Lidl - rotting meat!!

tiamai_d

Just to disgust you more, my DH worked in a meat processing plant who supplied Lidls.

He refuses to eat meat from supermarkets now. He even asks in restaurants where the meat comes from, if it is not a butcher he won't eat it.

Some of the things they did there are putting lives at risk. They will happily throw beef that is going off (or went off quite a while ago) into the machine to make mince and mix it through fresher meat. What this then does is contaminates the whole lot but it wont smell bad. The policy regarding dropped meat was this, if it's bigger than your plam, pick it up and package it up, if it's smaller than you palm, chuck it into the mincer.

This plant has had EH in many times but it is hard to catch them at it.

uktim29

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Surely not if there were enough complaints, tim. Also if env health were to open one in store and found it to be off. I have had similar problems with Asda mince.

If the store has done everything correctly then they'll be fine. It doesn't matter about the amount of complaints. Environmental Health can't do anything unless they can prove the store has done wrong. It may well be further back in the supply chain so why would they take action against the store? The fact is they can't anyway unless the store has done something wrong.

jeannieblue

Not being funny but - Lidl's meat... I just wouldn't even contemplate it. Not saying that what they sell shouldn't be consumable, but I wouldn't even go there.

Get what you pay for..:o

Bella56

jeannieblue wrote: »

Not being funny but - Lidl's meat... I just wouldn't even contemplate it. Not saying that what they sell shouldn't be consumable, but I wouldn't even go there.

Get what you pay for..:o

That was my policy in the past, but then I got good, cheap pork chops there then decided to try the chicken. Usually we just get things like nappies, wipes, loo roll there - cheap and perfectly good! Oh well, live and learn!

jeannieblue

Bella56 wrote: »

That was my policy in the past, but then I got good, cheap pork chops there then decided to try the chicken. Usually we just get things like nappies, wipes, loo roll there - cheap and perfectly good! Oh well, live and learn!

Shouldn't have to live and learn really... means we waste money!

I've just never thought of Lidl's for meat! Don't know why - I'm not a snob;)

Although one of my bosses rates meat at Macro's... as you have to buy about half a cow at a time, I've not tried it - and when I've looked, the price didnt seem that reasonable anyway. Back to loo rolls and stuff...

Pennylane

This happened to me just once at Lidl. I took it back the following day which meant an unnecessary round trip of about 15 miles, which I was not thrilled about. I DO think all firms should consider the inconvenience this puts you to though.

I have had the same from Morrisons and also a Safeway store. All 3 places refunded me straight away. The Lidl manager did explain that they store their meats properly and rotate their stock correctly etc but there only needs to be a teeny pinprick hole in the plastic covering and air can get in and the food goes off. Sometimes this cannot even be seen by the human eye.

He also pointed out that this could happen when you are transporting the food home, which I suppose is true. I've seen small kids helping their parents and they just throw stuff in any which way.

hollydays

Does air getting in make it go off? I thought cling film just kept it from going dry,rather than stopped it going off.

uktim29

hollydays wrote: »

Does air getting in make it go off? I thought cling film just kept it from going dry,rather than stopped it going off.

Your right. The main thing needed to stop meat going off is a chilled temperature.

RedBern

RedBern report it to environmental health - they'll take action against the store. I have no sense of smell so anything like this is dangerous - in the past I've started cooking 'smelly' chicken only to be warned by the children that it was stinking the kitchen out!

Bella56 I've never heard that about smelly chicken being safe after cooking and TBH I wouldn't risk it.... surely that is what our sense of smell is for, to warn us about rotten food!

MAJOR MISUNDERSTANDING BELLA56 - the only reason I've started cooking 'smelly' chicken was because I HAVE NO SENSE OF SMELL! Therefore I do not know the chicken is suspect unless it is dancing across the worksurface!

By alerting Environmental health, proper checks can be made of the temperature controls at the store and also whether there's a long term problem about continually selling suspect meat. If EH are never notified this can go on over a longer period than necessary.... so notify your local EH officer.

Anthillmob

when i worked in lidl many years ago i took smelly going green around the edges chickens off the shelf and was told to put them straight back or lose my job because they were in date. wish id walked out but i needed my job.