Although I am on a diet, I had a great big dirty Chinese
takeaway last night. It was glorious. I really really like Chinese food,
however I am under no illusion as to the general quality of your average
takeaway. I go to one fairly close to my house and the food has always been
good and I have never been ill, however when I was making my selection at home
with the menu before I popped out to collect it, it found myself shying away
from the beef and lamb dishes. I love beef in Chinese dishes. Literally, all of
them. But you have to ask yourself the question, where do they get their beef
from? If Waitrose have been hornswoggled over having pork in their beef
meatballs then what chance does the local Chinese takeaway that buys in bulk
from grotty wholesalers have?
Then that got me thinking. What about the frozen pizza in
the freezer. The one with ‘spicy beef’ on it? Now, without using a DNA
sequencer myself, how am I to know that the food isn’t tainted? All these thoughts swirled around my mind as I
picked up my Chinese chicken curry, egg fried rice, vegetable spring rolls, and
crispy fried chicken with Peking sauce. Nothing can be relied upon now, well,
at least, in my own mind it can’t be. This horsemeat scandal will change the
supermarket dynamics completely as the cheap frozen meals that people buy will
no longer be supplied under a ‘ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies’
type of deal. The questions have been asked and the lies have been told. This means
that frozen food prices will skyrocket to take into consideration of the ‘extra’
(which should have been in place anyway) due diligence that the supermarkets
and end processors will have to take. If this is the case, then no one will buy
them, as the people who rely on them won’t buy them as they won’t be able to
afford it, and the people that don’t buy them anyway – well nothing will change
there as well. So will it bring about the end of the frozen food revolution
which started in the 70s until now? I hope so.
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