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on Tuesday February 28 2017, @10:23AM
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from the results-are-not-as-foul-as-expected dept.
According to the CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation], researchers at Trent University sampled both the oven roasted chicken filets and the chicken strips that Subway uses on its sandwiches in Canada. After testing six small samples of the filets and three small samples of the strips, the researchers ran a DNA test.
The results showed that the filets contained just 53.6 percent chicken DNA. The strips were found to contain just 42.8 percent chicken DNA.
CBC reports that the rest of the DNA found in the chicken was soy — used either for either seasoning or filler.
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University Study Says Subway Chicken Strips Could Contain Less Than 50 Percent Chicken DNA
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(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:14PM (3 children)
To be fair, they've halfway got a point, but they lose it in volume. Eating substandard food is cheap compared to the real version of it you can cook at home, unless you cook like a human and not like a restaurant and if you ignore the fact that you get multiple meals out of it. Overall, it's probably impossible to produce a hamburger yourself as cheap as McDonald's. But you can make a big batch of something and eat extremely well for several days. Of course, that requires eating leftovers, which requires not being picky little children.
Example, I made chicken curry last night. It was somewhere between 10 and 15 USD for the stuff, but I made some vegan (tofu) for the girlfriend too, so there's an extra couple bucks added in. Now that's somewhere between comparable to a little expensive of meal compared to your hipster Qdoba or Chipotle or what have you, until you consider that she's probably going to get at least two meals out of hers and I probably have a solid three out of mine. This means that, per meal, it's 2-3 bucks. That's closer to McDonald's cheap stuff, and it's vastly better in every way. Don't like curry? Fine, make chili. Chili is even easier and will probably come out about comparable to the curry in price per serving. Or a stew for that matter.
And that's excluding the things that are remarkably cheap and single serving stuff like your pork chops or, as I prefer, proper pork steaks. I usually cook pork in cast iron on as low of a heat as I can manage with a combination of hot pepper sauce, apricot preserves, and soy sauce spread over them. Good flavor and it melts in your mouth. Pork steak is probably about 2 USD a piece around here, sometimes even cheaper if you get them on special during a sports event or something, so with some veggies and some homemade bread, it's still not that expensive of a meal.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday February 28 2017, @06:57PM
That sounds delicious. The only thing I'd add is teenage kids mean I don't have leftovers they're like wet dry vacuum cleaners but before their monstrous appetites I would make like ten servings of delicious chili as you mention and put a plastic ziploc bag in a bowl or jar and fill the bag and freeze the works and seal the bag and a little microwave work a week later and I'd have delicious chili again.
(Score: 2) by http on Tuesday February 28 2017, @11:07PM (1 child)
When you're working three part time jobs, "cook at home" is a pipe dream worthy of Cheech and Chong.
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(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday March 01 2017, @01:42AM
I'm going to assume that doesn't apply to the majority of the millennial hipsters VLM was referring to. I doubt the "three part time job to get by" edge case would try to make the same argument. Theirs would be, I presume, in terms of the time needed to do so.
I mean, back in my early 20s when I was a "two part time job to get by" person, I still cooked frequently. I'm going to guess the biggest difference between their situation and mine would be some combination of needing to spend two hours on the bus each day, those extra couple hours from that third job, and probably some kids mixed in there. Also, I enjoy cooking. That's probably a non-trivial consideration as well.
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