Anyone else notice that the new Bell & Evans chicken sold at Whole Foods Tenleytown smells rancid
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Anonymous
| Bought at Bethesda WF |
Anonymous
| Thank you for starting this thread. I have had to throw out at least 4 packages of new vacuum packed chicken. Sure, they sucked the air out of it, but they also made it SUCK. Gaithersburg WhFds is my local WhFds. Glad I read this, I was going to go to another WhFds to look for un-vacuum packed chicken. Here's what I used to do , and will have to do again. Find a place like Giant that sells Empire kosher chicken, and call to see when they are getting a new shipment. Buy it on that day, cook it on that day. The Empire chicken in Costco at times has been good, at other times, even though it's not yet expired, have had to throw that out as well. Can some enterprising person make an online petition to force WhFds to stop with the all-vacuum chicken? I would sign it. |
Anonymous
| I really miss WFs old chicken too. I really dislike the new packaging, although my chicken didnt smell bad. |
Anonymous
| The chicken in the new plastic shrink wrap smells awful when opened. Plus, I cut my finger trying to open the package. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| I don't buy a lot of chicken, but we've had terrible problems with milk from the friendship heights WF, with it going bad almost immediately. The manager keeps blaming the distributor, but the dairy person told me it was WF's equipment. |
Anonymous
| My husband came home with chicken from Whole Foods today. The smell was TERRIBLE! I can't even describe it but I honestly gagged when I opened the bag containing the chicken. I put it straight in the trash. Has anyone reported this problem to Whole Foods??????? |
Anonymous
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I bought the vacuum packed chicken a few days ago. I did have a hard time opening it. I barbecued it and probably overcooked it (same day of purchase) so I didn't notice a bad taste. However, we have noticed some changes at WF. We got a piece of fish that was not fresh (it was on sale, but it certainly should still taste like fish). We always prepare our fish the same day of purchase. It was very disappointing. Also noticing differences in the produce section (less stock). Not sure what is going on at WF. |
Anonymous
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Please somebody talk to somebody high up at WF and get the old chicken back.
Also, please let WF know that they need to sell crushed tomatoes without basil. Who cooks sauce with pre-seasoned crushed tomatoes, yuck! And they have no parm cheese shakers (eg Kraft). A must have for little italian ones. Also, they need Morningstar Farms veggie sausages, nuggets, and bacon. |
Anonymous
You get snobby about crushed tomatoes with tomatoes but like pre-grated Parmesan? That is baffling. And I seem to remember there's a reason they don't sell Morningstar, something about the ingredients. I've had three terrible packages of chicken and my produce from there has sucked lately. WTH is happening there? |
Anonymous
Maybe you should shop at store (Giant comes to mind) that sells all of the things that you want WF to sell? |
Anonymous
| They do have plain crushed tomatoes. Check for the San martzano brand. I'm not with you on the other stuff. |
Anonymous
| I've resorted to buying Kosher chicken from Whole Foods. At least it looks like it hasn't been sat on and it doesn't smell awful when opened. |
Anonymous
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I don't recall the brand, but I've always hated the smell of that air chilled organic chicken from the P Street WF that used to come in the vacuum pack with a blue label. It always smelled like sulfur to me. Was that Bell & Evans?
I have been happy with the organic chicken from Trader Joe's. |
Anonymous
| Smart chicken organic doesn't smell bad. Get it at Harris teeter. |