Today I was in the mood for some chicken and baked potatoes. Fortunately, a week ago, I went The Big Top, a grocery story which is not one of my normal shopping stops, and bought a bag of chicken legs to cook for dinner. For one reason or another I did not cook them that evening and froze them until another day. Let me say that this is the first and the last bag of chicken I will every buy from that store ever in my life!
This morning I placed the legs in a pan, shook salt and pepper on them and left them to bake for the next hour and a half. About forty-five minutes into the baking, I spooned my favorite BBQ sauce over each leg and continued baking for another forty-five min. While the chicken and baked potatoes where baking, my home filled with a wonderful aroma, causing my stomach to do cart-wheels in anticipation of the up-coming eating event. At this point, I must add that normally I buy a very high grade chicken from a butcher shop. I love their meat and in particular their chicken, which they do not add any water to and is always fresh and tasty. Back to the Big Top, after pulling the chicken out of the baking pan, there was over an inch of water on the bottom. I felt that the extra water was quite strange due to me not adding water in the first place. In addition to the extra liquids, the chicken had a very odd taste ruining my meal completely and giving me an upset stomach for the rest of the day.
The moral of the story is never buy cheap meat. If I can’t afford meat, a vegetarian meal is healthier than that cheap garbage from Big Top.
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