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26.12.2023 - 09:45 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A butcher has explained the reason why turkeys often turn rotten before Christmas Day after reports of some families left with a rancid bird.
It wouldn't be Christmas without a culinary disaster or two, but nobody wants to start preparing their turkey only to find it's rotting inside. Unfortunately, this nightmare became a reality for many people yesterday as they took to social media to complain about the state of their festive birds.
Turkeys reportedly purchased from the likes of Aldi, Tesco and Asda were described as 'slimy', 'rancid' and 'unsafe for human consumption' despite being within their use-by dates. Because of this, many people declared their Christmas had been 'ruined'.
And according to a family-run butcher, this tends to happen more when it comes to supermarket turkeys as it can sometimes be a month before Christmas that they're slaughtered, the Mirror reports.
After being killed, the supermarket will pack up the turkey as carbon dioxide is pumped into the bag, replacing the oxygen and the bacteria that can take hold.
The bird is then cooled to just above freezing, according to Tomlinsons Farm Shop in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. When the bags containing individual turkeys are damaged, oxygen can leak into the micro environment, causing the turkey to turn "rapidly" and go "rancid".
However, it's not clear whether this is definitely the culprit for the Christmas turkey chaos this year.
Richard Piers Rayner wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Christmas Eve: "This is a bit of a blow. Bought a ‘fresh’ turkey (£53.00!) from the local Tesco superstore a couple of days ago.
"Just unwrapped it to prepare everything for tomorrow and it absolutely stinks. The meat is rotten. So… Christmas dinner? It’ll not be quite as we might
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