Lee, it's the refinery workers up your way. They have a strike planned and the owners started shutting th plant down a week ago for "safety" reasons :frusty:
We don't eat that much red meat - We prefer mostly chicken. I buy Skinless Breast chicken fillets here for $10.00 a kilogram Less than $5.00 per lb or £2.40 per lb Is that comparable? Maryland an Wings are 1/3 of that price.
Sainsbury's online groceries Tescos requires registration - hence no link. A good way to compare prices. Sainsbury's Chicken Breast Fillets, Small, Prime £8.28/kg Sainsbury's Chicken Breast, Boneless, West Country, Taste the Difference £11.42/kg Sainsbury's Beef Frying Steak, Basics £4.98/kg Sainsbury's Beef Rump Steak, Organic £12.69/kg
If I am going to buy chicken, there is a very good halal buthcher in Glasgow, which is very cheap and the chicken is really lovely. I aqlso have a Cosco Card which means I can buy stuff including meat or in my case seafood, in bulk and at catering standard. And if you go on a saturday afternnon, you get coffee and muffins as you enter and you can make your way -slowly - around picking up stuff at the various food demonstartions in the store, thus they provide you a meal as well! The Chung Ying Chinese Cash and carry, also has cooking demonstrations on a weekend as well! Not only do you get to sample the finished goods, you get some good ideas for recipes!
Oh no not halal meat! Ranks along with veal!!! After watching that program about battery reared chickens, I flatly refuse to buy anything other than free range now. My husband has no such scruples so I refuse to cook the chicken that he picks up. I would rather not eat it than know that it was reared in such a way just to provide me with cheap food. I remember when I was a child that chicken was so expensive, to us at least, that those that we reared in the backyard (along with rabbits) were considered a treat for high days and holidays (Easter and Christmas).
During the months between graduating and starting post grad work, I worked in a Chicken factory near to Diss, after that it was a long time before I eat a piece of chicken. On Friday, in the canteen, the only meal that you could get was roast chicken and it was the bits that were rejected on the production line because they were brusied or damaged and unfit for human consumption!
