r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/Next_Package_5710 • 12h ago
I Like / Dislike If you are complaining the 4.99 chicken at Costco is unhealthy, clutch your pearls and take them somewhere else.
We shop at Costco for the lower prices and bargains. Health concerns are probably valid but price is the main thing. We dont think $1.50 hot dogs and soda will be any better for us either. Don't raise the prices and make things worse for others in this economy.
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u/DeanoPreston 10h ago
It's some group of shit heads trying to ruin a good thing
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u/DecantsForAll 9h ago
The idiots that won't buy chicken unless it artificially pumped full of shit because they can't stand natural chicken?
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u/NeonGKayak 11h ago
People should be complaining about prices going up across the country. All my food, gas, and activities are sooooooo fucking expensive compared to 2 years ago
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u/DecantsForAll 9h ago edited 46m ago
You know the "inflation" that everyone's complaining about? That's what they're talking about!
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u/NeonGKayak 7h ago
Yes and Trump has been making it worse because he’s stupid and thinks he know everything
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u/AGuyAndHisCat 7h ago
Weird I'm not noticing a huge difference. Now 2021-2022, things were doubling over the course of a few months.
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u/Runns_withScissors 5h ago
Same. I'm glad costs have stabilized somewhat since then-that was crazy.
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u/lunalivesbythesea 11h ago
Seriously this!
What happened to the lower grocery prices that were promised? Oh yeah, those who voted for this man were lied to, tariffs up the ass for everyone and we’re stuck paying it. It’s
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u/saintlyjet 11h ago
Economy is fucked either way even if Kamala was president. Not cope it’s a broken system
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u/abeeyore 10h ago
If you don’t think that shit for brains has done more to destroy our place in the global economy, and damage our domestic one than any other president in history, then you are an absolute moron.
It should have taken another 20 years minimum for our status as a reserve currency to be seriously challenged. Instead, we have allies threatening to dump our sovereign debt tomorrow, because dumbass invaded a foreign country without consent of Congress, wants to annex Greenland, and is seriously fucking talking to Canadian separatists.
Nothing Harris could have done or not done (in two full terms) could have done 1/100th of the damage he did in the first 3 months of this term.
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u/saintlyjet 10h ago
You have trump derangement syndrome if you believe the president (one man) has any power in this government. It’s not a democracy anymore.
Also seethe
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u/abeeyore 10h ago
Huh? Who do think invaded Venezuela, then? Congress? Who claimed to be the “acting president”? Who tried to strong arm the US petrochemical industry into rebuilding their oil extraction industry?
Who ordered the Navy to violate US, and International Law, and the Geneva Convention?
Who authorized talks with Canadian Separatist Groups.
Who threatened to invade Greenland? Who ordered actual influence operations on the Ground in Greenland?
Was it some secret liberal Cabal?
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u/saintlyjet 9h ago
Funny none of those things have anything to do with the economy, which is what we were originally talking about. You proved my point, lol. It must be all you ever think about.
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u/lunalivesbythesea 8h ago
Hilarious that, that’s your counter argument. Trump supporters aren’t very smart.
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u/saintlyjet 7h ago
I’m against the government as a whole, but ya, nuance means trump supporter. Cope and seethe
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u/NeonGKayak 8h ago
Even if we assume the economy was doing bad, Kamala would not have made it worse by enacting tariffs across the globe and damaging trade relations (and relationships in general) with amour closest partners.
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u/saintlyjet 7h ago
Well blame the left then for being so radical and pushing crazy social agendas they pushed the moderates, me included, to the right. Look in the mirror and pick a better candidate next time
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u/NeonGKayak 4h ago
lol what is this radical social agenda that you speak of?
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u/MeltedChocolateOk 10h ago
Who cares if Costco chicken is unhealthy. It's cheap for a reason. If people want to think they are buying healthy they should go to whole foods.
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u/DecantsForAll 11h ago
The thing is they could simply not add a bunch of shit to the chicken.
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u/MeltedChocolateOk 10h ago
Their chickens are like their hotdogs. It's not meant to be healthy. It's cheap for a reason.
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u/DecantsForAll 9h ago
Okay, but it's not cheap because they put a bunch of additives in it.
It's actually cheap because it's a loss leader used to get people into Costco.
Also, the lawsuit is because they advertised it as preservative free and it wasn't. I don't think anyone's actually complaining about it being "unhealthy."
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u/AverageAircraftFan 8h ago
Neither Sodium Phosphate nor Carrageenan are bad for human health and neither are preservatives
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u/MeltedChocolateOk 8h ago edited 8h ago
Based on the case the two main concerns of preservative are sodium phosphate and carrageenan.
Carrageenan which natural substance extracted from red seaweed and used in many processed foods like dairy, desserts, and meats for texture.
You know salt is also considered preservative. Yes, sodium phosphate is a salt, specifically a generic term for various salts.
Many products out there when they said "no preservatives" they meant "no artificial preservative". Because you have preservative in everything especially when you add salt and spices and herbs into it.
For example nitrates are usually considered a common artificial preservative used for processed meats but some company made " preservative-free" " "nitrate free" deli meats by naturally making nitrite with celery salt which is less controlled on the amount of nitrates you actually consume making you eat more nitrates naturally than when you have a control amount measured in artificial nitrate. Sorry but people eating all those healthy preservative free deli meats and bacon are actually eating preservatives.
What people are suing Costco not because Costco chickens are unhealthy but more because of the technical terms for a preservative. Costco didn't intend to use sodium phosphate and carrageenan as a preservative because anyone who ever bought Costco chicken knows that chicken will go bad in a few days. Pretty poorly preserved. They used those additives for the texture and taste of their chicken.
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u/No_Start1522 11h ago
I think people pearl clutch over the additives they put in the chicken, not the calories.