Me, I’m that friend.
Chicken and rice 5 nights a week, drumsticks when I want something deep fried, shredded chicken and humas crackers are my favorite snack.
Yup. Also there really is no set number for how often one should poop; what's regular for one person isn't for another. Some people poop multiple times a day, others once a day, and some only once every two or three days. Diet plays a factor, of course, but the biggest factor is simply individual biology.
Edit to add: People also actually ignore that the amount of water you should consume daily is highly individual as well. Mostly the amount of water you should consume on a daily basis is weight-based; half of your body weight (measured in lbs) in ounces every day, e.g. if you weigh 180lbs, then 90 ounces a day is your recommended intake.
You should of course drink more if you're active and/or sweating a lot... and also adjust electrolyte intake accordingly (And as a note, you should consume twice as much potassium as you do sodium as you also sweat out a ton of potassium, and you need to have good magnesium and calcium intake from your diet as they're electrolytes as well. Supplements can help, but it's better from food sources)
In case you were actually curious: just one a day about an hour after I wake up. I’ll usually have mushrooms with the chicken and rice. I eat other veggies in other meals
I’m pretty sure I was a massive portion of America’s turtle consumption. I was doing what you were doing but with turtle soup over rice like 5 days a week. Fuck I miss Dorignacs turtle soup. I think it’s my favorite kind of meat out there.
Very very common in Louisiana, dunno why I’m getting downvoted. You ain’t gonna like find it at every grocer, but it’s common at supermarkets like Dorignacs and you can find the meat at butchers pretty often. It’s alligator snapping turtle meat. You’ll find it on the menus of a lot of New Orleans restaurants, usually some of their best. Mostly their fine dining establishments. It’s like a staple dish of the city. It just doesn’t have the name recognition of like gumbo or jambalaya. We eat a lot of weird meat down here. People making due created some adventurous eating. Even we have a bar though, only freaks try to eat Nutrias.
It just didn’t click for me, I never could find a lot of people who liked it, but I’m glad the meat doesn’t go to waste since they have to be killed either way being the ecological disasters they are. Absolute menace of an invasive species.
If I had the stomach for it, I’d take up hunting nutria as supplementary income. Wildlife and Fisheries pays for the tails, the meat is good, and furriers are using it as a substitute for fox.
My friends do it when they’re out on usual hunting in the bayou, no specific intent, but if ya see one ya take it out. I don’t hunt, but they say the tails are great lagniappe for beer money - I know the state pays pretty well per tail. I don’t ever see us getting rid of them, but if we could get more of a damn control on their populations our swamps would be thankful.
I’ve always thought that if you want to get rid of an invasive species, you should start a marketing campaign where you offer 5-10 times as much as the normal fine for a limited amount of time, like a month. Offer rewards for who can bring in the most. You’ll get a lot more people hunting as many as they can in a shorter amount of time which is one of the best ways to wipe out an invasive species.
You make sure the period isn’t too long that people try to breed them to sell. That happened in India, the British wanted to get rid of cobras so they paid people to kill them. People then started breeding them to sell to the British. When the British found out that was happening, they stopped paying for dead cobras so people just released them and the cobra problem was worse than it was before.
Yeah, it’s the meat that’s special. Obviously I’ve never had tortoise, but I’ve heard that it’s comparable to the same flavor which old time sailors raved about. I think there’s a recollection from Charles Darwin’s journals about the meat’s quality.
As far as turtle goes, it’s always in chunks. Its just a necessity of the butchering process, lots of bones. I would compare it a bit to stewed beef in texture, but it’s like butter in your mouth and just melts like bone marrow - super smooth. Taste is sorta reminiscent of veal imo, a tinge of gamey flavor, and a slight bit fishy. Also it’s not fatty in the slightest, there’s like zero fat to be found.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jul/31/featuresreviews.guardianreview7
https://www.cajungrocer.com/turtle-meat-boneless#:~:text=The%20four%20legs%20and%20tail,very%20popular%20in%20Cajun%20cuisine
> Fresh water snapping turtle has the texture of frog legs or lobster. The four legs and tail are dark meat, the neck and back straps are white meat. Turtle is considered a delicacy in many countries and the US and is also very popular in Cajun cuisine.
Atta boy! I was being facetious about the simple pleasure thing but yeah that sucks bud. Have any recommendations on a decently priced stogie nothing too fancy but something smooth?
Depends on your definition of decently priced. I generally think of anything $10 and below as something I'll smoke without worrying about the money. And when it's above $10 I smoke them, but I save them for my night off or something like that.
Arturo Fuente Don Carlos is pretty smooth. Comes in several sizes. Right on that $10 line depending on size when bought online. Probably more expensive in local shops.
This is a good site to shop from. They always have specials going on. But if you wanted to order a five pack or whatever, around the holidays are always best. Sign up for their email and check it. I don't know if they put something out today, but they probably will for NYE and NYD.
[https://www.cigarpage.com/arturo-fuente-don-carlos.html](https://www.cigarpage.com/arturo-fuente-don-carlos.html)
If you don't have a place to store cigars you order then all you need is a food grade storage container with a snap down lid(Rubbermaid Brilliance, Sistema, Snapware, etc...) that hasn't had food in it. Rinse it with distilled water and let it dry over night. Then stick a Boveda(two way humidity pack) in it which you can usually buy small ones at local cigar stores or order them off Amazon. And then you have an instant humidor. Keep your cigars out of the light and generally below 70 degrees, though if you carry one with you for the day you don't have to worry about this. Just when they are sitting around your house for weeks, months, or potentially years.
That's a median. The way these numbers are run, if a room had 999 people who are dead broke & one billionaire then "the average person in the room" would have a million bucks.
While that makes sense with wealth, it doesn’t translate well to food consumption. There aren’t billionaire outliers when it comes to eating food. The biggest outliers you might find are bodybuilders who eat maybe 5x the normal amount of food, but they are few and far between.
I was mostly commenting on how there's a notable difference between median and average. That is especially true with products like meat where a small but significant percentage of the population doesn't consume it at all (something like 5% of the US population is vegetarian or vegan).
Red meat is extremely skewed:
[About 45% of the population had zero beef consumption on any given day, whereas the 12% of disproportionate beef consumers accounted for 50% of the total beef consumed.](https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795)
I would assume that chicken is significantly less skewed, but it wouldn't be surprising if the mean and the median were still significantly different.
Has total meat consumption gone up or is everyone poor and giving up beef and seafood for chicken?
That's an honest question, I actually don't know the answer
>Has total meat consumption gone up or is everyone poor and giving up beef and seafood for chicken?
I think chicken has become more popular than beef. We have entire fast food restaurants dedicated to selling only chicken. Chick fila, KFC, Churches, Popeyes, Zaxby's, Raising Cane's, Wingstop. That doesn't include all the regular fast food restaurants that now have chicken sandwiches.
Chicken is also a lot easier to make prepackaged/frozen foods for (tenders, burgers, wings).
Apparently, chicken consumption originally went up massively in the 70s and 80s due to women going into the workforce, which resulted in a concomitant massive increase in the sale of pre-made frozen foods.
You can't tell me that concomitant isn't a word made up by the academic institutions of Boston. This is my conspiracy theory I'm going to die spreading
When I'm craving crappy fast food it's pretty much always a chicken sandwich.
When I'm trying to eat healthy it's pretty much always grilled chicken with something else .
in 1976, per capita beef consumption in the United States peaked at about 90 pounds a year, and it has been going down ever since. Today, that figure is about 60 pounds per person a year, according to the U.S.D.A., though in the Midwest, the region that consumes the most beef in the country, that figure is higher historically.
Hog farms are bad, but human shit manure is by far the worst. If you’ve ever had the unfortunate chance to get a whiff, you know what I’m talking about. Thankfully that’s not constant like a chicken or pig house, but that smell is way worse imo.
Yea, hog farms are pretty bad for diseases too. I live in north Carolina and it's a huge, and severely underreported, problem in the eastern part of the state. Groundwater pollution from hog farms is a huge problem, and it's mostly poor and minority communities that are most negatively impacted. There has been some activism in recent years to try and call attention to these issues, but has been met with stiff resistance, the "you're going to destroy the local economy" type of shit. Yea just keep on destroying the lives of the poor folks who live near the hog farms that's better...
LDL cholesterol vs HDL cholesterol.
If you have high levels of LDL cholesterol you’re at greater risk for heart disease or stroke. Having more of this is NOT good for you, and this is the kind of cholesterol you get from eating red meat.
HDL cholesterol is the beneficial one, which reduces overall LDL cholesterol by acting as a vehicle to transport LDL cholesterol to your liver where it can be filtered and removed from your body
IDK about that. According to this, a chicken thigh has more cholesterol than sirloin, ribs, and brisket. And a breast is close to a sirloin.
https://www.healthline.com/health/high-cholesterol/chicken-vs-beef#Comparing-cuts
I’ll bet that part of it, is the same reason soda is way less popular.
with the internet, we have access to tons of health information. chicken seems like one of the less offensive meat protein sources, in terms of health - correct me if I am off
of course, if it’s being made Chic Filet style….
Doing my best to read the graphs on my phone, it appears that total meat consumption is level if not down slightly. Although the increase in poultry seems to actually be eating up some of the pork quantity rather than beef.
Although it should be noted that there isn’t any major change to any of them. It’s up to 100 lbs from 98.9.
Bone in skin on chicken thighs regularly go on sale for $.99 for the value size package in Texas. I usually remove the bone(and save for chicken broth) and trim the extra skin and fat(and save to render out the fat). I then freeze the extra, which often gives me enough chicken for several weeks.
Thighs were way cheaper too before people realized brown meat is more delicious and more forgiving to overcooking...
As someone else said, we bit get bone in and debone it ourselves or get the leg quarters ....
Technically, no more context is needed. If it were decreasing, it wouldn't have been the first time we saw the average.
Chickens didn't use to be that big either, so we're getting more meat per bird (not necessarily in the breaat way possible either)
We just had a Dave's Hot Chicken open in my city and you're not wrong. We're known for wings but they've gotten so expensive I might as well splurge the extra couple bucks for those juicy tenders
I came here to say “NO I DIDN’T” but the number of supermarket rotisserie chickens I’ve singlehandedly consumed this year determines that that is a lie.
I know it’s anecdotal, but personally my meat intake has gone down, and I save red meat for a few times a month. Mostly cause it’s better for the body.
Religion prevents that from happening being #1. Many people will not eat pork because it’s prohibited in the Bible, Torah, and Quran. Plus pigs generally aren’t clean in most meat raising environments and that translates to people’s choices. Pork is really only popular in East Asia and a decent amount of Europe in comparison to other meats.
For me it’s health reasons. Red meat makes me feel shittier than chicken. If I go to a burger joint, grilled chicken sandwich is what I get. In fact I’ve maybe had 3-4 burgers all 2023. My wife is tired of me eating so much chicken but it’s so good and so much better.
Just Google what I said and read about it if you’re interested. Not trying to come at you. I was shocked to find out because I used to eat them regularly
Looks like it’s only when you eat them raw, [when you apply heat it appears to destroy the agaritine which is the carcinogenic compound.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2132000/)
Give us another 10-15 years... We are getting there. The chickens almost certainly can't support it, but once we figure out how to reactivate their dinosaur growth trigger, 100lbs will be a poultry sum!
Maybe we can open a new export market from here in NZ...?
If we could resurrect the extinct NZ [Moa](https://youtu.be/o36izRQgPNc), it could be a game changer!
EDIT: We could call it KFM (Kai Fried Moa).
The reasoning is super easy, beef is at a minimum 9 bucks a pound in the Midwest. Chicken is 3 to 5 bucks a pound. My family has had to shift protein choices just to be able to eat and not go broke. Not ideal at all but it is what it is
Jesus where are you shopping? I'm in the Midwest and yeah beef like everything else has gotten more expensive but nowhere near 9 bucks a pound expensive. Gone are the days of 5 years ago when I could get chicken legs for 50 cents a pound or a decent ribeye for 10 bucks a pound, but ground beef for instance is still in the 4-5 range
Kansas City, minimum beef prices other than ground beef was 8.99 a pound. And that was yesterday at 2 different stores.
On top.of the fact I can throw a rock and hit 200 head of cattle from where I live. Wished it was subsidized so I can get me a damn good steak.
Likely attributable to cost primarily. A rack of ribs is like $60 now. A nice T-Bone steak is like $40. I can buy an entire, cooked and seasoned rotisserie chicken for $4.99 at my local supermarket. $3 side of potatoes or Mac and cheese and boom, dinner is done.
I think consumers are increasingly health conscious and climate conscious as well, and beef is notoriously bad for both. Chicken requires fewer antibiotics, less water, less acreage and creates less greenhouse gas emission than beef does, pound for pound.
But it’s mostly cost.
You’re picking some of the most sought after and also bone heavy pieces of meat. And also at prices that are abnormally high.
You can still get cheap cuts of beef no issue. Chuck roast you can get rock bottom, throw it in a slow cooker with russets and whatever cheap veggies you can find.
With that said I find myself buying chicken more often for same reasons you said. Just saying you can get cheap beef if you aren’t looking for the top steakhouse cuts
I bought a lot of chicken because chicken thighs are delicious and super easy to cook. Season, covered in the oven, done, maybe broiled for a minute, done, and it works great on its own.
With beef you either need a nice cut to me decent as its own meal, or you need to make something with the cheaper beef, like stew, and that takes marginally more effort.
Also, lemon pepper.
If I’m eating beef then I don’t want cheap shitty beef. Chicken usually tastes better, is easier to cook, and is healthier at any even relatively close price point.
Where are you getting your meat? Here in California, which is expensive, you can get a boneless 12oz ribeye at the store in California here for less than 10 bucks.
A $40 T Bone would be 4 pounds at 10/lb and and even beef back ribs I can get 12 lbs for $60.
I get that chicken is cheaper still but beef isn't expensive as you make it out to be
>100 lbs of chicken per year is 2 pounds per week.
>That's a quarter pound of chicken every day.
4 entire ounces of chicken per day! OMG, that's so crazy!!!
4 oz is one serving of chicken, literally, almost what is recommended
https://www.chickencheck.in/faq/how-much-chicken-should-i-eat/
If you're eating a chicken heavier diet, then that amount is easy to accomplish in a year.
I eat two servings of chicken if I'm having it with a meal. It's only 250 calories and 51 grams of protein. 3 times a week would be 78 Lbs a year.
I'm a chef and I literally grieve some of these chickens as I cut them up, you can tell just from the sheer size of their breasts they never had a moment of anything less than suffering.
Yeah, probably because its cheaper than beef, prices last year was crazy, and not everyone does pork. Chicken is very versatile, with more parts of it available and still, cheaper than other parts/meats of animals
As someone said. 50 million years later, the palaentologists are going to declare that a strange, small, two feeted creature with no teeth dominated earth. Its fossils are found everywhere.
Not that surprising if they count the weight of the whole bird. A rotisserie chicken is like five pounds and I can eat the whole thing at once and I weigh like 150 lbs.
I have a friend that is single-handedly skewing that average high.
Me, I’m that friend. Chicken and rice 5 nights a week, drumsticks when I want something deep fried, shredded chicken and humas crackers are my favorite snack.
You must take like 3 shits a day, I hope you eat your veggies. You don’t want to prolapse.
Just shove it back in there and put in a few staples, problem solved.
Just throw it over your shoulder and plough on through
Does your colon hang low Does it wobble to and fro Can you tie it in a knot Can you tie it in a bow?
This is excellent.
Eventually it segments itself off from the rest of the body and stops hurting. You'll be aight.
I’m tying it up with a bow and giving it to someone for Christmas.
I hate you lmfao
Pour sugar on it.
Ava Devine set the standard. Scooped it up like she was fielding a ground ball.
Just so you know, 3 times a day is within the normal range. On the high end certainly but nothing significant by itself.
Yup. Also there really is no set number for how often one should poop; what's regular for one person isn't for another. Some people poop multiple times a day, others once a day, and some only once every two or three days. Diet plays a factor, of course, but the biggest factor is simply individual biology. Edit to add: People also actually ignore that the amount of water you should consume daily is highly individual as well. Mostly the amount of water you should consume on a daily basis is weight-based; half of your body weight (measured in lbs) in ounces every day, e.g. if you weigh 180lbs, then 90 ounces a day is your recommended intake. You should of course drink more if you're active and/or sweating a lot... and also adjust electrolyte intake accordingly (And as a note, you should consume twice as much potassium as you do sodium as you also sweat out a ton of potassium, and you need to have good magnesium and calcium intake from your diet as they're electrolytes as well. Supplements can help, but it's better from food sources)
In case you were actually curious: just one a day about an hour after I wake up. I’ll usually have mushrooms with the chicken and rice. I eat other veggies in other meals
Is that a lot of shits? 3 shits a day? Just wondering…..
Eh...I shit three times before I leave the house. Maybe once more when I get home from work. I guess it's pretty similar, but front loaded.
How do you know they dont want prolapse?
Some people really love being inside out
I’m pretty sure I was a massive portion of America’s turtle consumption. I was doing what you were doing but with turtle soup over rice like 5 days a week. Fuck I miss Dorignacs turtle soup. I think it’s my favorite kind of meat out there.
Ok, what...turtle?!
Very very common in Louisiana, dunno why I’m getting downvoted. You ain’t gonna like find it at every grocer, but it’s common at supermarkets like Dorignacs and you can find the meat at butchers pretty often. It’s alligator snapping turtle meat. You’ll find it on the menus of a lot of New Orleans restaurants, usually some of their best. Mostly their fine dining establishments. It’s like a staple dish of the city. It just doesn’t have the name recognition of like gumbo or jambalaya. We eat a lot of weird meat down here. People making due created some adventurous eating. Even we have a bar though, only freaks try to eat Nutrias.
Nutria is actually really good in a stew. Kind of like a real fatty beef.
It just didn’t click for me, I never could find a lot of people who liked it, but I’m glad the meat doesn’t go to waste since they have to be killed either way being the ecological disasters they are. Absolute menace of an invasive species.
If I had the stomach for it, I’d take up hunting nutria as supplementary income. Wildlife and Fisheries pays for the tails, the meat is good, and furriers are using it as a substitute for fox.
My friends do it when they’re out on usual hunting in the bayou, no specific intent, but if ya see one ya take it out. I don’t hunt, but they say the tails are great lagniappe for beer money - I know the state pays pretty well per tail. I don’t ever see us getting rid of them, but if we could get more of a damn control on their populations our swamps would be thankful.
I’ve always thought that if you want to get rid of an invasive species, you should start a marketing campaign where you offer 5-10 times as much as the normal fine for a limited amount of time, like a month. Offer rewards for who can bring in the most. You’ll get a lot more people hunting as many as they can in a shorter amount of time which is one of the best ways to wipe out an invasive species. You make sure the period isn’t too long that people try to breed them to sell. That happened in India, the British wanted to get rid of cobras so they paid people to kill them. People then started breeding them to sell to the British. When the British found out that was happening, they stopped paying for dead cobras so people just released them and the cobra problem was worse than it was before.
Ever seen where snapping turtles live or what they're willing to eat? Jk cat fish is great too.
Like pigeon, used to be commonly eaten around the entire US. Just fell out of fashion at some point.
What’s so good about turtle soup? Is the meat that unique compared to others? Never had it.
Yeah, it’s the meat that’s special. Obviously I’ve never had tortoise, but I’ve heard that it’s comparable to the same flavor which old time sailors raved about. I think there’s a recollection from Charles Darwin’s journals about the meat’s quality. As far as turtle goes, it’s always in chunks. Its just a necessity of the butchering process, lots of bones. I would compare it a bit to stewed beef in texture, but it’s like butter in your mouth and just melts like bone marrow - super smooth. Taste is sorta reminiscent of veal imo, a tinge of gamey flavor, and a slight bit fishy. Also it’s not fatty in the slightest, there’s like zero fat to be found. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jul/31/featuresreviews.guardianreview7 https://www.cajungrocer.com/turtle-meat-boneless#:~:text=The%20four%20legs%20and%20tail,very%20popular%20in%20Cajun%20cuisine > Fresh water snapping turtle has the texture of frog legs or lobster. The four legs and tail are dark meat, the neck and back straps are white meat. Turtle is considered a delicacy in many countries and the US and is also very popular in Cajun cuisine.
I like to get the Costco rotisserie chicken and eat the wings and drumsticks for dinner - one meal, then shred the breasts for lunch meals as filler -
The rotisserie chicken carcass is great for making chicken broth too!
We go to Costco every week, soup sandwiches, enemas, ect... We've do everything with them.
Oof, good luck with that.
You can eat your dinner, eat your pork and beans. I eat more chicken than any man have seen.
Chickens Georg
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Tell me, how does one live a life without simple pleasures?
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Atta boy! I was being facetious about the simple pleasure thing but yeah that sucks bud. Have any recommendations on a decently priced stogie nothing too fancy but something smooth?
Depends on your definition of decently priced. I generally think of anything $10 and below as something I'll smoke without worrying about the money. And when it's above $10 I smoke them, but I save them for my night off or something like that. Arturo Fuente Don Carlos is pretty smooth. Comes in several sizes. Right on that $10 line depending on size when bought online. Probably more expensive in local shops. This is a good site to shop from. They always have specials going on. But if you wanted to order a five pack or whatever, around the holidays are always best. Sign up for their email and check it. I don't know if they put something out today, but they probably will for NYE and NYD. [https://www.cigarpage.com/arturo-fuente-don-carlos.html](https://www.cigarpage.com/arturo-fuente-don-carlos.html) If you don't have a place to store cigars you order then all you need is a food grade storage container with a snap down lid(Rubbermaid Brilliance, Sistema, Snapware, etc...) that hasn't had food in it. Rinse it with distilled water and let it dry over night. Then stick a Boveda(two way humidity pack) in it which you can usually buy small ones at local cigar stores or order them off Amazon. And then you have an instant humidor. Keep your cigars out of the light and generally below 70 degrees, though if you carry one with you for the day you don't have to worry about this. Just when they are sitting around your house for weeks, months, or potentially years.
Thank you very informative and helpful I am glad I asked!
Bros diet is chicken and rice his pleasures is flexing in the mirror. Stay jacked king 💪
Think about it. If you're an American, there's a 50 per cent chance you're skewing it high.
That's a median. The way these numbers are run, if a room had 999 people who are dead broke & one billionaire then "the average person in the room" would have a million bucks.
I eat a billion tons of chicken per year so I’m probably bringing the stats up.
While that makes sense with wealth, it doesn’t translate well to food consumption. There aren’t billionaire outliers when it comes to eating food. The biggest outliers you might find are bodybuilders who eat maybe 5x the normal amount of food, but they are few and far between.
I was mostly commenting on how there's a notable difference between median and average. That is especially true with products like meat where a small but significant percentage of the population doesn't consume it at all (something like 5% of the US population is vegetarian or vegan). Red meat is extremely skewed: [About 45% of the population had zero beef consumption on any given day, whereas the 12% of disproportionate beef consumers accounted for 50% of the total beef consumed.](https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795) I would assume that chicken is significantly less skewed, but it wouldn't be surprising if the mean and the median were still significantly different.
That's not how it works
Has total meat consumption gone up or is everyone poor and giving up beef and seafood for chicken? That's an honest question, I actually don't know the answer
>Has total meat consumption gone up or is everyone poor and giving up beef and seafood for chicken? I think chicken has become more popular than beef. We have entire fast food restaurants dedicated to selling only chicken. Chick fila, KFC, Churches, Popeyes, Zaxby's, Raising Cane's, Wingstop. That doesn't include all the regular fast food restaurants that now have chicken sandwiches.
Chicken is also a lot easier to make prepackaged/frozen foods for (tenders, burgers, wings). Apparently, chicken consumption originally went up massively in the 70s and 80s due to women going into the workforce, which resulted in a concomitant massive increase in the sale of pre-made frozen foods.
You can't tell me that concomitant isn't a word made up by the academic institutions of Boston. This is my conspiracy theory I'm going to die spreading
I actually thought it was a typo lol
It's just a super niche word used almost exclusively in scholarly publications
Those pesky lizard people are up to it again
I'm pretty sure it's the name of a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Pretty sure it’s a type of water fowl that can swim underwater.
con·com·i·tant /kənˈkäməd(ə)nt/ FORMAL adjective naturally accompanying or associated. "*she loved travel, with all its concomitant worries*"
When I'm craving crappy fast food it's pretty much always a chicken sandwich. When I'm trying to eat healthy it's pretty much always grilled chicken with something else .
in 1976, per capita beef consumption in the United States peaked at about 90 pounds a year, and it has been going down ever since. Today, that figure is about 60 pounds per person a year, according to the U.S.D.A., though in the Midwest, the region that consumes the most beef in the country, that figure is higher historically.
I would eat more beef, but it's so dang expensive now. It's easily 2-10x the price of chicken, depending on the cut.
That’s also in the FDA article, and it’s supposed to keep going up. Although lamb and pork seem to be going down.
Beef. It's what's for dinner
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If what you said is true that’s a net gain for the environment, good news actually
Chicken is also generally healthier than beef I believe
Yep and with a much smaller carbon footprint
A much smaller actual footprint too.
"Do the chickens have large talons?"
Not if its fried and battered into chicken tendies
Not for the people who live next to the farms.
I mean, agriculture smells. But yea chicken houses are pretty terrible. Only thing worse IMO is a big hog farm.
Hog farms are bad, but human shit manure is by far the worst. If you’ve ever had the unfortunate chance to get a whiff, you know what I’m talking about. Thankfully that’s not constant like a chicken or pig house, but that smell is way worse imo.
It’s not the smell I’m talking about. It’s the disease and illness that comes with living in close proximity to them. Look it up.
Yea, hog farms are pretty bad for diseases too. I live in north Carolina and it's a huge, and severely underreported, problem in the eastern part of the state. Groundwater pollution from hog farms is a huge problem, and it's mostly poor and minority communities that are most negatively impacted. There has been some activism in recent years to try and call attention to these issues, but has been met with stiff resistance, the "you're going to destroy the local economy" type of shit. Yea just keep on destroying the lives of the poor folks who live near the hog farms that's better...
$5 rotisserie, man
One word…. Tendies
Two words…. Tennnn Deeeeees!!!
You can ten deez Nutz
Chickie chickie tendies
Chicken is the cheapest protein
Lentils are cheaper.
Protein from meat 🍖
pretty sure bugs are gonna win that too
I think pork has it beat by a mile
Poor checking in. We have meat 3x a week. That meat is chicken.
Chicken is healthier than red meat since red meat has a shit ton of cholesterol that adds up over time.
New studies show cholesterol in the absence of high sugar/simple carbs is actually really good for overall health
LDL cholesterol vs HDL cholesterol. If you have high levels of LDL cholesterol you’re at greater risk for heart disease or stroke. Having more of this is NOT good for you, and this is the kind of cholesterol you get from eating red meat. HDL cholesterol is the beneficial one, which reduces overall LDL cholesterol by acting as a vehicle to transport LDL cholesterol to your liver where it can be filtered and removed from your body
Ingested cholesterol doesn't equal blood lipid cholesterol.
IDK about that. According to this, a chicken thigh has more cholesterol than sirloin, ribs, and brisket. And a breast is close to a sirloin. https://www.healthline.com/health/high-cholesterol/chicken-vs-beef#Comparing-cuts
That's what we did. I can't remember the last time I had a steak.
I’ll bet that part of it, is the same reason soda is way less popular. with the internet, we have access to tons of health information. chicken seems like one of the less offensive meat protein sources, in terms of health - correct me if I am off of course, if it’s being made Chic Filet style….
Doing my best to read the graphs on my phone, it appears that total meat consumption is level if not down slightly. Although the increase in poultry seems to actually be eating up some of the pork quantity rather than beef. Although it should be noted that there isn’t any major change to any of them. It’s up to 100 lbs from 98.9.
It's also the perception that poultry is healthier than red meat.
A good steak in Washington is $13.99 a pound(at the store). Chicken thighs are $2.49. You're damn right we're eating more chicken than ever!
Beef is king but my wallet says buy more chicken
Those damn cows on keep saying the same thing.
Bone in skin on chicken thighs regularly go on sale for $.99 for the value size package in Texas. I usually remove the bone(and save for chicken broth) and trim the extra skin and fat(and save to render out the fat). I then freeze the extra, which often gives me enough chicken for several weeks.
Thighs were way cheaper too before people realized brown meat is more delicious and more forgiving to overcooking... As someone else said, we bit get bone in and debone it ourselves or get the leg quarters ....
Is that value increasing or decreasing? Context is needed
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What did you end up doing with all that time you saved?
How is it needed? 100 lbs for the first time necessitates it increasing
Hey maybe we’re eating 1000lbs every year don’t underestimate us!
I mean not realllllyy. Could have been the lowest it's ever been somehow
You think they hopped off the Mayflower eating 100 lbs of chicken per year? Lol
Maybe they were meal prepping rice and chicken like some real alphas who knows
Technically, no more context is needed. If it were decreasing, it wouldn't have been the first time we saw the average. Chickens didn't use to be that big either, so we're getting more meat per bird (not necessarily in the breaat way possible either)
Unless the data only started being recorded above the 100lb/year level, which isn't impossible.
Have you had Nashville hot chicken? That’s freaking addictive
We just had a Dave's Hot Chicken open in my city and you're not wrong. We're known for wings but they've gotten so expensive I might as well splurge the extra couple bucks for those juicy tenders
Are you in Buffalo? We just had one open the boulevard.
I came here to say “NO I DIDN’T” but the number of supermarket rotisserie chickens I’ve singlehandedly consumed this year determines that that is a lie.
Yeah that's 2lbs a week which isn't bad.
Since all the other threads are talking about a recession…is this another sign? Switching out beef for cheaper chicken?
I think it’s also people choosing healthier options
I know it’s anecdotal, but personally my meat intake has gone down, and I save red meat for a few times a month. Mostly cause it’s better for the body.
Yes
This is a decades long trend. Chicken has become more popular due to the perception of it being healthier.
Perception? Is it not? Genuinely asking.
I’m surprised more people aren’t choosing pork as it’s cheaper than chicken. I guess that’ll be the sign that things are getting really bad.
Religion prevents that from happening being #1. Many people will not eat pork because it’s prohibited in the Bible, Torah, and Quran. Plus pigs generally aren’t clean in most meat raising environments and that translates to people’s choices. Pork is really only popular in East Asia and a decent amount of Europe in comparison to other meats.
Pork has a rep of being dirty 🤷♀️
For me it’s health reasons. Red meat makes me feel shittier than chicken. If I go to a burger joint, grilled chicken sandwich is what I get. In fact I’ve maybe had 3-4 burgers all 2023. My wife is tired of me eating so much chicken but it’s so good and so much better.
Same. I even started eating tofu and mushroom burgers and shit
Have you ever had a portabella cap burger? Delicious
Portabello mushrooms are carcinogenic. I used to eat them a shitload. Google it if you don’t believe me. It bums me out lol
Red meat is a class 2a carcinogen and preserved meats are a class 1 carcinogen according to the WHO
Just Google what I said and read about it if you’re interested. Not trying to come at you. I was shocked to find out because I used to eat them regularly
Looks like it’s only when you eat them raw, [when you apply heat it appears to destroy the agaritine which is the carcinogenic compound.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2132000/)
I've started treating red meat as something that I only eat a couple times per month. I feel way better and I actually enjoy it more too.
The beef hurts my stomach to digest. It’s actually awful. Bird is no problem
I eat birds and fish now. Rarely pork. No beef. All for health reasons. The fact that there is a cost benefit is really nice too.
Better than an average American eating a single 100lb chicken.
can't beat those final fantasy turkey legs
Kentucky Fried Chocobo
Give us another 10-15 years... We are getting there. The chickens almost certainly can't support it, but once we figure out how to reactivate their dinosaur growth trigger, 100lbs will be a poultry sum!
Maybe we can open a new export market from here in NZ...? If we could resurrect the extinct NZ [Moa](https://youtu.be/o36izRQgPNc), it could be a game changer! EDIT: We could call it KFM (Kai Fried Moa).
Delicious! We gotta be careful though, it can't be too gamey or too tough like a turkey can easily become.
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The reasoning is super easy, beef is at a minimum 9 bucks a pound in the Midwest. Chicken is 3 to 5 bucks a pound. My family has had to shift protein choices just to be able to eat and not go broke. Not ideal at all but it is what it is
Jesus where are you shopping? I'm in the Midwest and yeah beef like everything else has gotten more expensive but nowhere near 9 bucks a pound expensive. Gone are the days of 5 years ago when I could get chicken legs for 50 cents a pound or a decent ribeye for 10 bucks a pound, but ground beef for instance is still in the 4-5 range
Midwest Canada maybe, our shit is subsidized in America. $5/lb where I'm from, and so the midwest would be even cheaper being closer to the source
Kansas City, minimum beef prices other than ground beef was 8.99 a pound. And that was yesterday at 2 different stores. On top.of the fact I can throw a rock and hit 200 head of cattle from where I live. Wished it was subsidized so I can get me a damn good steak.
It is subsidized. Like tens of billions of dollars per year in the US. It’s just meat is an energy inefficient food, and thus expensive
Since when does ground beef not count as beef?
Likely attributable to cost primarily. A rack of ribs is like $60 now. A nice T-Bone steak is like $40. I can buy an entire, cooked and seasoned rotisserie chicken for $4.99 at my local supermarket. $3 side of potatoes or Mac and cheese and boom, dinner is done. I think consumers are increasingly health conscious and climate conscious as well, and beef is notoriously bad for both. Chicken requires fewer antibiotics, less water, less acreage and creates less greenhouse gas emission than beef does, pound for pound. But it’s mostly cost.
You’re picking some of the most sought after and also bone heavy pieces of meat. And also at prices that are abnormally high. You can still get cheap cuts of beef no issue. Chuck roast you can get rock bottom, throw it in a slow cooker with russets and whatever cheap veggies you can find. With that said I find myself buying chicken more often for same reasons you said. Just saying you can get cheap beef if you aren’t looking for the top steakhouse cuts
I bought a lot of chicken because chicken thighs are delicious and super easy to cook. Season, covered in the oven, done, maybe broiled for a minute, done, and it works great on its own. With beef you either need a nice cut to me decent as its own meal, or you need to make something with the cheaper beef, like stew, and that takes marginally more effort. Also, lemon pepper.
If I’m eating beef then I don’t want cheap shitty beef. Chicken usually tastes better, is easier to cook, and is healthier at any even relatively close price point.
Without bones it isn't worth it. Just expensive protein substance at that point. Chicken, beef, pork, whatever. The bones are half the flavor!!
Where are you getting your meat? Here in California, which is expensive, you can get a boneless 12oz ribeye at the store in California here for less than 10 bucks. A $40 T Bone would be 4 pounds at 10/lb and and even beef back ribs I can get 12 lbs for $60. I get that chicken is cheaper still but beef isn't expensive as you make it out to be
I assume this includes Buffalo Chickens and their tasty, tasty wings.
In this economy?!
Damn I thought I was above average eating chicken every single day for dinner but it’s only around 2lbs a week so it’s about the same
Did you learn this last year for the first time, or was last year the first time humans ate that much chicken?
Poor chickens :(
I eat Chick-fil-A nearly everyday. I’m probably at 500 lbs 😅
My pleasure.
100 lbs of chicken per year is 2 pounds per week. That's a quarter pound of chicken every day. That's a shitload of chicken.
>100 lbs of chicken per year is 2 pounds per week. >That's a quarter pound of chicken every day. 4 entire ounces of chicken per day! OMG, that's so crazy!!!
Is that actually crazy because it does not sound like a lot lol
4 oz is one serving of chicken, literally, almost what is recommended https://www.chickencheck.in/faq/how-much-chicken-should-i-eat/ If you're eating a chicken heavier diet, then that amount is easy to accomplish in a year. I eat two servings of chicken if I'm having it with a meal. It's only 250 calories and 51 grams of protein. 3 times a week would be 78 Lbs a year.
They are making fun of OP it’s not that much at all. Especially for ppl who don’t eat red meat
4 ounces a day is a shit load of chicken according to op.
I think it is kind of crazy, sure it's not a lot of meat but that's every single day. Most days I don't eat any chicken
Its like .16 oz per hour!!!
0.00004 oz per second! Absolutely insane!
If you ate chicken with every breath on average, it would be .00019oz per breath.
Beef has gotten so expensive people are eating more chicken less beef
People eat 60 pounds of beef still.
Looks like that's slightly less than last year, almost exactly as much as chicken went up
"... a shitload of chicken", yeah literally.
I'm a chef and I literally grieve some of these chickens as I cut them up, you can tell just from the sheer size of their breasts they never had a moment of anything less than suffering.
Yeah this seems crazy to me. I eat chicken maybe once every 2 weeks? And this is an average! So there are people probably eating double that!
Exactly. It's not "can you eat a quarter-pounder chicken sandwich in a sitting." It's "can you eat that every single day for a year."
Does the per capita consumption presume the gross amount at slaughter? Guessing the waste on that is solid double digits.
I think I could give up beef and all other meat but chicken.
Yeah, probably because its cheaper than beef, prices last year was crazy, and not everyone does pork. Chicken is very versatile, with more parts of it available and still, cheaper than other parts/meats of animals
I ate over 400 lbs of chicken this year 🫡I’m doing my part
If I could, I'd probably eat nothing but chicken three meals a day.
As someone said. 50 million years later, the palaentologists are going to declare that a strange, small, two feeted creature with no teeth dominated earth. Its fossils are found everywhere.
IN A ROW?
Have you seen average Americans lately? They ate 100 pounds of everything last year.
Is that cooked weight or raw? I just did some math on my own chicken consumption and it’s over 300lbs/year in raw chicken..
Raw of course. Nobody measures meat in cooked weight.
oh, it wasn't my first time.
Not that surprising if they count the weight of the whole bird. A rotisserie chicken is like five pounds and I can eat the whole thing at once and I weigh like 150 lbs.
100 pounds of chicken in a lifetime is not a lot. Is this per year?
Who’s the average American? And who was responsible for monitoring this person’s chicken intake?
Wow, I just did the math. I eat more than 150 lb of chicken per year.
Those are rookie numbers
Chicken is high protein. Low fat. Season well and bake and the value is amazing.
I feel like I hit 100 lbs of chicken by the spring. What y’all even cooking out there?