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Old 10-02-2007, 04:58 PM
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Re: Bernard Matthews Bird Flu link to Hungry

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton View Post
Absolutely, I'd much rather buy an expensive chicken and make it stretch further into roast then perhaps stirfry/ casserole and soup for most of the week knowing it had a reasonable (like you said - if short) life.
"and make it stretch further" is this a genetic modification thing?

I have always loved chickens from my childhood, that thing they do with
their beady eyes as they rangefind for a quick accurate peck at some
morsel (usually a grasshopper in the old days)
They are so endearingly stupid,I could watch them all day(and have)
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