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    Shoppers say ‘Christmas is ruined’ over ‘rotten’ supermarket turkeys

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    2. spezisdumb42069 on

      Thing that happens every year continues to happen.

      I’d love to know how long most of these people have spent shopping (including travel time) and also what their fridge settings are. Guarantee that’s at least 50% of the problem between those two things alone.

    5. twonaq on

      At my mother in laws now, tescos turkey is manky for us too. I don’t eat turkey so I don’t care and there’s a Lovley joint of beef about to come out the oven.

    6. Redditisfakeleft on

      Given that this keeps happening every year, you could almost think that supermarkets business models were predicated on selling substandard food with poor quality controls.

    7. Altruistic_Tennis893 on

      If your whole Christmas gets ruined from one piece of your roast not being there, then you’re incredibly fragile.

    8. Better_Concert1106 on

      Ah the yearly tradition of Christmas being ruined by gone off Turkey from the supermarket. Sure as night follows day!

      Interested to know what their fridges are set at and what they are doing in terms of handling/defrosting etc.

      All said, frozen turkey crowns are the way to go.

    9. cheeseley6 on

      It’s probably because their fridge is:

      A) Not cold enough
      B) Too full
      C) Both of the above.

    10. InterestingGene246 on

      The people quoted all seem to have paid less than £20 for a discount turkey at the lastminute. Maybe don’t rely on a yellow sticker bargain for your biggest meal of the year?

    11. PJBuzz on

      Start visiting your local butchers throughout the year, figure out which one is the best one by testing a variety of their produce, order a turkey from them.

      Supermarkets are fine if you’re in a pinch, but buying meat from them by default, especially now where they will keep it on the shelves right up until it’s use by date, is not the way to go.

      Support local business.

    13. homeruleforneasden on

      >“*Then* the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! ‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, ‘*doesn’t* come from a store. Maybe Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!,’ ”

    14. Life-Duty-965 on

      God knows why people are getting turkeys anyway. I’ve heard of people spending £100 plus

      I looked at my local Sainsbury’s and they were £60. Who has the money for that right now?

      I spent £6 on a chicken. Was delicious. We have enough left over for sandwiches. It’s all good.

      I feel like supermarkets have hiked the prices so much they’ve proces themselves out.

      I don’t get why anyone is spending this sort of money.

    15. Ehhitiswhatitis on

      That’s not a rotten turkey tho it’s the liver and heart bag stuffed in the neck if a cheap turkey.

    16. Bizrrr on

      Anyone else go to the shops yesterday and wildly surprised by the amounts of food still on the shelves? Tried to do most of the food shopping last week but all was dated before 25th so hardly got anything, but still on Monday the shelves were absolutely bursting. Do supermarkets actually manage to get it gone or all just binned off?

    17. OHCHEEKY on

      I saw free range medium turkeys at Sainsbury’s going for £90+ a pop, gotta ask the question if these people are buying a crown for £15 or whatever just what kind of quality are they expecting? Let alone the ethical side.

    19. First_Television_600 on

      Again? I swear read something here the other day about it happening a few years ago

    20. Pale_Slide_3463 on

      My mum got a chicken from the butchers was massive. Cooked it for 5 hours was still half cooked something wasn’t right with the thing lol. It was massive also tbh I think it was her oven was to small but I told her I’m not getting food poisoning 😂

    21. bobblebob100 on

      Ah the annual “xmas is ruined because of x supermarket” and the “im charging my family for xmas dinner” headlines

      And people fall for them

    23. OStO_Cartography on

      You know how to avoid such things?

      Don’t have a turkey Christmas Dinner.

      We never do. Nobody wants to cook one and nobody wants to eat one. This year we’re having steak, chips, and onion rings.

    26. SecTeff on

      I worked in a supermarket and sadly it was not uncommon for delivery trollies to sit in the warehouse for too long before going into the chilled section.

    27. CyclingUpsideDown on

      Our Sainsbury’s turkey crown was off in 2020. But we didn’t go bleating on social media – we just ate the Boxing Day gammon instead.

      I’ve no idea what caused it in our case. Our turkeys have always been bought in a dedicated trip then straight home. And statistically speaking, there will be a handful of turkeys that are genuinely off through no fault of the customer. Some slight damage to the packaging will do it, or maybe it was put back in the fridge by another customer who had walked round with it for half an hour.

      However I’m almost certain that many problems are self-inflicted. Get a turkey, do the rest of the shopping, visit other shops before going home…

    28. Geoffstibbons on

      I don’t get the eating turkey at Christmas tradition. It’s not even that nice. If you pin all your hopes and dreams on a beautiful turkey roast dinner you’re mugging yourself right off.
      I’m not saying turkey’s horrible, it’s alright but it’s nothing special.
      I’ve eaten turkey cooked by a Michelin starred chef and it was alright.

    29. Proof_Drag_2801 on

      We’re farmers – we had two calls today (25/12) asking if we were selling birds for the table, one at 1:45 pm.

      I’ll never understand why people leave something that is so important to them until so late.

    30. johnmedgla on

      We paid £80 for a fresh 3 kilo crown delivered from a local farm on the 22nd.

      Gets a bit more expensive every year, but paying a similar amount for something of unknown origin of questionable quality from a supermarket is just mad.

      The irony is that only our parents eat Turkey. Husband and I stick to beef and ham – though this year Hannukah and Christmas align so I was good and went without the ham. Really the meat is secondary anyway and just an excuse to have roast potatoes.

    35. Rich-Appearance-7145 on

      Seriously if Xmas is ruined cause of a turkey issue, it seems to me that people have no idea what this day significance truly is about.

    36. Dancerinthedark92 on

      Every. Single. Year. If a turkey looks like a gone off wizard’s sleeve, don’t buy it, man

    39. jurwell on

      I work for a logistics company that has the contract for a well known provider of turkeys to the supermarkets, and I cannot stress the following sentence enough.

      UNLESS YOU PREORDER YOUR TURKEY, THE “FRESH” TURKEY YOU’RE GETTING FROM A SUPERMARKET ISN’T FRESH. It’s been frozen and defrosted at least once during the process of it going from farm, to processing/packaging, to coldstore, to distribution centre to supermarket. Customer orders are the birds that are killed last and shipped with priority separately to the “regular” ones, so suffer much less with these issues.

      Knowing what I know, I’d echo the advice from others in this thread and buy from a local farm or butcher directly. You’ll be spending more but it’ll be worth it in spades. If you genuinely can’t afford one of those, please, please preorder.

    41. Vlad2or on

      I’m not sure if I agree, because I couldn’t read the article under the three dozen popups about all the eligible MILFs in my area. Sorry guys.

    42. bakewelltart20 on

      I see this every year. How have people not figured out that they’ll be rotten, from previous years?

      I’m vegetarian and have never eaten Turkey. It’s never going to be an issue for me- but I’m still aware that they’re rotten every Christmas.

    44. Phonly2 on

      I bought a 30lb turkey in
      Morrissainco for 28p.
      It was shit. They should be banned from selling fowl. How double dare they?

    45. Phonly2 on

      I bought a 30lb turkey in
      Morrissainco for 28p.
      It was shit. They should be banned from selling fowl. How double dare they?