Millenials too scared to touch raw meat.

whisky_galore · 18-04-2018 01:06PM #1

People are getting more and more removed from farming and common sense (i.e. wash your damn hands) this is the new thing now in the uk...more packaging.

There are a number of food items that many would say are quintessentially millennial: avocados, sourdough bread and nut butter to name a few.
However, handling raw meat is apparently a massive no-no for Generation Y.

Sainsbury’s is set to launch touch-free packaging for its chicken pieces, following research that revealed that many under the age of 35 fear that they may suffer from food poisoning as a result of touching raw meat.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/sainsburys-raw-meat-packaging-touch-free-millennials-uncooked-plastic-pouches-a8306641.html

18-04-2018 01:16PM

The bit of liquid that's in the packaging is far more off-putting I would have thought than lifting the meat out. I don't like touch raw meat but it's just the feeling, not some stupid fear that I'll never wash my hands again and die.

Gravelly · 18-04-2018 01:19PM

I often wonder if there was as many stupid people in my generation as there are in the current generation, and it's just that we didn't notice them as much, due to lack of social media etc.

carrollsno1 · 18-04-2018 01:20PM

Please dont tar all of us born in a certain time frame with the one brush. Up until lately I'd eat raw red meat before I'd eat a vegetable raw.
The problem with a lot of these is that they never got exposed to enough good healthy dirt when they were younger.
Believe it or not we got new neighbours back home who asked me one day when the cattle in the field beside there house were milked?, the cattle would have been in the field for 7-10 days at this stage, I said no there going to be sent to the factory shortly turns out they were vegetarians and they couldnt believe wed sell them they just presumed we were grazing them for the craic of it.

Lady Haywire · 18-04-2018 01:21PM

Technically I'm a millennial.
Not so technically, some people are really, really stupid.

18-04-2018 01:22PM

Gravelly wrote: »

I often wonder if there was as many stupid people in my generation as there are in the current generation, and it's just that we didn't notice them as much, due to lack of social media etc.

How many people still wash chicken?

ozt9vdujny3srf · 18-04-2018 01:23PM

I am amazed people are still using the term "Millienials" like this unironically.

Dakota Dan · 18-04-2018 01:24PM

Gravelly wrote: »

I often wonder if there was as many stupid people in my generation as there are in the current generation, and it's just that we didn't notice them as much, due to lack of social media etc.

I would say no as social media makes people stupid.

Timmaay · 18-04-2018 01:25PM

Phucking snowflake generation.

Butcher Boy · 18-04-2018 01:27PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

People are getting more and more removed from farming and common sense (i.e. wash your damn hands) this is the new thing now in the uk...more packaging.

There are a number of food items that many would say are quintessentially millennial: avocados, sourdough bread and nut butter to name a few.
However, handling raw meat is apparently a massive no-no for Generation Y.

Sainsbury’s is set to launch touch-free packaging for its chicken pieces, following research that revealed that many under the age of 35 fear that they may suffer from food poisoning as a result of touching raw meat.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/sainsburys-raw-meat-packaging-touch-free-millennials-uncooked-plastic-pouches-a8306641.html

I should be dead long go so,such **** what will they come up with next.

wexie · 18-04-2018 01:29PM

I think a large part of it is that we used to try to educate (at best) or just ignore 'stupid'

Now we (or a lot of people/companies at least) pander to it cause it seems that no matter how badly thought through...all opinions must at all times be considered equally valid :mad::mad::mad:

charolais0153 · 18-04-2018 01:49PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Technically I'm a millennial.
Not so technically, some people are really, really stupid.

Are millenials not born after 2000??

gozunda · 18-04-2018 01:54PM

I reckon the article answers the question why the supermarket feels the need to do that with the packaging...

We find it disconcerting that shoppers are so removed from their food that they have these concerns,” said Ruth Mason, chief food chain adviser at the National Farmers’ Union.

Explains a lot of the daft ideas about farming that some people appear to believe imo

I love to have those who are squimish about such things clean out a cow shed or stable ...

Lady Haywire · 18-04-2018 02:02PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Are millenials not born after 2000??

I googed it to see, it's apparently people born early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending years. Though i'd definitely question that as it's people born late 90s to mid 00s who seem to be the snowflakiest.

BarleySweets · 18-04-2018 02:05PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I googed it to see, it's apparently people born early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending years. Though i'd definitely question that as it's people born late 90s to mid 00s who seem to be the snowflakiest.

I was born in 83, I thought we were Generation Y, coming after Generation X?

carrollsno1 · 18-04-2018 02:06PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I googed it to see, it's apparently people born early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending years. Though i'd definitely question that as it's people born late 90s to mid 00s who seem to be the snowflakiest.

Agree on the last point id be mid 90s myself but still there was afair share of snowflakes in my year at school all the same, the years following ours were worse though.

Lady Haywire · 18-04-2018 02:07PM

BarleySweets wrote: »

I was born in 83, I thought we were Generation Y, coming after Generation X?

According to the holy google, millenials & Gen Y are the same thing.

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Agree on the last point id be mid 90s myself but still there was afair share of snowflakes in my year at school all the same, the years following ours were worse though.

88 here. I really don't think there were many in my year, though being in a rural area it did differ from a town school. I though a girl getting sick when we dissected a heart was hilarious, dunno if they even do that any more?!

Mossy Monk · 18-04-2018 02:16PM

BarleySweets wrote: »

I was born in 83, I thought we were Generation Y, coming after Generation X?

You are apparently a milennial. Anyone born between 1982 and 2004 are. It's all a load of bollocks really.

EdgeCase · 18-04-2018 02:18PM

Great! More plastic packaging!!

There is an issue with chicken packaging being a bit disgusting, but it's mostly condensation on the plastic exterior rather than chicken juice.

Angus2018 · 18-04-2018 02:43PM

Ha well I'll get covered in blood and goo calving a cow without a problem but I still like to use utensils when handling meat. I at least like my kitchen to be clean since the farm isn't.

kowtow · 18-04-2018 03:15PM

Lady Haywire wrote:

Technically I'm a millennial. Not so technically, some people are really, really stupid.

I don't think any of us doubted that.

Although there may be some disagreement on which Milllenium exactly.

EdgeCase · 18-04-2018 03:19PM

Chicken is a genuine salmonella risk though, particularly if the packs are leaky and you're putting into a bag of say fresh vegetables that you're planning to eat raw.

The most important thing is to ensure you put the raw meat at the bottom of the basket / trolley and to bring a separate bag that you use just for raw meat.

There's a genuine risk of cross contamination.

Borderfox · 18-04-2018 03:23PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4KwNAG0DAw

gozunda · 18-04-2018 04:21PM

How to wash your chicken ...

https://m-wikihow-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/m.wikihow.com/Bathe-a-Chicken?amp=1&amp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQGCAEYASgB#

Reggie. · 18-04-2018 04:35PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I googed it to see, it's apparently people born early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending years. Though i'd definitely question that as it's people born late 90s to mid 00s who seem to be the snowflakiest.

I'm in that area also.

whelan2 · 18-04-2018 05:15PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

According to the holy google, millenials & Gen Y are the same thing.

88 here. I really don't think there were many in my year, though being in a rural area it did differ from a town school. I though a girl getting sick when we dissected a heart was hilarious, dunno if they even do that any more?!

Yes they still disect the heart a girl fainted in daughters science class while they were cutting it up

Millenials too scared to touch raw meat.

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