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I remember working on the deli when we’d markdown the chickens. Folks knew when we put them out and how long we waited before doing it. There was generally a little crowd of 2 to 3 folks when we’d do it on the weekend. Sometimes they’d get impatient and ask us if we were gonna come do it. Which, to be honest, I don’t really blame them. I don’t remember how much of a savings it was but it was significant. It’s sort of like “hey buddy, let’s stop the charade, I need to get going, can you come mark these down a few minutes early?”
TL;DR: Rotisserie chickens are smaller on average and price per pound usually more expensive except at stores like Costco. So you see similar numbers but don’t notice the size.
They go bad quickly. If you leave one in a hot car, it gets funky like in one afternoon. Which if you cooked your own chicken and left it in the car it wouldn’t, which is odd.
When travelling I’ve had cause to buy those pre cooked chickens, and to cook mine own meats, and had to leave them in cars for a bit, so quite a bit actually. Not often on the Rotisserie chickens after a couple got funky, but plenty on mine own meats.
Hamburgers cooked over a wood fire died down to charcoal will stay good for up to days in a hot car.
Funny you say that, I just got this horrible GI stomach bug with a fever, but that was the first time I’ve been sick since 2019 excepting getting covid once in 2021. Nary a cold, a sniffle, or an upset stomach.
I hardly ever get sick otherwise. But got sick as a dog just a week back, 2 days without eating, raging fever, lots of ass falling as you so poetically coined it.
Oh yes. Burger is a different beast than chicken to be sure, but wood smoke is curative, and cooked food lasts longer in general. I’ve had cooked burgers in a trunk/backpack for up to three days, hiking and the like, in the summer, that didn’t go bad. I bet if you cooked it, you could pack it in a jar with vinegar right away and it would stay good indefinitely.
Or if you expose it to smoke long enough it cures it completely and doesn’t have to be refrigerated at all forever. Usually salt is involved, and often other plants that help preserve it if traditional curing. If new age curing they use toxic chemicals like sodium nitrates to cure it, like in ham or bacon nowadays. Those are to be avoided and are bad for you, just as preservatives like sodium benzoate put in condiments and the like, even in some pop, is bad.
Personally I always sprinkle some yellow 5 on my food after I cook it because testicle shrinking properties or no, it’s worth it to not have to eat food that’s not yellow enough, yuck.
I never bought rotisserie chicken because they were cheap to the point of being suspicious (i.e. what sort of corners are they cutting).
Sort of the opposite of what I would consider a “splurge.”
They take chickens that are on the sale by date and cook them. At least when I worked deli! So maybe not the nicest chickens but all fine!
I remember working on the deli when we’d markdown the chickens. Folks knew when we put them out and how long we waited before doing it. There was generally a little crowd of 2 to 3 folks when we’d do it on the weekend. Sometimes they’d get impatient and ask us if we were gonna come do it. Which, to be honest, I don’t really blame them. I don’t remember how much of a savings it was but it was significant. It’s sort of like “hey buddy, let’s stop the charade, I need to get going, can you come mark these down a few minutes early?”
In case you really want to know:
https://priceonomics.com/are-rotisserie-chickens-a-bargain/
TL;DR: Rotisserie chickens are smaller on average and price per pound usually more expensive except at stores like Costco. So you see similar numbers but don’t notice the size.
They go bad quickly. If you leave one in a hot car, it gets funky like in one afternoon. Which if you cooked your own chicken and left it in the car it wouldn’t, which is odd.
How often do you leave meat in hot cars?
When travelling I’ve had cause to buy those pre cooked chickens, and to cook mine own meats, and had to leave them in cars for a bit, so quite a bit actually. Not often on the Rotisserie chickens after a couple got funky, but plenty on mine own meats.
Hamburgers cooked over a wood fire died down to charcoal will stay good for up to days in a hot car.
Meet my buddy from New Jersey, Sal.
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Omg no :(
Funny you say that, I just got this horrible GI stomach bug with a fever, but that was the first time I’ve been sick since 2019 excepting getting covid once in 2021. Nary a cold, a sniffle, or an upset stomach.
I hardly ever get sick otherwise. But got sick as a dog just a week back, 2 days without eating, raging fever, lots of ass falling as you so poetically coined it.
Oh yes. Burger is a different beast than chicken to be sure, but wood smoke is curative, and cooked food lasts longer in general. I’ve had cooked burgers in a trunk/backpack for up to three days, hiking and the like, in the summer, that didn’t go bad. I bet if you cooked it, you could pack it in a jar with vinegar right away and it would stay good indefinitely.
Or if you expose it to smoke long enough it cures it completely and doesn’t have to be refrigerated at all forever. Usually salt is involved, and often other plants that help preserve it if traditional curing. If new age curing they use toxic chemicals like sodium nitrates to cure it, like in ham or bacon nowadays. Those are to be avoided and are bad for you, just as preservatives like sodium benzoate put in condiments and the like, even in some pop, is bad.
Personally I always sprinkle some yellow 5 on my food after I cook it because testicle shrinking properties or no, it’s worth it to not have to eat food that’s not yellow enough, yuck.