So it's fresh, is it?
As I open my newly purchased packet of roma tomatoes, I find most of them are fine (if by fine one means largely flavourless), and one is squished on the bottom, a bit slimy, and franky smells funny. I find myself, a strict unbeliever, almost praying for the day the tomatoes in my garden come to be ripe.
I wouldn't be griping at the moment, but for the fact this sort of thing is happening all the time. Supermarkets are pushing the 'fresh food' button in their advertising more and more, but I'll be damned if it is! Pre-packed stuff is an obvious no-no, and I think I have finally learnt my lesson. If you can't see and poke every inch of your carrots and spuds, don't buy the buggers! They make sure you can't see much, with their orange packets, and when you open them up, almost a third of your potatoes are either green or developing slimy patches. Carrots have black bits or slimy ends. And don't get me started on meat!
So far, touch wood, I've had a reasonable run with poultry (what I get's usually marinated, so let it hide the multitude of sins - I don't want to know about them), but mince and steaks have been dreadful. They look lovely and fresh and red on the outside... inside, brown. I don't just mean the red-brown that some delightful physical law insists the bits of meat touching each other must become. I mean something more in the order of chocolate brown, often accompanied by a peculiar smell. Then there's cream, that must be a spin-off from specialty cheese, with its blue veins and various other interesting colours.
I'm tired of having to return stuff I've just bought. There's no one special culprit - all the supermarkets I've tried buying these things from are guilty of it. So let this be an advertisement for butchers and green grocers everywhere - your shit is waaaay better (and often cheaper). As for the supermarkets, I ask you, is there an uprising now of nostalgia for the days when a butcher would cart his rabbits into town, washing the maggots off before he sold them? Let's see real fresh stuff get back into our shops!
I wouldn't be griping at the moment, but for the fact this sort of thing is happening all the time. Supermarkets are pushing the 'fresh food' button in their advertising more and more, but I'll be damned if it is! Pre-packed stuff is an obvious no-no, and I think I have finally learnt my lesson. If you can't see and poke every inch of your carrots and spuds, don't buy the buggers! They make sure you can't see much, with their orange packets, and when you open them up, almost a third of your potatoes are either green or developing slimy patches. Carrots have black bits or slimy ends. And don't get me started on meat!
So far, touch wood, I've had a reasonable run with poultry (what I get's usually marinated, so let it hide the multitude of sins - I don't want to know about them), but mince and steaks have been dreadful. They look lovely and fresh and red on the outside... inside, brown. I don't just mean the red-brown that some delightful physical law insists the bits of meat touching each other must become. I mean something more in the order of chocolate brown, often accompanied by a peculiar smell. Then there's cream, that must be a spin-off from specialty cheese, with its blue veins and various other interesting colours.
I'm tired of having to return stuff I've just bought. There's no one special culprit - all the supermarkets I've tried buying these things from are guilty of it. So let this be an advertisement for butchers and green grocers everywhere - your shit is waaaay better (and often cheaper). As for the supermarkets, I ask you, is there an uprising now of nostalgia for the days when a butcher would cart his rabbits into town, washing the maggots off before he sold them? Let's see real fresh stuff get back into our shops!
posted by The Mad Shillelagh | 4:15 pm
2 Comments:
You must try some green sage Leicester cheese, it is delicious (and green).
FOR THE HORDE.
I, for one, will never buy bread or bakery products (i.e. Coles brand bread) when you cannot see the food itself. I simply do not trust 'freshly prepared' food when it is coated in a silver semi-reflective film.
Also hello.
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