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This turkey is off isn’t it?

157 replies

y0rkier0se · 25/12/2019 10:29

Help 🙃

This turkey is off isn’t it?
This turkey is off isn’t it?
OP posts:
Minky35 · 25/12/2019 11:32

Yes 64sNewName it looks like a rotten black hole and collection of pus or something near it 🤢

NameChangeNugget · 25/12/2019 11:34

Lost count of the number of Aldi complaints. Stick with the gammon and hope you feel better

Soubriquet · 25/12/2019 11:34

Annoying really as this is the first year we haven’t used a butcher due to budgets.

May as well have forked over for the butchers anyway

speakout · 25/12/2019 11:36

I'm not vegetarian but struggling to find joy in all the dead animals in the kitchen right now.

Wish I had bought myself a nut roast.

We have bits of dead cow, , a goose, pig. Finding it all a little unsavoury.

Fieldofgreycorn · 25/12/2019 11:42

FFS it’s all over the papers don’t cook it and take it back.

katmandoo · 25/12/2019 11:44

Put a plea on Facebook, I have 2 turkeys due to buying and defrosting one, then managing to get a super posh one last night at Waitrose for £10. So I cooked the defrosted one last night. If someone I knew was in a jam like you I would take the cooked one round.

You never know.

Good luck I am sure Christmas will still be special.

Soubriquet · 25/12/2019 11:46

I must admit, I agree speakout

Xmas Sad

I can’t be a veggie or vegan. I have afrid so my food is extremely limited now but I go feel guilty

Mlou32 · 25/12/2019 11:50

I'm not sure if it's blobs of herb butter that have slid down the side of the turkey. It's very difficult to tell from a photo. The only way to know is to open the bag and take a sniff. Maybe just poke a wee hole in it? It'll probably take a bit longer to cook if you do that though so give it a bit of extra time.

PollyPelargonium52 · 25/12/2019 11:50

Oh I hope my chicken is ok in the oven then it was straight out of the freezer.

I have often bought the Three Bird Roast from Aldi but this year fancied a change.

Never had a problem so far though ... Fingers crossed!

HopeItComesWithBatteries · 25/12/2019 11:51

Please don’t cook it if in doubt OP. I once had food poisoning from guinea fowl that I’d eaten at a formal dinner. I was terribly ill in bed for a week. x

FamilyOfAliens · 25/12/2019 11:55

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

Not impressed that you avoided illness from of meat?

VivaLeBeaver · 25/12/2019 12:00

More not impressed with being sold rotten meat and having no meat for Xmas day dinner.

Obviously I was glad to not have food poisoning but having a non rotten bird would have been even better! 😀

PumpkinPie2016 · 25/12/2019 12:05

Sorry OP but it definitely looks offXmas Sad

You have gammon - do you have pigs in blankets too?

Anything in the freezer you can add to bulk it out? E.g. other sausages, chops etc?

Are you having visitors? Can they bring anything - if not meat then extra veg etc?

I hope you manage to have a nice dinner anyway and I would be taking the photos and the Turkey into aldi on the 27th for a refund!

Raspberrytruffle · 25/12/2019 12:14

Oh my dear OP that's as green as grass, I'd not eat it unless you want to end up very sick. This is why I always have a back up joint of meat or a chicken incase this happens. Gammon it is for you, have you any nice sausages? They go really nice as an alternative.

madcatladyforever · 25/12/2019 12:17

Nutroast for you then.

Raspberrytruffle · 25/12/2019 12:18

Last year it was Tesco ruining Christmas this year its aldi, morrisons and sainsbury's this makes me relieved that I purchased my Turkey from either a Turkey farm or a butchers, expensive but guaranteed to be fresh.

ApollO88 · 25/12/2019 12:21

Work for manufacturing industry here.... take a photo of the black spot and the packaging traceability. There should be some coding on it somewhere. Usually near the use by info. Then complain complain complain! Tweet the photos and the coding pictures so they can trace it back to point of production

JustASmallTownCurl · 25/12/2019 12:27

Oh god please please please don't eat that!!! And if you cook it then you risk the smell permeating the entire house.

People really don't eat that much turkey on the day - we all make it a bigger deal than we need to. Everyone can still enjoy eeeeeevery other bit of the meal, just not have the few slices of turkey they normally would.

Not worth the risk especially as this is a known issue with Aldi ones this year.

Eat, drink and be merry worry free by binning the turkey!

PlumsGalore · 25/12/2019 12:38

I thought it was ok until i saw the black spot. I would definitely open the bag and stick my nose in. It does seem odd though that it would have a black spot on if odd, i am pretty sure the smelly off chicken i had once in a bag from Asda went “wet” and stank awful with no signs of black spots.

How does bird decompose? Any chemists areound?

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 25/12/2019 12:43

Check out the facebook page. People are saying they have ones like it too.

OneDay10 · 25/12/2019 12:43

Please dont be utterly disgusting and cook that. It looks vile. Cant be that desperate to cook it just because its christmas.

user1492771818 · 25/12/2019 12:45

It could be (Oregon) green meat disease of turkey and not necessarily rotten.

Timberoo · 25/12/2019 12:51

Open it up and if the pong permeates your nostrils, it's off.

MarianaMoatedGrange · 25/12/2019 13:03

I'm not vegetarian but struggling to find joy in all the dead animals in the kitchen right now.

I don't have much dead animal in the house today, but I definitely feel another bout of being veggie coming on Xmas Envy (not envy)

Sssneks · 25/12/2019 13:09

This thread is making me so glad that I don't eat meat.