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Aldi Chicken gone off six days before sell by date

35 replies

Kittihawk · 23/01/2019 20:15

Anyone else had this recently? I can see there is a post with 36 replies on 'bad meat from Aldi' but it is from 2015 and this site suggests I start a new post.

Gone off chicken - first time ever had this with any supermarket but the chicken in Aldi that should be fresh is way off - made the whole kitchen smell horrible. Sell-by is 29th January and today is the 23rd. We had breaded it too, and also made stock from bones, so lost all that time making it and the eggs et.c - by the time we were done ruined our evening meal. The chicken was free-range, 'specially selected', drum sticks and thighs pack, bought from the new Aldi in Stroud. Rang the general number - person was helpful. Offered a £5 voucher when politely pointing out that we had wasted a lot of other ingredients and had a ruined meal. Also alerted them for sake of other customers to possible food poison from this batch, but I think their 'system' is too slow to warn today's customers - they 'log it on the computer' - if it was me I would ring the branch and get the whole batch off the shelves ASAP (there's no public number for the store) - shows a little complacency perhaps? Also, from previous posts it seems that this might have been going on for at least four years - perhaps something they build in to their costs but at the risk of poisoning their customers.

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HenweeArcher · 24/01/2019 08:19

I stopped buying chicken thighs from Asda because they constantly smelled off. I don’t think thighs smell great to begin with so sometimes it’s hard to tell but they were definitely frequently not right. I wonder if it’s more to do with the kind of meat than the retailer.

IroningMan · 24/01/2019 12:12

I also think if it was so terrible you'd smell it straight away. I'd assume the vacuum seal had got damaged rather than a mass conspiracy to sell bad meat as fresh to be honest...

MacarenaFerreiro · 24/01/2019 12:14

We had stewing steak from there yesterday and it was delicious.

It's obviously a bad batch or rogue pack - it happens. It's not an Aldi conspiracy.

MyDcAreMarvel · 24/01/2019 12:21

How did you know it was off if it didn’t smell?

EarthboundMisfit · 24/01/2019 12:22

I stopped using Aldi because of several rotten meat incidents. Never had it at another shop. That was about two years ago though. I did think their frozen meat was good.

babysharkah · 24/01/2019 13:04

I don't know how you get through breading the chicken gone off chicken is beyond rank.

Happened to me with a whole chicken from m and s. They gave me a £20 voucher and a replacement chicken. Plus took the barcode for the rank one to trace it back.

Billballbaggins · 24/01/2019 13:07

This has happened more than a few times to near I’ve bought at Aldi. I don’t buy meat from there or I will only buy meat with a long date on that I’m cooking on the day or the next day only. I find it frequently goes rancid 2-3 days before the date. It’s a shame because I love Aldi and would like to shop there more.

Billballbaggins · 24/01/2019 13:07

To meat not near!

Ginnymweasley · 24/01/2019 13:19

How did you not notice straight away. I opened some gone off chicken from asda the other week and I could taste the smell.

longtompot · 24/01/2019 13:58

I bought a whole chicken from Waitrose a few years ago which was in its dates and was off. I took it back and they refunded me. The worse smell ever Envy

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