Why chickens are twice as big today as they were 60 years ago

MarketWatch ^ | January 7, 2017 | Evie Liu

[Oldexpat]

If you love home made fried chicken,it is hard to find 2.5 to 3 lb fryers. The one pound or more breasts are tough and tasteless. We cut them up and pound them out and marinate in lemon juice.

[Hot Tabasco]

just like pants.

True dat, just the other day I took a pair of Army OD's out of the basement closet and tried them on only to find they had shrunk so much I couldn't pull them over my waist. Must be too much humidity in the basement.......

[Axenolith]

6.18 pounds??? Man, it makes one yearn for the days of terror birds.

[PJ-Comix]

Former vice president Henry Wallace was among the first to develop the new bigger breed of chickens.

[Lurker]

I do an overnight soak in buttermilk.

Then pan fry in a cast iron skillet.

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[Leep]

Why are mexican men 5 feet tall?

[null and void]

Because God created larger chickens on the fifth day, DUH!

[BroJoeK]

;-)

[Dacula]

We have raised several different breeds over the years but always come back Golden Comets. They have a tremendous personality and love to talk to you. I have one that sits on my shoulder and thinks she is parrot.

GG2, come on over to our house. We have over 100 buckeyes the Mrs made last week. We were hoping to enjoy them tomorrow but the football team forgot to show up against Clemson.

[Vince Ferrer]

“That’s a big chicken!” - Woody Allen

[bgill]

I thought they were pumping the meat full of water.

They are. Chickens and turkeys. Why brine your Thanksgiving turkey since it's been sitting in a salt water bath since it left the processing company.

[Georgia Girl 2]

We buy all our chicken at Sprouts. Its like the chicken you got when you were a kid. And you can get the small ones. The taste and texture is great!

[cdcdawg]

Same reason NFL players are bigger. The exact same reason.

[Georgia Girl 2]

:-)

[avenir]

If that’s so, how did Popeyes end up peddling what appears to be freeze dried chicken? Last time I went there it cost me $35 and I ended up marveling at the ziploc bag of leftover chicken. Tiny. The drumsticks looked like buffalo style wings.

[9422WMR]

“Same reason NFL players are bigger. The exact same reason.”
Say it,
Say it,
SAYIT!!!
steroids.....
Hat tip, Kinison.

[Dr. Sivana]

A book titled The Dorito Effect goes into this at length. The book is a good read.

I actually remember most of the supermarket chicken when I was a kid in the early '70s being bigger and having a yellower tone than most of the stuff today. Kentucky Fried Chicken was then and remains small. Supermarket rotisserie chickens are also smaller.

[MarineBrat]

My big sister always told me that this reminds her of me. Chickens were more Chuck Norris-esque in the old days. :)

[correctthought]

Black Jersey Giants?

or “Roids”

[DannyTN]

Ron White said one of his rules for the new year was not picking up dog poop.

We are the top of the food chain and the only animal that picks up another animals poop.