Wow, it's a good job people don't sterotype or generalise on these forums, isn't it? I don't protest about anything, I don't go on any greenpeace forums, I just buy free range and I don't think this is a good deal, and don't want to be insulted. That's all and fair enough, I think.

Hot. Cant even buy uncooked for that price.:w00t:
But dont worry you'll soon see some idiot complaining how its not free range

Wow .....moved on a bit but still a lot of comments that lead me to belive its better to just go and buy the chicken and not debate it as at least then you dont have to put up with those people who I can only equate to:
Those paid for charity canvesars who accost you for a direct debit so they walk away with 30 pieces of silver for whatever charity is paying them the most to be champions of their cause.

Which is also why there are lots of comments about people buying them, the queues in tesco and them being sold out all the time. So many like minded people like you :roll: or is it just 3-4 trolls:whistling:

Actually I feed the dog on cooked chicken. White meat is very easy to digest for an old dog.

I resent having to boil my own chicken for £2.70 when they are selling them ready cooked for £2. But there you go.

Hilarious thread! Dumb ar** british as usual.

Sounds like something from the Chuckle Brothers.

Somebody throw me a bone. lol

It's best just to remember that animals don't have rights. They're purely bred for food and as amusing pets.

only the idiotic english would be arguing the toss over a cooked whole chicken sold for £2


serious you lot are unbelievable.......whinging poms


always gotta find something to moan about ......

Animal welfare relies on human morality. Fortunately most people in civilized society understand the difference between right and wrong and causing unnecessary suffering to an animal is wrong.

Could we all afford to eat meat without intensively reared chickens? Yes.

Do you actually make the connection between animal welfare and stuffing your fat ignorant faces with greasy mass produced vile chicken from Tescos? Sadly, no, not all of you do.

This food is rubbish quality, and the economic impact is that it promotes greedy retailers into exploiting low grade food from any source (from any where in the world) creating profit for their shareholders while continuing to destroy British farming. So expect next year’s supermarket chicken to be lower quality than this year, and so on.

That's why people continue to post negative comments on this thread.

because i heard some people saying when they were in the queue!

and how much cost did they incur in getting to tesco? offset that against the saving and the lost time from your life.....

i just mean the time it takes to get to tesco, get parked if you go by car, fight your way to the deli, stand for at least 45 mins hoping you'll get one, then do it all again to get home! for what? £2.59?

just observations:whistling:

big LOL mate - hahahahaha :-D

people whinging about whingers are even worse though!

this is ridiculous. at my local tesco last night at 4.30, there was a sign at the deli saying "chickens ready at 5.15, max 2 per customer". people were already waiting in a queue! we continued shopping and walked past again at 5.15 where there was about 30 people standing. the oven only holds 24! standing for at least 45mins to save £2.59. is everybody really that skint, or just greedy?

to make a deliberate trip to the store and stand all that time in all that hussle and bussle to only buy a chicken and save such a small amount really beggars belief. get a life.

Truro 8.30am when I started shopping they said not ready yet you can't get them till 9am. At 9am they said they had now sold out. So I went home...

Well I tried to buy one and none of the tescos around me has them left by the time I get there.

:x

These have to be the smallest 'Large' chickens I've ever seen in my life.

Large sign at Chester le street ' Due to high demand we have no large chickens' suprise, suprise.

:x Cold from me

there was a 20minute queue for these hot chicks in Tesco in Stoke last night. i asked a staff member what the queue was for as you couldnt even get down the isle at all, started to laugh when he told me!

good deal though.

Very large queue at Silverburn in Glasgow but once they were ready it went down quick, til that batch ran out. They had loads left though cos they brought out a new batch to go in.

Back to £3.99 in my local Tesco in Paisley,3rd time i've tried to get one as the previous twice they had none left when i got there.

Why do you two have to descend to personal insults and jibes?

My avatar has nothing to do with who I am, apart from the fact that I like mullets and moustaches :smiley:

As regards the contradicting myself, I can't see how. I merely point out that I couldn't really care less how my chicken is treated, but in principle I wouldn't have an issue with free range, if it wasn't so expensive.

You are both coming across quite badly in this thread and seem to be trolling, especially when resorting to personal insults

I had one of these chickens and I ended up growing breasts and a vagina.

I haven't left my bedroom for weeks.

Worth it for the entertainment value alone.

Hot!

Where? Where? I need some to feed my pet crocodile.

This is a good deal but they could have avoided disappointing their customers by omitting the word 'large' from the promotional materials.

The whys and wherefores are irrelevent. Taste is subjective and frankly, I couldn't care less if my chicken has been treated like a saint or locked in a cage.
Would I like to buy free range: yes
Will I pay the extra: no[/QUOTE]

Haha!! how to contradict yourself in 2 sentences!!
Might as well just say if you sprinkle enough sugar onto poo I'll eat it! :roll:

thanks for your 2pence worth, as worthless to me as the chemically induced, hormone reared chicken meat people are getting excited about.
would people put cheap petrol into their prized brand new car if they knew it was going to cause problems due to being very poor grade? no 99% wouldn't! yet people leap at this cheap meat like it was a free lunch. you will get what you pay for. people may do as they like I'm only speaking for myself!

that redneck chav avatar you use speaks volumes :whistling:

WHat is it about these food threads that get some people so angry and full of vitriol.

If you don't want to buy them then don't; if you don't like the taste then don't eat them again.

Get off your high horses and stop cluttering a thread with your PETA/veggie/snob/idiot tendencies.

Lets look at the deal this way:
1 cooked chicken that can do a family meal for £2 = bargain

The whys and wherefores are irrelevent. Taste is subjective and frankly, I couldn't care less if my chicken has been treated like a saint or locked in a cage.

Would I like to buy free range: yes
Will I pay the extra: no

probably cos thats all done in thailand / china before they are frozen and delivered to tescos. I heard that tescos pay about 14p per bird :w00t:

amazing that they can hatch, feed, pump with antibiotics/steriods/hormones, burn the beaks off, rear, house, transport, butcher, cook, keep heated, package and market all for £2! what an amazing price for a life! I vote cold because this is somehow not right!

Got a chicken yesterday and hardly any chicken on it!! This aint a large chicken. Tasted watery and cheap. will never buy again. Better value going to the butchers and buying a couple of breasts!!

Talking of chickens isnt that a bird on the left of JC ...
Someone should write a book about that ......

Good deal, a side of me knows I should support free range etc. but to be honest at this price it's hard to turn down!

Heat added.

Chicken... isn't chicken?!? What the hell have I been eating??? :cry:

Is it only people who live north of Watford that buy these things?:?

Was gonna post a really pointed comment but decided not to. Getting banned is not really worth the point-scoring!

cruelty to chucks.....

awww ill only eat a chicken if its had a good life before it gets its neck wrung/snapped.....


personally i think a chickken tastes much better when cooked alive

Well managed to get 2 of them tonight after the queue in-store.

The one we have eaten was lovely and a bargain at £2....so voted hot for me.

Our Tesco was limiting them to 1 per customer!:smiley:

great deal it's just a shame that whenever I go to get one, they never have any left

Tastes like sh*t. Through most of it away.

I've had no problems getting a chicken in Prescot. Got one on Wednesday and one tonight. They taste nice enough and are a decent size; some people must have bloody massive pigeons where they live if they keep going on about it as a comparison

Stockton store conveniantly had oven trouble and stopped selling them :roll:

I got two today on my way home from work, tasted lovely, family enoughed them with some roast potatoes. Def better value than the £15-£20 a butcher would charge, and i cant tell the difference in taste, but i can tell the difference in my wallet.

Erm, it's not you know. :whistling:

I am fifth in a queue of about 30 people. lol

forgot to add that they were definitely large

Already sold out of the £2 sized chickens in my local store :-(

Won't be getting any more in they said, not the £2 ones.

Something tells me that these aren't the £4.19 ones that were reduced, but were a special purchase ... of a somewhat smaller size. Would be interesting to know what weight the "medium" ones come up at when they go back to selling those & the large ones next week.

Didn't vote cold on just that basis.

That doesn't make sense. How does that someone know if that 12 pound chick from the butchers tasted the same if that someone left before actually purchasing it? Utter dribble...

that's great value. i normally pick one up if i shop later in the eves because they often reduce them when the store is an hour or so from shutting

I didn't get it either, maybe it's cold because they're popular :? I know by the afternoon ours have been sold out everyday so far.

As someone said earlier:- "I went to my butchers once and asked for a 1kg chook, he quoted me £12 as a price, I left...... the co-op were selling the same for £4, nuff said! Tastes the same, just didn't have that dirty butcher's money grabbing hands all over it" and as asda smart price chicken is £2 a kg for an uncooked chicken I'd say yes that sound about right. Check your prices before voting cold as you're wrong.

At my local store it takes two hours to produce what gets sold in two minutes. A big cold from me.

So the normal price is 4 pound 19, is that also for a 800 - 1kg large chicken? Or would the normal price of 4 pound 19 actually buy you a proper large size chicken of perhaps nearly txice the size of this deal. If so then deals not hot.

Cold for me.

Because basic maths is no longer taught efficiently in schools.

Ok obviously I meant realistic and not sick deals, like these are £4 down to £2..... hold on why am I explaining that???????

Bought 2 yesterday, they were tasty enough :stuck_out_tongue:

Great comparison there. :roll:

Dead children £1 each. Hot?

I cant believe all the negative posts about this deal, surely its either hot or cold depending on the price not your opinion about cruelty, organic etc..?????

Well said - but even if your a Vegan theyll always be some sad individual that will critisise your choice.
Only thing to do to appease all the sad people out there is to only eat rock salt and drink water.....

I think people with mental problems are more likely to abuse any substance than those of sound mind, but the anti drug brigade hate hearing that.

Anyway, Stafford Tesco has a fair few in at the min. Just back from there, and you'll be glad to know they all looked nice and cosy in their individual bags.

On the animal cruelty side of things, if you're not a vegan you have no right to criticise anybody.

another presumptious post.....

And to think they say marijuana causes mental problems......

personally,tastewise, since i had corn fed free range i cant go back to normal chicken, but if your on a tight budget this is hot i guess

that cant be right! That one has some room. ;-)

I think they are frozen ones from thailand and cooked on site.

Tesco Extra in Dragonville Durham this morning at 11am the queue was right down the shop and looking at the chickens, they were the size of a small pidgeon. :x

Why did the chicken cross the road ?
To get to the other side

Why did the rooster cross the road ?
To cockadoodle dooo something

Why did the chicken cross the basketball court ?
He heard the referee calling fowls

Why did the turkey cross the road ?
To prove he wasn't chicken

Why did the chicken cross the road, roll in the mud and cross the road again ?
Because he was a dirty double-crosser

Why didn't the chicken skeleton cross the road ?
Because he didn't have enough guts

Why did the chicken cross the playground ?
To get to the other slide

Why did the dinosaur cross the road ?
Because chickens hadn't evolved yet

Why did the turtle cross the road ?
To get to the shell station

Why did the horse cross the road ?
Because the chicken needed a day off

Found the label!

I think some people need some perspective.

This is a chicken for the price of a sandwich, or a 6-inch sub, or one of those pasta lunches. It's not supposed to be haute cuisine. It's a good deal, it's fairly tasty, it's cheap protein and I'm hungry for one.:thumbsup:

MMMMMMMMMM chick chick chickennnnnnnnnnnn

HOT from me

And tek-monkey completely missed the point i made in my post.

"Because if you like this then chances are you will like actual chicken a whole lot more, its not difficult."


great point. well made. and factual too.

you have missed the point he was making!

taste is a completely individual thing. if someone likes the taste of crap chicken, they are getting as much enjoyment out of it as a top chef with their refined palette would get out some fancy dish. There is no right or wrong regarding taste.

I didnt say he shouldnt like it, i said it doesnt taste like chicken... :whistling:

does it actually say on the packaging where these 'chickens' originate from?

cant agree at all. Why do decent chefs generally all agree on whether something tastes good or bad. Its because they have a decent palette.

+1 save me from replying :thumbsup:

Fair do's must have come across wrong as most of the time you sound senseable. I'd have left as well, £12 for a chicken when you can get 1kg of breast ,ooo-er, for half the price.

If you like the taste of it, how exactly are you missing out?

Taste and smell are entirely specific to the individual, what tastes good to you WILL taste rubbish to some others. Your opinion counts for nothing when you can't experience what others do, if someone says they like it then you have absolutely no way of knowing how much they like it or how good it tastes.

e.g. mushy peas. Taste like garbage, I'll throw up if you put them on my plate. Yet people buy them, why?

your other option
http://www.bitterwallet.com/whos-hungry-for-a-whole-chicken-in-a-can-then/10807

I bought one yesterday and it did the job although there really wasnt much taste and it was the smallest 'large' chicken I have ever seen but for £2 I cant complain!

Certainly looks nothing like a "large chicken"



Smells nothing like a cooked chicken.



You may like the taste of this stuff and thats fine however if you think this actually tastes like chicken should then you really are missing out.

wow, whats goin on here..... whole chicken for £2....... or a chicken sandwich from mcdonalds.....hmm tough choice

somebodys always gottta find a reason fer whinging.........typical brits

Great got one today!

That's your opinion on it tasting nice it's your palate, I can't tell you it tastes nice you can't tell me it doesn't. I think it tastes nice :-D: No it's not poo it is a chicken, looks like a chicken, smells like a chicken, tastes like a chicken so if your poo looks/smells/tastes like that you ought to go to the doctors fella :roll:

The taste thing is clearly very subjective. Had one of these before the offer and it tasted fine. For £2 I would say you're getting more than your money's worth.

If it was served up in a gastropub I'd be underwhelmed and if it was served in a restaurant I'd refuse to pay.

But as a £2 'ready meal' it's darn good value.

I hope you're not suggesting there is no child poverty because if so it's a very ignorant comment and seems like you just want to deny it exists and turn a blind eye to the problem. I'm sure in this country there is no child sex industry and such things, comments like that are just obtuse. Of course there is bad parenting but that has no reflection on child poverty. Bad parenting there is no excuse for :x

That said, super tasty chicken at a great price :whistling:

Well...

It's a chicken; O.K.

Tastes nice; No, it doesn't. If you think it does then you have very little sense of taste. What you are tasting is fat, salt and additives - FFS!

Good price; Yeah? Well £2 for a pile of cra*p ain't cheap in my book:p

poor chickens put onto this earth for the sake of £2. I'm starting to think that vegetarianism isn't a bad idea after all, or just eating fish, after all fish are stupid.

And only 85% of statistics are correct 78% of the time

Spot who has not been to Glasgow......

:thinking:

And you give them how much money a month?

:roll:

I might even stretch to mugabe over gordon's clowns ;-)

Right now I'd welcome Saddam with open arms!

I misconstrued your statement so we are actually in agreement. Cant wait till may next year lol

Yes of course:roll:

What levels that I've suggested? I've not suggested any levels.......:?

according to the latest surveys, 99% of UK residents would prefer a foreign government to this one ;-)

LOL -totally agree :thumbsup:

there are none so blind...........................

child poverty does NOT exist in this country at the levels you suggest

Yes who else would do it, a foreign government perhaps? :thinking:

You know full well that a month later the same kfc deal was 1500+ and the cold one a month previous to that was -1300 so what does your comment prove? :?

Cold one:- http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/316552/kfc-deal-of-the-century-only-12-99/showthread.php?t=316552&page=1

Hot one:- http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/345992/kfc-deal-of-the-century-only-12-96-/showthread.php?t=345992&page=1

If the computers to "people in poverty" has filtered through it's a shame that child poverty levels haven't changed since labour came to power. :roll:

What???

You rely on food standards put in place and controlled by this Government that lies and cheats and is utterly incompetent???

why the hell is this so hot when people are weighing them in and coming up with 800-900g per chicken? Surely this should be up before trading standards if they are advertising them as LARGE. Do Large amounts of growth hormones / antibiotics count then ?

You can get free range for the same price per kg from asda / morrisons lol

I think you'll find one of the coldest deals ever was KFC chicken at about -1200 degrees.

Then again, this chicken is one step up on the food scale from kfc which isnt saying much tbh ;-)

This deal does explain why the morrisons food deal with 8 sausages for 27p is so hot..............:w00t:

the government plan to give free computers to "people in poverty" is finally filtering through :-D

+1 :thumbsup:

agreed, i think a lot of people have no idea how nice chicken can actually be.

Yes. It's intensively reared chicken at any price and it's basted in fat and it tastes awful. People might be getting used to it because they eat it a lot, but it doesn't actually taste like chicken.

Was it still so terrible at £4 though, because earlier you seemed more concerned on price pp/per meal. Its still the same item it was last week, only cheaper. This chicken is still better than an awful lot of food out there, at least its the whole bird so you don't just get the mechanicaly recovered bits you find in cheap chicken nugggets for example.

As I've said before, this is a deals forum and this is a deal. If it was a greenpeace forum or one on sustainability I could understand the responses, but this forum is about cheap stuff. This is cheap, the price paid does not affect the quality of the chicken. Its not like they got some extra small cages in, and piled in extra chicken poo, just to make sure these birds were worse quality than they were last week. Its a loss leader, nuff said.


EDIT: Besides, if you're not a vegan animals die for you to live. Drink milk? Then you support the veal industry. Way to go you baby cow torturer :wink:

Take your debate somewhere else, because you've made your point.

You've had your say and you won't change the minds of the thousands of peple who are buying the same cooked chicked that they paid £4+ for last week, for just £2 this week (a 50% saving).

That's what this thread is about, not people too poor to buy anything else.

Pointless post.

In the meantime.......

Tesco's, the company you work for, is selling whole cooked chickens for £2. Now some people think that's a bad thing, but the majority of the people on this thread think that's a good thing.

However out of that group that think it's a good thing some of them are coming up with a range of reasons why they voted hot:

1. Some are too poor to be able to afford to pay more for food.
2. Some hate animals and so knowing they are suffering to produce food makes them feel good.
3. Some don't even think chickens feel pain.

I'm concerned to live in a country where any of these situations may arise and addressing such issues of poverty and ignorance is not pointless for me.

With this pointless debate?

I'm bored already.

Reading all these comments on a 2 quid chicken at tesco has provided me with an afternoons entertainment....thanks a lot...it makes the swine flu outbreak,the billions of pounds in uk debt and global terrorism seem so unimportant:whistling::whistling::oops:

People are missing the point that nobody "came into this thread " to criticise, it was brought up on the first page that anyone who cared about free-range were 'idiots'. It's one thing to jump into a thread and criticise (there are hundreds of threads on dairy/meat that isn't free range but they don't all insult people who think differently) and quite another thing to defend your point of view and express your opinion about the value of a deal.

Ethical debates are rarely as simplistic as right or wrong. There are a range of positions in between. I have, in my posts, tried to convey just that:

A £2 cooked Tesco's chicken is about the worst possible example mass produced meat on the high-street. But there are plenty of alternatives, not just organic (and expensive) ones. You don't have to choose between two extremes.

Its not about who's right or wrong, in an ethical debate its impossible to tell as it depends on your own moral code. Its about this being an offer for a less than half price item that people obviously want. I don't go into iphone threads calling people apple fanboys and moronic sheep because they want the latest shiny off-white piece of junk, because the value of a deal is relative to the individual. If you want it, and its a good price, then its all gravy.


mmmm, gravy. Would go well with some chicken about now...

Can I just point out that it's never been scientifically proven that chickens can feel pain. They are as likely to experience fear and discomfort as a daffodil or a blade of grass.

So people should stop worrying about the 'moral arguments' because these chickens are safe and you wouldn't worry about walking on a lawn, would you?

I find it bizarre that people are being quite so aggressive to anyone who criticises this deal. You're allowed to have your opinion (and start this debate by calling free-rangers 'idiots') but anyone who doesn't want standard chickens isn't? Strange.

You still keep chicken it out :oops:

It is unusual.

:thinking:

That's very interesting if you actually think that.

What source of expertise are you relying on for this theory as most of the cheap chicken munching posters on this thread know that animals feel pain? Their defence is simple - they simply don't care about the animal cruelty. Yours response however is somewhat unusual.

I apologise if I've offended you and blunted your wit.

EAT THE BIRDS ! ! ! ! £2 bargains.. get in

I was asking Druss if it was ok with him. Keep up!

No! :x
Take your soapbox somewhere else because we're just not interested.

I work in a Tesco store and we sold out of the chickens by mid afternoon on Wednesday (I couldn't even get one).

It is very HOT deal. :thumbsup:

this is not a large chicken deal - it's medium and they are like pidgeons but still tasty!!:thumbsup:

bigsky, do you realise that veggies feel the same way about you as you feel about us? And vegans think it about the veggies. There's always someone more ethical than you, and you can all suck my plums* as far as I'm concerned. Hell, I may eat a few more of these just cos it seems to annoy you :smile:


* it's OK, they're free range

Never mind the cold votes these are gaurenteed to be hot :thumbsup:

Yum !!!

Me too. I think its nice of Tesco to let them have a go on the ferris wheel though. I bet free range chickens don't get amusement park rides

Heat & rep OP

What the f*** is going on is this Hotukdeals or Getonmyhighhorsefreerangeweirdos........just get back to the deals and leave the other stuff to other sites, like the heat proves most people on here are on a budget for various reasons and don't care for all this " dont eat this", "not ethical" clap trap.
Sorry but its all got too much for a bargain site just post the deals.

yep,student.

ive looked at tescos free range stuff and none of its free

you have encouraged debate, thats fine but its getting a bit annoying now, nothing personal...
no one else really agrees with you and no one else really wants to hear it, or at least 90% dont

OK druss, happy to answer your questions. :smiley:

1. 1400 degrees doesn't make it right. It just makes it popular.

2. It bothers me because I want good food to be available for everyone at affordable prices. But while the public grab at everything that's cheap n nasty the retail giants will continue to supply it (and make good profit out of it too).

3. I am not trying to force my opinions on anyone. I am sharing information and hopefully encouraging some debate.

Is that ok with you?

MMMM CHICKEN

Having Missed Breakfast this morning,
I dashed into to Brighouse Tesco to reluctantly buy a butty (sandwich) average price about £2.00 To find cooked chicken for £2.00 usually £4.ish and french batton for 30p (usually 60p).
£2.30 for a huge chcken butty thats lasted all day.

bigsky=FAIL

As the heats is 1400+ and so many comments have said to you that they don't care why are you still going on? Why does it even that bother you so much? Why are you trying, but failing, to force your opinions on others? I couldn't care less as long as it's passed the government food standards and I also couldn't care less if it doesn't pass yours. :roll:

Dude? you american as well,not your day is it

suppose you love saying awesome every 5 seconds as well

:whistling:

and like ive said loads of times, i respect other opinions, just dont understand why people think them.. conflicting opinions make the world go round.
im bothered where it comes from, it just dont give a flying fudge whether the chickens are happy. just leave it now...

Dude???

You just don't get it do you? It may be beyond you but some people are actually bothered where their food comes from.

dude, youre going down a very thin path over a reduced £2 chicken... give it up

Is there such a thing as mad chicken disease caused by eating too much intensively reared chicken?

got my chucks today, had to que but hey, well worth it.

:thumbsup:

Got the scales in Asda for £10....why how much were they on here? lol

Bought them for my ebay stuff not for the kitchen....they're great

Oh and ta for the rep

Just finished licking my fingers clean after having one of these from the local Tesco Extra.

Can't complain for £2, but it didn't actually taste of anything..........not even chicken?!
:oops:

Just bought the chicken. I dont know why! I didn't even want it. It was just because it was £2. Bad times. It was tasty though.

Still happy though, for £2 you really can't complain, at full price I might be a little miffed though that there could be that much of a difference

The big daddy

The little brother

Woah, one of mine weighed, 1.15kg and another 820g (bet this one was getting bullied).....what the heck

lol, why?

OK, now I gotta weigh mine too, for the record before I weigh it I think the size is fine....considering if you go to the frozen section there is also an XL and XXL, how big can chickens really get? mine looks about L to me compared with the bigger ones

lol, wake up folks....

All winging abut size, ethics, morals etc etc

Whatever, it's a cooked chicken for £2, I just bought 5, the guys said they freeze fine.

Damn they taste good, even if it isn't quite what we would call large or free range etc.....

For me it's a meal for £2, in this climate I'll take it....

When the deal was first posted it wasn't live. How can Tesco's class a 1kg chicken as large, label it up as large and then sell it as large?

The deal states 2 pound for a large chicken. Im just saying that untill a deal is actually on the shelf ready to be purchased at the correct price/size etc then why waste time voting on something that may not ever happen?

Yum - I feel like chicken tonight!- Yum

All this kafuffle and so far it seems that you can't get the 2 pound large size chicken anyway!! Not such a great deal, time will tell.......

I guess that voting should really only start when a deal actually becomes live.

and to be honest if i had to choose... i wold have GM crops that required no fertilizer :thumbsup:

lol, the arsenic is minimal, you get more mercury in your dental procedures lol.
as for which id prefer, ive already said. i wouldnt say its 'polluted' rivers, it say its fertilized them... fish die, algae grow; incidentally these algae are cleaning up our excess CO2 emissions, so i suppose leaching neither a negative or a positive thing on average. fair enough the extreme cases, but not the general ones.

why the hell do you care what the chickens welfare and life has been like before you put whack it in an oven at 200 degrees so you can eat it? that is beyond me....
why not just give it a parting gift before you slit its throat, make it feel a little happier before it dies, maybe it will taste better :roll:

Four anorexic midgets......maybe just going by the size of my tesco large chicken

Just got 2 x large chicken.

One was tiny. I weighed it and it was 900g! I've seen bigger budgies.

I might even take a photo.......... (yeah I know that's a bit odd!)

The other was almost as small at 1Kg

Can anyone beat my small-LARGE chicken? 900g to beat.

its all getting a bit heated in here, so in an effort to lighten the mood im gonna repost what i posted a few days ago...

I love these posts, they always generate some 'healthy' debate, lol.
Great post, super hot and i'll definately pick one of these chickens up (cheap or not, i gotta eat and money is tight).
My one concern is this.
The racks they use to roast the chickens on



always remind me of....
Alton Towers and Nemesis


:w00t::w00t:

bought one, some tiger bread and a wedge of brie. lovely. heat added.

Would disagree that Halal was more ethical.
Would disagree that free range is nonsensical.
Would agree that chickens that run around taste better.
Would argue that chickens that run around all day are more ethically sound.

i dont understand why ppl cant get the concept of a loss leader no one was complaining when it was being sold for four quid

Anyways the offer is on at huds tesco - i got three chickens (as mates coming over for tonights footy), plus other stuff like coleslaw and salad items so mr tesco will make some pennies from me. now i gotta find the recipe as i'm gonna blag that i cooked em.

Bargain...heat added to the chicken..(hope it won't go overcooked);-)

Sounds like an xxxxxxx to me, but if he didn't it would be like you said a student that probably lives with mummy so doesn't understand that you pay for other things other than food and drink.

So your problem is that it costs too little compared to a can of coke, WTF? Tesco don't force people to shop there, the fact that they make these profits shows people choose to. I know they screw over their suppliers, thats called business, and if there was money in free range then the suppliers would sod Tesco off and go that route. They don't though, why? Because they still make a living themselves.

As for the Tesco profit levels, why single them out? Why can't they make a profit, yet the oil companies can? For that matter, why has my tax paid to bail out banks that earned billions in the past, and continually screw me over? And what the hell has this got to do with the price of a chicken?

This is a loss leader, an ancient technique to get punters into shops. Whats the problem?

EDIT: Oh yeah, its not 50p a meal though is it? What about veg? And gravy of course. Then of course there's tax on that minumum wage so its not really 50p every 5 mins is it? In fact it would only be £5.73/ph if you are over 22 anyway, those younger get less (£4.77/£3.53).

Classic!!!

People have more expenses than food,you sound like a student to me

Anyway the chickens are not normally £2,they are loss leaders for Tesco

Is it really such a difficult point to understand that some people just want cheap meat? If it passes all food regs then its food, and its cheap. Its still a chicken, however it was reared, and its cheap. Focus on that point, as you seem to be missing it. CHEAP.

I thought the whole point of this site was getting the most of what you want for the least money? Just cos you don't want this doesn't mean others won't.

shame its not free range BUT beggers can't be choosers :?

Is this really such a difficult point for some people to understand?
There are not JUST two extremes in food production!

Some people seem to think that Tesco two quid ready cooked chicken is great because it's affordable and the only alternative would be a £12 quid bird hand reared by totally organic methods.

Food production is as diverse as any other market. Not being into mass produced cheap food doesn't instantly make you a carrot munching, sandal wearing hippy! Indeed many people that express concern about animal welfare find that they have genuine concerns about purely organic farming too.

Food producers need to make decisions regarding animal welfare and commercial productivity. Some vaccinations, mite control etc may well exempt them from "organic status" but it keeps their animals healthy. What it doesn't mean is they then need to keep all their birds in cramped conditions on extreme fat and growth diets for 5 weeks and then slaughter them.

As for the fertilizer thread that seems to have sprung up you should know that overuse of "nice clean sterile fertilizer" has polluted rivers with nitrates wiping out fish and other wildlife and has left soil laden with dangerously high levels of arsenic and cadmium.

So what would you prefer on your food? Arsenic and cadmium? Or a bit of organic fertiliser?

Just been to Tesco in Purley and the medium cooked chickens are all £2 for 3 days. Thanks

Got 2 for £2 each in my store. Big banners outside too

2 x large hot chickens for £5?

Just called into Chester le Street (Co Durham) and the only offer there is 2 for £5.

exactly, only as a last resort i dont think the need for organic foods are last resort, or are life saving lol :roll:

hmmmmmmmm, do i take a trip to Tesco today, can anyone confirm this deal??

so does this deal actually exist or has it gone the way of a lot of advance deals (goes super hot only to be false!)?

bargain in this economic climate...but personally i'm a free range gal, but good for someone else. heat added!

Still happens today if the infection cant be halted (oh and dont use the leech or maggot theory as they are doing that as well) :whistling::whistling::whistling:

With the Deal starting this morning, I was just wondering if these Chickens were ok to freeze? (once cooled) :?

no sign of this "deal" online at all

now, isnt that a surprise lol

no chance I reckon as probably frozen before being shipped from thailand.

Nice. I'm going to Tesco later to see if the deal actually exists, if so I'm buying.

Lol at Nemesis ride comparison btw :smile:

Everyone's questions?

Not drunk, just clearly you don't understand the difference between them.:roll:

Great way to avoid answering everyones questions from earlier

I feel like chicken tonight!

i never said halal was ethical, just moreso. dont understand if your post is half agreeing with me and half criticising...

Who said Halal was ethical? It's certainly no more humane than a bolt or electrocution and many would say less humane.
And the point about free range isn't the way they die but the way they live. That they're being bred to be killed doesn't mean the should be kept in the most cost effective way possible throughout their lives.
Free range chicken has nothing to do with organic veg, though they tend to get lumped together along with long hair and sandal wearing Apple fanboys.

And happier, healthier chickens taste better in a bap.

/troll

that made me laugh. so shall we use century old medical technology too, like amputating infected limbs etc?

[QUOTE=dantheman3989]sorry if i sound like im trying to argue with you, im not..
i was just wondering, what do you believe is so 'right' about free range?
they all come to the same death - electrocuted and slit their throat. if you want your chicken to be killed more ethically, why not try halal? (im not muslim and dont eat halal/free range).
the fact that the chicken can run round all day makes extremely little (although i do admit some) difference to meat grade quality, as you pay usually per kg of meat anyway. fair enough, the food its fed makes the difference, but free range is nonsensical.
Its like organic..... who really wants their vegetables to be sprayed with horse and pig sh** as fertilizer (full of bacteria- 1billion per gram of poo i believe), i know i would prefer some nice clean sterile synthetic fertilizer...

Well said I totally agree with you 100% ..at last someone who speaks sense

Alton Towers and Nemisis - been there and done that. Most folk had a laugh, no-one spent the day sat in their own ****. Not to mention most of their life. Suggest you serve a good dose of gravy with this.

I love these posts, they always generate some 'healthy' debate, lol.
Great post, super hot and i'll definately pick one of these chickens up (cheap or not, i gotta eat and money is tight).
My one concern is this.
The racks they use to roast the chickens on



always remind me of....
Alton Towers and Nemesis


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i must confess that I'm so sick of hearing people talking about only eating organic food and free range chickens, - coz the rest is just rubbish...blah blah blah...

I mean, we should be rather thankful that we even have meat to eat, whereas, in many places in the world, people don't even have even food to eat.

Therefore, I will definately buy those chickens, with a thankful heart.

i actually LOL'd now my gf thinks im weird :disappointed:

I'm an Environmental Health Officer. yeah drugs have their part to play but its not as significant as some think.

Never mind chicken when are tesco gonna start selling freshly clubbed canadian seal ???

HOT HOT HOT !! :smiley:

i can understand your opinions on animal welfare, and thats why you eat free range. some people only eat it because they think its a lot better quality.
on the other hand, i strongly disagree with the organic stuff... at the end of the day, organic food is literally filthy. i wouldnt give children it.

I used to be a vegetarian for ten years, so I've tried both sides of the welfare argument. I have to say, I feel so much more passionate now, eating meat, the logic being that being a vegetarian doesn't really discourage anything. It doesn't say why you don't want to eat meat, and it doesn't differentiate between the places that sell intensively farmed meat and those who choose to sell better welfare meat. So in buying only freedom food + food, I'm actively supporting the places that do care about animal welfare, and not supporting an industry I disagree with. I'm not even a huge animal fan, but just looking at it economically, our British farmers have to farm their animals to higher standards of animal welfare according to government standards, but the government doesn't impose the same things on imported meat. So basically, if we keep buying imported bad welfare meat, our British farmers really are screwed.

And as for the way they die, it's incredibly humane. The shock is instant and painless and therefore they don't feel their actual death. And I much prefer organic. I don't want to be eating chemicals and antibiotics, and almost all compost is made from poo anyway, in some form :smiley: Yay poo. I'm also a student, so I have no money either. M&S and Waitrose both do 8 freedom food+ sausages for under a pound, which is cheaper than a lot of standard stuff.

So yeah. I'm not telling anyone what to buy, I personally just like to support industries I share the values of, as the more we buy, the more we encourage those values. Oh and it's bloody delicious, and in my own opinion, far far better than standard chicken.

ok i believe you lol. :thumbsup: although i do believe better drugs are ALSO key
what do you do out of interest?

Which pretty much means it's not as bad and isn't mounting as the other guy was making out....

Incorrect, it's as a result of increased regulation and inspection procedures I think you'll find.

Don't take it from me however, it's only my job. :whistling:

which is a result of increases in drug efficiency.

Nah, it's actually due to the bacteria being less prolific in chicken flocks.

thats due to vast improvements and more spending in drug design :thinking:

Yeah I read that a few years ago in some rag.

Odd then that Campylobacter infections have decreased significantly in recently years...:roll:

Gawd now making sure the animals stay healthy is bad for us.:roll:

true that, similar in the beef industry...

There is mounting evidence suggesting the poultry industry's use of antibiotics induces antibiotic resistance among the food-borne bacteria that affect human health. One such antibiotic resistant strain is Campylobacter, a pathogen common to chicken products.

bigsky - unless you can categorically state that everything you buy is free from any abuse your own self styled morality code, you should step down from the soap box.

I take it you mean Food Safety? :lol:

Hot deal!:thumbsup:

I got a freedom food chicken at Morrisons the other day for 3.69, not on offer. That's cheaper than this standard chicken originally was, and a much better deal than a standard chicken for £2. It's not all about the money, it's about the value for what you're getting.

you forgot the link to a large chicken for 2 quid, preferrably free range

What do we do for a living then?

What's it got to do with you how he, or anyone else, spends his money. We're of a similar ilk in that we don't have money to throw around so we have the basics, unless you're suggesting that having a PC is supposed to be a luxury and/or for the upper classes. We can afford what we all enjoy which is certain things like having a PC, TV days out etc but only because we bargain hunt and eat cheaply. Put it another way for you, to get some of the bargains we even use this computer so in a way it pays for itself. Your priorities aren't the same as everyone elses and you're narrowminded. Plus the saying you get what you pay for isn't a fool proof saying, how can you guarantee that paying £2 more mean it has been treated any better. Why do you presume he thinks alot about his mobile/laptop purchases other than the price? I know I don't as long as it works.

What's the protein content difference between a typical free range chicken and these types of chickens? That's what it really comes down to.

Aha, the other defence used by the "can't be bothered to think about this" brigade: "Free range is expensive so I have to eat cheaply produced food."

There aren't just two types of chicken in the world, cheap ones and free range ones!

Why oh why can't you put as much thought into the food you put in your body, and your children's bodies, as you do to say your laptop or your mobile phone?

You don't have to buy free range: Just get something that's not produced in such terrible conditions resulting in a really poor grade product. Get the best you can afford. I bet you do that for other things you comment on in HUKD or are you sitting there in the cheapest possible clothes you could find typing this on a 10 year old PC you found in a skip?

Cheaper than dog food!!!

Morality is a subjective thing. Not everyone cares about the life a chicken has had.

Everyone is arguing about the quality of the chicken but how do we know if it's for real. Has anyone seen a poster or something to say it will be this price?

Or a free range equivalent for the same price, of course.

please where can i find this crap chicken cheaper? As long as its fresh and complies with health and safety laws etc i dont mind.
if you can supply me with a link to it then i'll join you in voting cold.


where can i get a large chicken for 2 quid out of interest? even if you can - are you coming round to cook it and pay for energy costs and washing up etc?

What a silly boy,

I do care about animals but care more that my family get a decent meal on the table,by saving money on these chickens means basically they can have 2 instead of one,clearly you either don't have a family or are on a high wage.

I could I suppose sell my tv so we can eat free range for a few weeks,hang on...I will get the phone cut off and sell the car,if I do that we can perhaps have free range eggs as well.

So we should lose our net connection and eat free range chicken? Sod that, its all about priorities. I spend every penny I earn every month. Between rent/bills/food/transport I need to make cutbacks somewhere, so cheap chicken = good.

I still maintain this is a forum for deals, not ethics. Why are you even here if its not about saving money? This is less than 50% of the original price for the same product, bargain.

I have developed this amazing tactic of only visiting threads that offer deals on products I like, which both cuts down my time spent here and means I don't get bored reading about things I don't have an interest in. Having used an iphone for example I think they suck, so I no longer visit iphone threads. Maybe I should actually be visiting every thread on them and informing the others of how crap they are instead?

Absolutely **** chicken, so it's **** value.

It's also funny that people assume it's Tesco who are doing the consumer some great favour by selling this waterlogged crap so cheap. In reality it's the supplier who's forced to supply them at a reduced price, not the robbing *******s with the blue and red striped logo who are cutting their profits.

If you are contributing to this forum from the comfort of your own home on a PC with a broadband connection you can afford more than two quid for a chicken!!! I am so fed up with people hiding behind poverty as an excuse for them not actual facing up to making a moral decision. 1 x £2 quid chicken = 4-6 portions of meat plus bones for stock or soup. That's significantly less than 50p per portion. Unless you are homeless and sending in your posts from a free internet connection at the public library you can afford a bit more than 50p for a main meal for you and your family. To the people that post that they hate animals and don't care about their welfare then congratulations, at least you are honest. But to everyone that keeps doing this "boo-hoo, I am so poor, I would like to buy decent chicken but all I can afford is this" routine, I tell you you might be kidding yourself, but you are not kidding me.

In which case its a good deal on a crap product... does such thing exist????
If its a crap product its not worth anything... so unless they are paying me take it... its still cold!

can you freeze these? like to stick 8 or 9 in the freezer

didnt like free range chicken taste or the big price tag, i think tesco chicken tastes better when they are all bashed up together in their hundreds,thankyou tesco and please cram more in , keeps the price down for us bargain hunters

Thanks for the heat and rep everyone :smiley:
I know this isn't free range but its tough times and its cheap :smiley:

Got A Job?

Free seeds on the BBC website, we all sent of for them, so yes they are free. Compost made from veggie peelings in true HUKD style!!!!

hopefully, they wont have hot chickens out in the storeroom :whistling:

Seeds come from other tomatoes (and chillies) but yeah, compost does cost. I've dug over a section of the garden to grow potatoes and onions in, and the greenhouse is full of tomatoes, peppers and chilies. Should go well with a cheap chicken :smile:

They're warnings and that's all. It doesn't mean that everyone who eats it will be ill or die. The government are simply acting to protect themselves by banning.



It's far from free once you've paid for seeds, compost etc but does save you money. I grow my own because it tastes much better and is cheaper. Picking a tomato and eating it immediately is far tastier than a bland one from a supermarket that was picked days earlier.

In all seriousness, no. Come on, over the last 20 years virtually every meat has been banned for a while and almost everything gives you cancer. I happily ate beef during the BSE problem (on the bone too), I happily ate chicken when the salmonella problem arose. I don't care about scares unless actual hard facts are looking back at me from my plate.

So what concerns me? Give me a plate of meat, and I'll eat it if I like it. If the meat is rubbish and the kids wont eat it, fair enough I may not buy it again, but in a world of turkey dinosaurs I can't see a roast chicken being hazardous to their health. I survived fine, didn't you?

I am actually growing my own veg this year, but not for any supposed health benefits from organic food, just cos its free.

Animal cruelty is a subjective thing. What's wrong with the drugs they use? What physiological effects do they have on humans?

aside from the animal cruelty issue are you not concerned about the quality of the meat or the drugs that have been used to pump it up? Free range isn't an option for all but I'm sure that you must be concerned about the quality of food?

They probably are...especially when swimming in gravy! ;-)

So you're agreeing that they are quite tasty then.

Hot deal.

Exactly, this is a forum for deals not animal welfare. Its very simple, a choice of a chicken dinner for 4 or they get sausage and mash for the same price. Whilst I'd like to pretend I cared about the conditions the animal was raised in, in all honesty I couldn't give a rats ass as long as we get fed.

I'd happily eat free range if it was the same price, somone want to give me a fiver towards a chicken? Cos not everyone can afford to be picky.

If you think cheap food is good you need to understand that to make cheap food you have to cut corners and that results in poor product quality. If you would put cheap (but low quality) hard drives in your pc, or watch a cheap (but low quality) tv, or buy a cheap (but low quality) laptop, games console, etc., then you are going to like this chicken!

Foregt the ethics, forget the animal welfare, this is just bad value because it tastes really really awful.

Yes, you could be right. These ready cooked chickens from the Deli counter always taste quite a bit different from the ones you cook yourself in the oven. Majority of the time your dissapojnted with the Deli chicken although at the time they look tasty and tempting.

It's amazing what a few herbs can do.. :-D

I wouldn't be surprised if Tesco have source of chickens that simply weren't up to scratch. They therefore decided to do them on the Deli and cook them in lots of fat and flavours to cover up their blandness. ;-)

Voted hot - great price! And tastes better than a chicken I cook, plus the left overs can be fed to the dog.


If you want your chickens to have a happy life, go veggie!!

It really doesn't taste awful.

£2? perfect for animal feed!

That is very very true also.

But people can always not vote or not post depending on their beliefs like I do for example. That is the difference.

A hot deal is a hot deal for someone that likes it. If they do not like it then do not vote. Simple is it not :P

Wouldn't know about that. What I do know is that free-rangers and not-bothereds will never agree on this.

It is probably due to the majority of people that now post on HUKD are now of a lesser quality than they were a few years ago.

;-)

Two chickens are sitting in a coop.

First one says 'Cluck'

Second one says 'Funny, I was about to say that'.

I do :thumbsup:
but i still voted hot

Great deal , hat added and rep good on you for feeding the masses!!

p.s. you can't eat ethics, this is a deal site not a moral high ground!!

:whistling::whistling::whistling::whistling:

Only kidding. I can sense you getting upset though. Chill. Forget it. You are entitled to your opinion, of course you are, but your type of opinions ALWAYS bring on the same arguments/debates.

By the way, I'm not preaching at anyone. I buy what I want to buy, you buy what you want to. I'm only explaining why I don't think it's a good deal. People can buy what they like, as long as they know what they're buying.

Probably not because Tesco will already own the farmer...

14p? I wonder if my local battery farm would sell me some for 20p?

I'm getting good at this. These truggers used to really wind me up but I've learned to just ignore them.

I understand what the site does. I think this is the only thing I've voted cold on, even if it's not something I'm interested in. I didn't vote cold because I don't buy it myself, I voted cold because I wouldn't pay anything for that type of chicken. Tescos buy one of these chickens in for 14p so it's not a great deal at all. It's not just about it being cheap on here, it's about it being good value, right, and this isn't. And maybe you need to read the site rules, because nothing I said is anywhere close to grounds for being banned.

People can voice opinions on the quality of the product. Makes it all the more fun.

You are highlighting exactly why you should be banned (initially said as a joke BTW) - the idea of this place is to highlight deals - the question one should be able to identify before joining is: when to vote hot - ask can I get the same product (or better) at the same price or less - if not, then it is hot. There are exceptions, but I'll let you try to digest that one first.

A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is leaning against the headboard smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face. The egg, looking a bit miffed, grabs the sheet, rolls over and says ... Well, I guess we finally answered "THAT question!"

Great deal this. Worth buying if you have to make a lot of sandwiches. Just let the thing go cold, debone, and slice it up.

You'll probably end up paying about 15 times less that what they charge you for the premium quality sliced chicken breast.

Anyway that's enough chicken yolks for now

lol - well it made me giggle.....hot deal, heat n repped.....Chicken n mayo sandwiches all next week for dinner

An Egg

wait for a it !

.....

What do you call a chicken in a shell Suit?

Ignore them. Some people will probably go in to tesco and buy this when they normally shop elsewhere. They completely ignore the fact that the time it takes to get there, queue, get home should be worth more than a couple of quid.

btw, I don't buy free range. I should because I should respect myself enough to eat decent quality meat rather than drug enhanced crap..it's tasty though!

Great deal. Don't care about the ethics involved (or lack of).

hot deal don't really know what all this fuss is about really!

Define large. Either my eyesight has changed or this year's large is last year's medium.

I've seen these hot chickens in supermarkets, but I don't get it. You buy it hot at the hot deli counter, then you queue at the checkouts for 10 minutes, buy your stuff, walk to your car, fight your way out of the car park, drive home, unload your shopping 30 minutes later to find the chicken that you bought hot is in fact now only a lukewarm salmonella farm.

So you get back in your car, drive back to Tesco, queue at customer service, complain that your hot chicken is cold, exchange it for another one and then start the whole cycle over again.

Unless you are supposed to eat it in the Tescos aisles?

Wow, it's a good job people don't sterotype or generalise on these forums, isn't it? I don't protest about anything, I don't go on any greenpeace forums, I just buy free range and I don't think this is a good deal, and don't want to be insulted. That's all and fair enough, I think.

Lovely ... Hot ... Meat !!! :thumbsup:

Hah. Yes, let's ban me for having an opinion. All i'm saying that in my opinion, it's not a good deal. £2 for a rubbish chicken isn't good value for me, I'd rather save the money and not buy one. I think you'll also find that I didn't come in here preaching - people who buy free range were called 'idiots' before I said anything. I don't see why I'm not entitled to my own opinion, like everyone else.

True that (said in a Baltimore gangster accent).

Melana, shouldn't you be at some protest, kicking a police officer in the shins and spitting in his face as your mates video his response?

Lets hope they have more of these in that they had the Acer netbooks

I certainly wont be driving around half of the country looking for poultry deal

Don't forget people, if there are none on the shelves, ask someone to check the stockroom and bring out all of the chickens, and to scan all of them to make sure none of the other ones are on offer too.

free range! who cares its super cheap! HOT

Well said - I'd be sitting waiting patiently if I wasn't standing at my back door car key in hand, eagerly waiting for a reply!

Someone please ban Melana - the greenpeace forum needs her more!

Hot as the chicken itself. This will go way over 1000 IMO

great price..voted HOT from me..

Care to point out somewhere cheaper then, considering this site is designed to save your wallet? :whistling:

Buy free range!! you cruel people

I am voting on the deal. It's appallingly priced.

Great deal, I really enjoy these chickens, thanks.

Great deal, yummy. thanks.

I can almost taste the cruelty from here!

Always guaranteed a good scrap on these deals, with the pompous that tell you that you can afford to buy quality/free range for only £4-£5+ more from other places.....uh oh I think I put myself in the firing line. :viking:

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!

Tbh I try to buy as little as possible from Tesco, but then again for people who have so little money (in a time like this especially) this is a bloody good deal.

Yes, it's "idiots" who want free range....

Or, we care more about british farmers and don't want to support unethical greedy supermarkets.

Colddddd.

Hot. A couple of these a day will go down well.

Tesco's hot deli will be reduced from £4.19 to £2

So thats bogof with change!

The worst chicken @ the best price.
Good deal, shame the ethics of tesco are so cruddy!
a reason to avoid it in itself.

mmm I know what i'll be living on next week excellent deal:thumbsup:

Cold.

Very Very Hot;-)

mmmmm chicken

Says its HOT so why are people saying its cold

Hot!

yum yum...thats the dinner sorted

Bargain!
Have some chicken heat :smiley: