Re: buying old meat from supermarket

"Omelet" <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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...


I warned them when I got there that it was pretty rank and they may not
want 
to open it where customers walk by.    They seemed to trust that I was not

trying to rip them off, didn't open the 5 bags, and gave me my refund.