Honestly, not a bad call.
They are cheap (loss leaders if you got a costco card) and they will feed a family for a night. Remainder of the carcass can be made into stock and that will make you way more than the asking price of the same liquid from your local grocer. Fresh home-made stock will bump up any rice or noodle soup you want. Plus, what you dont use quickly can be frozen into soup cubes.
Its easy to cook (if not a bit time consuming) to get $30 worth of stuff from a small $10 bird.
I would personally argue that turkey is a better poultry, but the american thanksgiving roast is the worst way to cook most parts of the bird.
So… France protests the same way Eagles fans lose. Noted.
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