My missus is officially tight.

Look for the RSPCA 'freedom food' approval, or the British tractor symbol.

Oh, and the EEC coding oval is a pretty good guideline, as it will only show 'UK' if the meat was slaughtered in the UK. I don't believe there's a massive market in importing cheap, live, foreign animals into the UK just for slaughtering purposes - but I could be wrong, and some of the less ethical retailers may well be doing this.

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SteveH
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Does that mean it can say produce of the UK, without the EEC coding oval?

Weird that it was reuter India that came up first with the info I was looking for.

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Elder

If it contains meat, then it must display an EEC coding oval.

You can quite legitimately put 'produce of the UK' on a product, with EEC coding for elsewhere.... quite common with pork products. Used to be popular with poultry - when it was very cheap in France - but this doesn't happen so much these days.

Heh.

There isn't an awful lot on the 'net about EEC coding, to be fair.

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SteveH

AIUI from some program on TV last week, or the week before mebbe all the big places go by some humane standards these days, mainly so they can tell us about it and how awesomely ethical they are and how much they love the planet.

As for value added, just up the thread, I think the best example of this is pre-washed bags of lettuce/salad that you can buy. You're not getting anything extra, like with a kiev, all they've done is take the leaves off of the lettuce heart and wash it, then shove it in a bag so you can buy it for a substantially higher price, percentage wise, just to save yourself doing it at home. I love the ones with lettuce, red cabbage, carrot and white cabbage in. I used to eat them like bags of crisps heh - which was a rather expensive habit. Covered this stuff, like value added products etc, a few times during the course of my A-levels an degree.

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DanB

The same place? As Steve said, only the stuff from the butchers counter and often in the nitrogen packed things, hasn't been processed. The fact it's coming out of a factory doesn't mean the same as coming out of a meat processing place - as in where the chicken is water injected and stuff - it just means they've been chopped up. I suspect the problem here is that terms like "meat processing plant" could mean either really... I've certainly never encountered a water injected joint from any of our local supermarkets. Morrisons has by far the best meat section of our local supermarkets and IIRC they claim to use a lot of local stuff as well.

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DanB

The nitrogen packed stuff if often 'cocked about with' - especially poultry, which has a significant water content. I pretty much avoid all that stuff.

Morrisons rock for fresh meat, as they don't go for a lot of CAP meat, but still have a traditional 'meat room' where they pre-pack from primals in bulk.

My current employers do a lot of CAP and don't pre-pack from the butcher's counter - but the stuff we sell from the counter itself is all locally sourced.

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SteveH

What processing do you imagine is done with joints of beef or lamb you buy in plastic trays?

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Conor

Conor gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Have to admit, I prefer to buy meat that's gone through a bit of factory processing.

I'm not particularly good at getting the thick leather packaging off, and the neighbours complain at the noise and the blood spray.

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Adrian

We're still going baby Harp Seal clubbing on your birthday though, right?

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Douglas Payne

LOL.

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Conor

As long as there's a bit of whaling on the way home though.

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Conor

Conor gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Ah, your typical night out in Hull. A night of clubbing, then wake up next to a whale in the morning.

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Adrian

PMSL.

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Conor

Conor gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

You're not denying it, then...?

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Adrian

I don't live in Hull but it's the kind of picture I had of a night out in the place.

This tells you all you need to know:

Spider?s Nightclub is situated in Hull?s vibrant city centre and has become a popular venue amongst students.

The nightclub offers an excellent selection of indie music including Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, Metallica Placebo and Stone Roses, providing an alternative to the normal cheesy pop anthems and R?n?B nights.

  • Spiders Nightclub provides a friendly atmosphere, serving the cheapest drinks in town and playing a range of music from rock, funk, metal and soul in the different rooms.

Primary: Adults Only

Site Description : Nightclub

Vibe & Decor: Casual, Eclectic

Crowd: Students

Entertainment: Funk, Rock/Modern

Nearby Attractions: Public Transport, City

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Conor

I think Steve might have been refering to mechanically reclaimed goods in heavily processed meat products like sausage and burgers and processed chicken items, along with added fats, rusk etc.

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Elder

Costco meat isn't bad value, and you can see the butchers cutting and packing the meat. Even the packed burgers are processed on site, but the sausages are brought in. But even they taste better.

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Elder

Very possibly, I was just citing a 'Value added' example, as there was some discussion up there where people were asked if they knew what it meant and if you can get your head round that example of mine, then that literally is all there is to it.

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DanB

'Value added' usually means exactly what Carl said.

Cheap shit meat, padded out with more cheap shit.

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SteveH

Eh? I must be being dense and missing your meaning, but that actually sounds like a relatively ok place, by the standards of nightclubs - certainly better than anything that Durham had to offer when I was a whippy young thing, going out and putting my thang down, as it were.

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Albert T Cone

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