Zaycon foods

[TheGrey]

Have you heard of Zaycon Foods? They're terrific, have high-quality meat and at great prices. You buy in bulk, choose where you want to pick it up and then when it's delivery (in a church parking lot, off a truck) time, you pick it up.

i know it sounds sketchy, but it's legit, and the meat is fantastic. This month's delivery: Skinless, boneless, chicken breasts, $1.79 a pound.

Here's an article in Time about them: http://business.time.com/2013/03/12/...h-parking-lot/

Here's is Zaycon Foods' website: https://www.zayconfoods.com/

[centrarchidae]

Mrs. Centrarchidae gives me no end of static about them. "Honey, what's that?"

"Chicken."

"You think you bought enough?"

"I thought I was just buying it off the back of a truck, but they made me buy the truck too."

I'm still working through last spring's bacon order. Thirty pounds in a package is a LOT of bacon.

[TheGrey]

I am going to freeze some of it and can the rest. I'm REALLY excited about it. How does their bacon compare with bacon from grocery stores or Sam's Club or Costco?

[centrarchidae]

I am going to freeze some of it and can the rest. I'm REALLY excited about it. How does their bacon compare with bacon from grocery stores or Sam's Club or Costco?

I thought it was about even with Costco. Maybe a little better.

[TheGrey]

Okay, I am truly impressed.

I didn't even have to get out of my Jeep to pick up my order- they checked my name against their list and lay plastic down and then the 40-pound heavily waxed box of chicken breasts was set on that plastic, easy as pie.

These are the Dolly Partons of chickendom; the butterflied breasts are HUGE. I was able to put one butterflied chicken breast per quart freezer bag; there was no room for anything else.

I have not tasted them yet, but they looked far more healthy than what they sell in the grocery stores.

[Adice]

My family bought the chicken a few times now and it is quite good and is much larger than chicken in the grocery store.

I highly recommend it.

[losttrail]

I don't eat chicken. It's toxic poison. Last few times I've eating chicken (about 3 times in the past 20 years) I have had either mild intestinal discomfort to full blown projectile vomiting and diarrhea. And I was eating the same chicken those around me were eating and they did not get ill.

My body just got smart and concluded that red meat is best.

I do still cook chicken for the wife & kids, but in a few months the kids will be off to college.

[TheGrey]

I'm sorry to hear that, losttrail! I wonder what it is about the chicken you were eating that caused your stomach upset?

Have you tried organic chicken? I wonder if you are sensitive to some of the hormones they may have used in processing the meat?

[Rooskibar03]

Bringing this back up. Picked up my chicken this morning. What a easy process, drive up, pop the trunk and off you go.

Chicken looks good and clean. Going to can most of it but I'll report back once I've tried some.

[Dave]

Anyone tried these people? They seem to have ok deals for meats and some produce, but it sounds weird buying meat from the back of a truck. My wife found them and forwarded it to me and I was thinking about getting some chicken wings on their next Aurora chicken day. Just trying to see if they are ok to deal with and if the food is safe and/or good to eat. They are sold out of ribs for all of their listed dates, I wanted to try those too.