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to be fed up with buying rotten food?!

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SallyBrownEyes · 28/02/2011 21:57

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!!!

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AtYourCervix · 01/03/2011 23:26

can anyone else see the word masses repeated in the first sentence? or am i going mad?

winnybella · 01/03/2011 23:27

Er, no. But someone did mention the double words somewhere else tonight. Or was it you?

AFingerofFudge · 01/03/2011 23:35

ooh, felt I had to add a quick something here! Earlier this evening, I opened a packet of chicken legs from a well known supermarket and the chicken was 3 days within its use by date but had gone off. It didn't just have that bit of odour when you first open it, it really smelt bad.

Anyway I was pissed off as I had the oven on, it was 5pm, and I didn't have anything else to cook instead. So I did something I don't normally do, I phoned up and complained to the manager. I mentioned that I was now stuck with nothing to cook at a really inconvenient time.

The manager told me to bring the chicken back and he would fix me up with some ready meals. Not great I thought but at least I'll have something to eat.

When I got there, the manager took me to the aisle of ready made boxes of Indian, Chinese etc takeaway type meals. He told me to pick up whichever one I wanted, I picked up the largest and he said, "well, you ought to take two of them if its for your family" and then he picked up a packet of naan breads as well. I was almost embarrased coming away with so much for my manky chicken legs!!

Anyhow, it paid off to make a complaint! And that takeaway type meal was gorgeous!

happybubblebrain · 01/03/2011 23:43

I think the best possible solution to this is to become a vegetarian . Honestly.

Joolyjoolyjoo · 01/03/2011 23:54

zukiecat- that sounds gross! I have worked very hard to train myself to like fish, and was relieved that my children (who are fussy little monsters about lots of food) LOVE fish. I've even accepted the astronomical cost of fresh fish because, well, it's so good for you, isn't it?

And NOW I discover it's full of wriggling little worms!! And that that is ok! Am feeling most disturbed and expect the next time I eat fish I will spend an hour picking it apart first!

Bloodymary · 02/03/2011 08:10

Apparently the worm thing just happens in cod.
There was a thread about it recently.
I wnet straight to my online order and changed the cod for haddock.
Please, please nobody tell me it affects haddock as well.

MotherJack · 02/03/2011 08:25

According to yesterday's Googling It affects all fish AFAIK. Sorry

Guacamole - ROFL about your animated cereal!! I can understand your paranoia

MotherJack · 02/03/2011 09:17

Bloodymary · 02/03/2011 10:32

BOAK
I am going to try and delete that from my mind!

Oblomov · 02/03/2011 10:45

I have had 5 or 6 things in the last year. Taken none back, becasue its such a hassle to drive there, jst to return one item. Making promise to myself now thta i will phone.
I've had huge block mature cheddar, costs about £3.88 thta was mouldy as I opened it. And meat, costing £4 or £5 atleast a couple of times.

MUST PHONE, from now on.

zukiecat · 02/03/2011 10:53

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Trinaluce · 02/03/2011 10:57

Take it back. Tesco should (or at least have always with me) refunded me double. I got some muffins that were two days past their sell by date the day I bought them (nothing wrong with them to look at, but it's the principle of the thing) - took them back, they refunded me twice the cost and were deeply apologetic.

Had the same thing from them with some beef. DH joked about the steaks being too high. >sigh

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SallyBrownEyes · 02/03/2011 21:31

Yes the beef was definitely off, it stunk!!! Still haven't had a response from the big S...loving all of these stories and links though

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Hassled · 02/03/2011 21:34

Blimey - the number of times I've binned meat that's allegedly in date because it was rank and never phoned to complain. I'm on a mission now - I will be a complaint-machine. I'm almost looking forward to the next rank chicken :o.

MsHighwater · 02/03/2011 21:40

I never buy meat from or fish from a supermarket. It all comes from local butcher/fishmonger or farm shop. Not, I have to say, to avoid off meat or fish (though I've never had that) but because it's just better (and is usually local which matters to me). It might cost a little more but I can buy exactly what I need and no more and we don't eat meat every single day so that keeps the cost down.

I can recommend it.

laosvher · 02/03/2011 21:43

Me too, Hassled :o
Prepare yourselves, supermarkets.
yanbu to be fed up buying off food, btw

laosvher · 02/03/2011 21:44

Thing is, MsHighwater, there just aren't many local butchers/fishmongers/farm shops around any more.
Even google is at a loss to find my closest butchers

PatTheHammer · 02/03/2011 21:45

Over the last few months I have been unable to find any packs of baby plum or cherry tomatoes where one hasn't started to go all hairy and squisy within about 24 hours. Spreading its spores and slime over all it's bright juicy neighbours

They all seem so innocent in the store and believe me I inspect them closely.

Tescos, Sainsburys, Waitrose and Asda all at fault here (I like to rotate my shopping, it freaks them out and they send me extra vouchers to keep my 'loyalty', especially Sainsburys, they must shit themselves everytime it goes two weeks without customers using their Nectar Cards).

toeragsnotriches · 02/03/2011 21:46

Dropped into Tesco Edmonton yesterday after an Ikea trip and was shocked how poor the quality of the fruit and veg was. All the kiwis actually totally soft and overripe. Yuck.

mosschops30 · 02/03/2011 21:48

I have had 2 packs of mince go off within the last month or so and I have taken them back, am shocked at how quick fruit and veg goes off now, if I shop for the week on a Sunday mostly things have gone nasty by thursday

MsHighwater · 02/03/2011 21:49

laosvher, that's the "lose it" part of "use it or lose it", I guess. And they say supermarkets increase choice...

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SallyBrownEyes · 08/03/2011 22:33

Just thought I'd update and say I received a generous refund and that they would look into the matter with their supplier. Unfortunately, I think it is the store who needs looking into to but they obviously want to land the blame on a supplier.

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