What they hate even more is that we’re splurging on living indoors with running water and flush toilets.
It wasn’t that long ago Faux was running stories about these uppity welfare recipients having refrigerators and cell phones, shocking I know
They know their audience. After all it’s hard to find “undesierabes” to look down on when their standard of living is alarmingly close to your own.
Did Lucille Bluth write that article?
US$5 hot rotisserie chicken from Costco is cheaper than a whole raw chicken from grocery outlet. In addition, I have to pay for the electricity and seasoning to cook the chicken.
yeah its one of the cheapest foods out there. are they splurging on rice and rice cookers too?
I have a rice cooker and they’re kinda overrated. Do I use it? Yes, but you can always boil water and make rice that way, or even microwaving rice with water can cook it.
Also rotisserie chicken lasts a long time when you break it apart, shred it and freeze it for future recipes. I love to make this Southwest Chicken Skillet from Budget Bytes. Its so filling and the family loves it, I add in sour cream and stir it in at the end.
oh I disagree. boiling water in a pot and you have to watch it but the rice cooke is set it and forget it. Rice cooker is the most often used gadget for us followed by the slow cooker.
Best thing in my house and the only appliance coming with on the move. I adore my lil rice cooker more than life itself.
Boil, rice in, lid on, low heat for 18 minutes, off for 8 minutes, lid off, fluff with fork. No watching. If you burn some, lower your “low”. If you’re getting crazy and making some basmati or rosematta you just look up how much time your new strain of rice needs. If you have an always-too-hot electric stove I’m sorry I lied; I’ve been there, and I would probably buy a rice cooker too.
Yeah it never works out that way for me for whatever reason although we do currently have electric this was with gas too. Rice cooker is load it and turn on. 30 minutes later hot meal. Always, every time, no further intevention and if you forget it and don’t come back for 45mins its in stay warm mode and is fine.
Yeah, but if you’re cooking a meal it’s pretty trivial to time your stove rice properly.
the rice is the meal. all the cooking is in the cooker. as I said in another one you don’t need to time it as it automatically goes into keep warm so you can be 10 or 20 minutes late.
I’m filipino, a simple rice maker is a staple in my household. We even have rice dispensers
Budget Bytes is incredible. I have a bunch of recipes from there that I make on the regular
I also make broth with the rotisserie scraps.
Personally, I like to buy crates of Bibigo rice bowls from CostCo. You just toss them into the microwave for a minute and thirty seconds, vio’la, you got carbs to go with whatever you pair it with.
Ah yes good old tens of thousands in debt and property costing ten times what it used to when boomers bought them, cost of living souring, wages not climbing, and of course it’s the cheap tasty chicken keeping the young folk from owning their own home. Yeeeesss. Great financial logic there, (checks notes) Wall Street Journal.
Hahaha! I will tell you, my own mother (70s) buys rotisserie chicken because it is cheaper per pound of meat than a raw chicken and is just as good or better than if she bought the same size chicken and roast it herself in her own oven. Something to know about my mom is she is frugal. She coupons, and will always seek out the best deal. Whoever wrote that WSJ article truly has no idea what it is to budget is what I see. Additionally, some of the neighborhoods that were listed, are some of the richest parts of NY, so of course people who have money will also go out and buy easy meals rather than spend time cooking.
The article also points out that grocery stores price rotisserie chicken at very aggressive prices because it’s a great way to get people to come into the store and walk past everything else in the hopes they’ll pick up some more items. So the stores know they’re selling them at a very low price, that’s an engagement model.
Yes, true on all points. Many people do not recognize when they are being sold to and also when they are being manipulated to spend more. I personally will never enter a store without a list of what I need. Then as I shop if I do see something that looks worth trying, I weigh whether it is worth the price. I am the exception rather than the rule though as a shopper :) I personally do not enjoy shopping, so I like to complete my list and get out.
Whoa, they’re loss-leaders? That’s good to know. I usually pass them up since I get better results at home but I appreciate that I’m not exactly pinching pennies to make the budget happen. I’ve been broke and/or between jobs before, so who knows? That is handy information.
Of course.
Rotisserie Chicken is a loss-leader. But that smell stimulates your appetite and gets you to buy more.
Plus you’re gonna want some high-margin foods to go with it. Maybe some veggies, potatoes. Box mash is a pain in the ass when the chicken is already cooked, may as well get the pre-made heat-and-eat stuff. It’s right here next to the chickens…
Plus if you get box mash you need to get milk and butter too…and walk nearly the entire rest of the store to get all three.
This is basic supermarket psychology.
Rotisserie Chicken is a loss-leader.
You come for the chicken but walk out with 5 gallons of avocado paste for your toast. That’s how they getcha.
TIL that people actually buy boxed mashed.
I used to have a bread machine and it came with a recipe for potato bread that used instant mash and it was so damn good.
I got rid of it after I gained like 100lbs. Still have the 100lbs but don’t have the bread.
That seems like a totally legit use of instant mashed. I just feel like I’ve never known anyone to make “mashed potatoes” from instant (maybe as a backpacking thing). Maybe there are people out there that are overthinking mashed? Super easy if you do just a few things right.
Wallstreet journal… is Microsoft stock going down again?
Eat slop and work harder, Serfs! Your CEO needs a new Bentley!
The rich and out of touch commenting on the poor. Seems to be the norm now.
the difference is: we read their crap, but they don’t read ours.
I don’t want them to read our stuff, our stuff may include plans such as pouring raw sewage into the intakes of their bunkers when shit goes side ways like they plan for.
pretty sure your boss is splurging human babies so shut the fuck up
Do they really not understand how a $5 chicken costs less than a house?
With just some grey click flooring and LED lights, one can move into a chicken.
I think they’re hating on genz and millenials because of boomer embaarrasment that they’ve handed them a world on fire.
Or it’s another tool to divide the working class.
You have more in common with normal people from other generations than you do with the wealthy!
Insult and injury on top: If you use EBT for food, you can’t buy warm food. Despite deli counter food often being fairly cheap, you aren’t allowed to enjoy a nice warm meal. You can’t buy a $10 baked pizza, 24 pieces of chicken for $26, or the $5 rotisserie. No, you must always homecook, with all the extra effort and time that requires.
EBT is good, but the richies obviously think that poverty is inherently a sin. The carrot is also a stick, and will be used to paddle the backside of people who aren’t “good” in the eyes of the wealthy.
Some places (Walmart being one) chill the ones that don’t sell for the next day and mark them down. And since they are no longer hot they are SNAP eligible.
$5 day old rotisserie chicken or $11 for an uncooked chicken and also prep and cooking costs.
It’s a dumb restriction that is based on flawed logic regarding what can be purchased.
Can’t buy a warm meal from a deli, but apparently sushi boxes are more than okay.
Not arguing one way or another, just highlighting how stupid the whole thing is.
Hey kids, did you know eating is bourgeoisie?
if they cant have chicken maybe they can eat the rich instead.
Rotisserie chicken is in some ways cheaper than raw chicken… and I know place where it is the case. Like is eating now a crime to these people?
Unless the raw whole chicken is on sale, I’ve never seen one cheaper than a cooked rotisserie one at a grocery store.
Existing While Poor is a crime to those people. It has always been.
I know this is preaching to the choir here, but that is so very out of touch for many/most/all of us.
Those things cost like $5 - $9 in my area, and you can even get the “old” ones for a couple dollars cheaper at times. It costs very little more than raw chicken, and in some cases, the rotisserie chickens cost less. Then you factor in time for cooking, clean-up, products for clean-up, and other time / material costs, and the difference comes out a wash.
So, they are apparently suggesting that having chicken in a meal at all is a splurge. Sure, in some idealistic world where we all eat a vegan diet to save the earth, that might fly. But in the real world, it’s literally insane propaganda to suggest that chicken is a splurge.
trying to make us feel privileged for struggling and eating chicken. fuck these fascist pedo ghouls.
These people writing these stories are probably ultra rich, and go to fine dining resteraunts. They probably pay $300 a meal for what you or I might pay $11 at the grocery store.
Then they think if THEY paid $300, then surely the non-privilaged must be paying $600. And they’re doing it several times a week! Such splurge!
Meanwhile we could buy these things every day for a month for what they pay for 1 meal. And the quality realistically can’t be all that much different. They probably assume they’re eating a chicken thats twice as good, at half the cost.
But they don’t know who we are! Say that name! Say it loud!!!
LEEEEEEEROOOOOYYYYYY
JEEEEEEEEENNNKKKKIIIIINNNNNSSSS!!!
Least we got chicken…
The rotisserie chicken is in fact often a loss leader for grocery stores.
Yes, though most of them use the chickens that are close to their sell-by date, so not a lot of loss,.
Also, below weight QC for raw chicken roasters
They know there’s going to be pushback and people hollering and shouting how out of touch they are for printing it.
They don’t care, they’re just seeding the public narrative, trying to get people used to seeing the message in media that they should expect less and be content without things.
It’s not how we feel about the article today, it’s about the kids and young people growing up seeing this message as normal.
It’s just rage bait. You don’t need to read into it any more than that
And “old” in this case means “cooked this morning”.
We are regressing back to “a chicken in every pot”.
And rotisserie chicken is tasty, filling because it’s high protein, and healthy/low calorie.
The Costco ones are brined in all kinds of chemicals.
The chemicals: water, salt, rice starch, sugar, vegetable oil, tetrapotassium pyrophosphate, sodium triphosphate
Nothing concerning in that list, although the last two sound scary when if don’t know what they are
Chemicals in this case is another one of those vague amorphous things to be scared of, right up until you know what it is… Could be anything really, baking soda, 5G mind control powder, dusted Bin Laden, your aunties fingernails.
Everything in the world is chemical, including all your natural GMO free organic foods, got that adenosine triphosphate, cellulose, chlorophyll, dihydrogen monoxide.
Gonna go around scaring people by telling them I’ve been buying skewered avian carcasses to eat instead of beef, and showing them a rotisserie chicken.
Or just get educated and look at the list of shit they put in the chicken. Your choice.
Costco chicken ingredients: chicken, water, salt, sodium phosphates, hydrolyzed casein, modified corn starch, sugar, dextrose, chicken broth, isolated soy protein lecithin, and mono-and-diglycerides.
salt, sodium phosphate, modified food starch, potato dextrin, carrageenan, sugar, dextrose, and undisclosed spice extractives.
tetrapotassium pyrophosphate
Used in instant puddings, seafood, poultry, and dairy products to improve texture, emulsion, and stability. It is used to enhance protein solubility and moisture retention in pet food.
Functions as a cleaner and dispersant in paint, textiles, and water treatment. It acts as a surfactant in detergents.
While generally considered safe in low concentrations for food, it can cause skin and eye irritation.
Sodium Triphosphate: Industrial Uses: Primarily used in detergents to soften water, in water treatment, and as a stabilizer in industrial processes. Food Industry: Used in processed foods to improve texture, act as an emulsifier, and retain moisture in seafood (e.g., shrimp).
Why not just roast a chicken with some herbs, I can definitely taste that shit.
I can also add, as a vegetarian myself, a vegan diet is nowhere near as cheap.
Unless you have the ability to grow all your own produce and protein, vegans are spending just as much if not more for those calories/proteins.
You’ll save on medical bills in the long run. Meat eaters get far more chronic diseases
Well, you can live on rice and beans pretty well, and simple salad is cheap. But yes, I agree. Vegans pay more than vegetarians, because milk and eggs are cheap.
