Pumped Up With Water?

[Segilla]

Manufacturers are fond of confusing us with new sizes, formulas etc but has anyone else noticed products becoming more watery.
Utterly Butterly, Fairy washing up liquid etc.
And my favourite Waitrose current wholemeal loaf is heavy as lead and almost soggy.

[murraymints]

fairy liquid..

[AlwaysConfused]

and meat, pumped to the eyeballs with water! I'm off to the butchers in a mo to get some proper steak.
Try fairy platinum. I used to get through two bottles of washing up liquid a week, but this has lasted me nine weeks so far, and I haven't even used paper plates!

[pastafreak]

Fairy Liquid seems fine to me,but Utterly Buttery is all artificial any way. Not sure about the bread-the baking or prooving process may be at fault.

[LyndaB]

I always buy my meat from my local butcher - if I buy a medium chicken from him there is so much more meat on it than one of the same weight from the supermarket. It tastes so much better too, and the difference in price isn't all that much

[abstibus]

I can remember reading that chicken is pumped up with some sort of pork derivative. Can anyone confirm?

[pastafreak]

AlwaysConfused....2 bottles in a week? I work in a kitchen,and we may get through 2 bottles with dishes done from 7am until 2pm....how big is your family? LOL

[AlwaysConfused]

pastafreak, OH often has a go at me for the amount of washing up liquid I use! I put in far, far too much.

[woofgang]

seems to be the stuff used in restaurants and takeaways
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/5448066/Beef-and-pork-proteins-being-injected-into-restaurant-chicken-meals.html
i have never liked the spreads and butters that have water in, the water comes out when its spread on the toast and makes the toast soggy...
Have you asked waitrose about the loaf? you can't add more water to bread so it might be a bad batch.

[pastafreak]

Haha....are the bubbles over flowing onto the floor?

[AlwaysConfused]

Bubbles? Oh, I see. You're supposed to mix the washing up liquid with water? That's where I was going wrong, lol

[pastafreak]

There is a story of a scientist who left a tub of Flora out in her garden for months to observe what growths it would support.
It was zilch,nada,nothing...no mould..even the insects didn't want it. And people want to eat it because it's 'healthy'.

[pastafreak]

*splutter!!!*

[woofgang]

pasta, that's on snopes....not true I am afraid.

[RATTER15]

Pasta, I think that test was performed on a cheap margarine and apparently margarine is only one molecule away from plastic, is that true? no idea!!

[pastafreak]

@woofgang...I did say it was a story.....and have no idea if there is any truth to it. ;-)

[LyndaB]

That story is doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment, so obviously it must be true ;-)

[heathfield]

Salt is one of the ingredients of Fairy Liquid. It acts as a thickener when it combines with the other ingredients. If you think it's more runny these days, it could mean there's less salt in it, which can only be a good thing.

[Old_Geezer]

It was probably one molecule away from its plastic tub.

Puts me off to see shiny plastic watery meat. Con that should be stopped. Don't go for cheapest if you can, and hope you're not victim of a double bluff.

Surely if they watered down fairy liquid it would make a mockery of the claim that you use less ? (A squirt is the same amount regardless.)

[woofgang]

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp

[Segilla]

A very charitable view of Fairy liquid, heathfield! I suggest that more water is the culprit!