Re: buying old meat from supermarket

"john d hamilton" <bluestar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:g9jujd$p1b$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> As we know some people have a greater density of taste buds built into
their
> tongues.  I have less, but my wife and son have more than i do and they
can
> detect subtle food flavours that I cannot.
>
> Tescos in North London U.K. sometime do meat in their 'reduced price'
> section.  The other day I got some really good beef and lamb which was
> slightly 'darker' coloured from this section at about 1/4 of the normal
> price.  I fried it up and enjoyed it and put the rest in the freezer.
>
> Other members of the family thought this was truly awful.  My view is
that
> although if you smell it closely, it is different;  but that it is
basically
> just a bit of *oxizidation* and it does not effect the taste.  Years ago
> they used to hang up 'game' outside for weeks.
>
> Views on this really seem to divide people. But I cannot believe that a
big
> store like Tesco would continue to sell this very slightly off coloured
> meat, if it represented any health risk.
> Any comments on this please, whether one can safetly consume such meat?
>
>
Empirically, since you ate it and suffered no apparent ill effects, the
meat
was safe to consume.  Taste, on the other hand, is a highly individual
matter.  If your family is put off by the mere idea of eating meat that's
been in the cold case for a few days, I think they need to reconsider
their
oh-so-delicate sensibilities - the idea of eating dead animals isn't from
some ethereal plane after all.