Shock! Horror! The "meat" in curry ain't necessarily wot you ordered.

[MyUserName]

That, too, is a lot easier and cheaper with generic (low quality) food-meats.
(like using cheap cuts of beef in lamb curry). And a lot less threatening to your business once exposed.

Fair enough - after all once you have dunked it in Vindalloo sauce and fed it to a drunk bunch of yobs who is going to know whether the meat it lamb or cheap beef etc?

[formant]

Fair enough - after all once you have dunked it in Vindalloo sauce and fed it to a drunk bunch of yobs who is going to know whether the meat it lamb or cheap beef etc?

Yeah, doesn't surprise me that this sort of thing is fairly common. :-/

[doodab]

I sometimes wonder how chinese restaurants manage to do prawn dishes, which are packed with decent sized king prawns, for £5. The amount of prawns you get, of that size, would often cost nearly £5 from Tesco. And when we've bought said prawns ourselves, they don't tend to be of clearly better quality.

Maybe when you buy meat and seafood by the sackload it just is that much cheaper, or maybe they don't make money on the main dishes but the sides and starters?

Catering sized bags of frozen uncooked prawns are a fair bit cheaper than supermarkets.

I live near a large korean supermarket and a lot of stuff is cheaper than supermarkets in there. Fruit, veg, noodles, meat, even beer.

[EternalOptimist]

A friend of a friend, who happens to be a vet, apparently found a microchip in his curry at a place in Leicester. He took it with him and discovered that it belonged to a dog that had been put down by a different vet a few weeks previously. Make of that what you will.

I find it hard to believe that farmers are feeding dead dogs to cows. The sheer logistics of digging them up and removing the collars would make it uneconomical. Pigs , yes. but cows ? no.

[Qdos Contractor]

On reflection that microchip story does seem rather improbable and variations of it seem to feature on a lot of urban myth websites. I shall never believe anything my friend tells me again.

I did once find no less than six hairs on a single pizza, which were almost certainly of a 'downstairs' variety.