Can someone tell me why my very in-date chicken is

[gaelicsheep]

blue?! Inside the flaps of skin on the bum and from the looks of it inside as well. It will be going back to Tesco, but I've never seen anything like it before.

[PussinJimmyChoos]

Maybe it was playing a sex game before it snuffed it?

[gaelicsheep]

[meltedmarsbars]

Bruising? If it wasn't completely dead before plucking, evisceration, etc?

[meltedmarsbars]

BTW why are you looking up a dead chicken's bum at half ten at night?

Just wondered...

[PussinJimmyChoos]

ARe you sure its not from the packaging? Sometimes the packing colour can come off...gross but true....

[gaelicsheep]

Well I was about to joint it for the freezer, as it so happens.

Given that I buy whole chickens so I can make stock I'm not too sure about this one. D'you reckon Tesco's will swap it? Don't want to risk it with a 6.5 month old.

[PussinJimmyChoos]

I wouldn't take any chances with chicken - especially with such a young child

Tescos will probably take it back without any worries. My mum had a rank chicken from Asda online delivery once and she rang and complained - they sent someone out with a fresh chicken and took the old one away - I was impressed with that quite frankly

[ppeatfruit]

IMO if you buy cheap (battery) chickens that's what you get.

[PussinJimmyChoos]

That's a bit of an assumption..for all you know, this could be a Tescos Organic/Free range chicken

[ppeatfruit]

I reckon the poster would have said if that were the case.

[gaelicsheep]

Why would "the poster" have said? Would it make any difference to the safety of a blue chicken? Or perhaps I'd have more right to be annoyed if I'd spent £9 instead of £5.60?

"The poster" bought a not cheap Willow Farm chicken. I care deeply about animal welfare, but my statutory maternity pay doesn't stretch to free range or organic. We eat chicken once in a blue moon as it is. Those cheap chickens you mention would be broilers not battery chickens as it happens.

Incidentally said chicken is now smelling distinctly off and stupid me forgot to take it with us to town today. A special trip would cost at least a fiver in petrol so chicken now in the bin. Very .

[Fifichef]

Who knows - it might have flown all the way from Taiwan. Pay a bit more and stretch it out for an extra meal.

[Doramustdie]

You know what spennylots organic, cornfed, running around a field chickens go off just the same as cheapo chickens. Utter bollocks from those who assume it was a value chicken.....

[gaelicsheep]

Sorry, is four meals for a family of four, plus 2 litres of stock, being wasteful? It is a British high welfare chicken fgs. Exactly why is this my fault?

[gaelicsheep]

2 pints sorry. The rest stands.

Food snobs who don't have to worry where the next meal is coming from really really annoy me.

[gaelicsheep]

Oh and you know what ppeatfruit? I nearly mentioned that it wasn't a cheap chicken but decided it was irrelevant. IMO every 6 month old baby has a right not to be fed dodgy chicken, not just those with parents that can afford organic.

[PussinJimmyChoos]

Exactly, totally wrong to assume what quality of chicken the OP had purchased. Does this mean that if everyone bought value meat, they deserve to have a stinking carcass when they open it up at home???

Ppeat - take your head out of your own arse before that turns blue, there's a luv

[meltedmarsbars]

Hey! A Real Food Fight!



or should that be



[wince emoticon]

[Doramustdie]

meltedmarsbars! Do they go off!?

[VivaLeBeaver]

Fish it out the bin and freeze it, ring Tesco tomorrow and tell them you will be bringing it back at your convenience. Take it back to Tesco next time you're going, they will make a note of your call and should still give you a refund/replacement when you go in.

[Lindax]

young fit bird according to this under point number 11

[gaelicsheep]

Lindax, my browser is playing up and won't open the document. Can you cut and paste?

[gaelicsheep]

Sorry, just found it in html. Will read...

[gaelicsheep]

Hmm, it was more a dark greyish blue - like it had been dyed with blue ink.

[ppeatfruit]

Well there's a polite response Jimmy do you work for the supermkts ?