Finding bad food in the store

Finding bad food in the store Jul 8, 2021 15:31:17 GMT via mobile klawrencio79 likes this

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Post by NJtoTX on Jul 8, 2021 15:31:17 GMT

Jul 8, 2021 15:19:16 GMT klawrencio79 said:

Apr 29, 2021 1:46:27 GMT NJtoTX said:

Maybe I'm the guy in the "becoming your parents" commercial.

I was starting to pick out some corn and noticed there was a corn peeled back and it had a huge area of black bad kernels.

I gave it to the woman putting out produce saying "I don't think you want to display this." She was all apologetic, but I just gave it to her to be helpful. Had she not been there, I'd have tossed it way back.

Similar thing happened at the meat. Turkey sausage package 2 weeks past date. Same response from the meat guy. I mainly don't want some other sucker buying it.

So am I the only one who does this? Or do people just either grab a different package or walk away because there was something eww there, everyone else be damned?

You're definitely not the only one. Grocery stores far and wide all invariably have food out that is past its sell-by date, has expired, and with produce you can surely find mold here and there. With the moldy fruit, usually what they do is cut around the moldy part and put the rest of it in a pre-cut fruit cup or something like that. With the expired meats and products, sure they'll take it and act apologetic but after you leave, they'll likely put it back. They don't all do that, but most of them do.

Sometimes I toss bad fruit back where no one can reach it. Or behind the display. Oops.

Stores are known to replace labels on meat and fish to push the sell-by date back. USDA doesn't care.