Quote: Originally posted by warbis66 on 17/1/2013
Sorry to be dull, but who cares what really is the difference between eating cow and horse!!!!
If we were in China we would be munching on dog!!!
I think that your missing the point somewhat.
Tesco's food chain has been compromised to the point that they didn't have a clue that nearly a third of one of their products consisted of a substance that they do not know where it has come from. This time it's only horse meat and the damage is only reputation.
What would have happened if the substance had been thrown in had been toxic?
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This apology is a standard PR spin and they couldn't have written it any differently in order to smooth their customers. Call me cynical, call me what you wish, but having spent many years in the food industry (well, in a previous life), I know for a fact that all major supermarkets are pretty hot with their specifications, and I don't believe for one moment that not a single person within Tesco didn't know about this "recipe". Ironic too that (like discussed on another thread) supermarkets have brainwashed the consumers in expecting the best looking vegetables and are now in a position (criminal in my books) to reject tonnes of perfectly good vegetables, but something quite major like horse and pig meat in what they pass for 100% beef goes, funnily enough, undedected. Still, it doesn't affect me, I stopped shopping in major supermarkets, especially Tesco, many years ago. No, I don't have money to flash, I just shop wisely and if I can't afford a good quality burger I simply go without, but that's my choice.
I think its the public that is fussy by wanting their apples perfectly round, and their bananas perfectly curved. This is why the likes of Tesco reject 'perfectly edible food' in favour of stuff the public wont reject.
Too many fussy buggers out there!
ps get your bloody act together Tesco - i cant afford any more share-price falls!
Quote: Originally posted by Miserly on 17/1/2013
I've just had a look in our freezer,it seems that,if I have read the apology correctly,I can have my dinner and still get my money back. Result!
I'm no lawyer, but I get the impression that you may well be correct, Miserly!
Quoted by OliverDay: I think that your missing the point somewhat.
Tesco's food chain has been compromised to the point that they didn't have a clue that nearly a third of one of their products consisted of a substance that they do not know where it has come from. This time it's only horse meat and the damage is only reputation.
What would have happened if the substance had been thrown in had been toxic?
I totally agree and it's about the only sensible answer so far in connection with this scandal that applies to us UK consumers as there's too much emphasis on this thread regarding what about if we lived in China or elsewhere etc? We don't so let's not deviate from the issue and focus with the problem at hand. Consumers have paid for a 100% beef product which has not been delivered so the labelled ingredients are far from true. Some say horse meat is acceptable but the point is how would people feel if they bought Bernard Mattews Turkey then eventually finding out that it contains rat meat or snake. It's no different in this case.
Good for Tesco to apologise but lets not forget, the supplier also dealt with Aldi, Lidl and Burger King.
I personally am not bothered about eating horse meat, do it in France regularly. But I also wouldn't buy value burgers anyway.
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