Kitsch'n'Zinc

What is it about sitting on the back of a bloody great white charger that makes men say such stupid things - you only have to watch Mel Gibson in Braveheart to know what I mean. Nowadays of course the charger has been replaced by the TV box but the crusading still goes on unabated. The Cheeky Chappie from Essex, Jamie Oliver and the Freaky Forager, Hugh Fairly Dipstick have been in the media recently proclaiming that chicken was too cheap and we should all be eating organically raised birds at double the price. In a world of soaring food prices that type of logic just kinda escapes me.
I much prefer the battle cry of that trendsetter foodie, King Henry IV of France, 500 years ago - he said " I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he is unable to have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. ". Herbert Hoover running for the US Presidency in 1928 took it one step further " A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage " but then that's the American dream for you. So I reckon old Henry had it right, let's get the chicken in every pot first before we start worrying about upping prices and sending the bloody bird off to the slaughterhouse with a grin on it's beak. There's little real difference perceptible to the man in the street between battery, free range and organic chicken, the truth is that it's got a lot more to do with how you treat the bird after killing it, not before. Fortunately roast chicken is a bit like pizza - even bad pizza is good !