should I report them to H&S?

geri1965_2

Halloway wrote: »

I find it a bit odd that you would trust an automatically-generated, computer-printed date on a label, over the eyes and nose of someone who works with food for a living. If a food item were 'in code' but crawling with maggots would you still consider it fit for consumption?

I'm sorry, but I don't know you from Adam. Why would I trust the word of some random on the internet?

love_my_2_boys

Halloway wrote: »

I find it a bit odd that you would trust an automatically-generated, computer-printed date on a label, over the eyes and nose of someone who works with food for a living. If a food item were 'in code' but crawling with maggots would you still consider it fit for consumption?

so if it doesn't have maggots in it but it's out of date and could make someone ill, it's still OK to sell it to customers?
Please, please tell me you don't work in any sort of catering establishment and if you do then tell us which one and we can avoid it like the plague.
Oh and don't ever invite me round for dinner at your house :eek::eek::eek:

lol

Halloway

geri1965 wrote: »

I'm sorry, but I don't know you from Adam. Why would I trust the word of some random on the internet?

Not me, the putative chef of the theoretical kitchen under discussion. My point is that I don't understand why people will trust labels but not their own senses.

I don't work in the catering industry, a fact which will be of great relief to many of you.

Halloway

love_my_2_boys wrote: »

Oh and don't ever invite me round for dinner at your house

Well, that's a shame as you would be missing out on a very ripe casu marzu I have in the garage.

love_my_2_boys

Halloway wrote: »

Well, that's a shame as you would be missing out on a very ripe casu marzu I have in the garage.

Don't like stinky cheese I'm afraid, especialy if its out of date

Halloway

love_my_2_boys wrote: »

Don't like stinky cheese I'm afraid, especialy if its out of date

This is better than stinky:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

love_my_2_boys

eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww. Halloway that's gross!!! tell me you havn't?

Halloway

love_my_2_boys wrote: »

eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww. Halloway that's gross!!! tell me you havn't?

No, unfortunately it's very difficult to track down due to its being illegal.

However gross maggoty cheese sounds, it should be remembered that that is how Stilton was often served in this country in the 18th century:

"In Stilton, for instance, [Daniel] Defoe noted that the cheese "is brought to table with mites, or maggots round it, so thick, that they bring a spoon with them for you to eat the mites with, as you do the cheese.""

love_my_2_boys

oh man, that's just put me off ma dinner!! and I like a bit of Stilton too...well, I used to

dizzybuff

Halloway wrote: »

No, unfortunately it's very difficult to track down due to its being illegal.

However gross maggoty cheese sounds, it should be remembered that that is how Stilton was often served in this country in the 18th century:

"In Stilton, for instance, [Daniel] Defoe noted that the cheese "is brought to table with mites, or maggots round it, so thick, that they bring a spoon with them for you to eat the mites with, as you do the cheese.""

But it can be tracked down , italy or spain isnt it .. Supposed to be quite a meaty treat....

I myself would run a mile ... Literaly