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To be fair, avocado toast is an actual scam and can be made home for cheap, while rotisserie chicken is legitimately expensive rn no matter how you get it.
But also, it's still a lie. None of us that aren't rich douchebags are "splurging" on food ๐
How is rotisserie chicken expensive? It's a loss leader and one of the cheapest proteins you can find.
Last time I checked a whole chicken was like 10-15โฌ or something (and I was at a discount store, so that's a low estimate). That sounds real expensive to me, my meals only cost me around 1โฌ each usually. And I'm pretty sure you can't stretch a single rotisserie chicken across 10-15 meals ?
To be fair, I have never bought or eaten meat as an adult, so I have no frame of reference for its price.
They are like $5 near me. A regular chicken costs about what you said. But these are loss leaders to drive people in the door. A rotisserie chicken lasts me about 6 meals so its insanely cheap.
Ah, I see. You need to do research here, man. There's a specific situation you're not aware of.
These roast chooks are cheaper than fresh raw ones because they make them from fresh ones that are about to pass their use-by date. So, even though it seems like it makes no sense, it is actually true that a cooked chicken from the deli costs less than one you have to cook yourself.
Rotisserie chicken is cheaper than a raw roasting chicken that you you need to make the same thing at home.
Rotisserie chickn $13.99, uncooked roaster is $23
pictured: currently $6.47 at a local store (in Austin)
Yeah.. American prices haven't caught up with the rest of the world yet. As much as Trump has done to destroy your economy you're still not paying anywhere near the price of things elsewhere. Going to take more loss of power for the US dollar for things to align.
But, I'll bet that's still cheaper than a whole chicken, raw.. Right?
Exactly what I though. Good luck trying to find a whole entire chicken for 6.45โฌ anywhere in the EU ; last time I checked LIDL, the cheapest they had was a little over 10โฌ
Yeah they're cheaper than raw chickens. The store tends to buy too much chicken and some expires and would have to be thrown out... Or they can roast it right away. It's kind of a famous economic parable at this point.
Also, it sounds like Trump is just destroying our economy less than your guys are lmao.
I didn't know they sold it for this cheap. But does that price include taxes ? Still a little pricey IMO, but tolerable (only if taxes are included).
$13.99 is a very high price for something that gets you 2 days worth of meal tops. Maybe I'm just a cheapskate though ?
2 days? My friend, you are not making soup properly. ๐
You make SOUP with chicken !? Man, I really have no idea what carnivores are actually eating x)
In what universe is rotisserie chicken expensive? Like, unless you exclusively eat grains, potatoes, carrots and beans, there's essentially nothing cheaper, chicken is by far the cheapest animal protein in most of the world.
I do exclusively eat grains, potatoes, carrots, and beans ! (and other vegetables, fruits, and legumes)
Eating even the cheapest chicken I could find at LIDL (a little over 10โฌ) would at least triple my food budget.
I think also Americans live in a different world pricing-wise, I have seen some people respond to me with some prices I didn't think existed.
So I guess the universe where it is expensive is called "Europe".
Ok, so then say "eating chicken is immoral", not "eating chicken is expensive" if you're vegetarian, and don't play dishonest arguments using price.
If you buy bell peppers in an EU supermarket they hover around the 4โฌ/kg, which is very similar to the prices of whole chicken. Rotisserie is marginally more expensive per kilo, because it's one of those convenience items that supermarkets don't sell for a profit but for convenience to attract clients. Local supermarkets such as Mercadona sell rotisserie chicken de-boned for 6โฌ-ish/kg.
This post is not about vegetarianism and its morality (which I support), it's about the literal cheapest meat being considered a luxury. 6.5โฌ per kilo for a cooked meal is literally some of the most affordable you can find, try feeding 2-3 people without cooking yourself. Do you consider strawberries (5โฌ/kg at cheapest) a luxury?
Eating chicken IS expensive ! It also happens to be immoral, but that's not relevant here. Vegan is cheaper unless you live in some sort of hellscape where only hyper-processed food is available.
It really depends where you live. Strawberries should be a luxury in places they don't grow locally ; I can't give a worldwide opinion on the price of strawberries.
Fruit in general should not be a luxury, but fruit from far away or fruit that require a lot of resources to grow should be.
I did not argue whether vegan is cheaper, I argued that chicken is not expensive. 4โฌ/kg raw and 6.5โฌ/kg cooked for European prices is not expensive food, end of the story, you really cannot honestly argue against that. If you're seriously arguing that, you should apply for a job at the Wall Street Journal, you'd be a wonderful corporate lackey and worker basher.