Competition means that unexploited profit opportunities do not stay unexploited for very long. If Fowler Foods is overlooking a robust market for grilled chicken in Memphis, then I encourage the company’s critics to stop squawking, enter the market, and show them the error of their ways by earning profits in the market for grilled chicken. FULL ARTICLE
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Playing Chicken in Memphis
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Then I’m playin’ chicken in Memphis
Playin’ chicken with my feet ten feet off of Beale
Playin’ chicken in Memphis
But do I really feel the way I feel
I’ve had the KFC grilled chicken, it is edible but nothing to write home about.
Of course, somebody who is really desperate for some grilled chicken could go to the grocery store and buy some chicken, and grill it themselves. Heck, even a miserable cook like me can do this.
I know, I know, that’s a kooky libertarian idea lacking in social justice. Nobody in the mainstream would ever suggest something so hard-hearted as expecting people to cook their own food.
The notions of what other people should do with their money is unbounded. Unforunately the ramping up of using Force behind such sentiments us becoming unbounded as well.
The KFC’s here in Tupelo have the grilled chicken, so if you don’t mind the hour and a half drive from Memphis….
What they really, REALLY need in Memphis is a Chipotle. I lived in Tampa for some years, and Chipotle was our favorite place to eat.
Chipotle is unfair to its competition by being so much better (seriously, they are that much better…alas, they’re also about 1,200 calories a throw, so I try to keep my habit down to about one every other week) than the poor competing burritos! I call for a Burrito Unification Plan in order to preserve jobs in the critical burrito industry!
(Yes, I just finished That Book.)
What’s wrong with a boycott? Just as Fowler has no requirement to offer a product, so too others have no obligation to buy any product.
Ugh, so it’s Fowler that has fowled KFC up in Memphis: At least the KFC’s at Summer Ave/Sycamore View and on Germantown Parkway are terrible, bad, slow service, way greasy food, getting the wrong food, etc. Mrs. Winners is much better.
My guess is that Fowler has a francise contract with KFC and must follow that contract. If they are not required by KFC to carry grilled chicken, they can do whatever they want.
For those that critical of Fowler for not providing a healthier menu. Well, KFC is not classified a health food outlet and will not draw the customers from “Pine Nuts R Us”. So, why try!
I am for buying 5 pounds of chicken hind quarters for 39 cents a pound and slow smoking them on the grill over hardwood charcoal. A great meal for four and it cost less than $2.50!
First off, one can easily maintain his obesity with grilled chicken. There’s plenty of saturated fat in it and despite the high protein content of chicken, it’s so high that most of it isn’t utilized or even digested fully. People who want to lose weight would do well to simply eat less meat and replace some with lots of leafy greens, legumes and whole grains. I know there’s plenty of those goods available in Memphis, as they are available in every civilized society.
Second, El Pollo Loco is the superior grilled chicken compared to KFC. Vastly superior by every metric. If EPL can’t find a market out there, I’m not sure there is none.
^ err, “one” not “none.” I shouldn’t be up this late.
Thank you all for the excellent comments. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a boycott, but I think the implicit assumption that Fowler is morally obligated to provide grilled chicken is suspect.
As for El Pollo Loco, their website suggests that the nearest location is in St. Louis. That reminds me: the best fast food chicken I’ve ever had is at Pollo Tropical in south Florida. With a side of black beans & rice, it’s a taste of heaven. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like they have any locations outside of Florida.
Art, you don’t leave off the fried plantains, do you?
The best thing at Pollo Tropical (there were at least 4 locations that opened up in Tampa in just the last year we lived there), is the roast pork.
This is just my first reaction after even hearing about the symmetry principle for the first time in this article (very interesting!), but it seems like there might be a bit of a problem in your application of it. If a responsibility has some sort of prerequisite (in Kantian language, a hypothetical imperative – “if there is x, then it is your responsibility to do y”, as opposed to a categorical imperative – “do y no matter what.”). Such a responsibility could be equal in its application to all people while there is a an inequality in actual performance of the responsibility. This wouldn’t be true for a responsibility without a prerequisite, of course, since there is nothing that can get you you out of performance and it is applied equally by this principle.
What seems intuitively to be the real reason that the critics are erring appears to have to do with the fact that they’re demanding a positive right (which might have something to do with the fact that the responsibility has a prerequisite, I’m not sure).
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