I was out having breakfast this a.m. and two geezers were having an immigration discussion. One geezer says we have to do something about immigration. The other Maga geezer says yeah just shoot them all. 

The Maga plan for immigration. Mass Murder. 

27 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said:

I was out having breakfast this a.m. and two geezers were having an immigration discussion. One geezer says we have to do something about immigration. The other Maga geezer says yeah just shoot them all. 

The Maga plan for immigration. Mass Murder. 

Nice to see TEW finally found a friend that's willing to share a meal with him. 

1 hour ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

if you want "Americans" to have "good jobs" in places like Tyson food plants, you also need to be ok with chicken breasts at *gasp* $3.99/lb or more

3.99/lb isn’t much higher then my local Acme. I think it’s like 2.99-3.49 all the time. 

27 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said:

3.99/lb isn’t much higher then my local Acme. I think it’s like 2.99-3.49 all the time. 

yeah and people have been flipping ish over it. 

looking at the fed chart, boneless chicken breast by the pound was like $3.75/lb back in the 2006-2008 timeframe. 

it dropped through the 2010s. 

now demand is back up, and current pricing is in the $4.75/lb range. 

accounting for inflation, the $3.75 price in 2006-2008 would have been about $4.50 end of 2020. 

I dunno, I never honestly thought all that much about the price of chicken. the stuff I see rising the craziest at the grocery store is the chips and stuff, which is terrible for you. some meatstuffs has gone up in price, some more than others. 

whatever.

1 minute ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

looking at the fed chart, boneless chicken breast by the pound was like $3.75/lb back in the 2006-2008 timeframe. 

it dropped through the 2010s. 

now demand is back up, and current pricing is in the $4.75/lb range. 

accounting for inflation, the $3.75 price in 2006-2008 would have been about $4.50 end of 2020. 

I dunno, I never honestly thought all that much about the price of chicken. the stuff I see rising the craziest at the grocery store is the chips and stuff, which is terrible for you. some meatstuffs has gone up in price, some more than others. 

whatever.

I used to get the 10lb bag from Sam’s club for $17. That was a damn steal. Now it’s a 6.5lb bag for like $18-$20. I stopped buying it cause I’m not as poor anymore and the quality is sheet. 

9 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said:

I used to get the 10lb bag from Sam’s club for $17. That was a damn steal. Now it’s a 6.5lb bag for like $18-$20. I stopped buying it cause I’m not as poor anymore and the quality is sheet. 

Yeah if you buy in bulk you can get way lower prices. A 3-pack of boneless chicken breast is a total ripoff.

I rarely get boneless breast anyway. I may get boneless thighs, but more often than not I just get a whole chicken, spatchcock it, and have leftovers. 

All the food factories burning down the last four years hasn't helped. Mixed with illnesses killing animals it has driven prices up. 

42 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

All the food factories burning down the last four years hasn't helped. Mixed with illnesses killing animals it has driven prices up. 

Lies. Biden did it.

Unless you're saying Biden set the fire.

2 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

Yeah if you buy in bulk you can get way lower prices. A 3-pack of boneless chicken breast is a total ripoff.

I rarely get boneless breast anyway. I may get boneless thighs, but more often than not I just get a whole chicken, spatchcock it, and have leftovers. 

I want to start getting whole chickens and break it down but no time to do it the past couple years. 

1 hour ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

Lies. Biden did it.

Unless you're saying Biden set the fire.

I'm saying they happened. 

I'm not suggesting that these workers should live an upper middle class lifestyle, but safety and worker comfort issues should be fixed and enforced. Nobody should have to wear a diaper to work because they aren't allowed to take a pee break. 

31 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said:

I want to start getting whole chickens and break it down but no time to do it the past couple years. 

spatchcocking a whole chicken if you have good kitchen shears takes about 30s, I highly recommend it.

I'd note it doesn't cut down the cook time for me as much as I'd hope, but it does cook more evenly. 

I don't carve up the meat before, I just cook the whole thing. I also have a family of 5 so I don't worry that leftovers will go to waste.

15 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

I'm saying they happened. 

I know, that was mostly at the MAGAts who think somehow everything about the economy is under the control of the white house.

54 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

spatchcocking a whole chicken if you have good kitchen shears takes about 30s, I highly recommend it.

I'd note it doesn't cut down the cook time for me as much as I'd hope, but it does cook more evenly. 

I don't carve up the meat before, I just cook the whole thing. I also have a family of 5 so I don't worry that leftovers will go to waste.

Just me and my wife and usually she cooks before I get home and has it ready for me or close to it when I’m home from work around 7-9 depending on the day. Weekends have just been fixing the new house. 

2 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

spatchcocking a whole chicken if you have good kitchen shears takes about 30s, I highly recommend it.

I'd note it doesn't cut down the cook time for me as much as I'd hope, but it does cook more evenly. 

I don't carve up the meat before, I just cook the whole thing. I also have a family of 5 so I don't worry that leftovers will go to waste.

I just made one last night, I love cooking them this way. I put it on the pellet grill, smoke it for about 30 to 45 minutes real quick, then turn up the heat to finish. Always comes out perfect, and I use the leftover chicken to make soup, fried rice, or BBQ chicken flatbread later in the week.

LOL. You poors know how much chicken costs and actually cook your own meals. 

11 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

I know, that was mostly at the MAGAts who think somehow everything about the economy is under the control of the white house.

Yeah.  There is also no tinfoil hat but it was strange so many food plants started burning down at the same time along with the cattle in a fire as well. Bad luck but weird. 

8 hours ago, vikas83 said:

LOL. You poors know how much chicken costs and actually cook your own meals. 

My microwave cooks my meals. 

On 3/16/2024 at 10:36 AM, JohnSnowsHair said:

where are all these Americans racing to work in meat packing plants? 

personally I'd be fine paying more for chicken/etc if that was what it took to get these plants safe and its employees appropriately compensated, but look at the political atmosphere out there: people are apoplectic over food prices already, and with bird flu and chicken shortages seeing chicken price increases outpace other foodstuffs it would become the primary driver.

lots of people want to keep jobs "filled by Americans" and to improve the quality of the jobs in places like this, but they also want cheap chicken. 

you can have one or the other. not both. 

if you want "Americans" to have "good jobs" in places like Tyson food plants, you also need to be ok with chicken breasts at *gasp* $3.99/lb or more.

to me, it seems like most people are all about "buy American" and "keep Americans working" until it costs them at the register, then they're ready to start a revolution and storm the Capitol.

It's hilarious how quickly libs devolve into arguing that we need mass immigration so that factories can pay people slave wages so we can have cheap stuff.  

Imagine how stupid you have to be to support Biden at this point.  

1 minute ago, Kz! said:

It's hilarious how quickly libs devolve into arguing that we need mass immigration so that factories can pay people slave wages so we can have cheap stuff.  

Kz is over here unironically using all the same talking points Bernie bros use for raising the minimum wage to $15/hr. Hate to see it.

15 minutes ago, Kz! said:

Imagine how stupid you have to be to support Biden at this point.  

If they'd have just processed his asylum claim lickety split, he probably would have been helping that poor girl with her homework instead.

41 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Kz is over here unironically using all the same talking points Bernie bros use for raising the minimum wage to $15/hr. Hate to see it.

Yeah, I don't think we should mass import foreigners to suppress wages. I guess that makes me a Bernie bro.  

6 minutes ago, Kz! said:

Yeah, I don't think we should mass import foreigners to suppress wages. I guess that makes me a Bernie bro.  

It does, actually. Go look up Bernie's stances on immigration and I bet you'd be surprised. Didn't think I'd be the one to have to explain to you how the far-left were championing protectionism almost exclusively before Trump brought the curse of populism to the GOP, and yet here we are.