Farm foods

[Some Gump]

... How can what they sell be classed as food?

Advert just on. 4 packs of 16 burgers for a tenner.
That's 64 burgers for a tenner - what, 16p each?

I know burgers aren't the classiest of foods, but surely there can't even be any proper meat whatsoever!

Didn't catch what the other 3 deals were on offer, a gazillion chicken nuggest was one, bacon another - but the quantities didn't stick in the mind...

[Truckosaurus]

One of the many television shows about crappy processed foods mentioned that cheap sausages had too little meat in them to be legally called sausages so they had to say "Bangers" on the label.

[mph1977]

caveat emptor

some oftheir stuff is pretty good but it;s not bargain cheap as is the too short dated for the mainstream supermarket branded stuff ( still well within date )

[Google [bot]]

Loss leaders surely?

[shakotan]

Truckosaurus said:

One of the many television shows about crappy processed foods mentioned that cheap sausages had too little meat in them to be legally called sausages so they had to say "Bangers" on the label.

They can be called sausages, but you cant mention a specific meat if the content falls below a certain percentage. Hence 'sausages' vs 'pork sausages'.

Plus there's an allowable level of matter other than flesh allowed in a meat before you can stop calling it by its name.

So a pork sausage must have at least 42% of 'pork' in it to be called a pork sausage. Less than that and its just a sausage. However of that 42% of 'pork', 55% is allowed to be fat and connective tissue before it loses the title of pork. So even a pork sausage only contains 23.1% of actual pork meat.

For a generic sausage, the meat content is as low as 30%, again with 55% of that (if pork) allowable to be connective tissue and fat.

For burgers, 67% must be pork (62% if a beef burger), or else it must be considered and branded an 'economy burger', whereupon 50% can be pork (47% beef). Again, the 55% (50%) composition of the meat content can be fat and connective tissue.

[soad]

Something says to me anything that is sold in large qualities for such a little amount is not something I'd want to eat...

Cook from scratch with good ingredients - i'ts not as expensive as you think. Cheap food comes from cheap raising and ingredients...

[ApOrbital]

Sooner crap in my back jeans pocket save for a later date than eat that stuff.

[mph1977]

ApOrbital said:

Sooner crap in my back jeans pocket save for a later date than eat that stuff.

along with throwing coppers away because it's too much hassle to count them ?

i don't care about the snobs who don't go in farmfoods / jack fultons /aldi /lidl - all the more of the stuff there that is good for me ...

what's the difference between the Bird's eye stuff you buy in Sainsbury and the Bird's Eye stuff you buy in farmfoods other than the stuff in farmfoods might be 'short' (relative) dated or have been sent back to Bird's eye by a supermarket RDC because it was on the wrong colour pallets ...

Edited by mph1977 on Thursday 2nd April 13:28

Edited by mph1977 on Thursday 30th April 13:06

[matchmaker]

shakotan said:

Truckosaurus said:

One of the many television shows about crappy processed foods mentioned that cheap sausages had too little meat in them to be legally called sausages so they had to say "Bangers" on the label.

They can be called sausages, but you cant mention a specific meat if the content falls below a certain percentage. Hence 'sausages' vs 'pork sausages'.

Plus there's an allowable level of matter other than flesh allowed in a meat before you can stop calling it by its name.

So a pork sausage must have at least 42% of 'pork' in it to be called a pork sausage. Less than that and its just a sausage. However of that 42% of 'pork', 55% is allowed to be fat and connective tissue before it loses the title of pork. So even a pork sausage only contains 23.1% of actual pork meat.

For a generic sausage, the meat content is as low as 30%, again with 55% of that (if pork) allowable to be connective tissue and fat.

For burgers, 67% must be pork (62% if a beef burger), or else it must be considered and branded an 'economy burger', whereupon 50% can be pork (47% beef). Again, the 55% (50%) composition of the meat content can be fat and connective tissue.

Aldi 82% pork sausages - £1.99. Or even Aldi Everyday sausages - not sure of the pork content but more than 42%- 99p.
Richmond Irish Recipe - 42% pork. £1.99 in Tesco. The power of advertising...

[jesta1865]

mph1977 said:

ApOrbital said:

Sooner crap in my back jeans pocket save for a later date than eat that stuff.

along with throwing coppers away because it's too much hassle to count them ?

i don;t care aobut the snobs who don't go in farmfoods / jack fultons /aldi /lidl - all the more of the stuff there that is good for me ...

what';s the difference between the Bird's eye stuff you buy in Siansbury and the Bird's Eye stuff you buy in farmoffods other than the stuff in farmfoods might be 'short' (relative) dated or have been sent back to Brid's eye by a supermarket RDC because it was on the wrong colour pallets ...

this, the daughters boyfriend looked down his nose at something the other day in our freezer because it was from iceland. said he wouldn't eat anything from there. looked very crest-fallen when i pointed out the last 3 meals i had cooked had been mainly from stuff bought at iceland.

still he'll learn, thinks you only buy a boxster if you can't afford a 911 etc

one day he might have an opinion of his own, not one he gets from the telly

we also shop in farm foods and some of their stuff is not great so we don't buy it a 2nd time, other stuff is lovely and cheap to boot.

[Some Gump]

I've nowt against decent food at any price - it was the sheer quantity of presumably scrotum burger for a tenner i was amazed at. Likewise the chicken - 200 chicken dippers for a tenner? Unless these offers are massive loss leaders, there simply cannot be any proper meat content..

[soad]

Google [bot] said:

Loss leaders surely?

No loss, just less profit.

[Sheepshanks]

Be alright to feed the kids, surely?

[soad]

Sheepshanks said:

Be alright to feed the kids, surely?

Depends. Are they yours?

[Rick101]

Saw a lovely M5 at our local one as I was passing. Then I saw a young lad in a white shirt, tie, black jacket walking to it. Clearly on an errand from the BMW dealers not too far away. I hope it was one of their sale cars rather than a customers in for work.

[ApOrbital]

mph1977 said:

ApOrbital said:

Sooner crap in my back jeans pocket save for a later date than eat that stuff.

along with throwing coppers away because it's too much hassle to count them ?

i don't care about the snobs who don't go in farmfoods / jack fultons /aldi /lidl - all the more of the stuff there that is good for me ...

what's the difference between the Bird's eye stuff you buy in Siansbury and the Bird's Eye stuff you buy in farmfoods other than the stuff in farmfoods might be 'short' (relative) dated or have been sent back to Bird's eye by a supermarket RDC because it was on the wrong colour pallets ...

Edited by mph1977 on Thursday 2nd April 13:28

I buy stuff from lidl and i am far from being a snob.

[kev1974]

Some Gump said:

... How can what they sell be classed as food?

Advert just on. 4 packs of 16 burgers for a tenner.
That's 64 burgers for a tenner - what, 16p each?

I know burgers aren't the classiest of foods, but surely there can't even be any proper meat whatsoever!

Didn't catch what the other 3 deals were on offer, a gazillion chicken nuggest was one, bacon another - but the quantities didn't stick in the mind...

Probably about what the burgers from the cafe/fairground/festival cost raw to be honest

[Some Gump]

kev1974 said:

Probably about what the burgers from the cafe/fairground/festival cost raw to be honest

...and they don't class as food either!