"Omelet" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Peter" > wrote:
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>> "TFM®" > wrote in message
>> . com...
>> >
>> >
>> > "john d hamilton" > wrote in message
>> > ...
>> >> 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.