"In my opinion, it never stops being sandwich season, especially when oodles of your time is spent packing school lunchboxes for hungry kiddos. I'll venture a strong guess that Costco membership holders regularly turn to the warehouse to stock up on deli meat - it's bound to be cheaper when bought in bulk, and Kirkland is one of the best store brands out there, right?"
"If you're always hunting for the freshest rotisserie chicken at Costco, you may assume its sliced rotisserie-seasoned chicken breast is an equally covetable deli meat. At least, that's the assumption I made before trying both of the above. My first disappointment with Kirkland's chicken deli meat offering (pictured above on the left) came simply when trying to take it out of the package. The slices were impossible to peel apart without crumbling; moreover, there wasn't much payoff in terms of flavor or texture. Whatever "rotisserie seasoned" meant to Costco, I didn't like how it flavored this chicken breast, and I even got a tough piece of gristle in one of the slices. No, thank you."
Costco's Kirkland and Walmart's Great Value deli meats were compared across five comparable products for flavor, texture, and price. The comparison included rotisserie-seasoned chicken breast as one sample. Kirkland's chicken slices were difficult to separate, crumbly, lacked notable flavor, and contained a piece of gristle. Great Value's sliced chicken performed better in initial handling and eating quality. The testing process involved purchasing comparable deli meats from each retailer to evaluate sensory qualities and cost per package to determine which retailer provided the better deli-meat option overall.
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