Mrs. L picked up some chicken for cheep (see what I did there?) at Kroger. The seasoning on it looks red, possibly Lowrie’s seasoned salt. The label says “HTGF seasoned chicken.”
I’m trying to puzzle that out because what if I need more spice as it grills.
H…Hot? T…? Come back to that. G…Garlic? F…? I googled and the first two hits were Kroger. It chicken mentioned various seasonings, but not HTGF.
Mrs. L found on line: Human Transforming Growth Factor. So apparently it’s a heads up to people who don’t want to eat the extra hormones? Is this stuff that gives 10 year old girls premature boobs? Anybody know more about it? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that on another label.
Like so many pre-seasoned things, I’m not getting a lot of flavor. The chicken is ok, it’s moist…but I’m not tasting seasoned salt or anything else as a clue.
Yeah. If this is a store printed label that would make sense. Is that the kind of label you are talking about OP, or is this on a manufacturers label? If so, where’s the chicken from?
Well, taking a cue from this, I googled DuckDuckGoed (DuckDuckWent?) the words Human Transforming Growth Factor, and got a whole lot of hits. Most mentioned only “Transforming Growth Factor”, with just a few including the word “Human” as well.
Just from a quick skim of the thumbnail excerpts shown on the search page, it appears to be a protein or hormone that facilitates tissue repair, regrowth, or regeneration, involved in healing of wounds or other tissue damage, but also implicated in the growth of tumors and cancers. It’s doesn’t sound like the kind of stuff I’d want to season my chicken with.
My own experience makes me think this is the correct answer.
Every few months, I take the long trek to Costco with my boyfriend - we don’t mingle our finances, so we each pay for our share of the goodies we pile into the cart. But I pay for it all with my credit card at the checkout counter, and then take responsibility for sorting out the receipt so he can pay me for his share.
The first couple of times I tried to sort it, it was hell trying to match “SNERGBLUTCHQUAWHAT?!?!” on the receipt with an actual product we brought home. And when I would google “SNERGBLUTCHQUAWHAT?!?!” thinking that would tell me what product was listed, it usually didn’t. I had to puzzle out each item listed until I had an “aha” moment where I realized that “ORKWCH” or some such string stands for “organic Kirkland whole chicken.”
I find it a little weird that explanations of these codes are not readily available on the internet, but that seems to be the case.
I’ll bet that’s it. It came in a plain white styro tray with film over it and the store label. Chances are they took it out of the original package (or had a bulk package?) to season it, repackaged it like it was their own. Thanks for the answers, all!
