"john d hamilton" > wrote in message
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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?
>
>

Biologically speaking (and rather surprisingly for most people) rotten meat
is edible.

I know this is a bit distasteful but strictly speaking you can eat rotten
meat providing it is properly cooked.

Eskimos traditionally ate rotten meat including rotten fish and deliberately
stored the meat until it went off as they preferred the taste.

Paradoxically they regarded cheese or other milk derivatives as disgusting
and having gone off.


Stephen