Potatoes are having a tough week

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/jeremyvineon5/status/1366303443204325376?s=21

 

[legoman]

https://twitter.com/jeremyvineon5/status/1366303443204325376?s=21

More importantly, Dar, what gender are the crisps? I imagine the chickens would have identified as female.

 

[MrSwerve]

Whenever there's an advert involving fried chicken, there's always some kind of uproar about the ethnicities of the actors involved.

Personally I genuinely never notice.

 

[Professor]

https://twitter.com/jeremyvineon5/status/1366303443204325376?s=21

More importantly, Dar, what gender are the crisps? I imagine the chickens would have identified as female.

You know Legoman, I sadly know which breed of chicken and the producer that supplies KFC in the UK (the bone-in stuff) most of the boneless is frozen and imported. I can also tell you they are roughly 50:50 female to male. Eggs of course are another matter.

 

[dickythorpe]

Prof, it's not the best chicken is it?

 

[Professor]

Prof, it's not the best chicken is it?

Unless you are buying premium chicken (Free Range Organic), then it's the same supplier, same conditions, same birds (Ross 308) etc as for Asda, Tesco, Aldi etc. Waitrose, M & S and Morrisons use a different supplier who have, in my view, better standards-but even that's marginal.

KFC and McDonald's in the UK have welfare standards that are higher than most of the supermarkets. Not the case in the US, I would add.


I eat it. Not often, but my son loves it.

 

[dickythorpe]

Prof, that is interesting.
I bought 2 chicken fillets in a pack from co-op last week, it was a bit more expensive than Sainsbury's but far plumper and nicer and probably less watery when in its raw state.

 

[Professor]

Prof, that is interesting.
I bought 2 chicken fillets in a pack from co-op last week, it was a bit more expensive than Sainsbury's but far plumper and nicer and probably less watery when in its raw state.

No idea who supplies co-op at the moment-but they usually have higher standards. Sainsbury's use a mix-more than the other supermarkets.

About 90% of UK chicken comes from only four suppliers and two of those are owned by the same person.