Chicken

UK supplemented with European imports and speciality imports, especially from France. You get what you pay for: cheap ordinary fresh chicken will come from crowded conditions, be pumped up with water to massage the texture, and taste of either nothing or fish meal (some are now marked to inform you that no water has been added). Most frozen broiler birds are infected with salmonella, which is only killed off by thorough cooking. Free-range are sometimes, but not necessarily, better. The conditions in which corn-fed chickens (with their yellow flesh), and the small and succulent poussins and spring chickens are raised are sometimes as industrial as those for ordinary broilers. Some are good, some not so.