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Cottage pie & salad question

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  • 13-07-2010 10:02pm
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    paddyland
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    My local Spar had a new meal-for-one on display today, a cottage pie with side salad, for €3.50. It was good value, and looked nice, and I bought it for later.

    Tonight, I went to heat it up, then I stopped. A plastic dish, with half a slice of cottage pie, and no heating instructions. However, the cold salad (lettuce, coleslaw, cherry tomatoes) lay beside it in the same dish. Now I wasn't going to heat the salad, so I had to scoop it out first, then it occurred to me that the salad was lying in the dish beside cold minced beef, partially mixed up with it, no partition.

    I microwaved the cottage pie, and ate it, and it was eatable (it tasted like €3.50) and I had the salad on the plate beside it. While it looked nice in the shop, is this not an odd way to offer a meal for sale, a cold salad and a portion of cottage pie that has to be heated, in the same dish? Are there safety issues with the meat?


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    The Hill Billy
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    I agree - it is a bit of a weird way to package what should be hot & cold food.

    As long as the meat has been thoroughly cooked it would be OK. If there had been raw meat next to the salad - then I'd have been worried.


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    Mellor
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    paddyland wrote: »
    My local Spar had a new meal-for-one on display today, a cottage pie with side salad, for €3.50. It was good value, and looked nice, and I bought it for later.

    Tonight, I went to heat it up, then I stopped. A plastic dish, with half a slice of cottage pie, and no heating instructions. However, the cold salad (lettuce, coleslaw, cherry tomatoes) lay beside it in the same dish. Now I wasn't going to heat the salad, so I had to scoop it out first, then it occurred to me that the salad was lying in the dish beside cold minced beef, partially mixed up with it, no partition.

    I microwaved the cottage pie, and ate it, and it was eatable (it tasted like €3.50) and I had the salad on the plate beside it. While it looked nice in the shop, is this not an odd way to offer a meal for sale, a cold salad and a portion of cottage pie that has to be heated, in the same dish? Are there safety issues with the meat?
    Normally they are sold hot for eating straight away. I don't see what the big deal was with heat separately, if it was me, i'd be putting them onto a plate anyway. Pie on plate, heat, salad on plate, eat.


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