Bone in Chicken Pie....

aheaton46

Mupette wrote: »

This is too much of a nanny state and if something is wrong with your food even with warning of 'possible' bones, what do we do... oh we must sue of course.

At no time did anyone ever suggest that. Why are you making things up?

Mupette

aheaton46 wrote: »

At no time did anyone ever suggest that. Why are you making things up?

it was a sarcastic comment, did you not notice?

rustyboy21

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Hmm....:think:

A lot of people heat up pies like this in the foil outers and then eat from them.

A lot of elderley people eat the top of the crust and scoop out the centre, leaving the rest of the pastry.

In fact if you go back in time, say with the cornish pasty for example, the pastry was in effect a 'cover' for the goods inside. Cornish miners used to hold the pastry edge in their dirty hands and eat the middle section, then throw the edge away, or rather 'give it' to the spirits in the mine. ( saw it on BBC's Edwardian farm !)

It does go to show though that it was actually chicken in the pie !

How would you want it presented, with a parsley garnish and a handcarved rose made out of a carrot



Looks like the whole pie to me.

No looks like they have just eaten the centre

rustyboy21

The bone could also have been put in by a rampaging animal rights protester !

It could have been the guy who was complaining about finding 2 worms in his beans !

OP Do you think you shop in the same place as him?

Prime suspect !

Jeff_Bridges_hair

rustyboy21 wrote: »

The bone could also have been put in by a rampaging animal rights protester !

It could have been the guy who was complaining about finding 2 worms in his beans !

OP Do you think you shop in the same place as him?

Prime suspect !

Get helen mirren on the case. she will sort it all out

rustyboy21

mamabuddah wrote: »

once the bone was discovered, as you can imagine, no more pie was ate, pie was put back in tin foil container to return to store...

if you take time to read the OP you'll see, my mum isn't wanting to sue, myself or my mum aren't looking for compensation...I've merely stated what has happened so far, the response received ( they're going to "tell" the supplier ) and am still curious as to what is an "acceptable" size of a piece of bone before it will be taken seriously....by the supermarket....and the manufacturer....


my final line in the OP states...

"I just get the impression that the supermarket hasn't really looked at this properly, hence my question, what do readers here think "traces of bone" should mean."

so it's not about compensation or claiming anything, it's about what's acceptable and what may cause suffering to some other unfortunate person if the supermarket dismiss the problem so flippantly.

mamabuddah, you do get some flippant remarks on here all the time, sometimes from me too, so dont get wound up about them, although some are a bit more flippant than others.

It is quite a big bit of bone , but could quite easily get through the manufacturing process. I normally end up finding bits of the pin bone in the leg of the chicken, have found them even in a Mickey D's once ( dont know how that happened the way they process food and it was supposed to be pure chicken breast, but hey ho )

I know how it is with the elderly, my dad is 89 and has parkinsons, so has trouble swallowing, therefore all his food is soft palate food, but he does like his meat and potato pies and does eat them like your mum, by the looks of it, leaving all the pastry outer.

Just to say dont get wound up, some on here are on to get a response off you.

Bone looks like a section of a leg bone to me, more than likely cooked very slowly and then gone through a chopper of some sorts, strange, cos leg bones do not normally splinter, it is usually the wing bones which are softest.

I feel like the retailer will take it up with the manufacturer though. I ended up with 6 months supply of butchers dog food once, when I found a large purple plastic bit in my dogs food, transpired that it was a piece of machinary, that they colour code, in case they break .

mamabuddah

@rustyboy21....thanks....not getting wound up anyway...more having a snigger at all the posters who still haven't been able to form or give an opinion on what constitutes "traces of bone"....lol...

hartcjhart

mamabuddah wrote: »

@rustyboy21....thanks....not getting wound up anyway...more having a snigger at all the posters who still haven't been able to form or give an opinion on what constitutes "traces of bone"....lol...

now thats too much bone:rotfl:

Rolandtheroadie

If its a trace, I'd say it would have to be identifiable.
So traces of bone would be as you have found.
I'd imagine any trace of bone could be as big as the biggest piece of chicken in any pie produced.

moggylover

mamabuddah wrote: »

once the bone was discovered, as you can imagine, no more pie was ate, pie was put back in tin foil container to return to store...

if you take time to read the OP you'll see, my mum isn't wanting to sue, myself or my mum aren't looking for compensation...I've merely stated what has happened so far, the response received ( they're going to "tell" the supplier ) and am still curious as to what is an "acceptable" size of a piece of bone before it will be taken seriously....by the supermarket....and the manufacturer....


my final line in the OP states...

"I just get the impression that the supermarket hasn't really looked at this properly, hence my question, what do readers here think "traces of bone" should mean."

so it's not about compensation or claiming anything, it's about what's acceptable and what may cause suffering to some other unfortunate person if the supermarket dismiss the problem so flippantly.

At least you know it was possibly meat from an actual chicken;)

I don't think anyone can actually answer your question. It isn't so much that a bit of bone is "acceptable" more that it is possible that this will occasionally happen when vast quantities of food are being prepared and they have sent you a voucher by way of apology. I think we sometimes expect miracles instead of reasonable care from manufacturers of processed food.

I shall admit that despite my very best efforts to ensure that there are no bones in chicken stews (for instance) and going through the stock by hand, I almost always manage to leave at least one small bone in it and I doubt there is any way of ensuring that this never happens in a commercial process unless you perhaps seive the stock and meat and then re-form bits from that: which sounds disgusting to me:(