Is grocery store fried chicken any good?
>>22089124Why are you ordering online from a grocery store? Just go there and inspect it yourself.
>>22089126I use Uber eats. I can't drive
>>22089127Im sorry.
>>22089126>Just waste time drinking, parking and then smelling other peopleNo
>>22089135I mean if you need a shot before going to the grocery store. I think you have bigger problems.
Maybe in other parts of the US, but in the northeast? Not really. Acme and Safeway are okay but more expensive than they need to be. WAKEFERN stores are always too salty. Delhaize stores are in the same boat as Acme/Safeway (probably other Albertsons stores, too) but greasier. Walmart is the fucking worst. Whole Foods and Sprouts are some northern wypipo shit and therefore overpriced and undertasty. I don't know if Met Fresh or Wegmans chicken are any good. By the time I started shipping at those stores, I already swore off supermarket stuff.The only halfway decent supermarket chicken anywhere from Delaware to Maine were Pathmark and Superfresh but they all closed (although a new one reopened in Brooklyn last year but I've no idea if it's as good as it used to be).Is fried chicken any good from Southern stores? I'm not even gonna bother asking about the Midwest or the West Coast. And since I see your getting a decent deal from an Albertsons store using Just4U, I say buy it and soon because it gets progressively shittier as it sits out. They pulled the first batch an hour ago and they might be pulling the second batch soon if you've got a popular one.
>>22089124It's allright at Hannaford
too expensive now
>>22089257Wrong
The Shoprite near me always burns it and its dry as fuck.
honestly I love Walmart popcorn chicken
The Albertsons fried chicken has long had a reputation for being god tier. The kroger fried chicken is shit and mostly bones. All are better than KFC though.
IGA stores in Quebec are pretty consistently good at frying deli chicken
>>22089124nope, dont even try
>>22089124I've tried it from two different grocery stores, and both times it tasted rotten. Tbqh, grocery store chicken in general tastes rotten to me.
>>22089124Id rather just get a rotisserie chicken.
>>22089124no, it's very unhealthy.
the ralphs near me is pretty good but the vons is ALWAYS way overcooked i should call the store about it. maybe its because the vons doesn't get as much traffic so it stays out too long
>>22089127Why not instacart it so you can also get groceries at the same time. Then you'll have food for now and later and potentially less overall service fees. Or pay for an grocery delivery service that many supermarkets now offer.
>>22089129lel this dood apologizing
>>22089124I don't know if it's just the one near me, but Safeway's fried chicken is mid at best. It's not very well seasoned, and overly salty. If you have a Save Mart where you live, I recommend theirs. It's worth the difference in price, the flavor is much better.
Lol no. It never is. The best ones are only ever mediocre. The only good thing about them is you're technically getting a better price per piece of chicken.
Nice prices!
Chester's Chicken also has good sides.
>>22089886Could've fooled me, those look like shit.
>>22089889The best tasting food is often bland or even horrible looking.
>>22089127Get a fucking job.
>>22089127your license doesn't go in your gas tank
I used to get Roadies Chicken from a mini-mart occasionally. It was good. Last time I went in there, I noticed a new sign on the sign that misspelled it as "Rodies" chicken. Sure enough, when I went in, it was full of poojeets. Another good thing ruined.
>>22089127walk to the damn grocery store and back. that's what I do when I don't have a car
>>22089127and yes, every time I have gotten it it is good. you can reheat it in the microwave too
>>22089124Sometimes the breading is too salty so it depends where you go, but its a way more reasonable price than something like KFC or bojangles.
my experience is they tend to lack salt for my preference (or at least the grocery store fried chicken I've had). I usually get a batch, take them home, add salt, make a gravy and dip them in
>>22089212>PathmarkThis anon knows ball.They been outta business for 10+years but I still ream bout that fried chicken that I grew up on. Pathmark fried chicken was the goat and no one else has ever come close. ShopRite and stop&shop suck. Fast food sucks.
>>22089124publix and safeway are goodWalmart isnt
>>22089124That's a damn good deal but the quality will vary widely between which store. Winn Dixie has great fried chicken. Publix has great wings and fantastic popcorn chicken but their bone-in fried chicken is middling.
>>22089212Publix usually has pretty good fried chicken. Winn-Dixie had either God tier fried chicken or Popeye's reject chicken. Nothing in-between. Which of the two you got was consistent by location. Even in the South, the fried chicken at Kroger is trash.
>>22089124all fried chicken is basically the same. the difference is in how long it is allowed to sit before you buy it and how they keep it warm until it sells. this is also why kfc popeyes bojangles and the rest vary wildly from store to store and visit to visit. unless you know the chicken is being fried immediately before it it served the grocery store fried chicken is ALWAYS the best value. yes its probably been sitting for 2 hours but nobody else is selling 8 pieces for $10.
>>22089124I buy rotisserie chicken from my local supermarket occasionally and per kilogram it's...cheaper than raw whole chicken from the same supermarket.How is that possible?
>>22092165It's a loss leader
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>>22092386test
>>22092507>snaps fingahsMHMMMM HMMM
>>22089124Only when the fat black mammy is working
>>22092514I was testing to see if I was still b& for being anti kike (but reported for being off topic)
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>>22089212actually at my local piggly wiggly when I lived in wisconsin the fried chicken was universally pretty great, but they got all their chicken from the chicken farm that was just outside of town.
>>22089124very dry. tried some because i was shopping while hungry (never do that). it wasn't awful but definitely wasn't great either
>>22089124i got this deal today and the guy at the counter gave me like 12 pieces and still only charged me for 8. they also had 3lb tubs of sides for $3.99. needless to say, shit was cash.
>>22093742the chicken taste any good?
>>22093742Dude hooked you up, I hope you got potato wedges (bros be for jojos)
>>22089124It's not only good, it's very affordable. Always clutch at $4.99 at Food Lion.Also Walmart's fried chicken is surprisingly good and family sized.
>>22089124Walmart popcorn chicken is guaranteed to be soggy and gross if you ever have to have it delivered.
>>22092165Don't go asking too many questions.
>>22093783>imagine having walmart popcorn chicken delivered to youyou sure must be rich to make that kinda mistake
>>22093778yeah albertsons chicken is actually good. good seasoning in flavor and amount. not dry at all even when i reheated it in the oven.>>22093780i used to borrow some wedgies and tendies all the time back when i worked there about 15 years ago. very solid deli offerings.
>>22093821Should I ask how you returned them after borrowing them?
>>22093821Albertson's is the best. I prefer it to kfc (but not to Popeyes)
>>22093782Im 100% sure food lion brand chicken is dukes.
you cant go wrong with the lemon pepper rotisserie chicken
>>22089124If your local grocery store fast food department is anything like the one I worked at, then it entirely depends on who is working that day.Everything typically comes in frozen, pre-breaded and uncooked. The deep fryers are set to a specific temperature and the uncooked chicken pieces are put in for a pre-specified amount of time, taken out, internal temperature confirmed to ensure they are cooked, then placed in the hot case. Sometimes employees get busy or forget to push the start button and you get overcooked/burnt chicken.The chicken pieces are considered "fresh" if they have been in the hot case for less than 2 h, and are only "required" to be replaced if they've been in for 4+ hours. I put required in quotes because it is rare that they actually get replaced every 4 hours; if there's still a lot of fried chicken left at like 5 pm and the batch is from 11 am, it would be unlikely that anybody put a new batch in. Not uncommon for fried chicken made at 11am to be sold at 7pm. Problem is at that point, it takes 10 minutes and 30 seconds to cook a bag of fried chicken in the fryer and that's often too long for most customers to wait so the employees often figure it's better to not waste food if nobody's going to buy it which is why it sometimes sits out for so long - at least there's something in the hot case.I've heard some customers say that when it's fresh it's better than anything from any of the fast food chicken places and when it's been sitting around all day it's inedible.It depends entirely on who is working and how "by the book" they are.
>>22097517Interesting, thanks for the knowledge
>>22089127Uber a gun to your house and shoot yourself
>>22097733kek
>>22089124Yeah but only if its Publix
>>22089124if it's purchased in a real country: yes. if it's purchased in the united slobs of fatmerica: no.
>>22089124There was some supermarket chain in Wisconsin I would get fried chicken from. Normally I wouldn't get fried chicken from a supermarket. I like Walmart's rotisserie chickens but I am hesitant to try the fried chicken as it always has a ton of humidity on the lid and I don't normally go there early enough to get it from the actual deli.
>>22089124Big Y ain't bad.
>>22089124Yep
>>22089124we could debate the quality forever. it doesnt matter. its about price. 8 piece is $10 at most.
>>22089124My mother gets fried chicken from the local Jewel/Osco deli. It's decent. Personally I prefer Brown's, but the only one not infested by poos is nearly 20 miles away.
>>22089124It's pretty good, but I'd rather go to a reputable fried chicken establishment since it always tastes better there.
my Winn Dixie's fried chicken is as good as any I've had but I've never been to any small businesses known for having the best fried chicken
>>22089124It can be, but it has to be as fresh as possible. They all use some all encompassing spice mix so it hits those fried chicken notes really well. But for the love of god, do not eat the old soggy stuff, it is HORRIBLE.
>>22089124North Texas reporting in. Albertsons will do a $5.99 bucket of legs, wings and thighs (10 count) and it's damn good. Cheap Chicken Monday ftw.
