OMG the Mumsnet chicken is real!

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A FB page I’m on recently showed some medium chickens on offer at a supermarket. Apparently this ‘medium’ chicken feeds up to 8.

As you can imagine there were lots of comments. One woman reckons it fed 3 adults, 2 teenagers and had a whole breast left over for sandwiches!

there was a comment about it obviously being a Mumsnet chicken!

Problem is supermarket chickens aren't really the Mumsnet chicken. Boiling the bones doesn't give you much.

A chicken with the properly developed legs from the butchers is the Mumsnet chicken.

I thought a Mumsnet chicken fed 15 people for a month?

well technically they are not wrong. I’ve read “Up to 8” as “no matter what you are doing and how many of them are children you won’t be able to feed more than 8” which is fine by me as there are only 3 of us. 🙂
I have 2 of these medium chickens in my fridge and plan to feed us for 4 days.
Might get an extra one portion for freezing.

I reared my own chickens once - they really were mumsnet chickens and fed our family of 5 3 full meals.

So, the chicken provided 5 adult sized meals, with a breast leftover, which could make a couple of sandwiches. The chicken said it fed up to 8 people and it looks like they got 8 portions out of it so hardly the MN chicken!

The mumsnet chicken.

Yeah, but these chickens are not a size to realistically feed that many. It would have fed 4 adults in this house hold, a leg or breast each with bits left over. I do not know how they could feed 5 and have a whole breast left over.

Anyway this amusing thread got dire very quickly.

When I was young there uses to be breed available everywhere quite cheaply which was the perfect mumsnet chicken. The size of the whole chicken was something. Fed 4 of us with quite a lot left over.
This made me google it and it is between 2.5-3kg. Still available there (not uk) but became bit pricier now. Standard chicken in supermarket here is quite smaller. Large chicken is advertised as at around 1.5-1.9 kg generally. And then my mum wonders why I can't do "mumsnet" chicken like she used to do😂

It also depends how much meat you like. I only like a bit, it comes in 5th after roast pots, cauliflower cheese, yorkshires and gravy. And is really equal to peas, broccoli and cranberry sauce. Its only got parsnips and stuffing beneath it.

It was many, many years ago but Jesus fed thousands on five loaves and two chickens.
I think.

A whole breast each is a lot, we tend to have 2/3 slices each and those with big appetites will have a leg too, but as a roast dinner is made up of so many other bits it’s easy to make the meat stretch to a couple of meals

It was during a fad on here when the trend was being more conscious about food. Mumsnet goes through fads...along with everyone else.
People became very virtuous and full of themselves regarding how economical and healthy cooking from scratch is. It was the hot topic for a while.
There was a lot of haughtiness and self-congratulation surrounding the fabled chicken and other associated food chat.

Anyway, we're on to hating dogs and cyclists now.

I thought it was 30 people for a year?

Yeah but people were smaller back then.

They feed 8 when 4 are vegetarian

The description usually involves the "mother" just having a wing ie two bites.

Yawn. You do know that making a chicken last more than one meal predates Mumsnet by decades, if not centuries. The last couple of decades where people started to think it was normal to eat loads of meat was a blip.

I've just put a kilo of pork shoulder in the slow cooker. It will do us a roast later today, with the leftovers doing tacos and sandwiches. There might even be some for the freezer (there is only 2 of us). I'm also making pork scratchings with the skin and rendering the fat for future potato roasting.

We have a medium chicken most Sundays to feed six, all adults and teens, and have some left over. We need at least 1.2kg as a joint of beef or pork to do the same thing.

It’s a roast dinner though so our portions would naturally be smaller because of everything else on the plate. No one is having a whole chicken breast! We might do that with other meals but the roast dinner has Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, some other kind of roast vegetable like carrots or parsnips, three vegetable side dishes, gravy, apple sauce, mint and cranberry, and then there is a good solid pudding like sticky toffee or crumble.

Smaller or just very far away?

I have noticed that the chickens are getting smaller - I haven’t found a 2.1kg in a long time and even the 1.8kg are rare now. So the chances of stretching it are getting smaller.

You sure you were rearing chickens and not Ostriches?

The aroma of a roasting chicken is enough to sustain most MNers.