same as if someone else cleaned my dishes or did my laundry. I'm not commenting on the "quality" of the food, or the cost, just the idea of someone else cooking and prepping my food for me.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 190d
people aren't reading or thinking, they are just being outraged that their entitlement is being called out.
i get this a lot with travel too. travel is a luxury, but if you say that people tell you are a close minded asshole and that travel is a necessity for their well-being and happiness and if isn't for yours you are mentally ill.
millennials and gen z travel way more than ever and spend massive amounts on it and then cry poor about not being able to spend more on it.
life is expensive, but spending your money on luxuries like travel, ready to eat food, and food delivery and then whining about how expensive necessities are (housing, healthcare, education, groceries) is so straight up absurd. apparently everyone is broke all th e time and struggling, but when it comes to getting their grubhub, their pot, and their international vacation travel, they miraculously always have money for that.. and it can't be that these two things are maybe related?
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 18 pts · 191d
Let them eat cake of our times.
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 190d
The wall street journal aren't good journalists.
They cater towards rich people and as such:
Nothing they write is objective
ishartdoritos@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 190d
They're not journalists at all.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 190d
I really wish there's an alternative to the Wall Street Journal, but from the perspective of the proletariat.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 7 pts · 190d
It's just a picture of a guillotine.
Krauerking@lemy.lol · 16 pts · 190d
Same energy
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 190d
I had to find it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYtpU5b2ALk
merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 191d
Imagine writing billionaire propaganda and not being able to work out the cost effectiveness of rotisserie chicken.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d
The irony is likely the person who wrote this article for the billion dollar propaganda machine likely struggles to make ends meet.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 190d
That person really should study and read socialist theory
Routhinator@startrek.website · 16 pts · 191d
What is gross is that rotisserie chicken is cheaper than a raw roaster.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 190d
Many stores make them from the whole chickens that are about to expire and be tossed out. Efficient, at least.
paperazzi@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 191d
Only at Costco because it's a loss leader.
Routhinator@startrek.website · 13 pts · 191d
I don't shop at Costco as its a US brand. I shop at grocery stores, Canadian ones. It is a loss leader everywhere. They take the whole chickens that are damaged or are close to shelf life and roast them.
astanix@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 191d
At every store I've been to that has rotisserie chicken its cheaper
Omgboom@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 191d
Walmart and Sam's near me have started rationing theit rotisserie chickens, they only make a certain number per day and when they are gone they don't make any more.
grue@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 191d
People often think of Sam's Club and Costco as sort of equivalent, but they're not and that kind of thing is one of the reasons why.
CPMSP@midwest.social · 3 pts · 191d
Ding ding. These things are not like the other.
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf · 12 pts · 191d
The rotisserie is just to get you in the door. They sell it at a loss, but know you're going to buy a bunch of stuff once you get there. I guess ppl are now just going in to buy 1 or 2, 50lbs bags of rice and beans and dipping out.
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 191d
Apparently in the full context, this is in reference to some upscale grocery stores with an overpriced $30 "luxury" rotisserie chicken meal.
Not that this makes it much better. First, this seems like a small splurge compared to going to literally any restaurant for more than two people. Second, I had never heard of it before this article went viral and neither has anybody else I've seen in the comments... So this cannot be very common.
My conclusion is that this article is not for us. It's for rich people to help them feel less guilty about everyone complaining about their lives getting worse.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 191d
Almost has a moment of self awareness
..."The poors don't really deserve houses, right? I mean, look at them! They're spending money on food."
JollyBrancher@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 190d
You mean the rotisserie chickens that are $5-6, compared to lunch meat being at 10-12/lb? Splurging on that rotisserie chicken purchase?
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 13 pts · 190d
That rotisserie chicken that I can stretch into like three to five meals, including making broth? That one?
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 189d
Good ol' rotisserie chicken, rice, n beans. Sauce of choice. A legendary combination.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 10 pts · 190d
There is a reason we think boomers are out of touch.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 189d
They bought houses with high school diplomas for 6 walnuts. Why can't you kids do the same?
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 2 pts · 189d
Try to explain to them that we will never be as weathly as they are and how we will receive 0 inheritance from them because they planned out how to spend their entire retirement savings not knowing what end of life care actually costs.
nieminen@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 190d
Rotisserie chicken is one of the most affordable chicken options....
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 190d
exactly, the real complaint is that humans need to eat sometimes. how dare they?!
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 190d
Is it weird to blend it with Coca-Cola? I saw a Will It Blend? video on that.
Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 191d
Whats next... splurging on ramen, spaghetti, and hotdogs?
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 191d
Instant ramen/noodles cost a friggin' fortune where I live (Denmark) now as well. The price is on average 150 DKK pr kilo of what is essentially fried pasta with a sauce packet. This shit used to be the lowest of the low student food and now it's priced like a gourmet meal.
::: spoiler 150 DKK equals:
$23.80 USD
€20.08 EUR
$33.59 AUD
$23.44 CAD
:::
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
If you find the super bland stuff that only comes in 'chicken' flavour its like 7 euro per dry kilo (bought as seperate packets, its cheaper in bulk) which is almost a week of cheap calories to bulk out some vegetables or cut price sausage. Or you can get fancy and fry it up with an egg and leftovers.
MonkeyDumpster@lemmy.org · 12 pts · 191d
these articles are just trolling at this point with these kinds of headlines...
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 191d
You mean the chicken that's $7.99 CAD, that feeds a single person 5-6 meals before taking the carcass / left over bits and making a soup out of it that feeds me for even more days at the cost of only rice and veggies?
Routhinator@startrek.website · 1 pts · 191d
Man they are $13.99 in BC now.. But still hella cheaper than a raw roaster at $23
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
Not at Costco.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 189d
Wait are you telling me a chicken dinner and juice is more attainable than a home?? Could that be why?
There’s a reason young people are travelling and using their savings on entertainment, we know we will never own. Not until we take housing by force, so what’s the point of saving? I can’t even save enough to keep up with interest. So yeah when I’m old I’ll be poor and the government will have to deal with me
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 191d
Splurging on checks notes healthy food?
ranzispa@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 191d
When I was young if you were poor you'd know your place in society and just eat fast food to reach a fast death.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d
Were it so easy. Now fast food is so expensive I can't even eat garbage to kill myself.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 190d
this isn't healthy food anymore than KFC is healthy.
if you make it at home, it's going to be far healthier because it's not going to be loaded with crap to make shitty quality meat taste good... just like fast food does.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 190d
These comments keep getting downvoted but Costco roasters are full of anti drying chemicals. They taste awful, but if people are used to fast food... they'll eat any shit.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 190d
because people don't want to hear the truth.
they want to believe the convenient fiction that somehow these shitty mcchicken products are 'healthy' and a 'good way for low income people to get protein' etc. Just like a few years ago they are all outraged that McDonald's isn't cheap anymore.
A simplistic moralizing narrative is what people want about every issue. They don't want to get into the details or talk about how the sausage is made, because it's ugly and unpleasant. I bet you most of the people who are pro Costco chicken are also anti-factory farming, but they fail to draw the connection that factory farming is what makes meat cheap. The reason your pasture raised organici free range roaster is $25 for a 4 lb bird is because raising chickens that way is expensive.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 189d
And for no reason, colon cancer is now a disease of 30 year olds.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 190d
GenZ complains about having so much debt and not enough income but they keep buying food! How can they expect to succeed when they waste their money so frivolously?!
..... That's what this headline reads like to me. How dare you buy food with the money you should be spending on the interest you owe to the owners of the country.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 191d
Yellow rice, beans, veggies and shredded rotisserie chicken. Meals for days.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 191d
Oddly beans are getting pricey, veg is almost out of reach and rice (at least around here) has tripped in price over the last decade. The rotisserie chicken is almost the last hold out for some.
On a side note I was looking into gruel (as I like to plan ahead) and the stuff to make it (oats, rice, and other grains) is now so expensive that I can say most people can not afford to eat gruel.
nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 189d
Reading the actual article, the lunacy and delusion is real. You don't even get three paragraphs in and they're using a sales engineer's thoughts to represent young people as a whole.
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 190d
It’s depressing just how quickly and comprehensively Jeff Bezos has managed to destroy the WSJ. It used to be respected internationally, now it’s just a grubby little clickfarm.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 7 pts · 191d
Too good for bugmeal, are you?
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 191d
Eat your protein bars, keep working then maybe you come to the front of the train.
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 191d
Splurging on gut health! I mean... the nerve of these... these... (shuffles cards)... uppity whippersnappers!
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 190d
people who are on gut health diets are usually already wealthy.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 191d
Oh, you fuckers!!
Is this why I can't get any rotisserie chickens at Market Basket anymore?
FUCK!!
LOL!
(I recently discovered avocado toast.. it's quite nice! Job well done.)
maplesaga@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 190d
My dad has been cheap his entire life, and now survives almost entirely on rotisserie chicken.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
Cheep!
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 191d
In other news I'm learning depression era meals to make to save money. Made a fancied up Hoover Stew last week. It had a sausage in it instead of hot dog.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 190d
La di da, we got a sausage prince over heah boys, not good enough for our offcut tubes /s
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 191d
Splurging? They're like $8 and can feed a family of 4.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 191d
I just splurged all over my self thanks
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 190d
a single chicken doesn't feed a family of four.
it's a loss leader because it gets you to buy the 6 dollar sides of potatoe, veg and cheese and the dessert and then you've spent 30-40 bucks. the 6 dollar mashed potatoes is very profitable.
it's all incredibly unhealthy too. full of margarine, salt, and chemical stabilizers for texture and shelf-life.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 0 pts · 190d
If you can't feed 4 people with one of those chickens, it's only unhealthy because your fat ass is eating it all by yourself.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 190d
Splurging on Hamburger Helper and frozen broccoli.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 190d
Hamburger Helper is not even cheap anymore, or easy, or good. Still buy it every 6 months for some reason.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 189d
Hamburger helper was popular in the 70s in inner city slums to make dog food edible.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 189d
And dog food was really cheap then. Dang who would have thought that the 70s of all terrible decades would start to look ok.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 191d
For $5 I could get a 3 ish pound bird, eat good for two days and boil whatever I don't eat with a $1 bag of mirapoux and salt, and have the best rice you've ever had for a fucking week! So assuming generously the rice cost $1.5, then I am making essentially 7 or more meals for $7.50.
But yeah, we splurging....
umbraroze@piefed.social · 4 pts · 191d
"Man, however, is not a being whose exclusive purpose in life is eating, drinking, and providing a shelter for himself. As soon as his material wants are satisfied, other needs, of an artistic character, will thrust themselves forward the more ardently. However, if there's some rotisserie chicken available, you absolutely should grab that immediately, because that's a rare treat."
" Man shall not live by bread alone, but if you grab some of that damn good rotisserie chicken, mm-mmm, that's some good stuff." Jesus, Matthew 4:4
someguy3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 191d
Look at this fancy rice they're eating.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 191d
Well there we have another piece of excellent Wall Street Journal journalism
hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 191d
Ok, Bezos
ideonek@piefed.social · 4 pts · 191d
They are all drowning in dept that is expensive for no fucking reason, that they have because they trusted you when you told them that this is a best investment that they can ever make.
Their biggest mistake was trusting in you ability to crate and maintain the system that can benefits anyone else than you.
You failed them. Go away.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 191d
Don't just go away, be forgotten entirely. Die your second death shortly after your first one. If we survive long enough I want history books to say the Silent Generation but especially the Boomers were the worst generations to have lived. That they took every scrap for themselves and would not share a dime to those struggling. That their entire life should be considered a sham and shamed.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 3 pts · 191d
Stupid Millennials! You're supposed to magically develop bodies which survive off instant noodles and works until it's 70! /s
Routhinator@startrek.website · 3 pts · 191d
At 44, my doc keeps telling me I need to eat a better diet. His diet would break the damn bank.. I have a family of three to feed.
Juice@midwest.social · 3 pts · 191d
"I crave you like millennials crave rotisserie chicken" damn I wish this had come out before Valentines day
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 190d
I really like chicken and rice
Snowclone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
Splurging on double ply toilet paper that is free of bark. Recklessly spending on biannual toothbrushs. carelessly using their lunch break to eat instead of adopting mico-hussles. foolishly agreeing to pay rent instead of taking money out of their grandfather's equity built trust fund to buy expansive rental properties.
why are they so bad with money?
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 190d
Mmmm, chicken
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
Gen Zer... just say "Gen-Z kids" ??
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 190d
Or "Gen Z peeps"
marzhall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
They been Zoomers to me for a decade, why fix what ain't broke
PlasmaTrout@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 191d
I guess the Ronco guy's commercials were a generation or two too early?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 190d
We set it and forgot it.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
Wat
arcine@jlai.lu · 0 pts · 191d
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 191d
How is rotisserie chicken expensive? It's a loss leader and one of the cheapest proteins you can find.
arcine@jlai.lu · -2 pts · 190d
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 190d
Ah, I see. You need to do research here, man. There's a specific situation you're not aware of.
These roast chooks are cheaper than fresh raw ones because they make them from fresh ones that are about to pass their use-by date. So, even though it seems like it makes no sense, it is actually true that a cooked chicken from the deli costs less than one you have to cook yourself.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 190d
They are like $5 near me. A regular chicken costs about what you said. But these are loss leaders to drive people in the door. A rotisserie chicken lasts me about 6 meals so its insanely cheap.
Routhinator@startrek.website · 7 pts · 191d
Rotisserie chicken is cheaper than a raw roasting chicken that you you need to make the same thing at home.
Rotisserie chickn $13.99, uncooked roaster is $23
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 191d
pictured: currently $6.47 at a local store (in Austin)
Routhinator@startrek.website · 1 pts · 191d
Yeah.. American prices haven't caught up with the rest of the world yet. As much as Trump has done to destroy your economy you're still not paying anywhere near the price of things elsewhere. Going to take more loss of power for the US dollar for things to align.
But, I'll bet that's still cheaper than a whole chicken, raw.. Right?
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 191d
Yeah they're cheaper than raw chickens. The store tends to buy too much chicken and some expires and would have to be thrown out... Or they can roast it right away. It's kind of a famous economic parable at this point.
Also, it sounds like Trump is just destroying our economy less than your guys are lmao.
arcine@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 190d
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teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 190d
2 days? My friend, you are not making soup properly. 😄
arcine@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 189d
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