Sainsbury's Chicken & Bacon Filled Ravioli

Saturnalia

You would expect chicken & bacon ravioli (usually one of my fave dishes) to be mostly chicken and bacon, wouldn't you?

Not at Sainsbury's. The ingredients for the pasta are listed in one section and below are the ingredients for the filling - 1st on the list is fried potato, next is chicken at 12%. Bacon is further down at 9% and inbetween that and the chicken comes potato flake. So fried potato is at least 13% of the filling and potato flake is 10 or 11% of it.

I bought a pack of this for tea tonight not realising this, bit into the first piece and was violently sick. The taste of potato does that to me. I guess that was my fault for not looking at the ingredients listings before buying it, however I've never known pasta to be stuffed with potato before - pasta has always been a safe dish for me to eat!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to try and sue them or anything daft like that - I just think selling this as chicken and bacon filled is an out-and-out con!

Fridaycat

All supermarkets and food producers put unexpected things in prepared meals or sauces etc. Therefore, if you really don't like a certain food or are allergic, I don't think there is any option bu to read the label, though I appreciate why you would not have felt the need on this occasion

I am a vegetarian, and have been for 23 years, so reading labels is second nature to me when I'm shopping! It is amazing some of the things you find in seemingly "veggie" food :eek:

brokenant

I caught a brilliant series last year on bbc3 called 'Britains really disgusting food' with Alex Riley. It was quite an eye opener on things like this but a lot worse.

Saturnalia

Fridaycat, I can imagine. I've known quite a few people who are vegetarian or follow kosher or halal diets and meat, especially pork, seems to appear in allsorts of foods you'd never expect it to be in. I usually do read labels but pasta has always been fine so far, I won't chance it in future. Thank goodness I'm not actually allergic to potato, I just throw up if I taste it, I can eat stuff with small amunts of potato starch in with no ill effects as long as I can't taste it in the food.

Brokenant, I think I remember that programme, I'll have to look it up again. I enjoyed watching it, in a grossed-out sort of a way.

brokenant

I can't find the video at the moment but I was shocked by the series, I think he was making products that could be sold with the minimum contents and still pass the guidelines.
I worked at a major meat producing factory in Malton preparing ham. When you see a 12 foot mixing bowl with a ramp so you can put a wheelbarrow full of preservatives in at a time it puts you off for life. And the screaming of the pigs, the less said the better.

marywooyeah

I wouldnt expect to see potato in ravioli either! I think you might have to chalk it up to experience, but a letter to sainsbury's customer service wouldn't go amiss in this instance I reckon.