We were in a newer grocery store last night. I don't know how long it has been there, the new store smell had worn off but it didn't look like it had a lot of wear and tear. This was the first time I have been in.
In the meat section they had some small open top freezers, kinda like what you see in the big stores but much smaller and trendy looking. In one bin they had some interesting items. With the capons they also had rabbit and pheasant. It has been a while since I have seen rabbit in the store and never seen pheasant.
Anyway, while checking it out I picked up one pheasant and at first thought they were fresh, not frozen. I was kinda surprised thinking they just couldn't move them fast enough to keep them fresh. (Unless there is some holiday this week that is traditional to serve pheasant that I don't know about.) When I turned it over I realized it was partially frozen. The bottom was, the top wasn't. As I explored most things were frozen but a couple things were half and half. They all poked up over the edge of the divider in the bin so I suppose that is as deep as the cold air really was.
I mentioned this to a store employee and she didn't seem to think it was a problem but assured me that she would "bring it up with the manager".
I would think that if they count on them to be frozen for storage and they can't verify how long they had bits that weren't they would need to get rid of them. I can't imagine how this could be considered ok.
I might have to run by in a bit and give the meat another feel to see if they have done anything about it.
In the meat section they had some small open top freezers, kinda like what you see in the big stores but much smaller and trendy looking. In one bin they had some interesting items. With the capons they also had rabbit and pheasant. It has been a while since I have seen rabbit in the store and never seen pheasant.
Anyway, while checking it out I picked up one pheasant and at first thought they were fresh, not frozen. I was kinda surprised thinking they just couldn't move them fast enough to keep them fresh. (Unless there is some holiday this week that is traditional to serve pheasant that I don't know about.) When I turned it over I realized it was partially frozen. The bottom was, the top wasn't. As I explored most things were frozen but a couple things were half and half. They all poked up over the edge of the divider in the bin so I suppose that is as deep as the cold air really was.
I mentioned this to a store employee and she didn't seem to think it was a problem but assured me that she would "bring it up with the manager".
I would think that if they count on them to be frozen for storage and they can't verify how long they had bits that weren't they would need to get rid of them. I can't imagine how this could be considered ok.
I might have to run by in a bit and give the meat another feel to see if they have done anything about it.