Did Clint Eastwood just define a generation?

[CavLancer]

There will always be a meta-game and PC will always belong to the meta-game. The core real-game part is, let's be good to one another. Unfortunately the language we use to be good gets co-opted by the bad guys to be bad, so if they pollute some words, we naturally glide over to some different words. It's not about complaining, although someone somewhere will always be.

Always is a long time. Sooner or later Hygro some bug is going to go airborne, or the Cascadia fault will go off, or Yellowstone or friggin Neptune will crash into the Earth and give folks something more interesting to get their panties into a twist about, and this stuff which so many see as important will be forgotten.

 

[metalhead]

It's really important that we learn about our past from those who can still remember it. To know that the average chicken was tastier is incredibly valuable. If we shout that guy down because concurrently to tasty chicken there was evil in the world, maybe next time that guy will shut up and not tell us his history. That right there would be a travesty.

Are we really going to rely on some guy's memory with regards to the flavor of chicken?

 

[CavLancer]

No need mh, if you go to a country aka '3rd world' where chickens feed themselves on normal chicken food, and eat one, you too will know the demise of the 1st world chicken.

 

[Narz]

Burgers and chicken tasted better. Tasted like beef and chicken. These days they grow too fast to taste like anything much, and they slaughter them a couple days before the explosions start.

Got nothing against young folks, isn't easy to be young.

Buy organic and free-range (or raise your own). It's well known that topsoil and thus food has declined in quality. That's why everything has to be "enriched" nowadays.

 

[CavLancer]

I think the stuff is in the feed. Takes a fair amount of land to raise a 'free range' chicken on bugs alone. Less in the tropics perhaps because we have more than our fair share...

 

[Hygro]

A friend of mine has family with a farm in the Philippines. He says the produce is much, much tastier.

 

[CavLancer]

Yup, called "country chickens". What island?

 

[Hygro]

Somewhere in the middle. Can't remember.

 

[jackelgull]

Always is a long time. Sooner or later Hygro some bug is going to go airborne, or the Cascadia fault will go off, or Yellowstone or friggin Neptune will crash into the Earth and give folks something more interesting to get their panties into a twist about, and this stuff which so many see as important will be forgotten.

So what? The universe will end in heat death anyways, and human civilization will eventually crumble. That doesn't change the fact that right now, there's something worth being angry about.

 

[CavLancer]

By all means, do not pass up the opportunity.

 

[metalhead]

There seems to be a pretty big misconception here.

Sure, the sweatshop chicken, beef, and eggs that we produce here for the masses don't taste as good as what you'd get out of the free range, better fed chickens of yore. But we have those chickens here too. The sweatshop kind are raised so that people of modest means can still afford to buy meat. Now, whether that is an ecologically responsible goal is another story, but of course the meat you find in your local supermarket is going to be inferior to what they have on a farm in the Philippines. They are being produced under different conditions, and for wholly different purposes. Comparing the two is not really a fair comparison.

 

[CavLancer]

Country chickens raised by country folk are not more expensive that I'm aware of, its just what they have. Not too many chickens in the city, they sell frozen chickens from I dunno where.

 

[metalhead]

If you go to a market selling "country chicken," it is going to be way more expensive than the sweatshop stuff you get at the supermarket.

 

[rah]

Not if you're out in the country

 

[Farm Boy]

Depends. Cheaper, perhaps, if you get it straight from a producer you know or at a seasonal market. If you need to go to the grocery, it's usually a safe bet you're going to pay more for everything food related. I'd be surprised if most small town/country stores can actually get product on their shelves for the same price you can take them off in a metro area.

 

[CavLancer]

In the US, unless you or someone in your family raises and slaughters chickens themselves, its likely you will get a factory chicken. Even if you live in the country and buy chicken feed its likely you will get the chemicals to max size. The whole place is like a factory. If you get country chickens here they're live birds. Some I suppose have had feed. They are not big plump birds, and that is a downside, but they do taste like chicken.

Hygro, we are also in the middle here.

 

[NovaKart]

I live in a developing country and I honestly don't taste the difference. Maybe people are assuming all chickens in developing countries are free range or something.

 

[CavLancer]

Oh? Who? As for myself I've been saying that the stuff is in the food. only chickens anywhere that don't eat the industrial chicken food with all the hormones or whatever are going to taste better. I remember some years ago going from here to the US, going to KFC and getting a chicken breast sandwich, a huge one, and expecting a huge, delicious chunk of chicken, and it was completely disappointed. So much so that I've never forgotten it. I think the worst food is in the US where the chicken is that tasteless. Europe is likely not that bad as their meat has more controls.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Here, all the local tasty animals are kept in tiny cages in fenced off property. They're fed garbage and live miserable and tortured lives. I really don't see how it's any different than an industrial farm.

I think they do taste much better than anything from an assembly line food franchise.

But it's mostly because people who cook at home use better ingredients and are simply much better at it.

 

[CavLancer]

KFC here is actually pretty tasty. Dunno why, maybe their animals don't get as much stuff. Certainly the chickens are smaller which is a good indicator of how much crap they get I'd assume.