Manky cooked meats

Dup · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:22

As someone who worked on a Sainsburys deli in Clitheroe for a few years as a student, I had no problem with that request, in fact I would encourage it. The other stuff gets discounted and thrown in the bargain bin eventually anyway and people who don't wanna spend deli prices pick it up. Never went to waste.

pitchfork · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:27

The supermarket stuff is garbage anyway, go to a proper deli.

Malevolence · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:28

pitchfork said:
The supermarket stuff is garbage anyway, go to a proper deli.

Why is it that in any thread to do with food there's always at least one snob?

pitchfork · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:33

Malevolence said:
Why is it that in any thread to do with food there's always at least one snob?

It's not snobbery, it's called having standards.

You don't get proper deli stuff in a supermarket, it's a fact of life. Those people don't give a damn about their quality because you're coming back week in week out anyway.

MooMoo444 · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:37

pitchfork said:
It's not snobbery, it's called having standards

The standards of a snob?

The Dread Pirate · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:37

Freshly sliced here also not form the supermarket I get it from butchers or if I actually go I bring back from Italy!

The Dread Pirate · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:40

Malevolence said:
Why is it that in any thread to do with food there's always at least one snob?

pitchfork said:
It's not snobbery, it's called having standards.

You don't get proper deli stuff in a supermarket, it's a fact of life. Those people don't give a damn about their quality because you're coming back week in week out anyway.

MooMoo444 said:
The standards of a snob?

Actually it's called having taste and the fact that people either have it(Like myself and Pitch) or don't(Like mal and moomoo)

MooMoo444 · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:42

The horse is very high with this one.

The Dread Pirate · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:49

MooMoo444 said:
The horse is very high with this one.

All the better to aim my sharp barbs at lowly peasants like yourself

Skidder · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:50

I prefer packet meat so I can enjoy the guff smell as I open it. Like a cup and release without the pooh particles.

Tuppy_Glossop · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:51

It's a broad generalisation. Surely it depends on the specific supermarket and particular deli one is comparing, and even which particular products. And one's own tastes.

Hotwired · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:52

The Dread Pirate said:
Actually it's called having taste and the fact that people either have it(Like myself and Pitch) or don't(Like mal and moomoo)

This may be shocking news but at a large enough supermarket deli you can find cheap recovered meat of a spam nature in close proximity to hand carved "premium" ham on the bone.

Such is the variety a supermarket provides to accommodate all pockets.

pitchfork · 2 Jun 2014 at 15:07

MooMoo444 said:
The standards of a snob?

Oh let's all go to iceland and live on ready meals and frozen crap shall we?

McPhee · 2 Jun 2014 at 15:09

If you go to in to a Sainsbury's and that store has plates upon plates of pre-sliced meat, that store is doing it wrong. They are supposed to display whole joints, cutting slices to the customer's specification. They can pre-slice, but generally it should only be done on special offers (or other fast selling lines) because the product sells fast enough to limit deterioration. If they try to give you some that's already sliced then just ask them to cut some instead - they certainly shouldn't refuse.

I don't know about other retailers, but if I ever went to a deli and got told 'no' when asking for meat to be sliced fresh, I'd be having a word with the manager. There's no reason for refusing.

MooMoo444 · 2 Jun 2014 at 15:11

pitchfork said:
Oh let's all go to iceland and live on ready meals and frozen crap shall we?

Sure, throw out the hyperbole. Worth a shot, right?

Supermarkets have deli counters with fresh meat.

The Dread Pirate · 2 Jun 2014 at 15:12

Hotwired said:
This may be shocking news but at a large enough supermarket deli you can find cheap recovered meat of a spam nature in close proximity to hand carved "premium" ham on the bone.

Hence I go to the butcher or actually go get it from Italy I have family who run a couple of farms and one vinyard out there so I can get freshly made salami's and Prosecco for free!

Stretch · 2 Jun 2014 at 15:15

satchef1 said:
I don't know about other retailers, but if I ever went to a deli and got told 'no' when asking for meat to be sliced fresh, I'd be having a word with the manager. There's no reason for refusing.

That's not the point. No one should be getting pre-sliced at the deli counter. It defeats the whole point of a deli.

The deli is there when you want a fresh, specific amount, just the way you want it.

pitchfork · 2 Jun 2014 at 15:16

MooMoo444 said:
Sure, throw out the hyperbole. Worth a shot, right?

Supermarkets have deli counters with fresh meat.

Please, they claim their veg is fresh but half of it has been sat about for a week before it hits the shelves.

Half of the reason this country is getting so fat is due to their lack of standards when it comes to food, the English diet is appalling.

MooMoo444 · 2 Jun 2014 at 15:20

pitchfork said:
Please, they claim their veg is fresh but half of it has been sat about for a week before it hits the shelves.

Half of the reason this country is getting so fat is due to their lack of standards when it comes to food, the English diet is appalling.

The meat will have sat around for a while at some point in its lifespan wherever you get it. Not many butchers have livestock chained to a fence out back.

The Dread Pirate · 2 Jun 2014 at 15:23

MooMoo444 said:
The meat will have sat around for a while at some point in its lifespan wherever you get it. Not many butchers have livestock chained to a fence out back.

In a butcher it'll be hung for about a month or 2 or so which is considered the norm. When it somes to the supermarket however it'll be hung for about 1/2 a year turn grey be frozen then be injected with water and oxygenated so that it gets it's red colour back then either packaged and sold or just sold on hence it's not as fresh as the stuff you get from the butcher and no where near the same quality.