This turkey is off isn’t it?

[y0rkier0se]

Help 🙃

If you google “green turkey” there’s info that says apparently it’s to do with lack of blood supply to the muscle of the breast meat. Says it’s safe to eat

FFS DO NOT COOK IT!

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tesco-aldi-sainsburys-customers-slam-21160238.amp?__twitter_impression=true
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According to industry website britishturkey.co.uk a turkey will smell very gamey, acrid or of ammonia if it has gone off

The flesh could also have a greenish tinge and feel quite slimy

"If in any doubt - don't risk it - bin it," advice on its website reads.^

"The flesh should be in good colour and look moist in appearance with no dry flaky patches."

It's not the feathers she's looking at!

@Frouby? Slice the rancid bit off? Seriously?

Possibly green muscle disease found in factory farmed chickens and turkeys.

The turkey is rotten. Call it whatever you like.

On a side not one or two if the comments in the article say they purchased on the 19th. A large Turkey in a packed xmas fridge that's still being open and closed several times a day. That would be pushing it anyway wouldnt it?

Look, if you're a bid dodge about whether something is safe to cook/eat - guaranteed it's not. Rule of thumb I go by.

If it's an Aldi one I'd bin it. They've admitted a batch of turkeys from one of their suppliers is rancid.

The green bit near the herbs could be juices from them. Hard to tell from photos

I wouldn't risk cooking it personally. But if I were to, I'd make sure I practically cremated it.

It will be one of the ‘off’ Aldi turkeys. It looks rotten to me. It’s not worth risking food poisoning IMO, I’d retake it back for a refund and get down to your local Spar or just have gammon.

I think I must be looking at completely different pictures from everyone else. The black mark is just a blemish from plucking. I can't see anything green at all (except the herbs). It looks a bit slimy to me, but that could just be fattiness on the bag. I would go by smell and OP says it smells fine.

Meh it's fine!

Don't open the bag, it looks like it would run off

The bacon looks fine.

I agree we had black patches which were from the feathers. I am sure a photo of it in its bag would look similar to pic number 2.

The problem with herb, bacon in a bag is that it can discolour. I would be opening the bag and examining the turkey properly just like I did with mine. There shouldn't be any real smell and it shouldn't be slimy.

If in doubt I wouldn't cook it but just looking at photos though a bag isn't enough to tell.

Turkey's aren't like chickens, so will look different.

**when plucked

AIBU to think that live food gone off/bin or eat threads are almost as exciting as live birth threads 😂

Back on topic, that turkey doesn't look good. Raises all my emetophobic alarm bells

I had similar from Aldi 2 years ago. We all ended up having nut roast for Xmas dinner. I was not impressed!

Its not just Aldi turkeys which are off, I just checked my chicken from there and its green, slimy and smells awful! Gammon and sausages it is then! 😫

Oh god i got exact same turkey as you. Lol i have cooked now

It’s not so much the discolouring that’s would make me doubtful - it’s the bit that looks like a rotting hole. Can PPs not see that?!

Just reading that article in the Mirror and I can’t believe the woman who says even the dog gagged at the smelly turkey. My dog would eat a week old dead seal on the beach and roll in the carcass!

pastel

I have to admit that I'm really squeamish with meat. I dont trust poultry or pork even a day before the use by even if it looks and smells ok.

I certainly can't do the black.and green colour chart of acceptability. I wouldnt trust my pus vs bruise assessment and the worry would ruin the day more than no turkey would.

This is why I don’t shop in Aldi. Food is rotten