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[CMC122]

That would be a good name for a band, "Expired Meat", especially if they were a bunch of old guys.

 

[itsbob]

You can get some good deals on meat that way.

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't eat my hamburger, hotdogs or steaks the same day I buy them.. some of them stay in the freezer or fridge months beyond their expiration date. What's the difference if I bought it a week before it expired or month after it expired if I'm not going to eat it for another year anyways??

We're starting the thawing process now for the Memorial Day pork Butt..

 

[Pete]

Lynn Crenshaw... Does it really DO that??

That is one tired lookin woman. Huge bags under her eyes.. and then you have to think, if she looks like that post make-up artist, what the hell does she look like before make-up!?

That was her story wasn't it? Right up there with her grammy award winning expose on tomato slicers!!

I so rarely watch local news I don't know who it was. She was a major league melodrama queen though.

 

[BadGirl]

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't eat my hamburger, hotdogs or steaks the same day I buy them.. some of them stay in the freezer or fridge months beyond their expiration date. What's the difference if I bought it a week before it expired or month after it expired if I'm not going to eat it for another year anyways??

I have no idea what you just said, or what you were trying to say.

I'm ok with freezing something BEFORE it expires, but freezing something AFTER it expires makes no sense to me.

 

[vraiblonde]

Last night FOX 5 did a scare story about the horrors of outdated packaged meat

Remember when ABC did that bogus hatchet job on Food Lion, that almost put them out of business?

 

[Pete]

Remember when ABC did that bogus hatchet job on Food Lion, that almost put them out of business?

Wasn't that the one where they video taped people dropping meat on the floor? I remember it but not the details.

 

[BS Gal]

Remember when ABC did that bogus hatchet job on Food Lion, that almost put them out of business?

:bobbleachesfish:

 

[desertrat]

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't eat my hamburger, hotdogs or steaks the same day I buy them.. some of them stay in the freezer or fridge months beyond their expiration date. What's the difference if I bought it a week before it expired or month after it expired if I'm not going to eat it for another year anyways??.

None. Makes sense to me.

We're starting the thawing process now for the Memorial Day pork Butt.

Your butt should be warm by then.

 

[jazz lady]

Remember when ABC did that bogus hatchet job on Food Lion, that almost put them out of business?

I remember it but don't remember it being bogus. Some of the things they showed were downright disgusting.

 

[Pete]

Remember the hidden camera thing in restaurants where the cooks were snot rocketing the steaks.

THAT is why I will finish cooking my steak with my Bic lighter at the table before I ever sent it back to the kitchen so Forestal can snot a loogie on it, roll it around the grill for a few minutes and send it back out for me to eat.

 

[huntr1]

I survived all that, only to be shot by the Beltway Sniper.

And yet you STILL didn't come to visit me for lunch on your way to the Michael's right down the street where he did the shooting. Vrai is a meamie.

 

[jazz lady]

I remember it but don't remember it being bogus. Some of the things they showed were downright disgusting.

Okay, here's more information.

In the 1990s, Food Lion gained a degree of notoriety when it was the subject of an ABC News investigation. ABC had received a tip about unsanitary practices at Food Lion. Two ABC reporters had posed as Food Lion employees, and witnessed the unsanitary practices at Food Lion. Much of what they had seen was videotaped with cameras hidden in wigs that they were wearing. The footage was then featured in a segment on the news magazine Primetime Live, in which Food Lion's unsanitary practices were exposed.

The company responded by suing ABC for fraud, claiming that the ABC employees misrepresented themselves; for trespassing, because the ABC employees came on to Food Lion property without permission; and for breach of loyalty, the ABC employees videotaped non-public areas of the store and revealed internal company information.

In court, Food Lion and Delhaize America never refuted the claims of unsanitary practices made by the ABC segment--instead, they sued the producers and ABC over the methods used to obtain the footage.

Food Lion was awarded USD$5.5 million by a jury in 1997. The award was later reduced by a judge to $316,000. The verdict was then overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. According to the court, even though ABC was wrong to do what they had done, they felt that Food Lion was unable to show that they had been directly injured by ABC's actions.

An indirect result was that Food Lion ended up exiting the Houston, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex markets, which it had recently entered. The Dallas/Fort Worth market is highly competitive, and the stores were already being criticized for being too small and lacking the amenities desired by the local shoppers—for example, Food Lion did not include pharmacies in its stores.

 

[vraiblonde]

I remember it but don't remember it being bogus. Some of the things they showed were downright disgusting.

The ABC reporters made a lot of it up.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n2_v49/ai_19100540

 

[SamSpade]

You can get some good deals on meat that way.

And I often do.

I think I remember seeing a lecture where they described the protocols they use for describing expiration dates. I've seen the graphs for deterioration - they're 'good' for WELL beyond the date. They just cut it off at the earliest point of deterioration. If 100% is perfect, they cut it off at 97. Kind of like that.

I remember I had a doctor that thought they stopped phen-fen for very little reason. Something like 1 case out of every 300,000 would produce some heart valve problem, but the studies weren't very rigorous. Boom! Off the shelf they came. He was against the USE of phen-fen, but thought the science behind its removal was terrible.

How about saccharine? Haven't observed the old "found to cause cancer in laboratory specimens" lately? That's because it's been back on the market for years. Because the science that branded it was awful.

I'm not holding my breath for cyclamates to come back, though.

 

[vraiblonde]

They didn't sue them for defamation because...how do you prove you *didn't* do something? If they had scads of people going in sick from their Food Lion food, that would have been a good indicator. But there was nothing like that - just the "word" of a pair of reporters against them.

 

[jazz lady]

The ABC reporters made a lot of it up.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n2_v49/ai_19100540

They didn't sue them for defamation because...how do you prove you *didn't* do something? If they had scads of people going in sick from their Food Lion food, that would have been a good indicator. But there was nothing like that - just the "word" of a pair of reporters against them.

Interesting. I hadn't heard "the other side." They definitely did a number on them. I know it's had an effect on me and I still think of that story whenever I go into Food Lion.

 

[NoName]

Interesting. I hadn't heard "the other side." They definitely did a number on them. I know it's had an effect on me and I still think of that story whenever I go into Food Lion.

I still wont use Food Lions Deli because of the dang ABC story, and them showing the Deli Clerks putting old Potato and Macaroni salad under fresher looking salads.

And whenever i go to the Deli at Mckays or Giant the ABC story always pops in my head