Comments on: Boob Jobs for Chickens http://www.endlesssimmer.com/2009/08/19/boob-jobs-for-chickens/ - recipes, restaurants, food travel and everything edible Wed, 22 May 2013 20:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lizahttp://www.endlesssimmer.com/2009/08/19/boob-jobs-for-chickens/comment-page-1/#comment-52585 Liza Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:01:36 +0000 http://www.endlesssimmer.com/?p=6972#comment-52585 Don’t get me wrong, I have a love affair with salt, and thank you Maids for pointing out what I should have made clearer.

]]> By: Summerhttp://www.endlesssimmer.com/2009/08/19/boob-jobs-for-chickens/comment-page-1/#comment-52580 Summer Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:52:10 +0000 http://www.endlesssimmer.com/?p=6972#comment-52580 They inject the chickens while they’re alive? Ok, that is gross.

(It’s still not salt’s fault.)

]]> By: Maidshttp://www.endlesssimmer.com/2009/08/19/boob-jobs-for-chickens/comment-page-1/#comment-52579 Maids Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:49:45 +0000 http://www.endlesssimmer.com/?p=6972#comment-52579 @ladyloo – unfortunately not in the U.S., if the chickens are injected with the water and salt before they kick the bucket, the company can sell the chickens as weighty birds without having to divulge they’ve plumped the chickens with salt, water, and other unnecessary additives. After all the plumping I understand the chickens can only slither along on their bellies. Cruelty toward animals we consume seems to have become a specialty. I’m disgusted by this.

]]> By: ladyloohttp://www.endlesssimmer.com/2009/08/19/boob-jobs-for-chickens/comment-page-1/#comment-52576 ladyloo Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:28:17 +0000 http://www.endlesssimmer.com/?p=6972#comment-52576 I agree with Summer. Add salt water to poultry meat is hardly gross (unlike some other parts of poultry processing). And I believe that chicken with water content has to be labeled as such, doesn’t it?

]]> By: Summerhttp://www.endlesssimmer.com/2009/08/19/boob-jobs-for-chickens/comment-page-1/#comment-52574 Summer Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:04:58 +0000 http://www.endlesssimmer.com/?p=6972#comment-52574 I’m not particularly distressed by this. Essentially, the chicken processors are replicating the effects of brining the chicken, which is an ancient and honorable technique.

Would I rather pay less for the chicken, take it home and brine it myself? Yes, certainly. But I don’t think it’s gross, and I think that figure of 700% is deliberately misleading. That just means that the meat has 7 times more salt than an unseasoned, unprocessed piece of chicken. How much saltier is a potato chip than a raw potato? I bet it’s more than 700%.

I’m not being an apologist for the chicken-industrial complex; they do perpetrate a lot of horror and nastiness. I’m standing up for salt. Salt is not the enemy. Salt is what makes good things delicious.

]]> By: BShttp://www.endlesssimmer.com/2009/08/19/boob-jobs-for-chickens/comment-page-1/#comment-52570 BS Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:43:49 +0000 http://www.endlesssimmer.com/?p=6972#comment-52570 UGH. Good job drawing a parallel between this and ‘Real Housewives.’ Both make me lose my faith in humanity.

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