On 8 Dec 2014 20:38:53 GMT, notbob > wrote:
> On 2014-12-08, l not -l > wrote:
> >
> > On 8-Dec-2014, wrote:
>
> >> Can chicken fat be safely frozen, and if so, for how long?
>
> > IME, it does.
>
> Without a doubt. Foster Farms early attemps to restrict Tyson's CA
> sales were successful. They had politicos pass a CA food regulation
> requiring all frozen birds be frozen to 26F. Tyson was only freezing
> their birds to 28F. Both were frozen solid enough to bowl with the
> whole frozen birds, but Tyson lost it's ability to ship to CA by 2
> degrees F. I am no longer aware of the status of the FF/Tyson chicken
> wars,
>
Foster Farms chicken went downhill fast after Tyson came along.
>but CA pulled the same trick with milk. CA required all milk
> have certain dietary supplements, vitamins, etc. TX and AZ didn't have
> 'em, so that effectively locked them out of the CA mkt. These kinda
> back room shenanigans go on all the time. 
I'm glad we do it. I'm also glad about our gasoline requirements.
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