Blue chicken :(

[PostmanPot]

Hi all

Hoping for an explanation for this blue chicken... What would have caused this? Won't mention any names/brands yet but these are chicken breasts in a long-life rosemary and garlic sauce, the kind that doesn't need refrigeration. My thoughts are something to do with preservatives or some such... Could also be a reaction with the chicken, or even the chicken itself, since it only appears on the chicken? :erm:

How would you take this up with the shop? Would you just ask for an exchange, or would you take it further?

Edit:

its "fairly" common for garlic to turn blue when its with an acid(lemon). Enzyme reaction

Don't mix garlic and lemon juice.

Thanks.

 

[GreyBush]

So it only showed up after you cooked it? What did it smell like?

I've never heard of chicken that doesn't need refrigeration.

 

[OGroteKoning]

Take back to them, ask for your money back. If they say no, make them eat it

 

[Kornhub]

It must be the chemicals they put in it :erm: Dude,that would just scare me and well I would never buy that chicken again

 

[RanzB]

So it only showed up after you cooked it? What did it smell like?

I've never heard of chicken that doesn't need refrigeration.

Lol. I think he meant the sauce doesn't need refrigeration.

 

[copacetic]

Take back to them, ask for your money back. If they say no, make them eat it

We have a winner.

 

[Pooky]

Did you mix the sauce with the chicken and then they went blue?

 

[GreyBush]

Lol. I think he meant the sauce doesn't need refrigeration.

Aaah yes I re-read it makes more sense now... Lol.

 

[PostmanPot]

So it only showed up after you cooked it? What did it smell like?

I've never heard of chicken that doesn't need refrigeration.

Lol. I think he meant the sauce doesn't need refrigeration.

That is what it says.

Did you mix the sauce with the chicken and then they went blue?

Yes, it's a cook-in sauce, and what you see is the cooked result.

 

[pampoenskyf]

Rocklands chickens used to be blueish all over.

 

[Picard]

Bubblegum flavour?

 

[pampoenskyf]

PostmanPat, why don't you email the pics to Bear Grylls for an opinion?

 

[Pooky]

It looks.pretty gross. Is it.only the sauce that has turned.blue? Or the.chicken is actually blue itself?

 

[RanzB]

PostmanPat, why don't you email the pics to Bear Grylls for an opinion?

What's he gonna suggest? Drinking your own pee? How's that gonna help?

 

[PostmanPot]

It looks.pretty gross. Is it.only the sauce that has turned.blue? Or the.chicken is actually blue itself?

As per OP, it could be a reaction with the chicken, or the chicken itself. Doesn't appear in the sauce.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

WOuld put me off totally.

 

[pampoenskyf]

As per OP, it could be a reaction with the chicken, or the chicken itself. Doesn't appear in the sauce.

If it's the chicken itself then the blue color would be all over don't you think?

 

[PostmanPot]

If it's the chicken itself then the blue color would be all over don't you think?

Probably, I don't think it was the chicken. Never had a problem.

 

[StonerStuart]

Your chicken pieces or whatever it was purchased as must of thawed out a few times and refrozen a couple of times. Was the chicken bought in a box out the freezer section of the store or was it in the refrigerated section?

Could be a result of the store losing power or the transportation or or or or... there are many variables.

 

[PostmanPot]

Your chicken pieces or whatever it was purchased as must of thawed out a few times and refrozen a couple of times. Was the chicken bought in a box out the freezer section of the store or was it in the refrigerated section?

Could be a result of the store losing power or the transportation or or or or... there are many variables.

Refrigerated, fresh...