about chicken sold with giblets inside?

[SarahAndQuack]

I occasionally buy chickens from the farm shop (who get them from a supplier), and they used to come with the giblets in a little bag inside. My understanding is that this is perfectly legal, though a bit unusual these days, and I'm fine with it.

The last couple of times I've found they have the giblets, but loose inside. I'm not keen on this, because you have to root around to get them out, and because I find the chicken ends up tasting a bit 'gamey' if the giblets have been left in like this. I cooked a chicken today that I bought on Friday, and the use by date was the 10th. I think it would have tasted a bit rank by then TBH!

It's not super obvious from the packaging that the chickens have giblets inside, so you could easily not realise (if I'd realised I'd have taken them out on Friday as soon as I bought the chicken, but I forgot).

Am I being a bit fussy, or WIBU to mention to the farm shop and see if they can get their supplier to go back to putting the giblets in a bag instead of loose?

Wish I could get chickens with giblets. The cats have never benefitted from the tiny scraps of benevolence that the animals of my childhood did. It has to be a pate or steak and kidney stew day for them to get their morsels of delight.

I do appreciate being able to get giblets, sure. But that's not the point of the thread!

You're lucky if yours doesn't go off faster. I know the ones I buy from my farmers' market supplier are butchered on Wednesday and I buy them on Saturday and that they are high as a kite stinky by Wednesday.

I suppose I just don't see any point in worrying about whether the giblets are in a bag or not : if you know if has giblets they need to be used immediately, so the plastic bag is kind of superfluous. Different if you didn't know it has giblets.

Yes, but the point is I didn't know it has giblets because it doesn't say. The first time I just thought it was a mistake, the second time I was surprised but they sell quite a few brands of chickens so it'd be a right pain remembering which ones can be unwrapped and which can't.