On a slightly OT note, I was horrified at the Hugh Fiercely-Eatsitall chicken programme last night. Not so much at the intensive chicken rearing, I had a pretty good idea about that already, although it did make me resolve to only buy free range meat from now on, and eat less of it if I had to to afford it... But at one point, he set out to show a bunch of consumers how to make a second meal out of a roast chicken, and they were amazed at the amount of meat that came off the bone, and the stock made from the carcass. They didn't even realise there was meat 'underneath' the chicken (the other side to the breast). How have people become so sheer unobservant?
When my sister and I were teenagers, one chicken fed us family of four for three meals - 12 portions off one bird. The bird was pulled apart as soon as it was cooked (mewat comes off easier hot) and the sliced roast breast eaten on Sunday, then the meat pulled off the carcass, combined with veg or a white sauce made a pasta dish or risotto for the next two days. And the carcass made stock for soup later.
As for the obese woman whining on about not being able to afford extra for free range, how H F-W stopped himself from suggesting she economise on chips and biscuits instead, I don't know.... If she really doesn't care, fair enough, but to hide behind 'poverty', when you are plainly eating too much every day, that's dishonest...
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