This is unrelated to the beef/chicken thread

[Warpy]

1. I don't eat all that much meat

so when I buy it, I insist on the organic stuff. All supermarket meat tastes really weird to me, probably because of the flavor enhancers they put into it to make it taste like fast food. It's foul. It's like eating meat that's been dipped in house paint if you're not used to all the off flavors.

So give me a nice, tough chicken I can stew. No, you can't cut real ones with the side of a fork, you're not supposed to be able to. If it's brined, I know what's in it because I did the brining.

People from overseas complain about the meat here. Ours doesn't whinny, but it's been fouled up by "flavor experts" trying to cover up the fact that the cows, pigs and chickens have been raised in unnatural conditions on unnatural diets and the meat by itself can taste like cardboard.

So yeah, I know exactly what you're saying. I'm glad you learned your lesson quickly: if you don't have a butcher or a meat department in a health food store, watch those weasel words and especially watch out for ingredient lists that say anything other than "beef" "pork" or "chicken."