What we don’t talk about when we talk fast food’s chicken sandwich wars.
supposedly created a poultry shortage this year, the flood of chicken sandwiches just kept on coming—and many experts believe they won’t stop. “Flavor, bun, topping, and coating innovation will continue to drive interest,” says Claire Lancaster, the Head of Food & Drink at trend forecasting company WGSN.
Chicken sandwiches wouldn’t exist without this country’s love of poultry in general—an obsession that’s been decades in the making. Sixty years ago, Americans ate aboutChickens first arrived on Columbus’s second voyage to the Americas in 1493, historian Emelyn Rude wrote inBut for most early colonists, the birds were primarily kept as egg-layers, eaten only when they were old and useless.
That all started to change in 1946, when the quest for bigger, better birds began. The USDA, along with a slew of prominent poultry businesses, announced the “Chicken of Tomorrow” competition, Rude wrote. For poultry to compete with beef and pork, the dominant proteins on the American dinner plate at the time, it needed to be meatier and more tender—and the farmer who bred a chicken with the juiciest breasts would win $5,000.
Then, big poultry companies began acquiring smaller ones in the 1960s. The industry has since become so consolidated that the five largest companies—Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s, Sanderson Farms, Perdue, and Koch Foods—now control about
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