to be fed up with buying rotten food?!

[SallyBrownEyes]

Tonight opened a packet of steaks bought yesterday and 2 were rotten, stinky, brown masses. They are well within sell by date and looked OK yesterday. This happened a month or so ago with a pack of mince from same supermarket. I'm getting annoyed that the supermarket I switched to due this type of thing happening at the last one is now selling their rotten old stuff to me. Same with veg, rotton or near rotten on the shelves waiting to be bought for good money! Has anyone else noticed the quality of food is in steep decline? I'm annoyed that they think people will continue to happily part with their hard earned cash for their rotten old cast offs!!!

I'm having a problem with Tescos recently. I am fed up of buying onions, that look absolutely fine, getting them home, chopping them up only to discover that they have been chilled to within an inch of their lives and have gone all slimy and a strange see through colour. Same with carrots, they chill them to such an extent, you get them home and they immediately go bendy.
I've only ever had a problem with chicken once, well within date, opened and the smell was horrendous.
Stupidly though, I've never attempted to return said items.

Tescos are foul I have decided. DH did a shop there recently (I refuse on the basis that all the meat etc is horrible) and we had to throw awaya full packet of chicken (it STANK when opened), and then I opened some fresh cod, only to be greeted by a WORM sticking out of it.

Alive.

And wriggling.

(grimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm).

am
never
buying
meat
or
fish
in
tesco
again

ever
ever
ever

argghhhhh orangina.... arrrhggghhhh!!

pssst.... you do get worms still alive in fish. Shows the fish is fresh, if nothing else!

That may be the case Mother, I don't know... But if I found a wiggling worm in my fish, it would go straight in the bin and I'd probably never eat fish again.

Lol!! I must admit it freaked me out the first time I saw one.

Matthew Fort on wiggly worms

What the FSA say about it

(it's the last question, for those interested/not vomiting at the thought of worms in fish)

I think it's worth paying the extra to buy fresh stuff in Waitrose, or Sainsbury's is not too bad. In fact the stuff from Waitrose often lasts longer than the use by date. Asda are generally better than Tesco though IMO.

I am talking about Sainsburys (am I allowed to say this eeek?!). I used to shop in Tesco but decided they are utterly untrustworthy like many other people by the looks! Will keep you posted on the response I get...

Oh and I'd rather not be confronted by a live worm in my fish or a dead thingy yuck yuck YUCK!!!

Have had this happen a lot with food from tesco - I find the quality of their food is going increasingly down down downhill!

Sorry Mother I can't bring myself to look at your links ... I found a caterpillar in a lettuce when I was 7... I didn't eat lettuce for 11 years. Even now I inspect every flipping leaf.

OMG I've just remembered my Alpen incident! When I was about 14 I ate a bowl of Alpen... It was yummy, I decided to get some more. I poured another bowl, just before I put the milk in my brother looked at my Alpen, looked at me and asked 'Why is your cereal moving?'. On inspection it was moving... Weevils!!!!! Haven't eaten muesli to this day (coming up to 20 years).
So please forgive me for not looking at your links.

I have given up with tesco on the fruit and veg front. I've lost count of the number of apples we bin because they are like eating candy floss.

On the mince front, my Auntie used to work in the butchers department in a large well known supermarket. When the beef steak and joints were nearing their sell by or going brown they would mince them, repack them and add another few days on the sell by. No wonder it sometimes goes off so quickly! I now buy all the meat we don't produce ourselves from my local butcher.

I find oranges the worst... they go green mouldy within hours of getting them home in some cases.

One thing I have noticed recently too... in Morrisons... they have the temperature shown in red digital figures on the freezers, just above the eye level cabinets... they often show 'Err' meaning they are not actually cold enough to keep stuff frozen safely.

I hate to say this, but... Waitrose. At least for fruit and veges and meat. Tesco carrots shrivel before your very eyes, like the picture of Dorian Grey.

Crikey you have had some bad luck with food!

I have never really encountered any problems with Tesco's or any other supermarket tbh. Apart from maybe bananas.

I wonder if Tesco are getting worse and worse because they are winning their bid for world domination and think that everyone shops with them due to their clever marketing which makes the majority think they are cheap but quality?! I switched to Sainsburys and they are no dearer food wise and WERE much better quality wise. Hmmm...

Definitely take it back and complain. My mum frequently takes back chicken which has gone off and they replace it without question. Some stores give you a refund and a replacement.

My mum also complained about a packet of Cadbury's Strollers (I think that's what they were called) as they were all biscuit or raisin, no caramel. Cadbury's sent her vouchers periodically for years afterwards!!

Ewww! I do shop at tesco, but buy all my meat from the butcher and fish/ poultry from fishmonger/ poulterer- am very grateful now after reading this thread.

Although don't know if I am ever going to get past the revelations about worms in fish (bleurgh!) Took me years to get past bones, the worms could be a tipping point

I've lost count of the times I've had off meat from tesco. I thought our store may have been having ishoos due to most of their chillers spilling water everywhere but it seems there is a bit of a pattern here. Hmmm.

Are you sure it was rotten, though, OP? Beef can go brown in plastic, it usually regains it's colour if you leave it out for a bit.