Supermarket Cooked Meat Scam

[nicebloke1]

So is the roast beef and roast pork on the cold counter really roasted? the answer is NO.
It is all boiled, why, well if you roast a joint of beef or pork it will lose nearly 50% of its weight, so the big boys have it boiled in a bag, and it will only lose about 20%, hence a lot more profit at the expense of taste.

There is a massive difference in the taste of boiled pork / beef to roasted, the boiled, bland and tastless. The trick the supermarkets use to make it look roasted is when the boiling process is completed is to what they call flash it off in an hot oven, just long enough to brown it over, or use a colouring to make it look roasted.

To get round the law, some supermarkets label it up as cooked beef/ pork, but most still label it up as (roast) yet another rip off by our supermarkets.

[fiction-factory]

Okay, thanks. I thinkI can trust myself to buy what I want at the best price.

[-Talbot-]

Is RebelSouls your cousin?

[Arksided]

You should write a stern letter to them Nicebloke and tell them off.

[Captain2]

I was going to put it is like Groundhog day on here, but I'll probably get told it's not groundhog - just minced pork with a lot of fat and bone.

[Bazile]

What about the bacon - is that roasted?

[aelmpvw]

i'm beginning to suspect that nicebloke1 is a struggling village butcher

[Arksided]

every village has one.

[ummmm]

FGS...

[dannyk13]

Interesting that all nicebloke's posts are criticising supermarkets.Ulterior motive?

[woofgang]

he must be very very bored

[scorpiojo]

Obsession?

[Old_Geezer]

If true, it's good to know.
Better off complaining to your MP though. Insist on more honesty from merchants.

[Bazile]

Come on folks , he's just got very big altruistic nature - he cares for the Joe blogs

[hc4361]

You must be a terrible cook - boiled beef can have a fantastic flavour and mine is always very tender and tasty.