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Store bought chickens taste nothing like chickens that roam around a farmyard eating whatever is there.

Farm-raised meat tastes nothing like wild game. For that matter, lean cuts of meat taste nothing like fatty cuts, let alone organ meats. Modern consumers prefer less flavorful meats.

>Modern consumers prefer less flavorful meats.

I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing (not that you were saying it is). I've enjoyed venison burgers/steaks, but most the time I'd rather taste the seasoning or the rest of the dish that I add meat to. I don't need flavor from meat, just that good ol' umami.

I've optimized away the entire process via a DIY soylent blend that includes enough MSG to make it taste perfectly umami. I drink this on days when I decide I want to taste umami. It's nutritionally complete, roughly a three dollars a day, and tastes excellent.

I have similar variants for sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Umami pretty much is the meat taste, or more specifically bone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami

so why eat the meat at all, just toss some MSG on whatever

It has a unique texture, and provides healthy nutrients.

I don't doubt that this is true, I've just personally never noticed the difference. Maybe I need to try a side-by-side comparison.

You should and I would not be surprised if you did not like it. The meat taste completely different to me, and not necessarily in a good way due to my life long acclimation to the industrial chicken meat we get from the store.

The eggs also taste different, much richer and a different color yolk from what I remember.

> Oh and they don't need to be refrigerated

Can't reply in-line to the child post, but this is a cultural difference. In Europe, eggs aren't refrigerated at all, and they're not washed. In the US, eggs are washed and they're sold in chillers. The reasoning behind this: http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-heres-why-we-nee...

Europe is not a single country. Some countries have refrigerated eggs, some have non-refrigerated.

Denmark - European - refrigerated eggs.

See also: Every other discussion about refrigerated eggs on HN.

As far as I know, once refrigerated, always refrigerated. But if your eggs have never been refrigerated there is no need to.

Pretty sure the refrigeration is just for shelf life. Refrigerated eggs are good for months (even though the expiry date might lead you to believe otherwise).

I don't know about non-refrigerated but I would guess they can't be stored as long.

We get local pasture raised eggs every week from a co-op. You are correct in that they are different, they taste meatier, they are smaller and vary in size more, the yolks are darker yellow and they last much longer on the shelf.

Oh and they don't need to be refrigerated; and some of them still have chicken poop on them.

Overall I like them much better.

Yeah, the eggs are the best. Love them raw over rice.

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