Rotisserie chicken is like the absolute cheapest food a person can buy.

It's a loss leader. It's up there with milk and eggs in terms of standard grocery items that are cheaper than they should be.

Cheaper to buy prepared at the grocery near me, in Ontario.

I wonder what the cost is wherever the Wall Street journal people shop.

I know this is preaching to the choir here, but that is so very out of touch for many/most/all of us.

Those things cost like $5 - $9 in my area, and you can even get the "old" ones for a couple dollars cheaper at times. It costs very little more than raw chicken, and in some cases, the rotisserie chickens cost less. Then you factor in time for cooking, clean-up, products for clean-up, and other time / material costs, and the difference comes out a wash.

So, they are apparently suggesting that having chicken in a meal at all is a splurge. Sure, in some idealistic world where we all eat a vegan diet to save the earth, that might fly. But in the real world, it's literally insane propaganda to suggest that chicken is a splurge.

Anything more than a chicken tender, piece of broccoli and a small tortilla, is gluttony I say!

And "old" in this case means "cooked this morning".

In Dallas, you can get one at Sam's Club or Costco for $5.

These people writing these stories are probably ultra rich, and go to fine dining resteraunts. They probably pay $300 a meal for what you or I might pay $11 at the grocery store.

Then they think if THEY paid $300, then surely the non-privilaged must be paying $600. And they're doing it several times a week! Such splurge!

Meanwhile we could buy these things every day for a month for what they pay for 1 meal. And the quality realistically can't be all that much different. They probably assume they're eating a chicken thats twice as good, at half the cost.

But they don't know who we are! Say that name! Say it loud!!!

LEEEEEEEROOOOOYYYYYY

JEEEEEEEEENNNKKKKIIIIINNNNNSSSS!!!!!!

Least we got chicken....

WSJ is absolutely on the money here. We shouldn't be eating rotisserie chickens with all of these plump billionaires to feast on.

The Sam's/Costco ones are like $5 across the country. I don't think I've seen one for more than $6

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Consumerism is taking over the lives of young people, especially those on social media. It must be stopped.

That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure. My family eats at least one a week.

Shouldn't you be eating gruel , peasant?

Door Dash fees / inflated prices are what should be the real target. In-game cosmetics would be another.

They should splurge on savvier investments like third-world suffering

I only buy one of these when they're on clearance ('day old' in the cold case) for two dollars...

This is kind of true, but a little misleading. They sell it at a loss because it was about to expire. If it's reaching the sell-by date. They cook it and sell it as a rotisserie chicken to recoup the losses. They're usually only selling it at a loss because that's the alternative to throwing it out.

I like how the second article's main photo is of a boomer and Gen Zer standing in front of an RV while the article talks about things Gen Z wastes money on.

I can also add, as a vegetarian myself, a vegan diet is nowhere near as cheap.

Unless you have the ability to grow all your own produce and protein, vegans are spending just as much if not more for those calories/proteins.

Costco’s rotisserie chicken is cheaper than a raw chicken in most places and I don’t need to spend money on utilities to cook it. It’s also gross, but when you’re poor you don’t get a lot of protein options.

We don't have a Sam's/cosco here, but Kroger's are 7.99. still not terrible

Isn't the journal just another Murdoch product. Thus it's just Fox News in print?

Why should I pay extra for that when my taxes already pay for plenty?

The rotisserie chicken is in fact often a loss leader for grocery stores.

Yeah it's owned by News Corp. The Murdoch's acquired it around 2007 apparently.

Kind of like the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos.

Finding unbiased news organizations isnt an easy feat

Damn, guess that's the cost if you don't need to heat the coops.

That's closer to my price.

"Gets Community Noted" is such an awkward turn of phrase.

Which is why it's extra bullshit that you can't use food stamps to buy them. How dare people want to stretch their food budgets, right?

Poor people get all the breaks!

When I splurge, I buy hamburger at 9$ a lb.

It's just rage bait. You don't need to read into it any more than that

Billionaires are just a type of chicken.

Rotisserie chicken, used for burritos, can make lunch for the work week.

I never bought rotisserie chicken because they were cheap to the point of being suspicious (i.e. what sort of corners are they cutting).

Sort of the opposite of what I would consider a "splurge."

I’m going to say that every day when I leave the office

It’s one rotisserie chicken, Michael. How much could it cost, fifty dollars?

If saving 5 bucks on your grocery bill is the thing that keeps your head above water... you're probably already deep enough to meet the ghost of that OceanGate CEO.

I’m thinking of adapting it to Half-Baked. “Get noted, get noted, get noted, you’re cool, get noted. I’m out!”

These rich fucks would complain if you were left nothing but dirt to eat and got an extra grub in a mouthful.

We are regressing back to “a chicken in every pot”.

They take chickens that are on the sale by date and cook them. At least when I worked deli! So maybe not the nicest chickens but all fine!

Yeah I just want to know what grocery store food Wall Street journal is going to call Gen Alpha privileged for eating. Store brand hummus? Whole wheat bread?

I don't know, I think you should be able to eat another thing. Maybe one other thing.