Where to find great food at lowest prices in the supermarkets

DCFC79

More of a shopping topic plus its been covered

Azari

hollydays wrote: »

I will not buy damaged tins.A friend who is a nurse once told me how she nursed someone who died of botulism,its a very painful death.

How could they person know they got the botulism from canned goods?

Dented cans are perfectly safe unless they are leaking and even if they are it would not make them any more likely to be affected by botulism.

hollydays

I imagine a pretty thorough investigation was carried out.By the coroners and police maybe!! A dented can clearly wasnt perfectly safe in that poor persons case!!I am not taking my info from t'internet -it happened,my last post.

Azari

hollydays wrote: »

I imagine a pretty thorough investigation was carried out.By the coroners and police maybe!! A dented can clearly wasnt perfectly safe in that poor persons case!!

Yes, I suppose they would have examined the rubbish pretty quickly once it was found she was suffering from that.

The problem with this story, though, is that it has nothing to do with dented cans.

The botulism toxin is something that is produced by bacteria under anaerobic conditions. Thus it is a factor of how the food was originally canned rather than whether or not the can was later damaged.

If there was any danger of something as serious a botulism from dented cans shops would not be allowed to sell them and, besides, anyone who buys canned goods will know that they are often dented by the time you get them home.

mulled_wine

Oopsadaisy wrote: »

And what time is that [I assume you're talking 24/7 stores here]???

after 8:15 at one store then 9.00 the other

Both 24/7 stores

dzug1

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

This can work well IF you can get 2 of the reduced price item as the till is sometimes set to take (as your example) £1 off based on the till reading 2 items.
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This used to be common but I haven't noticed it for ages.

thriftymanc

dzug1 wrote: »

This used to be common but I haven't noticed it for ages.

It still happens in Waitrose. I've picked up some reduced stuff where the promotion discount actually pays to you take one of the items away!