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.
I was OOTL on this one and had to search for it. The article is kind of hard to find, but I was very amused by the fact that there apparently is another article from the WSJ that essentially nullifies the entire claim of rotisserie chicken being a “splurge”.
Pfft, stupid millenials and gen z wasting all of their monies on fancy rotiserrie chickens and non processed fresh food. If they just lived on a starvation diet, they could afford their rent and insurance. They are just bad with money.
But wages have never had more buying power! The CPI and inflation adjusted numbers say so, and although we’ve changed the way it’s counted to understate it, 2-3% from 5-8% under the old unimproved metric for the last half century, just by 2008, you can totally trust we wouldn’t in bad faith understate the numbers to give every worker, every retiree, and every fixed income a pay cut every year automatically, and transferring that money to investors in gate keeping corporations. /s
I thought they were saying they had a new fettish
I never bought rotisserie chicken because they were cheap to the point of being suspicious (i.e. what sort of corners are they cutting).
Sort of the opposite of what I would consider a “splurge.”
They go bad quickly. If you leave one in a hot car, it gets funky like in one afternoon. Which if you cooked your own chicken and left it in the car it wouldn’t, which is odd.
They take chickens that are on the sale by date and cook them. At least when I worked deli! So maybe not the nicest chickens but all fine!
I remember working on the deli when we’d markdown the chickens. Folks knew when we put them out and how long we waited before doing it. There was generally a little crowd of 2 to 3 folks when we’d do it on the weekend. Sometimes they’d get impatient and ask us if we were gonna come do it. Which, to be honest, I don’t really blame them. I don’t remember how much of a savings it was but it was significant. It’s sort of like “hey buddy, let’s stop the charade, I need to get going, can you come mark these down a few minutes early?”
(i.e. what sort of corners are they cutting)
In case you really want to know:
TL;DR: Rotisserie chickens are smaller on average and price per pound usually more expensive except at stores like Costco. So you see similar numbers but don’t notice the size.
Yeah I just want to know what grocery store food Wall Street journal is going to call Gen Alpha privileged for eating. Store brand hummus? Whole wheat bread?
organic artisnal bread, non gmo, single source, fair traded,yadayaday.
Hummus?? BROWN bread?? thats rich people food
These rich fucks would complain if you were left nothing but dirt to eat and got an extra grub in a mouthful.
It’s one rotisserie chicken, Michael. How much could it cost, fifty dollars?
If saving 5 bucks on your grocery bill is the thing that keeps your head above water… you’re probably already deep enough to meet the ghost of that OceanGate CEO.
Rotisserie chicken, used for burritos, can make lunch for the work week.
“Gets Community Noted” is such an awkward turn of phrase.
Having not yet read the article, I still have no idea what it’s supposed to mean. I mean, I can guess in a general sense. But it is a weird phrase that I have never heard before.
“Get noted, losers”
I’m going to say that every day when I leave the office
A personal favorite of mine is “stay fresh, meatbags”
I’m thinking of adapting it to Half-Baked. “Get noted, get noted, get noted, you’re cool, get noted. I’m out!”
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.
We are regressing back to “a chicken in every pot”.
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 $600. And they’re doing it several times a week! Such splurge!
Meanwhile we could buy these things every day for a month for what they pay for 1 meal. And the quality realistically can’t be all that much different. They probably assume they’re eating a chicken thats twice as good, at half the cost.
But they don’t know who we are! Say that name! Say it loud!!!
LEEEEEEEROOOOOYYYYYY
JEEEEEEEEENNNKKKKIIIIINNNNNSSSS!!!
Least we got chicken…
The rotisserie chicken is in fact often a loss leader for grocery stores.
They know there’s going to be pushback and people hollering and shouting how out of touch they are for printing it.
They don’t care, they’re just seeding the public narrative, trying to get people used to seeing the message in media that they should expect less and be content without things.
It’s not how we feel about the article today, it’s about the kids and young people growing up seeing this message as normal.
It’s just rage bait. You don’t need to read into it any more than that
And “old” in this case means “cooked this morning”.
I can also add, as a vegetarian myself, a vegan diet is nowhere near as cheap.
Unless you have the ability to grow all your own produce and protein, vegans are spending just as much if not more for those calories/proteins.
Well, you can live on rice and beans pretty well, and simple salad is cheap. But yes, I agree. Vegans pay more than vegetarians, because milk and eggs are cheap.
WSJ is absolutely on the money here. We shouldn’t be eating rotisserie chickens with all of these plump billionaires to feast on.
If you cook them down enough you can make Boullionaire
Maybe a nice billiongnese sauce.
Billionaires are just a type of chicken.
Anything more than a chicken tender, piece of broccoli and a small tortilla, is gluttony I say!
I don’t know, I think you should be able to eat another thing. Maybe one other thing.
Shouldn’t you be eating gruel , peasant?
When I splurge, I buy hamburger at 9$ a lb.
