Or should I be really pleased - that I couldn't buy my usual free-range organic chicken today because of Hugh snog-anyone Whittingstall and Jamie fat-tongue Oliver....

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Waitrose was CLEANED OUT of free range chickens

I had to buy bits not a whole one

And all the normal chickens were left behind

Good really isn't it, but I bet it doesn't last.

I love late night Mumsnet. Better and funnier then any porn I've seen

what is all this about free range chickens and fat tongued mockeny ginger boy? What is he on his high horse about now?

I can name drop about BOTH the people in the title of this post: I used to supply food to the cafe at Gallery Westland Place in EC1, number 15 Westland Place, and one day Hugh FW came in while I was delivering and then not long after Jamie bought the building and turned it into 15. How's that for a namedrop?

Well I wanted a chicken because I had planned to have for supper, then leftovers with cous cous for dinner tonight and make soup for lunch for rest of week and dd's supper a couple of nights

grrrrr

I don't buy it every week, no

I at least try to buy one every week

Well I never buy chicken because it's too expensive but watching all these programmes made me crave a nice roast dinner so this week I bought my first bird in years...maybe that's why they're all gone. Have to say I didn't buy free range though......

Twinklemegan well said!
like someone said in another thread, how can someone think it's okay to pay 4 quid for a pint of beer and 2.5 for a whole chicken is beyond me.

Twinklemegan well said!
like someone said in another thread, how can someone think it's okay to pay 4 quid for a pint of beer and 2.5 for a whole chicken is beyond me.

who has HFW snogged?

what is this reputation he has got?

He is good mate of a mate
He is well known for snogging allegedly

He has snogged dd's godmother and countless others (presumably before he was married)

At least his tongue is a normal size
Imagine snogging oliver
Would be like this

My Tesco was all out of free range chickens on Saturday too. I hadn't thought to connect this with the TV programme, but I guess that is the explanation. Fantastic! (Except that I had to buy lamb.)

Hope the effect continues.

They didn;t have ant FR chicks in the butchers on friday, but wasn't buying one anyway, just happened to notice. We had greek salad fro lunch yesterday, because I couldn;t be arsed to cook

FWIW, I wouldn;t buy free range (or organic for that matter) chickens or eggs from a supermarket, because it's all a load of bolleux. Organic chickens are allowed up to 15% non organic feed (so therefore they aren't organic in my eyes) and I have seen with my own eyes what constitutes "free range" and it ain;t nice

I think Waitrose are ok on both scores actually, but I can't bear Waitrose in Bath because it's always rammed to the gills with old gimmers and ignorant brayers. We need Ocado here, but they surprisingly don;t deliver round here. God knows why not, they'd make a killing!

I don't have any faith in the 'organic' tag anymore. But I'm depressed to hear from you that the 'free-range' conditions of supermarket birds aren't goo. I'll have to start shopping for meat at a local butcher. Always intend to do this; never succeeed.

That should be 'aren't good'. Sadly, they probably are 'goo'.

I have always liked hugh but these snogging revelations have made me like him even more.

Friend of mine is a food safety officer for the local council and has to visit these sorts of places. I went with him once when I was writing an article for a shitty mag about organic food, it was hoorible

He tells me little has improved since (it was about 7 years ago)

go to the local butcher.. i did and it was a revelation.... £3.99 for a 3.5 pound locally reared free range chicken

organic chicken farms are RAT INFESTED cos they can't put down any poison to get rid of them.

agree meat is a luxury we have a good quality happy life chicken maybe once a fornight.

Agree butchers are much better and cheaper (ours in;t, as it it poncetastic organic butcher, but use one t'other side of the river, and it's good)

Twinklemegan and StarlightMcKenzie are absolutely right.

Chicken (or any meat) shouldn't be seen as something dirt cheap that we buy twice a week or whatever. For most people it's about priorities - could you give up a bottle of wine or a pint of beer now and then to trade up to a better-quality chicken. Or have meat less often but better meat - we only eat meat a couple of times a week but have great, tasty meat. Better than unethical, low-grade, tasteless meat every day.

We don't really buy chicken any more because we 'grow' our own, but yes I have paid up to £18 for an organic chicken. But it was a big bird that made 5 delicious meals for a family of 5 so I think it was worth it. And we offset the cost of meals like that with loads of inexpensive meals, gorgeous lentils and the like.

We rarely drink, live modestly in most ways, don't have satellite TV, spend approx £10 a year on mobile phones, but we do give priority to good-quality, ethically-produced food.

When I was growing up chicken was a treat. We certainly didn't have it every Sunday. But somehow it has become so cheap and nasty and almost disposable - like the woman on Hugh's programme who bought 2 chickens, one for her one for the dog, or the woman who took the breast meat off a roast chicken and chucked the rest. Something's just not right if that's how we regard meat.

SheikYerbouti please tell me more about this not good free-range/organic chickens in suoermarket pls. I need a big kick in the butt to stop being lazy and buy meat and fish from supermarket and start going to local butcher/fishmionger (how do you know they are the business?).

CD ,,Would rather snog that cow than jh!
free range for moi too, expensive but worth it, and whoever said meat is a luxury is correct, we dont expect it every night either. I was thinknig of ordering good food vegetarian for some inspired ideas ,, is it any good?

I don't see what is so nasty about Jamie Oliver's tongue

I mean he is a bit young and, well, blond for me but I don't see why he should be maligned

i listened to Richard Corrigan this morning on the radio, he has restaurant in london but also Lyons demense in Ireland and he can buy his nearly 80 day old chickens for 7.50 euro direct from the farm just "up the road" as he says.

whereas I will have to pay 10stg if i shop north in sainsburys or maybe 15/17 euro in my locality.

why cant we all go direct to the farm?