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70% Of Supermarket Chickens Infected With Bug !

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mikey4444 | 19:37 Thu 27th Nov 2014 | News
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30227342

Flipping heck ! If this true, I'm not sure if I will buy chicken from a supermarket again. I only buy free-range but I am unsure if even these are safe now.
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Hardly news. It's why one has to cook it properly and not mix boards/utensils used on raw meat and cooked food.

Egg currie anyone ?
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Haven't tried the Melbec...I will get some tomorrow if I survive my encounter with the cut-throat razor !
Mikey,
Make sure you get the Argentinian Melbec, and not the French.
It's £1.50 dearer, but much much better.
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Flipping heck ! The breadth of knowledge here on AB never ceases to amaze me sometimes !

Must go as I have to start the reactor up to cook that ruddy Chicken Tikka Marsala.
I`m not surprised. If you rear animals in an unnatural way and feed them rubbish you get problems.
The wine you're after is Malbec....with an "a"
I'm supping some French Melbec as I write (from Aldi).
Might have to go and buy a pint of decent cask bitter from the Bike and Hound later, served by a traditional topless barmaid.
No...it's still MALBEC!!
Sorry Gingejbee,
Your spelling is, of course, correct.
Malbec was originally a grape associated with south-west France but today is much better known in South America.

Better known then as Côt, it was the most commonly planted vine throughout south-west France, including Bordeaux, and was still widely grown there until the severe winter of 1956 killed many of the vines and more glamorous alternatives were replanted.

It even has its very own synonym, Pressac, on the right bank of the Gironde. In Bordeaux today it is not common - growers complain of coulure, poor fruit set - but is mainly grown in such outlying parts of Bordeaux as Bourg, Blaye and Entre-Deux-Mers. It is one of six grapers that can be found in a Bordeaux.

It is also theoretically allowed, although not widely grown, in a wide range of other appellations in south-west France but it is in Cahors that it is best known, even if it travels under the name Auxerrois or Côt here. (It is also known in the Loire Valley as Côt but is a marginal ingredient in the appellations of Anjou-Touraine.)

Apart from the fact that they are both red, one can hardly recognise a relationship between most of the Malbec produced in Cahors and that produced in its modern home, Argentina.

In the 1980s Argentina's vineyards, particularly those in the main wine region Mendoza, were awash with Malbec and the Argentine wine industry was rather ashamed of the fact, assiduously pulling it out in favour of something more fashionable such as Cab Sauvignon.

But the particular strain of Malbec that was taken to Argentina, it is thought in the mid 19th century and possibly via the cuttings imported into Chile from Bordeaux, has adapted itself so spectacularly to local conditions that foreign visitors to Argentina's winelands on the heavily-irrigated eastern flanks of the Andes had by the 1990s convinced the Argentine wine industry that Malbec was the jewel in its crown.

This was unfortunately not in time to stop so many vines being pulled out that Malbec was for a time overtaken as Argentina's most planted noble grape by the speciality known there as Bonarda however.

Good Argentine Malbec, and there is a great deal of it for Argentina is one of the world's most prolific wine producers, is deeply coloured, spicily rich with an exuberant juiciness and has as a trademark an almost velvety texture - not that different to an excellent Merlot.

Some Malbecs are made for long ageing but generally the wines have much softer tannins than Argentine Cab Sauvignon, for example. With its high levels of alcohol and fruit, Argentine Malbec is not difficult to like.

Mendoza is Argentine Malbec's homeland and within it the Luján de Cuyo district just south of the leafy city of Mendoza was relatively early identified as Malbec's spiritual home. Malbec can also be planted at slightly higher altitudes than the late ripening Cab Sauvignon.....
The Chilean Malbec is also better than the French.

// deeply coloured, spicily rich with an exuberant juiciness and has as a trademark an almost velvety texture //

Yep. Try it with your Chicken Tikka Masala.
Gromit don't think that because you bought from your local butcher it's any safer than from a supermarket. In the list in Mikey's link, 'Other' includes butchers and independents and their 'Highly Dangerous' is only second at 25% to Asda's 28%.
An interesting article here regarding the differences in Malbec http://winefolly.com/tutorial/mendoza-malbec-vs-cahors-malbec/ I`ve quaffed a few glasses down at La Boca and Argentina is like South Africa - they keep the best wine for themselves.
Apologies for sticking to the subject of the OP!
Thanks for that 237SJ, an interesting read. Though the comments afterwards seem to contradict much of the article.
I thought it 100% mikey, that's hy we should cook em properly!
Talbot - never read comments from the plebs.
Chicken has ALWAYS had to be correctly handled and well cooked, it is no worse now than it has ever been. Free range is very likely to be just as bad or even worse! Chicken is safe as long as it is handled and cooked correctly , basic food hygiene is necessary.
Sorry I meant Gromit.
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