.Orger
food detective
Anyone see the programme last night on stv about the inferior meat being served as steaks at Wetherspoons establishments and also the e numbers found in a lot of food
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Think it was mum undercover, she also paid over £200 for some quack, who called himself a 'specialist', to bend her 11yr old daughters leg a couple of times and tell her that milk was made out of "pus" so she shouldn't have anything containing it. He then went on to say she needed some tablets which again cost over £200, only for her to find out later that he was a director of the company she had to buy them from.
Some people are like Slinkies. They're really good for nothing. But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
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Saw it and I was shocked, the article about E numbers was bad, and the "Specialist" was a quack, the undercover Mum looked fed up when he gave in and gave her her money back without a fight
Once the original Grumpy Owld Man but alas no more
1K.Orger
I am not surprised at the amount of e-numbers in food. A lot of prepackaged food is sold cheaper than you can make it at home with fresh ingredients. They are going to be improving the colour and preserving it some way - you get what you pay for I am afraid.
There are two rules for success:
1. Never tell people everything you know
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What on earth is all the fuss about e numbers? All an e number means is that an ingredient is part of a list of permitted substances. Most of those things were in food long before they were ever assigned an e number.
.Orger
Permitted substances in this country - already banned in lots of others!Originally Posted by George Brims
1K.Orger
George some E numbers are allowed in food products...but if the same E number is in a medicine the package has to carry a health warning. Strange eh? Why have them at all in food if they are a danger in medicine?
Once the original Grumpy Owld Man but alas no more
.Orger
I was going to watch it, but forgot it was on. I saw something in the paper yesterday about the steaks in weatherspoons containing zeebu.
I hope it wasn't the weatherspoons in wick.
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.Orger
Go to a good butcher and ask for a proper sirloin steak. Its is likely to cost you around 4 or 5 quid.
Go to wetherspoons and get a steak dinner for 5 or 6 quid.
They can sell this stuff and still make 100% profit.
Ask yourself where are they sourcing this meat from to get it so cheap.
It is likey from intensive cattle farms in Brazil. Brazilian beef is 1/3 of the price and full of god knows what growth producing hormones.
I have no inside knowlege of Wetherspoons and I dare say they are not the only ones. Most supermarket ready meals and burgers etc will contain the cheapest meat procureable.
Thousands of people enjoy this stuff though but not for me.
We in Caithness have access to the best beef on the planet from our butchers so why any one would chose to by cheap rubbish is beyond me.
I would much rather eat less red meat but when I do ensure it is the best.
.Orger
I recently had dinner in the Pentland where a steak cost about 15 pounds was full of gristle and tough as an old boot. Apparently this was down to the way I requested it cooked though. Still I'm not sure it started out as the best beef on the planet. Very disappointing after looking forward to it for years.
.Orger
I too saw undercover Mum - I was really shocked to see the origins of the steaks from Wetherspoons and Hungry Horse. Here we are in this country with farmers jumping through hoops to produce the very best beef products with high welfare standards and people are eating junk in these eateries. But, I'm afraid you have to pay for quality and most people do not want to spend their hard earned cash on food and thats all there is to it. Pay peanuts - get monkey (oh sorry - Zebu!).
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