Foul fowl

[lady_*nix]

Anyone else notice chicken being spoiled right out of the packaging really often lately? I'd say 70% of the time I've bought it this summer - both in person and by grocery order - it has failed the sniff test (often badly) despite being very fresh by the label. Same for ground turkey. I'm having to lean more vegetarian just from how reliably spoiled chicken is.

I've heard this may be from COVID induced supply chain problems, but I definitely didn't see this early in the pandemic, so... Not idea what is going on.

[Rommie]

No, I can't say we're having this problem. Which chain, and are you going to the same location?

[lady_*nix]

All local grocery chains I've tried (Roche Bros, Big Y, Star, Market Basket), and all brands of fresh poultry (Perdue, Hillshire Farms, Jenny-O, Bell&Evans, store brands...)

The only reliably good poultry products I've been able to find lately have been from locally sourced and slaughtered birds (e.g. Nubian Market which sources to a local farm), or pre-frozen stuff from outside the local supply chain (e.g. Bubba Burgers). Everything else has been rotten a large and increasing percentage of the time.

This is also with three different refrigerators (my old place in Roxbury, my mom's place, and the new apartment in Somerville). All of which do a fine job with other perishables, including fish. So I don't think it's the fridges.

[Thumper]

So I haven't eaten chicken in like 30 years. Mrs. T has read some books and swears that whoever reads them would never eat chicken again (the even "good" chicken is terrible for you and will kill you argument.) My boss eats a steady supply of chicken and salmon and has had no real issues. I think most of his chicken is locally sourced. Obviously, the salmon is not, in Ohio.