Shopper leaves expired Woolworths meat out for 5 days: ‘What are you selling us?’
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Experiments have taken a new and somewhat startling turn as a Woolworths shopper has given food safety experts a run for their money.
He's provided an insight into our pre-packaged food realities with a simple yet impactful experiment involving beef burgers.
Having discovered a pack of Woolworths’ Market Value 10 Beef Burgers ($11) three weeks past their expiry date in his fridge, curious shopper Nicholas Knayme found that the beef patties bore no signs of spoilage.
He decided to push the limits of his experiment and expose the beef burgers to the sun for five days.
The patties maintained their 'relatively red' exterior after being baked under the sun.
Nicholas became more concerned as he observed that even animals and insects wouldn’t touch the meat.
‘Woolworths burger patties. These burger patties are around three weeks old,’ he said in the video online.
‘They didn’t really appear to change much in the fridge. It started to smell a little bit and never really lost colour.’
‘They have now been out in the backyard for around four to five days. As you can see, they are still relatively red.’
‘The cat didn’t eat them. The feral cats haven’t eaten them.’
‘Street cats haven’t eaten them birds, lizards, anything, nothing has eaten them,’ Nicholas he added.
‘The ants won’t even crawl on them—the ants don’t want to eat them.’
On reflecting upon the peculiar incident, he pondered, 'Woolworths, what are you selling us?'
The burgers’ ingredients include Australian beef with 73 per cent, water, rice flour, soy fibre, and maltodextrin (maise).
They also have mineral salts (450, sodium carbonate, 451), dextrose (tapioca, maise), preservative (223 sulphites), fermented red rice, sugar, antioxidant (sodium ascorbate), and natural colour (paprika extract).
As the video drew attention online, social media users shared their concerns over the meat.
‘I’ve seen foxes smashing rotting week-old road kill… something’s in this meat. Pretty simple,’ one said.
‘Yeah, I’d say something’s a bit suss with Woolies meat,’ another added.
‘If the bugs aren’t even eating it, then it’s probably time to reassess the choices,’ a third said.
Woolworths has yet to respond to the issue as of writing.
You can watch Nicholas’ video below:
Credit: @nicholas.knayme / TikTok
This was not the first time Woolies was called out for its food quality standards.
In a previous story, a vegetarian called out the supermarket giant when he made a stomach-churning discovery on his mixed salad.
What was this ‘disgusting’ find? You can read more about the story here.
What's your take on this incident? Have you had similar experiences with your products? Share them with us in the comments below!
He's provided an insight into our pre-packaged food realities with a simple yet impactful experiment involving beef burgers.
Having discovered a pack of Woolworths’ Market Value 10 Beef Burgers ($11) three weeks past their expiry date in his fridge, curious shopper Nicholas Knayme found that the beef patties bore no signs of spoilage.
He decided to push the limits of his experiment and expose the beef burgers to the sun for five days.
Nicholas left his expired Woolworths burger patties in the sun for five days. Credit: @nicholas.knayme / TikTok
The patties maintained their 'relatively red' exterior after being baked under the sun.
Nicholas became more concerned as he observed that even animals and insects wouldn’t touch the meat.
‘Woolworths burger patties. These burger patties are around three weeks old,’ he said in the video online.
‘They didn’t really appear to change much in the fridge. It started to smell a little bit and never really lost colour.’
‘They have now been out in the backyard for around four to five days. As you can see, they are still relatively red.’
‘The cat didn’t eat them. The feral cats haven’t eaten them.’
‘Street cats haven’t eaten them birds, lizards, anything, nothing has eaten them,’ Nicholas he added.
‘The ants won’t even crawl on them—the ants don’t want to eat them.’
On reflecting upon the peculiar incident, he pondered, 'Woolworths, what are you selling us?'
The burgers’ ingredients include Australian beef with 73 per cent, water, rice flour, soy fibre, and maltodextrin (maise).
They also have mineral salts (450, sodium carbonate, 451), dextrose (tapioca, maise), preservative (223 sulphites), fermented red rice, sugar, antioxidant (sodium ascorbate), and natural colour (paprika extract).
As the video drew attention online, social media users shared their concerns over the meat.
‘I’ve seen foxes smashing rotting week-old road kill… something’s in this meat. Pretty simple,’ one said.
‘Yeah, I’d say something’s a bit suss with Woolies meat,’ another added.
‘If the bugs aren’t even eating it, then it’s probably time to reassess the choices,’ a third said.
Woolworths has yet to respond to the issue as of writing.
You can watch Nicholas’ video below:
Credit: @nicholas.knayme / TikTok
This was not the first time Woolies was called out for its food quality standards.
In a previous story, a vegetarian called out the supermarket giant when he made a stomach-churning discovery on his mixed salad.
What was this ‘disgusting’ find? You can read more about the story here.
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