whilstle blower, bbc1 last night

[Baileysmummy]

Did anyone watch it..
omg im seriously not buying meat again from tesco's or sainsburys..

 

[Melanie]

I gte most UK channels with sky digital in Hungary but i cant get the BBC (you need a gianatic dish to pick it up) I saw it on the planner and wanted to watch it though.

Was it really that bad?

 

[Baileysmummy]

well, when they minced meat it was coming out half cooked cos there was a fault with the mincer, and putting the meat out ofr sale!

the staff faked temp guides on all equipment cos they couldnt be bothered to do it properly,

staff did sniff tests to see when fish was ok to sell

staff didnt have sell by dates for meat, and it was found the meat was actually past its use by date so they just minced it and sold it as fresh

yuk, it was just amazing to see some massive chain store supermarkets get away with it, never shopping there again for meat, im going vegie

 

[Nicola]

We were watching something else.
I've taped it to watch this afternoon.

 

[skairdykat]

OMG thats disgusting

I missed it because we were watching Driving Me Crazy on ITV1. Maybe it'll be repeated on BBC3.

 

[jenna]

i didnt watch it but the other day i was disgusted when i went to buy some chicken from sainsburys!! All the meat was in open fridges with a heater above them!! The meat was literally cooking in the packets! It smelt awful! I ended up walking out with nothing

 

[jools221181]

Oh I hope it's repeated I wanna see!

 

[Nicola]

We were watching something else.
I've taped it to watch this afternoon.

I've just sat down to watch it....it didn't tape!!
Anyone know when the repeat will be?

 

[x-kirsty-x]

I watched it with my hand over my mouth in shock

It was absolutely disgusting, Im never buying cooked chicken from Tesco again

 

[Baileysmummy]

We were watching something else.
I've taped it to watch this afternoon.

I've just sat down to watch it....it didn't tape!!
Anyone know when the repeat will be?

i dont think they will repeat it.. it was horrible.. dont worry if you didnt watch it your best off that way, it will make you

 

[laetitia85]

I started watching it but had a huge argument with OH so missed the end. we've made up though. but still missed the end of the program

 

[Nicola]

We were watching something else.
I've taped it to watch this afternoon.

I've just sat down to watch it....it didn't tape!!
Anyone know when the repeat will be?

i dont think they will repeat it.. it was horrible.. dont worry if you didnt watch it your best off that way, it will make you

I have to say although more pricey we get all our meats from here: http://www.oldspotfarmshop.co.uk/ I just use Sainsburys for tins, bottles, soap powder etc. I don't tend to buy fresh meats from there anyway and having read what you ladies are writing I'm quite glad about that. Sounds as though corners are cut and the consumers who are making these companies millions of pounds yearly are just being ripped off once again with bad preperation, hygiene and so forth

 

[Anna B]

I work for Sainsburys on the meat and Fish counter (used to be in charge of the Deli too) so can say with confidence that that isn't how all our stores are. I'm not saying that all employees are perfect, and that that is the only store like that, but these programmes are made to shock, so they find the worst store they possibly can.

In my store, food hygene is a massive focus, and all the colleagues that work on the counters are fully trained, and checked regularly (and with out their knowledge)to check that they are sticking to the rules.

 

[Gruntie2]

yes.... i watched it... i'm never buying ready meals or chicken again..... the place that provided sainsburys with the chicken... the bins where the carcuses were kept.... absoltuely digusting.... and defrosting and refreezing food.... all those people that were on the program should be FIRED!!!!!

 

[Sherry]

Hi
If you have NTL (virgin media now) you can watch it it on catch up tv.
Just about to go watch it, I missed it last night.

 

[Minxy]

Am I the only one who wasn't affected?

For those of ou not shopping there again where will you get your food? Asda, Morrisons...where the story may be the same.

Or even some lovely little local organic butcher, where the shopowner doesn't wash his hands after going the loo or the shop assistant picks her nose?

I think if we knew all the stories behind our food we'd never eat anything, and there's only so careful you can be. As someone who's worked in kitchens and shops all I can say is, Ignorance is bliss!

The images on the TV were obviously sought out, and I can't believe it's the norm.

 

[leckershell]

it's not meat, but i used to work in morrisons bakery..

- normal loafs are ok, they have been baked that day

- loafs out on the shelf already sliced have been sliced that day but are yesterdays loafs, so the bread doesn't last as long (get a unsliced one and ask for it to be sliced instead of getting one already sliced)

- sliced bread and any other bread products (doughnuts, iced buns, french sticks etc) that have been reduced and not bought, or gone out of date for a couple of days then turn into bread pudding.

it's not that bad i spose, just something to be aware of.. bread pudding is awesome, but you just wouldn't believe the amount of different flavoured out of date stuff that goes into it.. mmm

 

[Xena]

I watched some of the programme last night but I had to turn it off because I felt so sick!

 

[Anna B]

yes.... i watched it... i'm never buying ready meals or chicken again..... the place that provided sainsburys with the chicken... the bins where the carcuses were kept.... absoltuely digusting.... and defrosting and refreezing food.... all those people that were on the program should be FIRED!!!!!

I knew I should have come back to this thread sooner. Crown Chicken has in fact never supplied sainsburys, no one really knows where they got that info from, but its false.