The Fresh Chicken and Some people's ignorance!

[Sheena]

So Mike, are we all invited for a  chicken braai this weekend???  When and what time???

[Michael Alexander]

No Braai! The Chicken is FROZEN!   rooster

[georg ruf jr.]

wont it thaw over charcoal???

[Alexandre]

In Portugal we are having the same problem. A new police corps - ASAE - has been created in order to comply with European Community regulations - they go to fairs and markets and confiscate any contrafactions  (clothes, cd's, dvd's), inspect restaurants and coffee shops, canteens, you name it.

At first, everything was okay. They showed efficency and speed of action - but then, they started to annoy centuries old Portuguese habits. They banned wooden spoons from kitchens, they went after the northern, mountain rugged part of Portugal small farmers and cattle raisers and forced them to channel their meat through the abattoirs instead of them having the pigs slauthered in community meetings and having their meat smoked at the fireplace during winter time, banning people from eating cheesed that has been always produced like that since medieval times, etc.

Now,  not only these small farmers have gone bankrupt because they cannot afford to send one pig 200 km away to be killed, pay the cost of the abattoir and have the meat return back, but now every ham and sausage tastes the same - like plastic....

I am all for hygiene and food safety - I just feel that there has to be good sense in this, like over there, regarding the fresh chicken. After all, we are now discovering that, although the home smoked hams have been banned from Portugal, the chinese milk subproducts were being sold without restrictions and were not confiscated by ASAE until 2 days ago (in spite of them having been banned from EU for months...)

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

All these corps are like the old mafia 'protectors'  -  they scare the daylights out of you and make you pay for services rendered.  Forced affiliations with large distributors who put the highest % on markup earnins in their own pocket and leave the producer with a minus profit range if input costs are considered  -  that's how come those old traditional farmers now all go bankrupt.   They are the people who has been the steady suppliers of fresh produce for centuries to their local communities  -  at affordable prises  -  now all drop a notch on the poverty scale, for the old regular clientel of those farmers must also now pay higher prices to purchase their goods via 'controlled market channels'.  All of this is done under the false pretence of 'FOR THE HEALTH AND GOOD OF ALL'  -  pure rubbish, I say. 

If someone would dare to toutch my wooden spoons, I will burn them at the stake!  I mean  -  for goodness sake, you do wash dishes and other utencils after using them.  Have you ever seen what stainless steel or other metal spoons do to your cookware  -  scrapes off the metal.  Sometimes the metal of the spoon reacts to spices etc being used in the dish that is made  -  the spoon wears off or friggen disentegrates after some time.  Yeah  -  so does a wooden spoon, but is that not safer that consuming all metal alloys?   Same goes for the way I process and make my own cheese  -  no artificial stuff added.  I can proof that the cottage cheese I make lasts at least 3x longer than the processed product you buy in the shop.    We do not sell milk and only have cows to milk for our own use, but I have the milk tested every month.  No milking machine is used  -  done by hand.  Best of this is  -  this unprocessed, unpasturised milk has a far lower bacterial count than any of the milk of the industries that has undergone all the "germ killing" processes.   

I agree  -  there are people who are small producers who just have no standards at all , but the same goes for the big industries in the market who produce our consumables  -  they feed us poison and hormones and all other crap !

[Michael Alexander]

NOw Hear this! Now Hear this ! Now Hear this!   

The Great Namibian Chicken War of 2008 IS Over!

I just had the Health Inspector here, the official one, not the contracting one..... I explained exactly how this chicken thing flies..... He shook his head, agrees that there was a misunderstanding and would like me to put up three posters , one in Afrikaans, One In English and the other in Oshiwambo, to inform the customers why and what the date means on the Frozen Fresh chicken.... Sense has prevailed, the mass destruction of eggs has been avoided....the nation shall be fed.... and I shall call of the Boston Legal types.....

chicken3   rooster    chicken    

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Seems there is still some brain left in some heads

Congrats, that was another exciting story

[Rhona]

    We can eat chicken again...............  chicken3

[Bertie Horak]

   Let's go buy our chicken at Mike's Spar!  cuqui  rooster

[Rhona]

Did I miss the naming and shaming of ''Mr. I don't want frozen-chicken''  chicken3

[Michael Alexander]

Nope, but under advice I cannot release the name of Col. Saunders....

[georg ruf jr.]

Our supermarket sells fresh steaks vacumed in plastic. Sometimes the meat is still frozen or again or what ever... What kinda cheat is that. In the end the braai is okay, but still....
i#ll have to take care of the buggers, mes reckons...  rooster

[Rhona]

I completely understand - but why don't you post a picture of this   - by an accident of course!

[Michael Alexander]

mmmh!

[Rhona]

mmmmm!-Chicken......