Supermarket stuff has never been great I think it’s got a lot worse since the packaging change though. Just no actual meat texture anymore.
And yeah they have been injecting water like crazy for years I’ve mainly noticed it on the meat you don’t cook yourself like sandwich slices personally though.
The app worked, you got to know her true colors rather quickly. Imagine putting up with passive aggressive shit like that your whole life, or even for a night.
That’s the only version I had as a kid, I didn’t even know it was on other systems until years later, and now because of that, every other version feels wrong to me.
Eugh, yeah. Sainsbury’s have recently changed their caramelized onion chutney to a “new, improved recipe” in a jar about 2/3 the size of the old one and costing quite a bit more.
Do they not have to say what percentage is actually meat? Where I live (not UK), if I look at, say, ham slices, the ingredients list will say something like “meat (85%)” and then water, and salt and other things. Cheap meat is only about 55-60% meat. Fancy packages are like 92% or 95%. I’m not exaggerating even slightly. I bought ham yesterday and settled on the 85%.
Edit: I checked beef and chicken-turkey mince in my fridge. 82% and 92% (77% chicken and 15% turkey).
Ingredients list is compulsory in UK, but water doesnt need to be listed. So the mince above is only allowed to be beef/pork/whatever you’re not allowed to advertise it as beef mince if there’s anything else in it, but they don’t have to state how much they’ve pumped it up with water.
Having said that beef doesn’t retain water like chicken and pork does, it’s the latter two that are most commonly injected with water. Not sure what the science is on that as to why.
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