What does this whole sentence mean?
(Context: ALICE: Mmm. The labels on the different brands of chicken flavour crisps were quite revealing too, weren’t they?
JACK: Yeah. I don’t understand how they can get away with calling them chicken flavour when they only contain artificial additives.)
ALICE: I know. *******I’d at least have expected them to contain a small percentage of real chicken.*******

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As to "would have expected"
Did Alice mean that she used to hope there's some real chicken contained but now she don't?

Question

What does this whole sentence mean?
(Context: ALICE: Mmm. The labels on the different brands of chicken flavour crisps were quite revealing too, weren’t they?
JACK: Yeah. I don’t understand how they can get away with calling them chicken flavour when they only contain artificial additives.)
ALICE: I know. *******I’d at least have expected them to contain a small percentage of real chicken.*******

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As to "would have expected"
Did Alice mean that she used to hope there's some real chicken contained but now she don't?

Answer

used to hope? No.
used to expect, yes.
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Previous to looking at the label, she had expected then to conatin at least a small percentage of real chiocken.
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The "would heave" connects to prior to the action of finding out: reading the label.

Answer

She thought or expected before looking at the labels that the crisps would contain some chicken since they were chicken-flavored. They didn't contain any chicken. She is disappointed.

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