Deceiving the consumer

[Ducati899]

Bought what we presumed was 100% British (Somerset) Gammon steaks today from a local shop..... but it would seem not once we spotted a label underneath the top one,which although blurry says “midland meat company made using EU&British pork”

 

[delilah]

Prob best to email them and ask before they get crucified on here.

[email protected]

 

[yellow belly]

May be some one forgot to change the labelling machine and rather than throw the batch a way just relabelled it

some case parts are new Holland yellow underneath

 

[neilo]

Prob best to email them and ask before they get crucified on here.

[email protected]

I wonder if you would say the same if that pack had been found in Tesco?

It looks as dodgy as a very dodgy thing to me, regardless of where it was bought.

 

[kiwi pom]

Bought what we presumed was 100% British (Somerset) Gammon steaks today from a local shop..... but it would seem not once we spotted a label underneath the top one,which although blurry says “midland meat company made using EU&British pork”

Got some explaining to do haven't they.
Local shop, supermarket or farmers market, all equally capable of making a mistake but all capable of dodgy stuff too.

 

[Kidds]

You should ask them but UK and EU does not mean it isn't 100% UK, a bit like "may contain nuts" usually means it probably doesn't.

 

[Ducati899]

Spoke to local shop and they’ve said they have removed all stock off the shelves and will be speaking to their supplier tomorrow to see what has gone on

 

[delilah]

I wonder if you would say the same if that pack had been found in Tesco?

It looks as dodgy as a very dodgy thing to me, regardless of where it was bought.

All small shops are crooks. We had one who would rip the best before date off a weetabix box and try to make it look like an accident .

 

[Av Gorritt]

All small shops are crooks. We had one who would rip the best before date off a weetabix box and try to make it look like an accident .

I think that's a fairly "Blunderbuss" kind of statement- All small shops are crooks ?

 

[delilah]

I think that's a fairly "Blunderbuss" kind of statement- All small shops are crooks ?

Sorry, I was just rising to Neil's bait. I will only go in small shops. The last time I went in a Tesco was many years ago to put 'don't shop here, shop local' stickers on the goods.

 

[T Hectares]

Spoke to local shop and they’ve said they have removed all stock off the shelves and will be speaking to their supplier tomorrow to see what has gone on

Good response from the shop
I bought a meat box online from a butcher who sources everything locally, the cardboard used to pack the inside of the courier delivered box was from EU labelled pork, hmmm why would a 100% locally sourced butcher have such material ?? Might be a perfectly honest explanation guv’nor but, whatever, I won’t be back

It brings all the recent attention on to Red tractor into focus for me, not only are we tying up ourselves in an ever increasing burden of red tape and cost at our disadvantage to our competitors who import to us, seemingly the UK wholesale chain is still bent and all we farmers care about is whether our sprayers are tested one year or three !! and that we are world leaders in “standards” we may be, but our immediate customers don’t give a sh*t

 

[Stuart J]

I'd like to know who the shops supplier is.

 

[serf]

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[thorpe]

Got some explaining to do haven't they.
Local shop, supermarket or farmers market, all equally capable of making a mistake but all capable of dodgy stuff too.

we go to a farmers mkt once a month , stock up on sausage , mince chicken etc , useually have large pack of chicken fillets for crry stir fry etc, this week i needed 2 , one for daughter in law. imagine my horror when i igot home and looked at the siicker on the box , produce of netherlands! bearing in mind he is afarmer with 5 shops and doing at least 5 farmers mkts a week. ps hes also a friend , what would you do?

 

[Steevo]

we go to a farmers mkt once a month , stock up on sausage , mince chicken etc , useually have large pack of chicken fillets for crry stir fry etc, this week i needed 2 , one for daughter in law. imagine my horror when i igot home and looked at the siicker on the box , produce of netherlands! bearing in mind he is afarmer with 5 shops and doing at least 5 farmers mkts a week. ps hes also a friend , what would you do?

Ask him if he’s RT assured.....and if so had he bought them more than 90 days ago.

 

[thorpe]

Ask him if he’s RT assured.....and if so had he bought them more than 90 days ago.

his farm is rt sends 50 cattle aweek , no rt ad on mkt stall.

 

[kiwi pom]

we go to a farmers mkt once a month , stock up on sausage , mince chicken etc , useually have large pack of chicken fillets for crry stir fry etc, this week i needed 2 , one for daughter in law. imagine my horror when i igot home and looked at the siicker on the box , produce of netherlands! bearing in mind he is afarmer with 5 shops and doing at least 5 farmers mkts a week. ps hes also a friend , what would you do?

Ask him where he gets everything from. Does he keep pigs or are they beef sausages, what about chickens?
I'm sure he's fine, I just find this, local is always best thing to be a bit silly.

 

[thorpe]

Ask him where he gets everything from. Does he keep pigs or are they beef sausages, what about chickens?
I'm sure he's fine, I just find this, local is always best thing to be a bit silly.

im sure he only farms beef , his pork is very good alot seems out of spec chops are like beef chines , even i struggle when i have to help mrs thorpe out with hers but they are good. chicken qts are the same me & mrs only need 1 breast between us and they are good.

 

[Kidds]

Small farm up the road from here used to have an "Eggs for sale" sign up. Loads of folk used to come from the towns to purchase these eggs, loved to see the half dozen or so hens running around the yard.
Eggs came from a local battery farm, no claims were ever made but the customers just assumed. Nothing wrong with the eggs but they weren't what the customer thought they were and the sellers were very much aware of this.

 

[serf]