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So it has happened. The sky has fallen, Chicken Little, and my local Costco is now selling rotisserie chicken in bags. The store put a sign out boasting that the bags use 75% less plastic. So I'm curious what others think about this.
My initial observations:
1. My sweetheart likes me to purchase a BIG chicken. It's a source of pride when I score a whopper since after all, I, the man of the house, am the hunter gatherer.. The two of us can get 3 meals from a large bird. But I find it extremely difficult to gauge the chicken's size when it's bagged compared to the old plastic containers. (And she was disappointed that I brought home too small a chicken this time! I was a chicken-hunting failure.)
2. It's far messier to remove the roast chicken from the bag in order to cut and serve it. We used to be able to pop open the top of the hard plastic container, slice the chicken while it remained in the plastic base, and even store it in the fridge inside its container if we wished. Those were the days, my friend.
3. Watching the employees, I suspect that bagging the roast chickens is slower than the old process. In the past, I'd see them first. lay out a large number of plastic bases. Then the cooked chickens went in very quickly followed by rapidly popping on all the plastic lids. The employee would then slide open the window and out came a few dozen chickens in rapid fire. Now they have to open each bag and then seal it carefully so that hopefully the bag isn't greasy. A far smaller number of birds emerged and then there was a wait for them to bag more. As a result, the line of customers waiting to pick up their chicken was the longest I've ever seen.
The only good thing is that the price remains $4.99, which is still a great deal.
TUGGERs are a down to Earth, sensible group. What do you guys think of chicken in a bag?
My initial observations:
1. My sweetheart likes me to purchase a BIG chicken. It's a source of pride when I score a whopper since after all, I, the man of the house, am the hunter gatherer.. The two of us can get 3 meals from a large bird. But I find it extremely difficult to gauge the chicken's size when it's bagged compared to the old plastic containers. (And she was disappointed that I brought home too small a chicken this time! I was a chicken-hunting failure.)
2. It's far messier to remove the roast chicken from the bag in order to cut and serve it. We used to be able to pop open the top of the hard plastic container, slice the chicken while it remained in the plastic base, and even store it in the fridge inside its container if we wished. Those were the days, my friend.
3. Watching the employees, I suspect that bagging the roast chickens is slower than the old process. In the past, I'd see them first. lay out a large number of plastic bases. Then the cooked chickens went in very quickly followed by rapidly popping on all the plastic lids. The employee would then slide open the window and out came a few dozen chickens in rapid fire. Now they have to open each bag and then seal it carefully so that hopefully the bag isn't greasy. A far smaller number of birds emerged and then there was a wait for them to bag more. As a result, the line of customers waiting to pick up their chicken was the longest I've ever seen.
The only good thing is that the price remains $4.99, which is still a great deal.
TUGGERs are a down to Earth, sensible group. What do you guys think of chicken in a bag?
