LIve or dressed chicken?
By obe212003
@obe212003 (2299)
Philippines
October 22, 2010 8:28am CST
most of the time, i buy dressed chicken at the supermarket for convenience. there was this instance where my wife bought a live native chicken and asked me to help her kill the chicken (poor creature)! it was somewhat traumatic in a sense that i feel bad after seeing it slowly dying after my wife ran the knife against its neck and blood slowly dripped and slowly losing its life.... i felt so awful.. when it was cooked, i did'nt have the appetite to eat.. So, i told my wife not to buy live ones and just buy the dressed ones in the supermarket.. how about you? which do you prefer?
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4 responses
@fannitia (2167)
• Bulgaria
24 Oct 10
Wow, what a nightmare! I never saw such a thing in my life. We buy only dressed chicken (if you could call this "chicken"). But I remember that in my childhood sometimes my grandfather was bringing a live rooster or hen from the market and it was staying on the kitchen's balcony. I don't know why. And I never saw how they kiled them but as I remember this was not an easy thing, nobody was willing to do it. But we are town people.
@obe212003 (2299)
• Philippines
24 Oct 10
Yeah, it was traumatic.. slitting their throat with blood dripping afterwards, quite an awkward feeling seeing something losing its life. i really felt sorry for the poor chicken.. although buying the dressed ones, you just cook it and that's it, not knowing how they were butchered.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
23 Oct 10
I don't think you could even buy a live chicken around here unless you just found someone who would sell you one of their flock. I've raised and butchered them before, 20 to 100 at a time and frozen them for later, but now I just buy them ready to eat at the store, like everyone else I know.
@obe212003 (2299)
• Philippines
24 Oct 10
Down here, there are a lot of folks still raising some in their backyards, having them for dinner or just for selling. Live ones are significantly at a lower price as compared to the dressed one.
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
9 Sep 11
When I was just a child, I always watch my mother when she kills chicken for our dinner. But those days are over. Now that I have my own family I think buying live chicken and killing and dressing it yourself is too time consuming. So I would rather just buy dressed chicken. I just make sure the dressed chicken are fresh and not frozen.
@obe212003 (2299)
• Philippines
24 Oct 10
Yeah, i agree with the hassle-free thing, but we opted to buy the live native chicken as they say that it taste better than the dressed ones especially with "tinola"..lol!
