70% Of Supermarket Chickens Infected With Bug !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30227342

Flipping heck ! If this true, I'm not sure if I will buy chicken from a supermarket again. I only buy free-range but I am unsure if even these are safe now.

[aelmpvw]

apparently it isn't a problem at all if you cook it properly

[agchristie]

Thorough cooking kills the bug Mikey!

[gingejbee]

And, of course, we all eat it raw?

[frugalfred]

Shades of Edwina Currie and salmonella in eggs.......

[agchristie]

Never forget John Gummer and the burgers!

[AlwaysConfused]

I ate a supermarket chicken earlier this week, and it done me no harm. cluckgruntmoowoofmeowoinksquarkneighcluck

[mikey4444]

The problem as I understand it is that it isn't just the chicken itself that might have Campylobacter. The outside of the packaging may be infected as well, so I can see possible problems with handling the pack, and then touching other surfaces and/or foodstuffs.

Perhaps Edwina was right all along !

[Gromit]

Apparently Chicken Tikka Masala from Lidl is the very most absolutely toxic of the lot.

[mikey4444]

LOL Gromit ! I will be cooking my dinner at incinerator temperatures tonight in the Microwave, just to be sure.

[Gromit]

I make cracking Chicken Tikka with fresh spices purchased on my holiday to Turkey (no pun intended) and chicken breasts from a proper traditional butchers.
Though I am a fan of Lidl (I buy crates of their Bordelino, which is gorgeous and less than a fiver).

[mikey4444]

Gromit...try their Pinotage...£3.99 a bottle this week and its 14.5 % !

[DTCwordfan]

swwooooooosh, that was my khazi flushing.

[gness]

Just finish off with an industrial blow torch, Mikey...you'll be fine...x

[Retrochic]

this is no joke -last week I went into Morrisons where I rarely shop but was doing business in the area. They had a display at the end of an aisle with 'special offers' they had raw whole chickens packaged next to fresh cream cakes. I brought this to the attention of the Manager who said 'oh well they are in plastic there is not problem. I gave them my 'oh really' secret shopper face and next thing he is moving then and washing everything down with anti bacterial spray. I hate Supermarkets.

[tonyav]

Heres the gness method, mikey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPiMRXveX8c

[gness]

See!!!! Now if I could just cook with power tools I'd be a whizz in the kitchen.....x

[DTCwordfan]

I caught a rainbow trout in New Zealand, Lake Solitaire. One of the fellow guests was a plastic surgeon and we were treated to brilliant sashimi in the Lodge kitchen, accompanied by a good Sauv Blanc, cut by the most evil looking scalpels used for his work......so why not power tools, gness?

[mikey4444]

Well done Retrochic...nice bit of shopping Guerrilla work.

[gness]

I have made meringue with a Black and Decker power drill.....x

[Gromit]

Is that the South African Pinotage. had it - lovely.

As is their Argentinian Melbec (my favourite :-)