AF62 wrote:And sure people were paying £9 for a chicken when the supermarkets sell them for £3, as restaurants weren't open or they weren't nice places to go, and some people take the view that it is a requirement they must spend because otherwise what is the point of working and must 'treat' themselves frequently. Once restaurants are back to normal then the £9 chickens will be left sitting on the shelf.
I remember when I was a brat, my parents regarded chicken as an expensive and rare delicacy. So special in fact that we used to have one at Christmas instead of a turkey. They were big too, a chicken providing our family of four several meals.
I also remember finding those xmas chickens absolutely delicious and wonderful, perhaps because they were free range farmyard and had a wide and had a varied diet of all manner of bugs. As an adult I find the factory farmed chickens from supermarkets are pretty tasteless in comparison. I'd happily pay £9 (or a lot more) for a chicken as good as I recall them being back in the 60s.