i have just bought an asda extra tasty cooked chicken from the deli counter and when i got home to carve it i found that all the giblets and innards are still attached inside the cavity and has been cooked with the chicken. is this right and is it harmful? i thought they all get removed before cooking.
Yes, of course they should have been removed. Call the store manager and tell him that you intend to report it to your local council environmental health department.
I wouldn't eat it, take it back - if you actually mean it's not gutted at all that would include, poo, stomach contents, bile etc all of which may have oozed out in the cooking. Major yuk
I wouldn't take it back to Asda. They won't care. They will just refund you. Make them aware, but call environmental health, because that's the only way these shops get the message.
This chicken could have given your whole family food poisoning. Sorry, but that's absolutely not acceptable these days.
just took it back to asda,spoke to the 12 year old 'manager' who agreed that it was disgusting. They refunded me gave me a token £2 gift card and took my details to give to head office, promised they would be in touch within a week.
watch this space..
I am a firm believer in complaining when it is due and I wouldn't leave it there. Email head office and explain what has happened, if you are lucky a 14 year old manager might see it and deal with properly.
latest news- i phoned the number given by them last week because i still hadn't heard anything and after being on hold for a while i was told they had found my details and correspondence had been sent out to me 'today'. He then said i should receive it sometime this week or early next week!!! i didn't realize they sent out correspondence on the back of a tortoise and then send it off with a mini sat nav.
had a reply today (1 week after they said they sent it) and they say the foreign body in the chicken was just the gall bladder. now i'm not an expert but to me it was the whole innards not just the gall bladder ( [http://i61.tinypic.com/15qxjz8.jpg )they gave me a £15 gift card as a goodwill gesture, now i'm not a greedy man but the cost to me was 4 new dinners, the waste of the veg i bought to go with the roast chicken,the petrol money cost to return the chicken so the £15 just about covers costs. do you think i should take this further??