Supermarket meat

[coulditbeme2323]

Friends inviting us around for BBQ.

I don't eat supermarket meat, do I just bring our own stuff?

I would have tried most of them over the years.

Good grief, first world problems. If you turn up with your premium purchases you will look snobbish and leave your hosts feeling not quite good enough.
I’d either decline the invite or eat the vegetarian options.

To be honest @coulditbeme2323 if I was having ppl over for a bbq that I knew loosely through a child's hobby I would not be happy to have someone bring a load of either already cooked meat or extra meat for me to cook.
It doesn't sound like you really know them and think would be easy to offend them in this situation.

It just does feel rude although I appreciate you don't mean to be.
Are you happy for said DC and Dh etc to eat whatever is offered?

I think I'd be veggie for the day.

Like Pam on Gavin and Stacy...

Are the chickens from the farm or just bought in? Some of the meat in our farm shop is off their farm some obviously isn't. If it's cheap chicken it is just that cheap chicken. If you want really good chicken it is way more expensive.

Exactly. And what is 5 bits anyway 😂

breasts sorry.

I’m afraid I agree with the OP about supermarket chicken, and I don’t care if I’m called a snob. I’ve eaten Waitrose chicken that’s been tough and stringy. 🤢

I think you should warn them in advance that you will not be eating the meat served. Whether you tell a white lie and say you are vegetarian, or say that you have very strict ethical standards for meat and only eat it when you know the source, but you're happy to eat vegetarian food. I would not say that you don't like the taste or supermarket meat specifically, as I think this comes across as snobbish, people are more likely to understand religious/ethical reasons for being choosy about the source of meat products even if they don't personally subscribe to it, and it means you don't have to be specific about what you do eat.

If you are being invited to a BBQ then the hosts will be expecting to include you in the numbers they are catering meat for, unless you expressly let them know otherwise. So you should let them know IMO. Having done that, it will probably be clear whether you can/should offer to bring your own meat or whether they would prefer to provide their own veggie products.

I only eat organic meat but I'm fine with organic supermarket stuff. I am mostly vegetarian out the house for this reason.

£12.95 for 5 chicken breasts is worryingly cheap! They can't be being fed very well or have much space.

once its out of the packaging, how do you know?

Why is it weird to offer to supply all of the meat but OK to bring "lots of meat" for yourself and others?

Where exactly is the weirdness cut-off between "lots" and "all"?

[Edit - the truth is that the people hosting the BBQ are going to think your weird whether you bring just "lots of meat" or all of it. Doesn't matter what you think]

I’m picky AF about meat but I’d never do this, I’d be too embarrassed. I just accept I won’t really eat much at this kind of event.
At most I’d take some salad or halloumi but if they’ve asked you not to then I probably wouldn’t do that either.

As do Lidgates.

Was it not from the Duchy range then?

BBQ food is usually burnt to buggery anyway.

Cant you just eat their supermarket meat on this one occasion just to make life easier?

Sounds like an episode from Amandaland.

I like nice food and good quality ingredients too but, FFS, someone is cooking for you, you don't have an allergy and there is nothing you actually can't eat, just bloody eat it and don't be so stuck up and fussy.

I'm also an insufferable Organic only crunchy-mom food snob myself, and I wouldn't have it any other way, but I think if you are attending a picnic you need to just grin and bear it.

I think you are probably right

Make sure you take some Chateau Margaux as well to drink yourself, they might only be serving Waitrose own brand Chilean Red, oh no 😱

Good point

and ignore people being cnts to you for being picky about what you eat. Not everyone likes to eat poor souls that have been tortured in a battery farm.

And the thin is it's only meat I am like this with!

It really is only meat I am like this with.

I like good cheese, but if somebody made me a sandwich with Tesco value cheese I could eat it.

I like good coffee, but if somebody made me an instant Nescafe I could drink it.

It's only really supermarket meat I can't abide.

You know that not all meat in supermarkets meets that description?