When is a chicken really out of date?

frosty

Thanks,your both right its not worth the risk of being ill.

Kantankrus_Mare

I'm seriously considering not buying any more chicken from Tesco's at all.

I normally get the bags of pre-packed breasts which I can use as I like from the freezer when I shop on line but the other week I went into the store and picked up some other breasts without looking as I was in a rush.

When I got home I split the pack to put in the freezer and the smell disgusted me. :eek: I checked the use by date and there was one day to go so I carried on and put them in the freezer.

When I came to de-frost them to use, the smell was twice as bad and I had to throw them out. What a waste!! I guess i should have took them back to Tesco when I first brought them home for a refund but who wants another journey to the supermarket when you have just been?

Will be be buying them else where from now on. :rolleyes:

MrsTinks

Throw them as far away as possible. And I would write a letter of complaint to Tesco headoffice with a picture of the bag (maybe keep the bag but throw away the chicken) and see what they say... I certainly wouldn't settle for a refund! What if you'd cooked and fed this to your children?

recovering_spendaholic

That is terrible! I have had a number of things in my online shop which were either just out of date, or on the last day and I have , until recently always been refunded. I am not keen on buying chicken from Tesco any more because the last couple of times I have bought their Willow Farm whole chickens, they have had a horrible off smell about them, even though they have been well within their date. The last one I bought about a fortnight ago and the smell was so bad that the whole house stank after I had unwrapped it. I rang tescos and she said I had to bring it back to the store (8 miles away) or they wouldn't refund me. I was going to take it back the next day but the weather was dreadful and the smell of the chicken was so bad (even though I had bagged it in several bags and sealed them as well as I could), that I just put it in the rubbish as the bin men were due that morning. I rang the shop and told them what had happened and they basically said "tough" and I didn't get my £6.78 back:mad:

Angelraesunshine

Personally i would not be satisfied with just getting the money back I would contact the head office in Cheshunt ( Mil works there and i would always complain, have done it about 3 times over the years and has always worked better to do this, not that it is the Mil that i complain to lol)

I would tell them that you are not at all satisfied that not only was the store neglecting there duty by law to remove all out of date food, that the date was not then picked up by the person collecting your food for you they are meant to be your eyes when buying your food and again they had ample opportunity when at the check out and packing for it not to of happened.

Good luck but i would complain you should be getting compensation vouchers as well as the refund.

ampersand

Did none of you see Hugh Fearneley-Whittingstall, recently repeated, about the chickens from supermarkets vs his own free range girls? Each week's group are fairly hardened in very set opposing views to whatever Hugh is enlightening them about.
The chicken one was very Road to Damascus.

Agapanthus

If it's over its date but not too rank I'll sometimes offer it to the cat. Cats' stomachs can cope with much nastier stuf than humans. If even he turns his nose up then I know it's really awful!:rotfl:

I'd always complain. If you have to throw the stuff away then cut the label with the dates off the package and take that back. You could always report them to environmental health too, but you won't get your money back that way.

patwa_2

This is illegal and against Tesco's Code of Operations. Trust me, the amount of stuff Tesco throws away that people would have no problems with - if anyone saw that article on TV with the guys 'rescuing' food from the bins, they would have a field day at Tescos. Even if it's one day out of date (i.e expired on Thursday evening) and it's now Friday morning, it goes out.

What you found is unacceptable. I'll certainly be getting a relative who works at Tesco to check into this and report it, discretely of course.

H.

odds-n-sods

report to environmental health! - its illegal - i know someone who recently saw a rat in her lovel tesco, store didnt' give a stuff, so she went to the papers. store cared then!

I try to never buy meat from a chain store but from my butcher - much better customer service, and they can tell me all about the meat they sell - where its from etc. and with the F+M crisis, small butchers need our business even more.

shell2001

I had a fresh chicken from Mr T delivered via home delivery. Popped it in the fridge, went to do the roast with it the next day and it stank to high heaven. I phoned them and was told I had to take it back in store (nearerst store 10 miles away, I dont drive and at the time my littles were 2 and 8 months old - that would have been a lovely (if not smelly) bus journey. So was told even thought it had only been delivered the day before tesco state that meat should be used on day of purchase and the dates on the chicken are for in-store use only. New one on me but I let them get away with it.

The problem I have is that the local butchers is filthy. When we first moved here I used to use him all the time but his marriage broke down and the shop went rapidly down hill - so what do you do??