Why pay through the nose for free-range chicken when you can enjoy the bargain of game?

"It's like the difference between a free-range chicken and one that is caged," he said.

Or as one local culinary writer put it, "Back then, people here thought free-range chicken was something you didn't have to pay for."

These succulent birds set a new standard even among free-range chickens.

Only recently have chicken sellers taught me that they were actually "free-range chickens."

A so-called free-range chicken may only spend a few minutes a day outside, at best.

"We were selling free-range chickens in the 1980's, when all that money was flowing," she said.

Is there a difference between a free-range chicken and an all-natural bird?

The free-range chicken may or may not be "all natural."

A free-range chicken must have access to the outdoors all year.