tesco fresh meat minging

Anthillmob

anyone else have thisproblem?

my partner [when he isnt working a sunday] will buy meat for a roast on the saturday on the way home from work. well in date meat.

usually come prep time one of us ends up taking the meat back for an exchange and when its opened it smells off.

certainly not our fridge.

its becomming quite tiresome.

DCFC79

Report it to tesco, maybe 1 of they're fridges isnt working correctly and not chilling the food to the right temp.

It does happen as ive seen it myself, the fridges are meant to be checked(well in sainsburys they are so i guess tesco is the same) regulary to make sure they are at the right temp

purplepardalis

And go and shop somewhere else! ;-)

Tigsteroonie

I've never had a problem with Tesco meat, but I've had this problem twice with Asda meat.

So I suspect it is indeed a case of one dodgy fridge in a particular store, rather than anything deliberate.

withabix

It's not the vac-pac meat by any chance is it?

That always smells odd when you open it, but goes 'normal' after a few minutes.

tcr_3

Last time we bought a joint in Tesco it was green underneath and still had 2 days left before it's end by date. Got it refunded. We now use Morrisons instead, their joints are better value for money anyway plus they're cut on premises ... so you know (or hope) they're fresh. The Morrison joints are nice & bloody too, to me that means fresh, the Tesco joints look like they've been sucked by a vampire.

preable

Never had it with tesco but had the same problem with asda

fluffnutter

tcr wrote: »

Last time we bought a joint in Tesco it was green underneath and still had 2 days left before it's end by date. Got it refunded. We now use Morrisons instead, their joints are better value for money anyway plus they're cut on premises ... so you know (or hope) they're fresh. The Morrison joints are nice & bloody too, to me that means fresh, the Tesco joints look like they've been sucked by a vampire.

Depends on the meat. Bloody often means not aged properly and is a sign of cheaper cuts and production methods. I wouldn't want my 21 day-aged beef to be 'bloody'.

Chyna-s

No problem here with meat from Tesco's.

musicmaker29

best thing to do is buy meat from somewhere else and see if things improve!

WhiteHorse

Depends on whether or not the prepacks are done in store. If they are sent in ready packed then the outside supplier is probably using meat that's older than it ought to be.

Report it to the store, pointing out that you as a customer and they as a retailer are both being cheated.