Frozen meat bought from Aldi, purporting to be fresh

[bimbo123456]

Hello all
Yes, I know cheap meat should be avoided but we are on a tight budget. Anyway, I purchased three packs of bargain pork chops from Aldi yesterday. Some time later when I finally returned home (after doing the rest of the shop at Sainsbury!) I discovered that the parts when the chops interleaved was frozen, not completely, enough to be quite unsuitable for freezing as I intended. I took the meat back and the manager of the store was very apologetic, giving me a complete refund, bunch of flowers and a bottle of wine. My question is this. Has anyone else had similar experience? I am now not confident of buying meat to freeze from this shop.

[lady-janine]

nomercy - safeways were paying that about 15 yrs ago according to someone i know who worked there.

[karenmac60]

I used to work in a butcher's and meat that was 'fresh' had been in and out of the walk in chill so many times it had freezer burn. It was frequently frozen first think in the morning and we were just told to arrange it in the display so that the frozen stuff would be used last and hopefully have thawed out by then - and this was a good butcher's! No one ever reported getting sick from the meat though.

[AlBags]

; )