I am engaged in the purchase of food in the family. Every weekend I go to Auchan. I always have a list and a route with me. True, these Ashanovskie figures, they constantly change my route, their marketing course, fed up, to be honest. Everything is rearranged, rearranged, forcing buyers to look for, and on the way to buy what they do not need at all.
So, walking around the store and you see a discounted price tag, you run to it, because the budget is not rubber. You see, since the discount is 50 percent, then some dog is buried in this. For me, it was always a delay, in my understanding, or the presence of a large percentage of soybeans. Therefore, I always looked at the expiration date, the presence of soybeans, and if everything is ok with them, then I took the product I needed. Accordingly, we are talking about meat, chicken and sausage products.
But not everything is as simple as it would seem.
By chance, I managed to visit one of the meat processing plants in Moscow, my friend is working there as a senior security guard. I watched the production process, talked with employees, and that's what I learned.
Well, firstly I saw the process of making sausages, dumplings, sausages, wieners. Honestly, it would be better not to have seen. A spectacle, to say the least, tasteless. For some time he looked with disgust at his favorite sausages. Employees unanimously assured that all the products they manufactured meet all the requirements. The raw materials used for the manufacture are of high quality. So they assured me that they themselves and their families eat the same sausages, dumplings, sausages and wieners.
The workers of the meat-packing plant bypass only those specimens in which there is a high content of mechanically deboned meat.
I thought it was ordinary meat, which is somehow rolled. But maybe in order to keep it longer, or it tastes better. Reading the composition of the sausage, for example, I saw this phrase, but never paid attention to it, and did not attach importance to it.
But in fact, I was deeply mistaken. Mechanically deboned meat is not exactly a piece of meat deboned in spices. It's much worse.
In fact, it is a by-product. The remains that remained after the meat was cut from them. This concept includes various bones, veins, cartilages, and so on. Everything except meat. Yes, and there is meat too, but there is very little of it and that which remained on the bones, which they could not cut off.
And in the end it turns out that if the composition of the product on the packaging in the first place is that it is made with the use of mechanically deboned meat, then there is practically no meat there. There, as I already wrote, bones, veins, cartilage, crushed into dust, and very little meat is added to them for color and smell.
Therefore, discounts in stores are mainly for meat products made from offal. And here, too, they have a full-length marketing move. Knowing that many people do not read the composition, do not see that the main component is mechanically deboned meat, they deliberately double the price, and then set a 50 percent discount. And we are on it. Therefore, be sure to read the composition of what the meat products are made of. Then you have a better chance of buying a really high quality one.