The Unconventional Meat Americans Ate Before Chicken Became Affordable - Chowhound

Manyakotic/Getty Images Nowadays, chicken is firmly an affordable meat in most U.S. stores (and depending on which part you want, it's sometimes the cheapest — chicken legs in particular sell for an average of less than $2 per pound). But this wasn't always the case: Before the commercial poultry industry started to appear around the 1930s (although it arguably took up until the '70s to fully develop), chicken…