Shoppers say ‘Christmas is ruined’ over ‘rotten’ supermarket turkeys

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1. Ah yes the yearly tradition of “Tesco have ruined Christmas” lives on

2. Thing that happens every year continues to happen.

   I’d love to know how long most of these people have spent shopping (including travel time) and also what their fridge settings are. Guarantee that’s at least 50% of the problem between those two things alone.

3. Buy direct from a farmer and cut out the middle men.

4. its hardly surprising having worked in a supermarket before.

5. The state of news reporting these days, churn out the same articles just for engagement

6. At my mother in laws now, tescos turkey is manky for us too. I don’t eat turkey so I don’t care and there’s a Lovley joint of beef about to come out the oven.

7. Animal corpse smells bad and is rotting – shock horror!

8. Given that this keeps happening every year, you could almost think that supermarkets business models were predicated on selling substandard food with poor quality controls.

9. If your whole Christmas gets ruined from one piece of your roast not being there, then you’re incredibly fragile.

10. We’ve had similar news about chickens all through 2024, so why should it be any different with Turkeys!

    Today I’m having lovely thick curry soup with extra spices, and Kebab meat, with toasted bread rolls to dip in, not had a Christmas dinner in over 10+ years :).

11. Ah the yearly tradition of Christmas being ruined by gone off Turkey from the supermarket. Sure as night follows day!

    Interested to know what their fridges are set at and what they are doing in terms of handling/defrosting etc.

    All said, frozen turkey crowns are the way to go.

12. It’s probably because their fridge is:

    A) Not cold enough
    B) Too full
    C) Both of the above.

13. The people quoted all seem to have paid less than £20 for a discount turkey at the lastminute. Maybe don’t rely on a yellow sticker bargain for your biggest meal of the year?

14. Start visiting your local butchers throughout the year, figure out which one is the best one by testing a variety of their produce, order a turkey from them.

    Supermarkets are fine if you’re in a pinch, but buying meat from them by default, especially now where they will keep it on the shelves right up until it’s use by date, is not the way to go.

    Support local business.

15. This photo looks like the bag of giblets inside is pressed up against the skin.

16. >“*Then* the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! ‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, ‘*doesn’t* come from a store. Maybe Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!,’ ”

17. Yup. We got one from Lidl, defrosted and it stank the house out. It’s going back tomorrow!

18. God knows why people are getting turkeys anyway. I’ve heard of people spending £100 plus

    I looked at my local Sainsbury’s and they were £60. Who has the money for that right now?

    I spent £6 on a chicken. Was delicious. We have enough left over for sandwiches. It’s all good.

    I feel like supermarkets have hiked the prices so much they’ve proces themselves out.

    I don’t get why anyone is spending this sort of money.

19. That’s not a rotten turkey tho it’s the liver and heart bag stuffed in the neck if a cheap turkey.

20. Anyone else go to the shops yesterday and wildly surprised by the amounts of food still on the shelves? Tried to do most of the food shopping last week but all was dated before 25th so hardly got anything, but still on Monday the shelves were absolutely bursting. Do supermarkets actually manage to get it gone or all just binned off?

21. I saw free range medium turkeys at Sainsbury’s going for £90+ a pop, gotta ask the question if these people are buying a crown for £15 or whatever just what kind of quality are they expecting? Let alone the ethical side.

22. Nice to see respect for tradition even in late 2024.

23. Again? I swear read something here the other day about it happening a few years ago

24. My mum got a chicken from the butchers was massive. Cooked it for 5 hours was still half cooked something wasn’t right with the thing lol. It was massive also tbh I think it was her oven was to small but I told her I’m not getting food poisoning 😂

25. Ah the annual “xmas is ruined because of x supermarket” and the “im charging my family for xmas dinner” headlines

    And people fall for them

26. That turkey simply looks like the giblets/neck haven’t been removed tbh.

27. You know how to avoid such things?

    Don’t have a turkey Christmas Dinner.

    We never do. Nobody wants to cook one and nobody wants to eat one. This year we’re having steak, chips, and onion rings.

28. Here we go, let’s see the faces of Tesco ruined my Christmas x

29. It’s been a stable bloody 4 ish Celsius for a while, the entire outside is a fridge, use that instead of shoving it in an ancient overfilled warm fridge.

30. If you’re buying a shit Turkey for a tenner, then that’s the first problem. Frozen is shit and mever cooks well, it’s once per year, so at least go to a proper farmer and spend £50 on a fresh chilled one.

31. I mean, maybe don’t rely on an animal’s corpse for your Christmas enjoyment?

32. I worked in a supermarket and sadly it was not uncommon for delivery trollies to sit in the warehouse for too long before going into the chilled section.

33. Our Sainsbury’s turkey crown was off in 2020. But we didn’t go bleating on social media – we just ate the Boxing Day gammon instead.

    I’ve no idea what caused it in our case. Our turkeys have always been bought in a dedicated trip then straight home. And statistically speaking, there will be a handful of turkeys that are genuinely off through no fault of the customer. Some slight damage to the packaging will do it, or maybe it was put back in the fridge by another customer who had walked round with it for half an hour.

    However I’m almost certain that many problems are self-inflicted. Get a turkey, do the rest of the shopping, visit other shops before going home…

34. Just stop eating meat. Such a weird, boomer thing to eat. 

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