The Coronavirus: The Great Chicken Run

Covid-19 has certainly created some new opportunities for us.  Small projects are getting completed around the house, we try to do new and different activities, and we take advantage of things that normally would not have occurred to us. 
  
And so it was that on Saturday, Sam and Mitch went to the North Carolina Fair Grounds at 7am to wait in a long line of cars to buy bulk chicken. Forty pounds to be exact.  

A local poultry grower, Raeford Farms, had to sell the chicken that would normally go to all of the local restaurants. Since they are all closed, except for take-out, the distributor sold it directly to anyone willing to wait in line. 

There were four trucks, each with 44,000 pounds of chicken to be sold in 40 pound boxes. Since Sam and Mitch waited in line we bought the chicken and split it with them.  They got to the fairgrounds 90 minutes before the distribution and then waited in a line of cars for another 90 minutes - weaving around the fairgrounds - until they made the purchase.
  
When they got home we opened the box and discovered that everything was in one big bag.  We also discovered that "whole breasts" meant exactly that; the two halves were still attached. It took Lisa another hour to separate and package everything into baggies. 

Lisa joked that ten years from now one of the funny memories from this world event will be, "remember when we bought 40lbs of chicken?!"  

Still in the midst of this pandemic, with North Carolina just hitting the peak and other states not there yet, the Brown family continues to get by rather well. Nothing is like it was but there is hope that we can get back there someday. The world has faced pandemics before and recovered. We will get through this.  

We will eat a lot of chicken.