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Re: Coloured Meat

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Originally Posted by DebsyW (Post 7209235)

I married my butcher`s son boyfriend. Been together 20 years and have two strapping sons.

So you DID marry him for his meat!
;)

Re: Coloured Meat

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Originally Posted by DebsyW (Post 7209235)

Fiona, I totally agree with you. Things are changing and if you aren`t on the ball as you were then we are duped. I`ve noticed certain things too. But they are slow, gradual things and they think that we won`t notice.

There are other things too. People don`t know how to shop for meat anymore. Meat that is pre-packed on the shelves are labelled - but what it says on the packet isn`t what it really is. People don`t know how to shop anymore because they have never been in a butchers shop - half the time there isn`t one in their town and if there is they wouldn`t know what to ask for! The supermarkets have taken over.

The supermarkets are 99% to blame but the consumer is 1% (or maybe less for one and more for another) as customers like things a certain colour, shape or size. At work the other day a colleague had a shop-bought meat salad. The ham looked `not as pink as it usually did` - so she binned it. I picked it up and sniffed it. There was nothing wrong with it and it was within its use-by date by 4 days. She wouldn`t have it - it wasn`t the right colour!

I was the girlfriend of the son of a butcher. We lived together, donkeys years ago, in a flat above the shop. As we were young, in love and living on the poverty line, we ate all the cast offs at weekend that would never be for sale and would be thrown in the scrap bin at the back of the shop. Some of the meat we ate was darker than its normal colour and in some cases bordering on green. Cooked well - tasted fabulous. I was never ill and I`m still here.

I married my butcher`s son boyfriend. Been together 20 years and have two strapping sons. I always buy stuff past its sell-by-date and freeze it for use later.

Never, ever with fish though.

Luckily I married a marine biologist so not only did we eat loads of hugely expensive stuff for nothing (research vessels have to do something with the stuff they catch but don't need so it's divvied out;)) but I'm pretty clued up about fish & its freshness. He's ex, now, mind - so occasionally I have to phone for assistance!
My mother only ever used to smell meat, nothing else concerned her: date, appearance, nothing....
I trust my nose above all else & despite misgivings & claims of a dodgy stomach, my OH (and even, shock horror, my mil) is growing to realise the date almost always means b. all.
Did you by any chance see a documentary about a chap living for I'm not sure if it was a week or a month off 'thrown away' food - ALWAYS out of date, sometimes GREEN.... and he was there to do the film!!
Ditto to everything you said about people's concept of what 'looks right' - and if we were to change tack, that's been the death knell of a lot of the British fruit industry, we don't produce boringly round bright red apples.... the skin on our pears is too freckled..... blah blah......:mad:

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Originally Posted by djrickyb (Post 7209589)

So you DID marry him for his meat!
;)

:rolleyes::rolleyes: Someone had to say it ;)

Re: Coloured Meat

There is an enormous amount of sh*te talked about food and sell by.

Anyone who buys supermarket packed meat is begging to be ripped off. As for sell by date, hell if the tin is bulging, bin it, otherwise, smell it and use your brain. Nothing, but nothing turns to toxic waste the day it's date expires.

I was once preparing a small mammal for the skeleton, and it was frankly smelling foul, but once in the pot, it was worrying how good it smelled.

Rat smells plain delish, I speak from experience, and squirrel, (which is plain old tree rat tastes great.) [please note the different verbs used for each animal.]

Re: Coloured Meat

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Originally Posted by bil (Post 7210986)

There is an enormous amount of sh*te talked about food and sell by.

It gets even worse when you look at the "best before" date which finds its way onto even a can of beans.

A tin of beans might last 20 years after its BB date before it explodes but who is to say whether the taste has changed and to what extent?

Unfortunately people confuse "sell by" dates with "best before" dates and even more edible food gets thrown away.

My personal example of eating something that was a bit past its BB date was a pack of M&S meringue nests which we discovered in my MIL's kitchen after she had died. The give away was the price which was on the packet - 2/6d!

That dates them as pre 1971.

Needless to say - they were perfect!

Re: Coloured Meat

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Originally Posted by djrickyb (Post 7209589)

So you DID marry him for his meat!
;)

Yep, the fact that it was smelly and a funny colour didn`t put me off :sneaky:

Re: Coloured Meat

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Originally Posted by DebsyW (Post 7211353)

Yep, the fact that it was smelly and a funny colour didn`t put me off :sneaky:

:eek::rofl:

Re: Coloured Meat

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Originally Posted by lynnxa (Post 7211499)

:eek::rofl:

Will you two kindly beeehive:p

(actually it's about time someone lived up to my thread title....):sneaky::sneaky: