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Aldi Turkey - Rotten

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ffscovid · 25/12/2021 20:35

Anyone else had a minging turkey from Aldi? Bought on Tuesday, use-by date 26/12. Opened the bag and was hit by a foul stench. Skin was slimy too 🤢.
Looking on Twitter, there are quite a few similar posts - all with the same free-range turkey with the same use-by date, so guess there was a dodgy batch Xmas Sad.

Ah well, my vegetarian lunch was actually ok and was received kindly by my guests.

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Mummyoflittledragon · 26/12/2021 08:30

@Coughee

Perhaps where people are going wrong is buying a DEAD corpse. Maybe try an alive one next year and see if it stays fresh for longer?
What and await natural causes?
friedeggandsauce · 26/12/2021 08:32

I didn't realise that we have to ignore the beer before date now and eat immediately 🙄.

Sorry to hear about your turkey OP

gogohm · 26/12/2021 08:37

Every Christmas there's anecdotal reports like this. With so many fresh birds wanted now a few do go off. I tend to buy from the butcher but even then I suspect there's tales of woe

TheFairyCaravan · 26/12/2021 08:48

We usually have an Aldi turkey crown and have never had a rotten one. This year we had Aldi beef, which was beautiful, because it was just DH and I and are having a turkey crown from the butchers on the 30th when DS2 is here.

At Christmas, or whenever our fridge is really full, we turn the temperature down and try to limit the amount of times we open and close the door so the meat is kept below 4 degrees.

NoIdeaWhatIWantAtAll · 26/12/2021 08:53

I got mine from Lidls, £18 2.7kg bought Xmas eve and cooked beautifully yesterday Grin

Usually I loathe Lidl, much prefer Aldi but this was a big surprise!

Why2why · 26/12/2021 09:08

[quote santaclothes]@Handsnotwands

Hang on tuesday was 5 days ago. What do you expa”etc? and actually if you expect it ‘fresh’ or days later there’s some weird shit involved. Buy frozen it close to the actual date of eating

Hang on yourself Hmm what a ridiculous comment. If you buy something dated 26/12 of course you should be able to eat it on 25/12. [/quote]
Depends on how it is stored after purchase. If the tempting your fridge isn’t high enough or poor circulation because of a stuffed fridge then it is unreasonable to expect meat products to remain edible up to the use by date.

Agree with buying from butchers. We travel for miles to get ours. Usually get it on 24th.

Sorry about your bad turkey OP but hopefully you had a good Christmas.

santaclothes · 26/12/2021 09:10

Depends on how it is stored after purchase. If the tempting your fridge isn’t high enough or poor circulation because of a stuffed fridge then it is unreasonable to expect meat products to remain edible up to the use by date.

Of course, but that's not what that comment said at all. What prompted you to defend an idiotic response by someone else?

Cavementality · 26/12/2021 09:34

A dead animal does smell. They all smell because they are corpses! Some people tolerate the smell more than others!

CPL593H · 26/12/2021 09:47

I think the problem is that plastic packaging actually. Perhaps taking it out of that and putting it in the bottom of the fridge on clean tea towels to let it "breath" would be the answer, I tend to store ours like that although don't usually get supermarket. Apols if people are doing that!

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ffscovid · 26/12/2021 09:57

@rwalker

Always buy frozen anything like this need to be refrigerated . People buy fresh one wheel it about a hot supermarket . Then put it in hot car . How do people manage to keep a turkey in the fridge when they get home .Suspect most of theses left out . I think there will be a vast majority of theses been stored incorrectly thats the problem .
It was out of the fridge at most for 1 hr whilst bought / transported home (30 mins in the shop and 30 mins to drive home and unpack. I think this is quite a normal timescale?

It was stored in a separate fridge to our normal food as I have an outbuilding that's used for our family business with a fridge in the small kitchen within. I put it there so that it could stay closed and not be subjected to the usual temperature changes that you associate with opening and closing a fridge constantly. The thermometer in that fridge says 3°C so it should have been fine.

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JosephineDeBeauharnais · 26/12/2021 10:07

I got my turkey crown from the village butcher. Collected it on Thursday, almost lost my breakfast when I opened it yesterday morning Angry. DH said it smelled like drainsEnvy - not envy.
Thankfully I’d got a joint of beef which was meant to be for today so we had that instead.

britneyisfree · 26/12/2021 10:29

We got goose and beef rib in Aldi and they were both perfection. Goose was due to go off on the 26th- no probs. The beef was marbled and all sorts. Can't believe it was so cheap!

Crayfishforyou · 26/12/2021 10:36

@PiffleWiffleWoozle

We ordered from Field and Flower this year. Consistently excellent. Same quality (and prices) as a high end butcher, delivered to the door on 23rd.
So do I, they do amazing pork pies and scotch eggs too
AnybodyAnywhere · 26/12/2021 10:53

@CPL593H

I think the problem is that plastic packaging actually. Perhaps taking it out of that and putting it in the bottom of the fridge on clean tea towels to let it "breath" would be the answer, I tend to store ours like that although don't usually get supermarket. Apols if people are doing that!
100% agree with this. I put ours onto a large dish at the bottom of the fridge with plastic packaging removed. Cover it loosely with foil and pour away any liquid at least daily. This also forewarns you if it’s a bad’un!
MrsR87 · 26/12/2021 11:29

Every year there are a lot of similar reports online.

I agree that if a product has a use by label of 26th on it, you should expect to be able to use it up until this date. However, I’ve heard of people buying turkeys with 26th Dec on them as early as 7 days before! I think it it unreasonable to buy a turkey or any poultry and expect it to last a week! I ignore the dates on supermarket chicken…even if it has a long date on it, if it’s not going to be used within two days of purchase, it goes in the freezer.
We always get our Christmas meat from the butchers. We don’t have one local to us but there is an excellent one where I used to live around 40 mins away so I go there! We pick up on Christmas Eve and have never had a problem in 16 years. If at all possible I would say don’t pick up a fresh supermarket turkey any earlier than 23rd.

It sounds like the OP stores her turkey well, but I do think lots of people forget that overloading a fridge can really warm up the temperature and so if you’re picking up your turkey 5-6 days before the big day and are then storing it in a warm fridge, you are potentially going to have problems.

ElevenOG · 26/12/2021 12:10

I think it's called karma? If your Christmas was "ruined" because all your hopes for a good day rest solely on a dead animal, maybe have a word with yourself.

WowIlikereallyhateyou · 26/12/2021 12:14

@ElevenOG

I think it's called karma? If your Christmas was "ruined" because all your hopes for a good day rest solely on a dead animal, maybe have a word with yourself.
Oh FGS, really!
Whatwouldscullydo · 26/12/2021 12:19

I'm not sure you will get far complaining. Once it's leftbthe storr it's out of their control what happens to it and you can't prove if it was your end or theirs that the problem started.

I was worried about having restrictions suddenly imposed on us over Xmas so I bought all the stuff minus the veg as early as possible and froze it.

The turkey survived ok being frozen . We had a morrisons crown this yr.

Might be worth freezing it next Yr?

I've never ever found lidl or aldi meat to last anywhere near the dates. Gave up buying it years ago.

Omicrone · 26/12/2021 12:20

Why do people always think that using the word 'corpse' is going to put people off eating meat? As if we don't know what meat is?!

The Aldi turkey thing has been all over FB this morning, sounds pretty disgusting and such a shame. I always get my corpse from Tesco, use by date of 26/12 and have never had any problems.

Omicrone · 26/12/2021 12:21

I'm not sure you will get far complaining. Once it's leftbthe storr it's out of their control what happens to it and you can't prove if it was your end or theirs that the problem started.

But the more people who complain, the harder it will be for Aldi to claim that it was possibly a problem at the customers end.

EricCartmansGoatee · 26/12/2021 12:22

@Coughee

Perhaps where people are going wrong is buying a DEAD corpse. Maybe try an alive one next year and see if it stays fresh for longer?
Do most people have space to keep a live turkey at home? How do you propose they dispatch the turkey when it's time for them to go on the dinner plate?
EricCartmansGoatee · 26/12/2021 12:24

@ElevenOG

I think it's called karma? If your Christmas was "ruined" because all your hopes for a good day rest solely on a dead animal, maybe have a word with yourself.
Christmas is all about the dead animals. Behave.
Whatwouldscullydo · 26/12/2021 12:28

But the more people who complain, the harder it will be for Aldi to claim that it was possibly a problem at the customers end

But every Yr it's the same. If they were going to do something about it they would have by now. Uts extremely plausible that millions of people stored it in over crowded fridges..

It was also extremely mild this year so anyone storing in garages or car boots would have been taking a huge risk.

knittingaddict · 26/12/2021 12:28

@Handsnotwands

Hang on tuesday was 5 days ago. What do you expa”etc? and actually if you expect it ‘fresh’ or days later there’s some weird shit involved. Buy frozen it close to the actual date of eating
Our fresh turkey crown was delivered on Tuesday with a use by date of 27th. It was fine.
knittingaddict · 26/12/2021 12:29

It was stored in a very efficient fridge with no overcrowding though.

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