Grocery shortages where you live?

fishlessman

supermarket wings 5 bucks a pound and there were just two packages left.   why would they ever drop the prices back down.

hoosier_egger

I stopped in my local butcher shop where I purchase most of my meat. All of the chicken is air chilled and far superior to the big chain meats. Anyways, no wings. They have legs for $1.89/lb, Wings would be over $5/lb so they decided to temporarily drop them.

Legume

We are so overdue for GMO chickens with > 2 wings.

Ozzie_Isaac

Legume said:

We are so overdue for GMO chickens with > 2 wings.

KFC beat you to your idea *allegedly*

poster

Legume said:

We are so overdue for GMO chickens with > 2 wings.

Every time I am in the US I stock up on a few things at Sam's Club, I am always amazed by the size of the chicken breasts and wings available. I am not sure if this is limited to Sam's, but I have honestly not seen anything half the size anywhere I've been in Canada. Curious after your comment if this is the results of GMO or not.

alaskanassasin

Not aware of any GMO chicken. There is however GMO Salmon which was developed by a Canadian, which may be the beginning of the end of Wild salmon unfortunately.

nolaegghead

Selective breeding and enriched feed results in large-fast growing chickens. 

Selective breeding and creating hybrids is arguably modifying genetics intentionally, but much less scary sounding.

alaskanassasin

nolaegghead said:

Selective breeding and enriched feed results in large-fast growing chickens. 

Selective breeding and creating hybrids is arguably modifying genetics intentionally, but much less scary sounding.

Could you could say the same about having kids with a long hair hippy dude because he has marginally above average intelligence?

alaskanassasin

https://www.agriculture.com/livestock/cattle/the-growing-trend-of-beef-x-dairy

 This is kind of a interesting article, no mention of the dairy production rate after cross breading.

Acn

ColtsFan said:

I stopped in my local butcher shop where I purchase most of my meat. All of the chicken is air chilled and far superior to the big chain meats. Anyways, no wings. They have legs for $1.89/lb, Wings would be over $5/lb so they decided to temporarily drop them.

Makes sense, why anyone would want to pay 3x for an inferior piece of the chicken.  Real talk...chicken wings are crazy overrated.  

nolaegghead

alaskanassasin said:

https://www.agriculture.com/livestock/cattle/the-growing-trend-of-beef-x-dairy

 This is kind of a interesting article, no mention of the dairy production rate after cross breading.

76,000 skirts lost because the liver attached to them...?  Ewwww....

I thought I saw they were looking for the same dairy output, but better grade meat.

nolaegghead

alaskanassasin said:

nolaegghead said:

Selective breeding and enriched feed results in large-fast growing chickens. 

Selective breeding and creating hybrids is arguably modifying genetics intentionally, but much less scary sounding.

Could you could say the same about having kids with a long hair hippy dude because he has marginally above average intelligence?

Some mutations are predictable through DNA analysis, others are random.  I'm as dumb as a rock, I'm just good at fixing things.

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead said:

alaskanassasin said:

nolaegghead said:

Selective breeding and enriched feed results in large-fast growing chickens. 

Selective breeding and creating hybrids is arguably modifying genetics intentionally, but much less scary sounding.

Could you could say the same about having kids with a long hair hippy dude because he has marginally above average intelligence?

Some mutations are predictable through DNA analysis, others are random.  I'm as dumb as a rock, I'm just good at fixing things.

RyanStl

ColtsFan said:

I stopped in my local butcher shop where I purchase most of my meat. All of the chicken is air chilled and far superior to the big chain meats. Anyways, no wings. They have legs for $1.89/lb, Wings would be over $5/lb so they decided to temporarily drop them.

Just today at a regular grocery storte unfrozen wings were $5.50/lb where the legs were the same price that you said at $1.89.  I don't buy wings much so I went ahead and bought a 3lb bag frozen for $14.  I got the second to last bag.   I feel a bit dirty, but IIR the 10 lb bags at Sams was almost $40.  I won't be buying wings again for a very long time.

BikerBob

As to large size chickens, a chicken farmer told me he started keeping birds one more week and it was worth it for the increased price. Farmers are paid by the pound. The poultry company he raised birds for had it calculated for max profit. 

Langner91

It must be bones that are expensive.  Boneless wings around here are the same price they have been, bone-in prices at my favorite places are way up.

pgprescott

Langner91 said:

It must be bones that are expensive.  Boneless wings around here are the same price they have been, bone-in prices at my favorite places are way up.

Those are chicken strip pieces. There’s a hilarious YouTube video of a guy at a city council meeting arguing against the term boneless wings. Hilarious.  😜

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Denver tots are cancelled down here until further notice. You cant buy a frozen potato product down here to save your a$$. At least i can get booze and toilet paper (unlike this time last year). Ill give up tots for booze and toilet paper every day. 

poster

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Denver tots are cancelled down here until further notice. You cant buy a frozen potato product down here to save your a$$. At least i can get booze and toilet paper (unlike this time last year). Ill give up tots for booze and toilet paper every day. 

Same here up in Canada. There was some thing going on with the east coast potato farmers un-covid related recently. Some kind of potato wart that resulted in massive amounts going to waste. On another note a truck full of frozen fries rolled close in my town. My friend who runs a tow truck company hooked me up with 50lbs of fries shortly after

alaskanassasin

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Denver tots are cancelled down here until further notice. You cant buy a frozen potato product down here to save your a$$. At least i can get booze and toilet paper (unlike this time last year). Ill give up tots for booze and toilet paper every day. 

Scored some today last two bags on the shelf

Langner91

A friend of mine wanted cardboard tube cinnamon rolls this morning.  I should have bet her $100 she wouldn't find them.  Anyway, it has been a month since I last saw cardboard tube biscuits/cinnamon rolls/crescent rolls.

Once those are back in stock, I probably won't be able to find hot dogs to roll up in crescent rolls.

pgprescott

https://youtu.be/8abd8WdxO7w

The Cen-Tex Smoker

alaskanassasin said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Denver tots are cancelled down here until further notice. You cant buy a frozen potato product down here to save your a$$. At least i can get booze and toilet paper (unlike this time last year). Ill give up tots for booze and toilet paper every day. 

Scored some today last two bags on the shelf

you son of a B. I can't make my preferred breakfast taco without them. That's an every Saturday morning deal around here.

Ozzie_Isaac

Just when someone posted an amazing breakfast tot and egg dish in a ramaken.

caliking

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Denver tots are cancelled down here until further notice. You cant buy a frozen potato product down here to save your a$$. At least i can get booze and toilet paper (unlike this time last year). Ill give up tots for booze and toilet paper every day. 

Screw the Agree button. We need an "Amen!" button.

alaskanassasin

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

alaskanassasin said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Denver tots are cancelled down here until further notice. You cant buy a frozen potato product down here to save your a$$. At least i can get booze and toilet paper (unlike this time last year). Ill give up tots for booze and toilet paper every day. 

Scored some today last two bags on the shelf

you son of a B. I can't make my preferred breakfast taco without them. That's an every Saturday morning deal around here.

Hahaha I haven’t bought tots in 10 years but @NDG convinced me of what I am eating for breakfast tomorrow.  Care to expand on your “preferred breakfast taco” ingredients?

 FYI I tried to make them one time and they were greasy as heck.

Gulfcoastguy

Langner91 said:

A friend of mine wanted cardboard tube cinnamon rolls this morning.  I should have bet her $100 she wouldn't find them.  Anyway, it has been a month since I last saw cardboard tube biscuits/cinnamon rolls/crescent rolls.

Once those are back in stock, I probably won't be able to find hot dogs to roll up in crescent rolls.

I bought tube crescent rolls Wednesday. I plan to use them for the top crust of a chicken pot pie tomorrow.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

alaskanassasin said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

alaskanassasin said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Denver tots are cancelled down here until further notice. You cant buy a frozen potato product down here to save your a$$. At least i can get booze and toilet paper (unlike this time last year). Ill give up tots for booze and toilet paper every day. 

Scored some today last two bags on the shelf

you son of a B. I can't make my preferred breakfast taco without them. That's an every Saturday morning deal around here.

Hahaha I haven’t bought tots in 10 years but @NDG convinced me of what I am eating for breakfast tomorrow.  Care to expand on your “preferred breakfast taco” ingredients?

 FYI I tried to make them one time and they were greasy as heck.

https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1209065/the-art-of-the-deal-if-the-deal-was-a-breakfast-taco/p1

JethroVA

Langner91 said:

It must be bones that are expensive.  Boneless wings around here are the same price they have been, bone-in prices at my favorite places are way up.

Funny.  But I doubt there's a lot of chicken in boneless "chicken" wings.  See comments about chicken nuggets elsewhere here. 

Elijah

There's a lot of money in making cheap meat look like higher quality meat.