Tumbled chicken in supermarkets

stephen77

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

No, I have the details of the ingredients in my study notes from previous research. I also have a list of Dutch poultry producers which supply the UK supermarkets. If you give me a product code I can tell you which producer supplied it. Care to nitpick any further?

I am trying to see what product has a 60% meat content that is sold in a Major UK super market that you told me exists.


I will not have a product code, as the info I have is your ingredient dec only which I goggled and came up with some similar results, but nothing matching your dec.


As everything I can see has nothing below 80% sold on the super markets websites.


So if we are going to demonise a product then we must have the correct facts to make a comparison.

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Oh to return to the days of going to the market at Lewisham,London on a Saturday afternoon back in the 1950s and seeing the chickens hung up in the open air outside the stall inches away from the parrafin oil lamps that lit the stall up.You would get the chicken (if you were lucky enough) with still some of its feathers on.My Mum would bring it home and we would spend a happy hour or two with a candle stub burning of the stubble from the bird.It would be throuroughly washed under the cold tap and stuffing inserted, with an onion stopping the stuffing from falling out.This would then be ready for cooking on Christmas morning.

Oh yes few folk had chicken unless it was Christmas in those days and certainly never a turkey We kept some chickens in the garden and often when they were passed their laying best they would have their neck wrung and Mum would clean and draw their innards out.Again you only killed your clucker when it was past its best, so not always was our Chrismas chicken from the garden.

From the butchers having bought your chicken you would quite often depending on how big it was would get a lb of sausages thrown in for free.Folk never had a freezer or even a fridge so meat was bought with only a day or so to keep.My Mum had a cold meat larder with netting on the door which she kept in the big larder sitting on a marble shelf.Milk was kept fresh as possible in a bucket of cold water. Few people could afford the sort of meals that are now on the table and often meals were bulked out with 'stodge' .i.e suet pud would make steak and kidney go a long way,dumplings in a stew also padded out a meal.Folk had rice,sago,semolina puddings for dessert to fill you up.No one went hungry but it was quite a bland and at times boring diet.But what you've never had you don't miss.We ate far more veg in those days .mostly from the home garden, fertilised by the droppings from the milkman's horse that came down the road every day, no chemical stuff on our rhubarb :)
I appreciate todays menus far more as there are a lot more herbs and spices available now than there used to be.My aunt in the U.S. sent my Mum a couple of nutmegs and she stretched them by grating for ever it seemed.We grew up learning to love nutmeg :)
I was 10 before I tasted my first exotic tropical fruit which came in a can of pineapple from the US.The only tinned stuff I can remember Mum buying was corned beef,pilchards ,sardines and some disgusting fish called Snoek which smelled awful but was 'off ration' probably the worst meal I can remeber eating was tripe and onions that too smelt and tasted dreadful, but you ate what was put in front of you and never ever argued.Even though it tasted of boiled onion flavored dishcloth :):) and my Mum wasn't a bad cook but she had to manage as best she could with what she had.She would fall about laughing to hear of what folk eat today and the state they get into over BBF dates on food.basically if it didn't walk off your plate you ate it and if it didn't go into the kids in went into the dog :):)
But it taught me never to turn my nose up at anything and to be grateful that I don't go hungry as millions in this world do today