Chinese Chicken

readytosnap

It could just be me but I'll ask anyway, does anyone have an issue eating chicken from China? I have to admit I have bought many things from China (mostly sh*tey electronics and gadgets) But I would be awful weary of the controls in place for producing chicken products.
Dunne's and Tesco's sell several chicken products that are produced in China. I think they are called Diggers in Tesco, cannot remember the Dunne's name. I wonder how many people bought these products and are unaware of their origin, I mean most people probably don't read the info on the back of food packages, they probably just see the price and go with it.
I, like many,have eaten beef curries out of Chinese take away's here (though not for a few years) and I have never actually had beef (if that is what it is) that tastes similar anywhere else, ever.
So needless to say I wont be eating chicken that has been processed in china and shipped here.

me_irl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC_q9KPczAg

_Brian

People stuff themselves on a whole raft of over processed foods, that is the major problem with Irish eating habits.

People need to get back to actually preparing and cooking real foods from raw ingredients.

Something like the beef from a take away must surely account for maybe 1% of what we consume. It would be more prudent to look at the other 99% and ensure that's good wholesome food sourced locally where possible and cooked from scratch as much as possible.

Unpossible

afaik any food sold into the EU has to comply with EU standards. They mentioned this in the book "fastfood nation", aparently the beef sold to the EU is better quality than that sold within the USA.

TeaBagMania

I couldn't think of a better reason to become a vegetarian

Effects

Unpossible wrote: »

afaik any food sold into the EU has to comply with EU standards.

I'd highly doubt that's actually the case.

Outlaw Pete

Great bunch of birds.

gramar

I've heard that the chicken from China is fowl.

readytosnap

gramar wrote: »

I've heard that the chicken from China is fowl.

Where did you pluck that one from?

ScumLord

I wouldn't trust any food from China.

The flying mouse

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Great bunch of birds.

gramar wrote: »

I've heard that the chicken from China is fowl.

readytosnap wrote: »

Where did you pluck that one from?

Don't ya have to love After hours :pac::D

The flying mouse

I love me chicken from china.

gramar

The flying mouse wrote: »

I love me chicken from china.

It‘s probably full of horse meat.

Yamanoto

Wal-Mart recalled its "Five Spice" donkey meat from stores in China a couple of years back, after it was found to have traces of Fox.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-china-idUSBREA0103O20140102

Widdershins

Irish labeling can be deceptive. Packaged in Ireland can mean imported from elsewhere. I'm not sure if they can use the Irish logo in that case.

Chancer3001

Please tell me the products that get their chicken from china

readytosnap

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Please tell me the products that get their chicken from china

The Diggers brand

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/product/browse/default.aspx?N=4294953263&Ne=4294954028&lvl=3&icid=GDP_Frozen_4C_Meat_Fish_Poultry&Nao=40

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=291894112

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=294270500

super_furry

Chickedy China the Chinese chicken?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd4XaLwXpLQ

readytosnap

I cannot remember the name of the Dunne's one but they are large mainly clear bags with blue or black print on them they are something like €5.50 a packet (goujons etc)

Chancer3001

Thank god ive never bought that brand

readytosnap

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Thank god ive never bought that brand

I bought and ate the Dunne's one and it tasted like normal goujons, however i do have them swimming in Frank's sauce so probably wouldn't be able to taste the chicken either ways.. It was only after we finished eating them I thought to myself, They were fairly big lumps of chicken breast for the price, so i just wanted to check the ingredients then I spotted "Product of China" I couldn't believe it, it just never occurred to me that Chinese chicken would be stocked in any shop in Ireland.

Hande hoche!

Saw them inn Tesco about a week ago and was tempted. Glad I didn't bother now.

Yamanoto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i17pORf_iE4

stimpson

In fairness, Irish factory farmed chicken is nothing to be proud of. They have an awful life. Free range chicken from Aldi is feckin gorgeous and guilt free.

meeeeh

Do people over 12 still eat goujons?

Hande hoche!

meeeeh wrote: »

Do people over 12 still eat goujons?

Tenders are popular among some reddit users.

whoopsadoodles

I can't imagine buying food named "diggers" no matter where it was from tbh.

HS3

I now have chickety China the Chinese chicken stuck in my brain

Mister Vain

I got a Chinese chicken once. It was so tough it asked me outside for a fight at one stage.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

A chicken is a chicken, whether it has slitty eyes or not

Mod-Banned

Effects

stimpson wrote: »

Free range chicken from Aldi is feckin gorgeous and guilt free.

I doubt it's guilt free. Just another label to stick on something to pretend it's guilt free but probably not that much better than battery farmed chicken.