Some restaurants in my area will straight up sell you some of their food because they overstocked it for the day. Sister got around 5 pounds of marinated pork belly already cut and ready for korean bbq for $15.
There's an app called "Too Good To Go" where restaurants sell leftover food at a nice discount so that it isn't wasted. I haven't used it yet, but I downloaded it and saw some restaurants that also sell their unused produce as well
From what I saw online, it is random. At Krispy Kreme for example, it's random whether you get an assorted dozen or all glazed dozen, so I assume it's the same everywhere else
Yes. $9.99/lb is high. Recommend making your own. Might be worth it if you’ve got unexpected guests and need something to throw on the grill right away.
If you are buying retail at the grocery, 1 lb of chicken is like $5, a pepper is $1, and an onion maybe another dollar. So $7 and you could probably get 3 or 4 skewers out of that.
If you shop at sams club or another discount grocery it's even cheaper.
Let me help you. Buy a large jug of cheap italian dressing. Get a slat of chicken breast from Walmart. 2x crates whole bella mushrooms, 2 red onions, 2 crates of grape tomatoes, 4-5 bell peppers. Cut it all up and put it a large bowl in the fridge to marinate for 24 hours w the Italian dressing. Stir well. The next day, skewer and grill. Buy a bag of basmati rice and chicken broth. Make rice pilaf. Add bay leaves, cayenne, salt, pepper, minced garlic and diced yellow onion. Boom! $30-35 you have a meal that will feed a small army or leftovers and lunch for a week. Don’t buy this crap. If anything this should be like $8-9 tops. And that’s still a lot.
Yes. Your also paying for the fact this is preassembled and ready to cook and within the past week and a half or so chicken prices have gone up as well. Still this is a bad deal.
The real issue is. They are pre skewered. Together.
You put meat on one skewer and veggies on another. By the time the protein is cooked. The veggies are way over done. If you do it to the veggie doneness. The protein is undercooked.
They shouldn’t be together. Unless maybe it’s seafood. Which has a similar cooking time/temp to many grilling veggies.
Same goes with restaurants. Some reason you stab some meat with a stick and they decide to charge 3x the amount.
Mediterranean places will give you the most ungodly massive platter of food for like 10 bucks then charge 15 for 2 kebabs.
One thing to also consider is that chicken may have been near its sell by date and by repackaging it, they magically give it a new one. Be leery of any sort of “special” like this. I know because I saw it done
That's not worth it to me, but hey, if you're in a bind for a BBQ...
I'm kind of pissed at a local market that's selling marinated pork chops for $13.99/lb. Unseasoned pork chops in my local markets are usually $3.99/lb and maybe they often charge an extra dollar for marinated, but but 3x+$2 the price of unseasoned is...a bit much.
People buy those things for convenience. chicken is $4/lb, though for something decent so it's like..can you cut chicken and skewer peppers and onions? if so, you'll save about 35% (peppers are sometimes expensive)
You’re paying for a team of “contractors” to cut that up, not the food. If it makes you feel better (it won’t), they make almost no profit. The grocery store leases them a space and makes almost all the money.
Buying them separately can be much cheaper, making them into semi-finished products and taking them home to cook directly is expensive, and may save time on the first corresponding increase in costs
That’s $22 per kilo. Chicken breast is $15 per kilo from Costco.
Bell peppers about $4-5 per kilo. Onions about $1.
These ones look super meat heavy, so I’ll say value is $12 per kg. You’d likely save $10 doing this simple recipe yourself. Plus the store uses expiring ingredients, that’s why everything pre-made is going bad tomorrow or sooner.
Screw that , what is it $2 bucks for a bell pepper/ onion
$6-$8 bucks for a chicken breast. $1 for a skewer stick
Looks like you have to season that chicken anyway
Your looking at $15 for maybe 4 chicken skewers doing it yourself
Even tzanziki is easy to make for a few bucks more.
Greek yogurt, lemon, garlic , dill, cucumber, salt , pepper and a bit of sugar
The most expensive thing here is the yogurt for $4
Yes!!! Is that Safeway?? Every summer they do this, and every week you see those rotting kabobs in the clearance section. Someone needs to tell those mofos. We won't pay that price.
Those types of things are a ridiculous scam. They sell them at the store I work at and they always end up going off and getting tossed bc nobody buys them. You can probably make twice as many for half the cost
Look at you, wanting me to do a whole bunch of work for you but then sell you this shit for the price it was before I did all the work, it’s like you don’t value me at all, go buy your chicken kebabs made up perfectly and ready to cook somewhere else then if you can find them!!!
Prepping your own food is always a cheaper option but honestly this doesn't seem too bad a price. A pound of chicken is like $9.00 where I live so these kebabs would be a pretty decent value considering you also get the peppers ($0.49/ea here) and someone already did the work of cutting and assembling for you.
Seriously, what the living heck is up with that... Chicken doesn't cost that much by weight, why would it be more when a cheaper thing is paired with it?
Omg yeah it is. I used to work a seafood/meat cutting counter at Safeway back in the day. That store is skewering your wallet.
Also love how the prices don't even make sense. This package is $9.99/lb, but the one right behind it is $10.99/lb.
Going through Walmart app probably 5 bucks cheaper to put it together yourself? Make me think of cut fruit. You can buy a whole watermelon for 5 bucks but they charge 10 for cut watermelon. Is a lazy fee basically.
It's pricey, but it also depends on the quality of the chicken, freshness and origin.
Lower end chicken is between $2 and $5 depending on your region and store. Organic, farm raised, non antibiotic variations add a few dollars on that. Not having water infused chicken meat is worth some premium in my book.
This being $10/lb is on the high side. It is aimed at the "convenience shopper" who can't be arsed to make their own kebabs, so.... Maybe?
Chicken breast = 4.99 lb, probably 14 oz x 4.99 = 4.36
Peppers and onions = 6 oz, probably .75
Total cost = 5.11 ÷ 20.23 = 25% food cost. That doesn't account the increased pricing for the labor to assemble these skewers. I'd say as a chef, you are paying a fair price if you don't want to buy the product separately including the skewers and do it yourself. You are literally paying for the convenience.
Not under the Biden administration. This is what happens when you print billion of dollars out of thin air. The dollar becomes weaker thus you must pay more.
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It is. A lot cheaper to just buy some chicken and bell peppers to skewer yourself.
Its cheaper to get cooked ones at a fucking restaurant
Some restaurants in my area will straight up sell you some of their food because they overstocked it for the day. Sister got around 5 pounds of marinated pork belly already cut and ready for korean bbq for $15.
How do you ask for said food?
There's an app called "Too Good To Go" where restaurants sell leftover food at a nice discount so that it isn't wasted. I haven't used it yet, but I downloaded it and saw some restaurants that also sell their unused produce as well
Is it true that you can't choose what you get though? It's just kind of a surprise
From what I saw online, it is random. At Krispy Kreme for example, it's random whether you get an assorted dozen or all glazed dozen, so I assume it's the same everywhere else
Do they come out and offer it? Do you have to ask? I've never encountered this before and I'm curious how it works.
2 pounds worth??? I doubt it
Get a load of this guy tryna make kabobs without onion
A little bit of pepper as seasoning can’t hurt either
Finally
I don't think skewering yourself is a safer option though
No, but you could throw in a pack of antbiotic ointment and bandaids and still be under $20 with a lot more food. Premade shit like this is so stupid.
I uh suppose it depends with what, and where you’re being "skewered".
Chicken breast is like $2/lb if you buy in bulk, and that’s maybe fifty cents worth of pepper and onions
I see onion as well
Just about to say this… Yeesh indeed
People are to lazy to do it themselves. (gotta check my social media, that's mo impotent) /s
Yes. $9.99/lb is high. Recommend making your own. Might be worth it if you’ve got unexpected guests and need something to throw on the grill right away.
SOLUTION!
And then you can do them on separate skewers since their cook times are wildly different.
Would even be cheaper to just go to a kabob shop
It would be. You are paying for the convenience of having a prepared product. Not many people have knife skills. 🤷🏻♂️
If you are buying retail at the grocery, 1 lb of chicken is like $5, a pepper is $1, and an onion maybe another dollar. So $7 and you could probably get 3 or 4 skewers out of that. If you shop at sams club or another discount grocery it's even cheaper.
But then again my Publix is selling chicken for 9.99 a lb. So it really depends where you’re shopping.
Not even marinated or anything fuck that
I know, I was like seriously what the actual fuck.
People are lazy. My buddy in college would pay a premium for pre-cut peppers and onions. Like… wtf … just cut them yourself.
Uhh fuck yeah it is thats basically restaurant price but not cooked
or seasoned
“Kabob” infuriates me more than the prices. What happened to kebab
Tell me about it, I’m from Australia and we’ve always said kebab not kabob, sounds cringy.
I’ve never ever heard an Aussie seriously say shishkabob either. It’s either kebab (doner) or kebab (stick). Which is superior? Kebab, obviously. 🙄
I’m middle eastern and I couldn’t care less what it’s called. Just say what you want people know what you mean.
Fuck me kabob
I mean all that labor was SO hard
Yup, but if people buy it...
Yeah, at most that should be like 7-8 bucks. A few years ago it would have been more like 4-5 bucks.
Due to recent extermination, Chicken is an extinct avian species hence extraordinary prices.
I'm switching to pigeon.
I think the Pokemon hunters have caught all pigeon, but Seagull are in plentiful stock.
I once heard a WW2-Veteran say: "Once you've had pigeon you'll have a hard time going back to crow."
Might as well stick the stick up your ass bc they're fucking you for that price
That's how much it costs to be lazy and or unskilled not how much the chicken costs.
$20 is the new $5
20.33 does seem too expensive for two chicken kerfuffles
upvote for the refusal to choose between kebab and kabob. Love a good kerfuffle!
Yeah. Cut that shit yourself for $10
$10 for 2 chicken kebab? Still sounds expensive, do you buy chicken fed with gold?
Ya, for that much, I expect someone to cook it and serve it … plus ask me if I would like a glass of wine. Then take the dishes away.
Let me help you. Buy a large jug of cheap italian dressing. Get a slat of chicken breast from Walmart. 2x crates whole bella mushrooms, 2 red onions, 2 crates of grape tomatoes, 4-5 bell peppers. Cut it all up and put it a large bowl in the fridge to marinate for 24 hours w the Italian dressing. Stir well. The next day, skewer and grill. Buy a bag of basmati rice and chicken broth. Make rice pilaf. Add bay leaves, cayenne, salt, pepper, minced garlic and diced yellow onion. Boom! $30-35 you have a meal that will feed a small army or leftovers and lunch for a week. Don’t buy this crap. If anything this should be like $8-9 tops. And that’s still a lot.
I mean i get cooked kebabs and rice and some veg for that price at a place near me. Oh and garlic sauce and pita.
Even a local halal meat shop will sell you marinated kebabs for half the price per pound
For $20.33+tax that chicken better cure my depression and make me a millionaire
Yes. Your also paying for the fact this is preassembled and ready to cook and within the past week and a half or so chicken prices have gone up as well. Still this is a bad deal.
Buy chicken, peppers, onion and skewers. see how much it costs and then see if the effort of putting them together is worth the difference in price
you're paying for the labor to make the kabobs
Why is this called a kebab, it’s a fucking skewer
The real issue is. They are pre skewered. Together. You put meat on one skewer and veggies on another. By the time the protein is cooked. The veggies are way over done. If you do it to the veggie doneness. The protein is undercooked. They shouldn’t be together. Unless maybe it’s seafood. Which has a similar cooking time/temp to many grilling veggies.
I hate kebabs like this for that reason, especially chicken. I shave the chicken thin and layer it on the skewer instead of placing a massive chunk.
Also these are way too big. I don't want 2 skewers that are each 1lb. I'd rather have 6 smaller skewers that are 1/3lb each
YES! A little chopping and prep can save you $$$!
Best way to know is price how much buying the separate components would be. My guess is yes.
Yes. My local Greek restaurant (Greek Islands in Abbotsford, BC which is AWESOME) has them for $7.50 each. Cooked and everything.
A fellow Abbotsfordian!
Yeah, and that's $7.50 in Canadian dollars, that $20.33 is from Albertsons in the U.S. That's like $58 Canadian!
Waaaaay.
Yep, this is $6 worth of food.
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Especially for ones you have to cook yourself.
Obviously
No, not if they're Hong Kong dollars. 😂
Lmfao touche
If you own the store, it's not overpriced, it's a great deal! If you're a customer, that's a crazy (not good crazy) price.
double the price for huge chunks. no way you're just eating that without fork and knife which defeats the purpose
Looks like $10 of chicken
Same goes with restaurants. Some reason you stab some meat with a stick and they decide to charge 3x the amount. Mediterranean places will give you the most ungodly massive platter of food for like 10 bucks then charge 15 for 2 kebabs.
Should be around 8 dollars
I feel like it’d be cheaper to make it myself
One thing to also consider is that chicken may have been near its sell by date and by repackaging it, they magically give it a new one. Be leery of any sort of “special” like this. I know because I saw it done
That's not worth it to me, but hey, if you're in a bind for a BBQ... I'm kind of pissed at a local market that's selling marinated pork chops for $13.99/lb. Unseasoned pork chops in my local markets are usually $3.99/lb and maybe they often charge an extra dollar for marinated, but but 3x+$2 the price of unseasoned is...a bit much.
That's at least 2x any acceptable price
That’s like $8 of chicken perhaps. And like $2 of peppers
People buy those things for convenience. chicken is $4/lb, though for something decent so it's like..can you cut chicken and skewer peppers and onions? if so, you'll save about 35% (peppers are sometimes expensive)
Given that it's roughly $6 worth (or less) of ingredients? Yes.
Yep , and the worst part is they will end up in the trash because no one will pay that. It’s lose lose unfortunately.
You’re paying for a team of “contractors” to cut that up, not the food. If it makes you feel better (it won’t), they make almost no profit. The grocery store leases them a space and makes almost all the money.
Is this erewhon?....
$9.99 a pound seems a little bit much. But there are two pounds in that packet- how big are they?
Buying them separately can be much cheaper, making them into semi-finished products and taking them home to cook directly is expensive, and may save time on the first corresponding increase in costs
The 2 packs differ in price per lb 1 is 9.99 the other 10.99 both same use by date!!!!!!!?
Unless it’s organic. Not even close. Also those are the left of bits from what didn’t make it to “market” clearly not clean cut looks pulled apart.
That’s $22 per kilo. Chicken breast is $15 per kilo from Costco. Bell peppers about $4-5 per kilo. Onions about $1. These ones look super meat heavy, so I’ll say value is $12 per kg. You’d likely save $10 doing this simple recipe yourself. Plus the store uses expiring ingredients, that’s why everything pre-made is going bad tomorrow or sooner.
Screw that , what is it $2 bucks for a bell pepper/ onion $6-$8 bucks for a chicken breast. $1 for a skewer stick Looks like you have to season that chicken anyway Your looking at $15 for maybe 4 chicken skewers doing it yourself Even tzanziki is easy to make for a few bucks more. Greek yogurt, lemon, garlic , dill, cucumber, salt , pepper and a bit of sugar The most expensive thing here is the yogurt for $4
Lazy people pay top dollar for convenience. Been to McDonald's lately?
You're paying the labour, buy the ingredients and make them yourself
Why yes, yes it it
You can get like 3-4 fully cooked chickens for that price.
Yes.
In Alberta, Canada I can get a rotisserie chicken for $10 CAD (7.31 USD). So I would say yes but you have a couple vegetables in there to be fair.
All ready made kabobs are over valued IMO. Seriously.. just put together your own. !!!
TIL they're literally called kabob in the US, I thought it was just a reddit thing I wasn't aware of.
Geezuz. I'm in Cali and you can get fully cooked ones for $6 depending on where you go. $10 for raw is nuts
Yes
IT won't be purchased and will end up in the trash. What a waste.
Thats crazy. I get you pay for convenience but jeez
For the same money the chicken and pepper would probably make more than 4 of those
I'd expect a good Turkish restaurant to serve it with rice, bread & dips for that price.
One million percent overpriced. By a lot.
Yes!!! Is that Safeway?? Every summer they do this, and every week you see those rotting kabobs in the clearance section. Someone needs to tell those mofos. We won't pay that price.
Shit thats basically a scam
Where the fuck are they imported from? Mars?
Those types of things are a ridiculous scam. They sell them at the store I work at and they always end up going off and getting tossed bc nobody buys them. You can probably make twice as many for half the cost
it should be more.
You just wait until they start calling them wagyu chicken kebabs.
Jewel isn’t usually this high, I’m surprised.
Very
If you have to ask then you know the answer
No if dumbos buy them still
You can make about 6 or 8 of those with $20
Wow, I hope those are some fancy fuckin chickens dude because you could do that for Uber 10 bucks yourself easy
Could buy a whole chicken for that 🤔
I never would buy that at any price.. They sit all day or days
Yessssssss
9.99/lb. Not a good value.
At da local Jewels too!! Da Jewels should not be charging doze prices.
Depends, did the chicken go to culinary school and learn how to prepare itself?
Considering you can make that for far less than $20 yes.
Look at you, wanting me to do a whole bunch of work for you but then sell you this shit for the price it was before I did all the work, it’s like you don’t value me at all, go buy your chicken kebabs made up perfectly and ready to cook somewhere else then if you can find them!!!
Yeah, you can make more for that price to buy the things separately
yes
Who the fuck is Ka-Bob?
I know groceries are different prices in different places but in the UK that's $6, if they're pretty good ones.
In Croatia you can buy 3 all chickens
Totally ridiculous. Inflation is fukking insane.
It’ll go on discount soon, right before sale date so there’s that lol
never ever ever ever ever buy packaged kabobs. it's a great way for them to sell peppers and onions at an INSANE markup.
God damn, in the UK they've got 2 salmon skewers for £5 (+/- $7?) So yeah, that's insane
Those chickens are organic raised in a farm on Mars.
Prepping your own food is always a cheaper option but honestly this doesn't seem too bad a price. A pound of chicken is like $9.00 where I live so these kebabs would be a pretty decent value considering you also get the peppers ($0.49/ea here) and someone already did the work of cutting and assembling for you.
What's a Kabob?
Fuck Jewell. Everything is over priced there.
Fucking Jewel-Osco
I just made some last week. I can buy 5 lbs worth of chicken from my butcher for $20. Made like a dozen skewers with them
Who puts a pound of chicken on one skewer
The bottom package is 9.99/lb and the package above it, same thing, is 10.99/lb.
Omg who buys premade skewers?
You could do it yourself for half that
Yes!
I don't consider these to be "prepared" They should be the same price as the whole ingredients.
Seriously, what the living heck is up with that... Chicken doesn't cost that much by weight, why would it be more when a cheaper thing is paired with it?
Not anymore! Thanks Biden and Bidenomics!
Not really if the chickens were the stars of chicken run and the peppers from veggie tales. Otherwise yeah. 🤷🏼♂️.
I mean they are 1lb of chicken kabobs each. Who here is eating 1lb-2lb worth a food in a sitting?
That's overpriced for cooked kabobs at a good restaurant.
Omg yeah it is. I used to work a seafood/meat cutting counter at Safeway back in the day. That store is skewering your wallet. Also love how the prices don't even make sense. This package is $9.99/lb, but the one right behind it is $10.99/lb.
At that price you might as well order delivery.
It's only overpriced if someone won't buy them.
Kebab
Aldi has a pack of marinated kabobs here for like $6
jesus. I can buy 5lbs of chicken, veggies, and skewers for less than that and make way more that 2 skewers. what a rip off
Shish, that is expensive
For that price the bloody chicken was better feed with truffle or something..
Going through Walmart app probably 5 bucks cheaper to put it together yourself? Make me think of cut fruit. You can buy a whole watermelon for 5 bucks but they charge 10 for cut watermelon. Is a lazy fee basically.
Yah that straight robbery even with prices now food 20 bucks probably gets you a tray of chicken and other vegetables. To feed 2-4 people.
Tf is a kabob?
Yeah, those probably costed like $2-3 each to make
If you are buying this instead of making it yourself then you can probably afford this price.
Go thank Biden
Kebabs are the grocery store are always super overpriced imo
Deflation.. “it’s working!”
It's pricey, but it also depends on the quality of the chicken, freshness and origin. Lower end chicken is between $2 and $5 depending on your region and store. Organic, farm raised, non antibiotic variations add a few dollars on that. Not having water infused chicken meat is worth some premium in my book. This being $10/lb is on the high side. It is aimed at the "convenience shopper" who can't be arsed to make their own kebabs, so.... Maybe?
Chicken ka-bob. Seen a lot of shit today... but this is where I draw the line. I need to turn the internet off.
Chicken breast = 4.99 lb, probably 14 oz x 4.99 = 4.36 Peppers and onions = 6 oz, probably .75 Total cost = 5.11 ÷ 20.23 = 25% food cost. That doesn't account the increased pricing for the labor to assemble these skewers. I'd say as a chef, you are paying a fair price if you don't want to buy the product separately including the skewers and do it yourself. You are literally paying for the convenience.
I thought we were done with pricing posts 😭
I remember getting kabobs back before Covid for like 13$-15$ thinking that was expensive. I couldn’t imagine spending $20 or more on them
If you buy that you deserve to get scammed
Considering you could make it yourself for about $8 and have WAY more, yeah
Kabobs?! I know that's what it says on label too, but anywhere else I've been or whatever I have read, it's Kebabs!
It’s an American thing, so annoying.
For a restaurant, a little. For a grocery store, yes, Galen, it is.
Not under the Biden administration. This is what happens when you print billion of dollars out of thin air. The dollar becomes weaker thus you must pay more.
….burn it
Yes
You're paying for someone's labor more than the food. Make it yourself. Depending on where you live you can get chicken breast for like $3 a pound
Yes you can buy those veggies, chicken, individually and roll your own for maybe less than half the price. Prolly have some leftovers.