About chicken in Sainsbury’s?

[mycatislickingherpaw]

Sent the in-laws to get a chicken carcass to make broth. Didn’t know if they would get one but they were going to Sainsbury’s anyway so I asked them to ask. Usually I get a whole chicken and then make broth but this time I wasn’t planning to eat chicken first.
Anyway, they came back with the carcass but also with half the chicken meat still attached. I’m shocked. Does it mean that every time we buy breasts or whatever other part so much chicken gets thrown away?
This is absolutely unforgivable! For the chicken, for the waste in general, and for the people who can’t afford to buy it but aren’t given it for free.
I’m going to buy more whole chicken from now on, please do the same.

I very much doubt it gets thrown away!

What do you mean?

In large production settings isn’t it blasted off with water at night pressure and then used in cheaper nuggets etc? I think it’s called something like mechanically recovered or separated meat?

You can get a chicken carcass in Sainsbury’s? How much are they?

I didn't realise you could get a chicken carcass in Sainsburys, they don't advertise it.

Please elaborate on how you get a carcass please!

Butchers on site. 99p

So you are saying they sold it to me but otherwise they are going to use them for chicken nuggets? Could make sense. I wonder why they sold it to me in that case though?
When I bought them in independent butchers they had much, much less meat left on. I was expecting something like that but this one had plenty all over. Almost couldn’t see the bones in many areas because of the meat on top!

Raw one

I had no idea this was possible in supermarkets, I assumed they got the chicken ready portioned even if they have an in store butcher.

I can’t get past, “sent the in-laws to get a chicken carcass”

I can’t even get mine to send me a birthday card.

😂😂😂
Then I should consider myself fortunate!

It’s zero to landfill at sainos.

If I had to guess I'd say

Pre packaged - hey use all the chicken, bigger bits, smaller ones for mince, leftover bits for processing like nuggets and carcass for stocks

In a supermarket butchers department they will use what they're asked for. If no one asks for wings or thighs and people just ask for chicken breasts then yeah they will throw the thighs away. It's not worth he money for individual locations to send somewhere else to make nuggets etc and they wont make them on site so what else should they do with them?

Oh, ok, so it’s not that they do the cutting and packaging there at the butchers and put it out in the fridges themselves? Not at all?

In other words, if I keep buying prepackaged breasts then I shouldn’t be complicit in this ‘let’s throw away so much chicken’ behaviour. Correct?

My heart sank when I saw the ‘carcass’.

Flashback to an old thread/insult... YOU'RE THE CARCASS!!

I missed that one!!

You can buy 2 breasts for a similar price to an entire chicken so YABU to be surprised that you can get the rest of the chicken except the breast to next to nothing.

However if you want breasts and carcass, then just buy a carcass and butcher it yourself. It's all in YouTube if you aren't sure what to do. Bonus is that you get the legs and thighs for pretty much nothing.

I used to work in Sainsbury's cafe and we'd throw out alot of bakery goods etc every day. So I can imagine it's the same on the counters. Staff can't even buy it for a reduced price, it's "stealing"🙄

Unless it's changed, this was 4 years ago.

This is absolutely unforgivable! For the chicken, for the waste in general, and for the people who can’t afford to buy it but aren’t given it for free.

I don’t imagine that the chicken feels any better about being butchered just because all of the meat gets used.

It wasn't actually a waste though because you bought it.

Its difficult to say really because we would need to see a picture of the chicken. Maybe the butcher was confused by someone buying a carcass and so just have them a fairly meaty one

I thought a lot of it went into chicken nuggets, soup etc. There's a lot of things that involve chicken stock, maybe the carcasses get involved in that? Who knows

Boiled chicken carcass tastes of water.
Get some decent stock/bouillon.

Barbara you missed my point entirely. Doesn’t matter.

Weasel that’s appalling, I’m really sorry to hear that.

Vivienne, if I buy (and therefore kill) an animal for food I want to make sure that I eat everything I can. The chicken is dead and couldn’t care less but I do. Waste is why we are in this awful situation.

Bluecornish, I hope so but given what Weasel said I don’t expect that that is true. The butcher didn’t do it on the spot, he just grabbed one already done. So he could not have been confused by my request. Plus god knows how many he had already, so me buying one can’t have made much of a difference.

Maras, chicken carcass is one of the ingredients for stock. The main ingredient for bouillon is salt. No thank you!

The butcher counter doesn't package the meat to put on shelves, that kind of stuff is done off site . They would never be able to keep up with such high volume.