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Disgusting packaging for Chicken.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth
Blackbeard_of_Perranporth Posts: 7,605 Forumite
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edited 1 May 2017 at 4:53PM in Praise, vent & warnings
Yesterday I bought a roasted a chicken. On the packaging it said it served two to three people. Well it does not. We had roast breast yesterday. Today we are having roast breast again.nthat is four servings. And I have chopped up the legs, wings and the rest into a curry for Tuesday and Wednesday. Clearly it is going to see at least eight servings.

Should I take the packaging back and complain. It is clearly miskeading!
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  • Based off all the spelling mistakes in your post you probably misread it ;)

    Anyway, what is a 'serving'? You could make a chicken breast last a week if you only gave someone a square inch!
  • vikingaero
    vikingaero Posts: 10,920 Forumite
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    Complain and get compensation for a new keyboard!
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  • ARandomMiser
    ARandomMiser Posts: 1,756 Forumite
    I had an aunt like that. She used to get one of those Aunt Bessie cakes that says serves 16 and she would somehow get 60 or more servings from it - I am convinced that in a previous life it was her that orchestrated the feeding of the 5000 (probably form one birds eye fish finger and a slice of Slimcea).
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  • waamo
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    When they wrote serves two to three people perhaps they misspelt the word to. They may have meant serves two two three people i.e. 223 people.
  • carlislelass
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    Have never had 4 servings from a chicken, and we don't eat large portions
  • ARandomMiser
    ARandomMiser Posts: 1,756 Forumite
    Have never had 4 servings from a chicken, and we don't eat large portions
    I would double check that your butcher isn't selling you a canary.
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  • Just done the curry. It is now brewing on the stove!
  • hollydays
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    edited 1 May 2017 at 9:35PM
    Just done the curry. It is now brewing on the stove!

    You could try posting this on a current thread on the consumer rights board
    " Curries won't allow me to return item which I've tried" :)
  • BlueKenny85
    BlueKenny85 Posts: 14 Forumite
    Yesterday I bought a roasted a chicken. On the packaging it said it served two to three people. Well it does not. We had roast breast yesterday. Today we are having roast breast again.nthat is four servings. And I have chopped up the legs, wings and the rest into a curry for Tuesday and Wednesday. Clearly it is going to see at least eight servings.

    Should I take the packaging back and complain. It is clearly miskeading!

    Are you sure it was a CHICKEN????
  • meer53
    meer53 Posts: 10,217 Forumite
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    How do two people have a breast between them and call it a serving ?
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