To contact M&S about this chicken?

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Eating a mini meal chicken casserole and found a few bits of chicken that are brown/green. It's put me right off and made me feel a bit ill. The food has been stored correctly and cooked correctly so I don't think it was that and its still in date.

I'm hoping that I haven't eaten any because I really can't afford to be ill!

Is it not just some brown wing/thigh meat?

It’s hard to tell from your photos but it does just look like the very dark mean found on wings/thighs.

I've never seen brown meat the colour that is... It honestly looks like it has gone off.

Is it not just the brown meat of the chicken? As in not white breast meat?

It looks like the brown meat you normally get on a chicken - I can't see any green (but that might be down to inaccurate colour reproduction!).

Sorry, x post!

I'm so sorry for the crap photos. I'm struggling with the light here.

Close up of the worst bit. In person it doesn't look like normal brown meat.

Gosh it does look revolting makes me feel quite queasy just looking at it. I would complain OP.

That looks like it's gone off. Though usually you would be able to tell from the taste. Did it taste normal?

Was the sealed plastic intact? Sometimes they can get damaged in the shop and air gets in.
Though unlikely if it's just the one green piece and rest is normal?

Ugh grim. Looks like rotting flesh. Or 'meat' as you call it.

I've had to contact morrisons about similar, it's caused by improper slaughter. The green is bile. Definitely complain.

Was it a microwave meal? Sometimes that can turn bits brown because of the heatspots.

Yes microwave. It was sealed properly and I only bought it yesterday.

blueyacht, your comment isn't helpful in the slightest.

There's no contact info on the packaging.

I suspect it's Oregon Disease (Green Muscle Disease) - we had one like it once. It doesn't look very appetising, I know, but it won't do you any harm

www.cfs.gov.hk/english/whatsnew/whatsnew_fst/whatsnew_fst_Green_Meat_in_Chickens.html

It wasn't meant to be helpful, it was just a snide comment.

"Unusual green colour in chicken meat is usually due to a condition known as Green Muscle Disease (or Oregon Disease) which is found in commercially raised broiler chickens. In poultry farming, broiler chickens are kept relatively inactive during the growing period. Consequently, the pectoral muscles (breast muscles) are not exercised enough to increase efficiency of its circulatory supply"

fucking hell

Bore off blueyacht

Sorry I am being boring on a thread about someone's manky dinner. I'll piss off so I don't interrupt any more of this edge-of-the-seat stuff.

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Can you please go and be a goady fucker somewhere else? I really can't be arsed with a smug twat tonight.

I don’t understand why people comment on a thread just to be offensive and nasty.
They must have really dull lives. Or be somewhat bitter.

OP - It’s really hard to tell from the photos but M&S are very good when you return something. You don’t need to keep the meat, just the cardboard sleeve that your meal came in and your receipt if you can find it. Just take those two things to the customer service desk.

Looks like some not very nice bits of the chicken op, when I shred chicken for wraps etc I come across some bits that look spongey and a bit weird in colour. Am sure it will be ok but I would let them know, it doesn't look like it should be there that's for certain!

It's not put me off my chicken based meal I'm having tonight anyway!

I gave up chicken for the New Year. vom.

Just to let you know, I had something that looked like regurgitated cat vomit appear in my M&S vegetable stir fry and went in with the packet to complain - the manager couldn’t have been less interested and didn’t want to know - she said they wouldn’t take it or be able to send it back to the packaging factory “as it was food so it would go off” I was just offered a refund of however much the stir fry pack had cost me and basically told that was that. Not impressed and have been paranoid about opening all future vegetable packs ever since.

Thanks. I probably won't be near a m&s until the weekend but I'll call on then.