Aibu ...a massive argument over a pack of sausages

[Essiejohn345]

This is so ridiculous but anyway ...
Last Friday I bought a pack of Richmond sausages and opened them.
Today got home and boyfriend had made a sausage sandwich for him and one for me.
Tasted it and it tasted funny...kind of sour.
Anyway I looked in fridge and they were still in date but had been open a week.
I said I wouldn’t eat that,it tastes awful.
He started shouting expiry date was today etc etc.
I threw mine away.
He started moaning we won’t be buying sausages anymore now...then he ate it.
Should I just have ate it?
If it was in date would it be ok?

Talith Sat
Richmond sausages are completely fucking pointless. They don't even taste of sawdust let alone sausage.

Quite agree - I wouldn't eat one if you paid me. They contain about 40% meat, god knows what the rest is, probably sawdust as you suggest.

I think you need new sausages in both senses of the word

I am always amazed by the amount of grease that leaks out of Richmond sausages when they're cooked.

Barbara Are you being serious?! They x ray sausages in the factory?!

Yes, they do, using machines similar to the X-ray machines you see at the airport, for example.

attec.co.uk/x-ray-system-safety-meat-production.php

As well as bones in processed meat or fish products, they can look for bits of metal, glass, plastic, stones etc that may have come in with raw ingredients or fallen off machines in the factory. Or to check that something like a toad in the hole has the correct number of sausages.

Means customer satisfaction is higher, complaints are lower and the chance of an expensive mass recall is much reduced.

They don't do it for every product, it's often in line with brand or retailer specification, as it adds to the cost, so a factory that makes supermarket own brand sausages might X-ray Finest, M&S or Waitrose brand, but not Tesco Value, for example.

I couldn't get past that he started shouting shock].WTF?

I meant