It's not smart to mess with Buddy's chicken

This weekend, on Saturday, we were happy to find El Galindo tortillas. But now it's Buddy's Chicken that's being squeezed at the H-E-B, in favor of some outlander poultry called Smart Chicken, apparently sold in thirty states. There was a small allotment for Buddy's and we bought and roasted an entire bird. We once tried Smart Chicken by mistake (Central Market?) and didn't like it. The texture was peculiar and for some reason it tasted salty. Buddy's natural chicken comes from Gonzalez only, just down the road. It used to be that not every store would carry Buddy's because the birds came whole and had to be dismembered in store, but that has changed, evidently, so that smaller parts of the bird are shipped to the stores upon request. Here it should be recorded that the H-E-B at Congress and Oltorf, before noon on a Sunday, actually had 14 of 16 registers open and operating.