Tesco mis-selling festive product
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Basically a bone from what looks like a rib section of a pig has been inserted into some cheap reformed ham which has then been sold as "ham on the bone". Okay, I should know better but I saw it and thought it looked like a decent product and due to it being "on the bone" threw caution to the wind and put it in the trolley.
Horrendous.
t hot in the legalities but to the every day consumer you're buying what it says on the pack. I feel mislead. Pferdestarke said:
When you say most joints of pork are reformed, are you referring to ham?
Please elaborate.
have a look next time in the supermarket, the 'rolled' raw pork joints are generally formed cuts of pork joined together, that is why i think they get away with in the industry, as it it is an acceptable practice.Please elaborate.
unfortunately thou not my industry...
The Spruce goose said:
most joints of pork are reformed so nothing unusual really, in the pork industry.
Not from my local butcher it ain't it might be deboned and rolled but it certainly ain't reformed. What tesco have created sounds vile, it all sounds a bit crab stick before they were forced to be renamed to what they actually are.
If you want quality produce nowadays you can no longer rely on supermarkets not even Waitrose they all sell cheap as they can source produce and mark up accordingly. It' s Xmas and I don't want a tiny cheap frozen Canadian lobster, which is all I can find in the main supermarkets, when we live on an Island surrounded by them. Though 70% of our catch goes abroad while we import frozen garbage from Canada.
jogon said:
The Spruce goose said:
most joints of pork are reformed so nothing unusual really, in the pork industry.
Not from my local butcher it ain't it might be deboned and rolled but it certainly ain't reformed. jmorgan said:
Same here. Whenever I have to have a supermarket slice of ham, I usually feel like it needs a straw to drink it. Butchers version is superb.
just to be clear when i say industry, i say mass production, not a butcher, totally different things, in quality, product type etc..The Spruce goose said:
have a look next time in the supermarket, the 'rolled' raw pork joints are generally formed cuts of pork joined together, that is why i think they get away with in the industry, as it it is an acceptable practice.
unfortunately thou not my industry...
The roled pork joints I see tend to be belly pork or shoulder which aren't formed. unfortunately thou not my industry...
I don't know which ones you're referring to.
The Spruce goose said:
Pferdestarke said:
When you say most joints of pork are reformed, are you referring to ham?
Please elaborate.
have a look next time in the supermarket, the 'rolled' raw pork joints are generally formed cuts of pork joined together, that is why i think they get away with in the industry, as it it is an acceptable practice.Please elaborate.
unfortunately thou not my industry...
This is bad...... I use my local Asda for stocking up on ethnical cooking ingredients as it based in a student town...... but in my naivety I have bought misrepresented fish products believing them to be what the title of the label suggests until I got it out of the freezer for cooking and having to read the instructions
Strictly speaking, this is "Ham on the bone". Literally speaking, it is "Ham on a bone". "On the bone" means it is cooked on the bone, not that it is meat on a bone, so Tesco are really stretching this.
Further to other comments here, more and more independent butchers are using processed meats. This is simply a matter of cost. They cannot compete with supermarkets, and whether WE like it or not, more people are now aiming at cheap than quality. You would be surprised how many of even those proper looking pork products are actually processed, meat producers are getting more savvy in their production methods and, using the letter of the law (and as we have seen here) they can be very cute in how they describe products on labels.
Further to other comments here, more and more independent butchers are using processed meats. This is simply a matter of cost. They cannot compete with supermarkets, and whether WE like it or not, more people are now aiming at cheap than quality. You would be surprised how many of even those proper looking pork products are actually processed, meat producers are getting more savvy in their production methods and, using the letter of the law (and as we have seen here) they can be very cute in how they describe products on labels.
The Spruce goose said:
jmorgan said:
Same here. Whenever I have to have a supermarket slice of ham, I usually feel like it needs a straw to drink it. Butchers version is superb.
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