This chicken doesn’t tell you stories about what farm it hails from, which pasture its hanging out in during the day, and that its air dried. This meat has texture, a springy texture that is a pleasure to bite into. Those bring to mind big ag’s ‘accomplishment’ in creating the biggest mass of franken breast meat that tastes like $2/ lb of dineros down the toilet. Its not some dry, bland chunk of breast meat that is a sorry excuse for chicken. This chicken also tastes like chicken, which should be the minimum that all chickens should hold themselves to, but most don’t in the sorry state of chicken this country is finding itself in. This chicken tells you that it sits in the flavor spa, brines and marinates itself so the flavors penetrate deep into the meat. Get two if you are feeling like a high roller. ![]() And you don’t have to skip your mortgage payment to acquire this desirable bird. This is the big league, the Golden State Warriors of takeout chicken. This bird looks at the boxed, mushy, bland roasted chicken from Whole Foods, Safeway, Calafia, and other fancy markets, yawns and tells them that they are in the Division 3 high school basketball when it comes to takeout chicken. You order at the butcher counter, the man makes a few chops with his mighty cleaver, boxes up the sides and you pay at the register. The ~2.5 pound chickens are spatchcocked and cooked on a giant grill on top of charcoal. It is this lovely chicken and charcoal smell that draws you into the market. Which will make you a very desirable walking billboard for the market that sells this bird. In fact, if you stand there or if your car windows are rolled down for 15 minutes, you and your fine ride too will smell like the pollo al carbon. The smell is getting more intense in the parking lot. ![]() It is making you salivate and beckoning you to stop, drop your dinner plans and eat pollo al carbon instead. That’s the smoke Michoacan Produce Market is sending out from their vents to demand you to roll down your car windows and savor the mesquite grilled chicken goodness wafting through the air. As you approach the market from a few blocks away, you notice smoke bellowing from a building.
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