topic Re: Bad “pork”🤮🤮🤮 in Kitchen

Bad “pork”🤮🤮🤮

homedecor1 — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 03:59:57 GMT

Tonite I opened a package of center cut bone-in pork chops and 🤮🤮🤮they smelled like fish🤷‍♀️

At $5.99/lb I'm definitely returning them tomorrow.

My spouse seems to think it's me since being sick have lost my taste & smell...but, I'm sure they are bad.

I bought on Sunday - kept in fridge & didn't open. I normally don't buy pork chops so now I'm wondering if it's me🤔.

From my description, do you think they're bad?

I don't want to look like a dope -- the sell by date is 12/17. I'm usually not one to return food but $9.76/2 chops ...I actually bought 2 packs which I'm planning on returning too.

thank you!

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Kachina624 — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 04:03:54 GMT

@homedecor1 Can you get an impartial third nose (friend or neighbor) to sniff them? There should be a packaged date on the label.

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Foxxee — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 04:13:11 GMT

If you lost your taste and smell, how can you be positive they are bad? How can you smell them? Do they look bad? Your husband thinks they are OK.

Maybe, you need another opinion.

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Nightowlz — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 04:38:15 GMT

Never bought any pork that smells like fish?

We always buy the whole pork loin to cut roasts & center cut pork chops from the meat market. It's $4 per lb.

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Carmie — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 04:44:39 GMT

If there is any doubt, I would return the pork chops. I have purchased meat that was date stamped as good to eat that clearly was not..occasionally it happens.

One Christmas Eve day I bought 4 extra turkey legs to cook with my Christmas turkey dinner. My family would fight over who would get the legs every year, so I wanted to make extra so everyone would be pleased.

On Christmas morning, I got the legs from the fridge and boy were they gross smelling. I had to throw them out.

It is better to not eat any meat that you suspect is not fresh...especially poultry and pork.

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homedecor1 — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 04:51:27 GMT

FYI:

I may have "lost" temporarily my smell but I wrapped them in 2 plastic bags to return...holy crow now I know they are bad -- the fridge definitely smells like FISH ..and he smells it now for sure🙄😳

(and we never buy any fish😉)

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homedecor1 — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 04:54:14 GMT

@Foxxee

just got my 2nd opinion -- gagged when I opened the fridge🤮

they will go back & @Kachina624 said look for "date packaged" the only date is "sell by". Definitely not opening the bags I have it wrapped in, for sure😉

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decaf — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:15:18 GMT

@homedecor1 Believe yourself! Last week I bought two packs of center cut pork chops at Aldi with a use by date of 12/14. I opened one the night after buying them and practically ran out of the kitchen, rotten meat.

they were so bad that my DH said we have to seal them with the food saver before we return them. Then I froze them until I could take both packs to the store.

I'm certain you know when something's good or when it's bad.

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phoenixbrd — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 07:52:01 GMT

Trust your instinct.....you are discussing a dead animal.

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sarahpanda — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:48:14 GMT

The mere fact that it's questionable to begin with would encourage me to take it back...it will never ''sit right'' on your stomach. Back it goes.

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house_cat — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:49:56 GMT

It happened to me some years back. I tossed it in the trash immediately and brought the receipt back to the store. They didn't require me to return the spoiled meat.

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millieshops — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 12:40:46 GMT

The dates on any products that require refrigeration are only as useful as the care taken with those products as they are moved from the warehouses to the storage areas in the stores and then onto the counters. I haven't bought any meat recently, but I have changed the store where I buy milk because several times mine went bad sooner than usual.

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pupwhipped — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:03:49 GMT

Same thing happened with me. Bought pork chops from Kroger and on a Sunday evening opened them and they were baaaaaaad. They were well within the usable date on the package so I was a bit surprised...and had no fallback plan for supper that night. Grrrrrr. Since then I always get up close and personal with my chops and sniff them right, left and center. Ha!!! Although I will say if they're really bad you're gonna know it about the time you open the package.😲

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KingstonsMom — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:37:57 GMT

@homedecor1

There is currently a huge pork recall of cooked pork and products that contain pork.

Alexander & Hornung Recalls Fully Cooked Pork Products Due to Possible Listeria Contamination | Food Safety and Inspection Service (usda.gov)

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homedecor1 — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:20:23 GMT

Update: Took back to store today -- When the CS clerk opened them she went "omg something's bad in here!" No kidding, Had told her "you're gonna gag".

She called meat mgr to desk. I was issued a gc for store (no refunds) he looked at unopened package and said "I'm pulling the rest".

I thought they cut & packaged meats (like our Publix) these are prepackaged and shipped from distributor he told me.

Just glad we didn't eat them🙂

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Kachina624 — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:36:37 GMT

@homedecor1 You never know but what another customer chose that package, changed her mind and just left it somewhere in the store where it sat unrefrigerated for hours or overnight until an employee stuck it back in the meat case. Same could happen to frozen dinners or veggies.