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Really? I had always assumed that unsold food gets thrown away (or maybe at a best case donated), and supply chains for bakeries etc are 100% separate by desig

• throwawayboise 5y ago
  The local supermarket sells whole roasted chickens that you can buy hot and ready to eat. The ones that don't sell are deboned and shredded and used for chicken salad, barbeque "pulled" chicken, etc.
  • evgen 5y ago
    And these roasted chickens were previously on the shelves as raw whole chicken that was pulled and cooked when they hit their “sell by” date.
    • namelessoracle 5y ago
      No. Maybe at Whole Foods? But at Publix/Kroger the chickens were in a separate fridge that customers never got to buy from or access and the chickens went straight from the truck into that fridge. I say this as someone who worked Deli at Publix/Kroger and made those rotisserie chickens. The unused chickens would get used for chicken salads and stuff like that, but we also threw alot of them away too. Everything the deli used at Publix was used just for the deli, at no point did we take stuff about to expire and use it for our stuff except for bread that had only a couple of days left from the bakery. We had our fridge and supply section and the grocery had their own section and the two rarely met.
    • lief79 5y ago
      Try finding chickens that small in the aisles. Depends on the grocery chain, but many places use separate stock for them.