Not The Onion

20382 readers

1478 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

305

The Wall Street Journal Gets Community Noted For Saying Gen Zers And Millennials Are 'Splurging On Rotisserie Chickens' (offthefrontpage.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

55 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 25 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's a loss leader. It's up there with milk and eggs in terms of standard grocery items that are cheaper than they should be.

[–] pohart@programming.dev 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is kind of true, but a little misleading. They sell it at a loss because it was about to expire. If it's reaching the sell-by date. They cook it and sell it as a rotisserie chicken to recoup the losses. They're usually only selling it at a loss because that's the alternative to throwing it out.

[–] faythofdragons@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago

Which is why it's extra bullshit that you can't use food stamps to buy them. How dare people want to stretch their food budgets, right?