Re:Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?
by timsally on Monday September 26, 2011 @10:17PM
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A brief anecdote. McKinnon's meat market in Cambridge sells boneless chicken breasts for $2/lb and split chicken breasts for $1/lb. I'm not an expert and can't speak to the quality, but it's really popular among residents here. I have no idea whether this is an "unrepresentative price sample", but it's a meat market in Boston a few blocks away from the red line. It's not exactly an obscure shop. I've never been there, but I'm thinking about checking it out this week as people keep telling me to go.
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Google says McKinnon's sells ground chicken for $1.49 --- which is itself an absurdly low price, lower than Costco, wildly lower than the supermarkets --- a boneless chicken breast costs $0.50 more than that per pound?
It might just be regional variations. In Quincy (quite near Cambridge), Roxie's is currently selling chicken breasts for 1.79/lb.
Roxie's is a local meat market where my family used to buy most of our meat (the other place being an illegal meat auction which was held in a strip club on Sundays...and yes, I'm being completely serious).
Here's their flyer: http://www.roxiesofquincy.com/daily-add/daily.pdf
Here is McKinnon's flyer: http://mckinnonsmeatmarket.homestead.com/Menu.html. I'm not sure on ground chicken price, but you can see the prices for chicken breast on there. I've never personally been there, but there is a Yelp review from July that confirms buying split Chicken breast at $0.99/lb.