The frugal gourmet

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by urs

Meat is getting more and more expensive. The cheapest meat here is turkey mince (something like $2.50 a pound). I imagine it's because turkey meat must be relatively cheap to produce, but I wonder why? Chicken mince and beef mince is more like $5.00 - $6.00 a pound, on average. It would be interesting to do a comparison.

Oh, yeah... but that was Australian dollars... too many variables - I give up!

Ground/minced turkey is a little cheaper because they throw everything in there...skin, meat, bits of this or that...if it's on the bird, it's in there. Most of the chicken here is specialized. Breasts, skinless breasts, drumsticks, etc. so that ups the cost due to packaging and the machinery required to separate the parts.