Worst Grocery Store Food

What is the absolute worst thing you have seen at your local grocery store? 

Mine now carries super-sized muffins which say to be 999 calories, per muffin! 

Maggots on the lettuce.

Sticking to calories their gourmet cookies from the bakery have over a 1000 calories...I have not had one....

One I bought some chicken curry salad and it tasted like fruit loops..that was pretty bad

And green pea...yes pea...it's not a typo...grean pea ice cream...EW

Personally, when I was temporarily living down south, the mega bulk sized tubs of lard scared me a bit.  Then when I was with someone when they bought it, and used more than half of it to deep fry various things for a family occasion, I was ultra sickened.

 

But, that's not in-store.  I don't have much issue with the local grocery store food here.  Everything that's high cal, I avoid (and trust that most everything is, as I now am back in Vermont, the land of home grown, home made EVERYTHING!!)  I still pick up the ben and jerry's and the local shortbread every once in a while though.  I'm bad like that I suppose.

Oh, there's a lot in my local store that's kind of gross, but it's very, uhm, 'ethnic' foods (lots of foods labelled in Spanish).

Lots and lots of various animal body parts, pickled chicken/pigs feet, skinned goat heads, jars of goat/calf eyeballs, tongues, stomachs, livers, kindeys, hearts and this weird honeycomb-looking stuff my friend said was used in menudo and is some part of the cow-insides.

I dunno, I'm probably just closed minded, but I don't think it's healthy to eat organ meat :/

There are no health problems with eating good quality offal... :-)  Lamb liver, kidneys and sweetbreads are delicious and tripe (that's the honeycomb stuff you saw) used to be given to invalids to aid their recovery.  Try my recipe for Lamb Liver with Bacon and Onions.... puts lead in your pencil!!!

The worst thing I ever saw was about 20 years ago when the supermarket chain I worked for took over another chain.  I was a buyer for the meat department and we were horrified about one particular practice.  Once meat on display in the cabinets reached the end of its sell-by date it would be removed and minced down and another couple of days shelf-life would go on the ticket.  If it didn't sell it would be taken away, minced down again (to disperse the grey bits), and given another day's shelf-life.  If it still didn't sell they made it into beefburgers and put it on the deli-counter... with another day's shelf-life! 

Original Post by gi-jane:

There are no health problems with eating good quality offal... :-)  Lamb liver, kidneys and sweetbreads are delicious and tripe (that's the honeycomb stuff you saw) used to be given to invalids to aid their recovery.  Try my recipe for Lamb Liver with Bacon and Onions.... puts lead in your pencil!!!

The worst thing I ever saw was about 20 years ago when the supermarket chain I worked for took over another chain.  I was a buyer for the meat department and we were horrified about one particular practice.  Once meat on display in the cabinets reached the end of its sell-by date it would be removed and minced down and another couple of days shelf-life would go on the ticket.  If it didn't sell it would be taken away, minced down again (to disperse the grey bits), and given another day's shelf-life.  If it still didn't sell they made it into beefburgers and put it on the deli-counter... with another day's shelf-life! 

Ugh! It's reading things like this that make me glad I don't eat meat anymore. That's really disturbing to think about!

Definitely potato salad at for 450 calories per half-cup!

I was SO blown away.  I don't even know how that's possible.

...for some reason, the name "sweetbreads" throws me off. Whenever I hear it, I always expect something that isn't, uh...organs.

:D

Original Post by xue_mei:

...for some reason, the name "sweetbreads" throws me off. Whenever I hear it, I always expect something that isn't, uh...organs.

:D

I think that must be why they call it sweatbreads. To TRICK YOU. Gross! >_<

I can't imagine a 999 calorie muffin. I think I might die. I don't look at anything except french bread made by grocery stores because I know they're just too awful for you.

gijane

my husband worked in a grocery store for years and he told horror stories about the butcher smoking over the meat grinder and his cigarrete ashes dropping into the meat and he would just grind it in because no one ever knew!! Also they would take the steaks that had reached the end of their shelf life or the ones that got brown spots and just looked yucky and they would drench them in seasonings and extend the shelf life date and sell them as "barbeque" or "greek" seasoned steaks and  the scary thing is they looked good but I knew never to buy them because I knew what they were!!!

I saw a muffin similar to yours... it was 430 calories. Serving size: half a muffin.

I love muffins... it's been a long time. Good breakfast back in the non-diet days.

I saw tripe for the first time today in my grocery store.....ick...

Original Post by cptbunny:

I saw a muffin similar to yours... it was 430 calories. Serving size: half a muffin.

I love muffins... it's been a long time. Good breakfast back in the non-diet days.

I have a delicious cornmeal lemon blueberry muffin recipe and each muffin is only 150 calories! Two of those and a glass of milk and that's a delicious breakfast. =)