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agentX
Joined: 12 Oct 2007
Location: Jeolla province
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and thus, the Chicken Wars re-ignites!
Who will win the battle this time around? Darth Vader/Lotte Mart or Jabba the Hutt/the Franchise chicken chains? |
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D-Man
Joined: 17 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 11:09 am Post subject: |
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You can be sure that the cheap chickens were raised in horrid conditions and pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones before they hit the market
Not much real chicken there at all.More like a poultryish flavoured, mutated entity being passed off as chicken.
The glory days are long over boys and girls.Real food doesn't even exist anymore. |
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CtotheB
Joined: 03 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Boy people sure get in a big huff about chicken prices in Korea. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| D-Man wrote: |
You can be sure that the cheap chickens were raised in horrid conditions and pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones before they hit the market
Not much real chicken there at all.More like a poultryish flavoured, mutated entity being passed off as chicken.
The glory days are long over boys and girls.Real food doesn't even exist anymore. |
OK. And I'd rather pay 7,000 rather than 15,000 for that poultryish flavored food. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Incidentally, Lotte Mart's actions show GREAT understanding of the Korean market and public mindset. They had a controversy, pulled back, and then priced their chicken low again months later. I doubt the controversy will be as strong this time. And if it is...rinse and repeat! |
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Jane
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not a fan of cheap chicken.
All those chickens are chicken farm chickens. Chicken a la antibiotic.
The chickens have lived in horrendous conditions and have died horrible deaths.
Is there a price on misery?
Now, it would be great if they could start a movement in Korea for sustainable chicken farming. And truly, I'd pay the price for chicken sans the samonella as long as it was fair. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, but do you guys really think they're using a different source for their chicken at Lotte Mart? I don't. That whole part of the debate seems irrelevant until I hear otherwise.
The question, as far as I know, is if you want to pay 15,000 or 7,000 won for mutant chicken. You want to pay neither? Well, fair enough, but I enjoy a mutant chicken now and again. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| nukeday wrote: |
| D-Man wrote: |
You can be sure that the cheap chickens were raised in horrid conditions and pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones before they hit the market
Not much real chicken there at all.More like a poultryish flavoured, mutated entity being passed off as chicken.
The glory days are long over boys and girls.Real food doesn't even exist anymore. |
OK. And I'd rather pay 7,000 rather than 15,000 for that poultryish flavored food. |
Indeed. I think I'll just live off of Skittles from here on out, since real food doesn't exist and all. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Are these chickens free range. If not they are only inviting the irk and criticism of Jamie Oliver. He might cancel his show on Olive TV. |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Last night they had a special on TV about chicken at the baseball stadium. They bought chicken from several vendors and checked the contents. Were 2 portions really 2 portions?
How about the chicken itself?
They then went and confronted various vendors with hidden cameras about the quantity and quality of their chicken. They found a lot of vendors weren't actually selling 2 full chickens as 2 portions, they were mixing and matching a lot of pieces, and some were selling basically breaded air as pieces. |
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Castaway
Joined: 10 May 2011
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| crossmr wrote: |
| and some were selling basically breaded air as pieces. |
Who hasn't had great big chunks of skin covered in a thick, greasy coating of crispy batter from their Korean chicken vendors? I thought it was "Korean food." |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:49 am Post subject: |
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| nukeday wrote: |
| Incidentally, Lotte Mart's actions show GREAT understanding of the Korean market and public mindset. They had a controversy, pulled back, and then priced their chicken low again months later. I doubt the controversy will be as strong this time. And if it is...rinse and repeat! |
Just like how they waited out the protesters on American beef and now American beef is #1. |
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fermentation
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| Its surprising how many people hate the free market when it doesn't benefit them. |
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