Supermarket mince is fucking shite now. So is supermarket chicken. And sausages. And pretty much everything else. In the past ten years it’s absolutely shocking just how far standards have fallen and no one seems to give a shit.
Do what I do, go to a local butcher. Equivalent price now, and you can order exactly the amount you need. And it’s significantly better quality too.
I’m lucky that I live a five minute walk from a street with a grocers, fishmonger, bakery, butchers and an independent world food shop. I can get precisely the ingredients I need, no wastage, and, know they’re fantastic quality and not pay a penny more than I need to.
I ended up finding labels for meat at the butchers and it’s mostly European meat!! Very worrisome considering they’ve been a local fully British butchers for many decades!
Their chicken breasts, and sausages, including their steak mince comes from Eastern Europe.
They used to prepare all those meats (except the chicken, but it was still local).
Much more expensive for less meat from questionable, unknown sources, let alone ethical.
Recently our food regulators also found a lot of our pork was being adulterated with illegal, rotten foreign meat and had entered shops here on a supermarket scale… Just, wtf, how can the UK not maintain our food standards? I don’t want us going the same route as the United States.
Supermarket meat quality seems to fluctuate quite a lot at the moment, but it’s getting worse.
Chicken especially…
Meat despite the premium price has been a treat for me, but lately I’ve been put off it.
Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Asda, all just plummeting in value.
Supermarket mince is fucking shite now. So is supermarket chicken. And sausages. And pretty much everything else. In the past ten years it’s absolutely shocking just how far standards have fallen and no one seems to give a shit.
Do what I do, go to a local butcher. Equivalent price now, and you can order exactly the amount you need. And it’s significantly better quality too.
I’m lucky that I live a five minute walk from a street with a grocers, fishmonger, bakery, butchers and an independent world food shop. I can get precisely the ingredients I need, no wastage, and, know they’re fantastic quality and not pay a penny more than I need to.
Last time I went in to the butcher I asked for 1kg steak cubed for a stew and another kg of mince for chilli.
Got handed the two packs and the fucker told me £60! I was so shocked I just paid it like a right prick and then have been complaining ever since.
Haha what the fuck
I always try to ask for the price first as I’ve been caught out before too, but not like that
except our butcher has gone downhill and is barely better than supermarket for twice the price now. it’s crap.
Ah man that sucks. We have two on the road, so I guess they compete against eachother
Same…
I ended up finding labels for meat at the butchers and it’s mostly European meat!! Very worrisome considering they’ve been a local fully British butchers for many decades! Their chicken breasts, and sausages, including their steak mince comes from Eastern Europe. They used to prepare all those meats (except the chicken, but it was still local). Much more expensive for less meat from questionable, unknown sources, let alone ethical.
Recently our food regulators also found a lot of our pork was being adulterated with illegal, rotten foreign meat and had entered shops here on a supermarket scale… Just, wtf, how can the UK not maintain our food standards? I don’t want us going the same route as the United States.
Supermarket meat quality seems to fluctuate quite a lot at the moment, but it’s getting worse. Chicken especially…
Meat despite the premium price has been a treat for me, but lately I’ve been put off it.
Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Asda, all just plummeting in value.