asda smartprice chicken breasts

stevie-p | 18:22 Mon 06th Mar 2006 | Food & Drink

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Anyone experienced iffy chicken breasts in the asda smartprice range?? Iv had to take 2 lots back as they stunk..fairplay i was given double the price back and free chicken to replace it,but am i the only one..i wonder.

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nagnag

I got bad chicken from tescos a while back. The best thing to do is to make sure the meat looks nice and pink and check the packaging for any holes.

joko

i have as far as i can recall, found three blocks of mouldy cheese, 2 mouldy loaves and 1 loaf that was open at one end (not sealed properly)

i've had 2 open readymeals (which could have happened in the carrier bag to be fair)

at least 8 tubs of unsealed coleslaw (this was a fault with the sealing machine, as i opened almost a whole batch.

i bought 5 pasta n sauces and all were open on one corner

all these are generally in different stores - i usually try to tell a worker or take it to the till because i wouldn't like someone with bad eyesight or something not to notice and buy it.

i think i only notice because i make a point of looking now, so how many times do people not notice this sort of thing?

i wonder how much staff either don't notice or do notice and can't be bothered to do anything about it.

most have thanked me for pointing them out, but a few have just looked at me like its my fault!

tigilou

Thats put me right off now. Another thing annoys me is the dates of things you go shopping for a week and the majority of stuff has one maye 2 days left on it. I stand there riffling through the back but more often than not people have beaten me to it

loopyc

i had this problem last week chicken was slimy green and smelly it was for tea and was to late to get anything ese when i realised so went to macdonads instead and had a chicken sandwich, which gave me food poisoning! think i shall stick wth beef!!!

nickmo

Bit of nightime reading info if you have any interest in the provenance of your food - get a copy of Felicity Lawrences book 'Not on the Label' and then decide where you want to shop.

Chicken for example can be labelled as British - that red tractor thing - but need not be produced in Britain. Could also be re-packaged from Brazil, Thailand, Holland etc etc

There is a lot of Italian chicken around the wholesale market at present - bird flu scare has hit producers there so they are dumping their meat in the UK and undercutting good quality producers here -

PLEASE NOTE the bird flu virus (as with ANY virus) is destroyed by cooking and it can not be passed on by eating as it is killed in the human gut anyway, so please keep eating chicken but check with a farm shop, farmers' market or your local butcher where the meat is from - just do not buy the cheapest version in a supermarket.

It can even have beef or pork dna present as this is used to bulk up the weight of the poultry, as red meat holds more water, so you end up buying less meat than you expect anyway.