Re: buying old meat from supermarket

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 "Peter" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "TFM®" <hillbillyboy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "john d hamilton" <bluestar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> 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?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > "Reduced for quick sale" is my favorite cut of meat.  I've eaten it
for 
> > decades.
> >
> > If it stinks when you open it, let it breathe a while.  If it still
stinks 
> > after a few minutes, you be the judge.  I've had a lot of 'fresh' 
> > cryovaced meat stink like hell right out of the package but then smell

> > fresh as a daisy minutes later.
> >
> > I just finished eating some questionable ground lamb.  First time I've

> > ever had it.  I'll update tomorrow if I become ill.
> >
> > Also, I've had fresh smelling meat emit a stench from Hell once I
started 
> > cooking it.  It's only happened a couple of times, but it went into
the 
> > trash immediately.
> >
> >
> > TFM®
> 
> 
> 
> I've had the 'fresh' be rank too.  I've never had a problem with the
reduced 
> for quick sale...  unless it was fish.  Eww.
> 
> The last time I bought a "fresh" duck with many days to go before the
'best 
> before', it seemed ok.  I scored the skin, rubbed in some salt and
paprika. 
> No problem, into the oven it goes.  20 minutes later my place smelled
like 
> rotten duck, apparently rotting from the inside out.
> 
> I still had the receipt, so I called the grocery store and asked if I
had to 
> bring them my partly cooked rotting duck that I had bought hours before,

> they insisted.  5 layers of grocery bags to hold down the smell, and
into 
> the trunk for a return.

Heh!  Hope they were impressed...
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