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If you required date meat why didn't you just visit a different retailer? Or does date meat need to be a specific cut etc? Failing that why not take your date to a restaurant?
Usually a sniff for raw meat is a good indicator for me.
With processed meats (don't eat them anymore) if they start turning a greyish colour, I chuck it. Not worth getting ill on a risk.
you're not the first person to say that in here, it is flawed though, the bacteria that can cause you to become seriously ill isn't the same as the bacteria that causes a bit of a whiff.. the sniff test doesn't tell you much other than perhaps it is a bit old... which you already know if it is past its use by date
So we should pay attention to other indicators (mould?)?
I presume that a change in odour would slightly impair the taste of the meat as well.
I’d probably ask for a refund explaining with receipt when you bought it as at the end of the day it’s pretty much your wasted money as your unlikely to want to risk eating it out of date.
On a side note, my father has been eating rotten beef for the past 3 years or so. I mean literally a year or more old in a sealed jar in his fridge.
He had extremely bad arthritis which meant even lifting a few heavy items at work would result in his hand becoming really stiff and swelling up. This resulted in him in really bad pain needing to take days off work at a time.
Anyway he was willing to try anything as doctors couldn’t do anything and he was practically crippled and nearly left work. He saw this thing online about eating rotten meat for curing a guys cancer or something like that. So he tried it which pretty much cured it. He has to eat it quite regular like a few times a month though or it creeps back up again, his hand starts to feel tight at which he eats some and next day it’s back to normal again. If he leaves it his hand goes the same as before.
Just a story I’d thought I’d share in such a thread![]()
Report them to the Food Standards Agency? >> https://www.food.gov.uk/enforcement/report-problemWhat would you guys do?
Nothing, just throw it in the bin?
Complain to [big supermarket chain] as they ought to get a grip of the local store as this sort of thing is unsafe?
Complain to local environmental health as not only is this unsafe, what they did was illegal?
His immune response has probably pooed itself upon the entry into his system of rotten beef and has taken a break from.attacking his joints. Just a theory.