About being referred to as snowflakes.
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.
I think it would be difficult to get more snowflaky than that, frankly. Words fail me – not least Sainsbury’s enabling them.
They’ll be complaining that the packaging isn’t environmentally friendly next.
And why would these snowflakes want to eat meat anyway? Surely they’re all Vegans?
Which is made even more hilarious when you consider for a moment the number of germs resident on the screens of the average iPhones they use to tweet thier indignation.
Sainsburys are correct to pander to the snowflakes – they will charge more which means prices for sensible people can be held down.
Solution: P6 Science – groups of two skin, gut and dissect a rabbit. Even better if they have to kill it themselves. Been there, done that, still have skin & one foot from first rabbit.
Boy are they going to be in for a tough time when it’s their time to start completing the bowel cancer screening tests!!
I did mine recently thanks to NHS Scotland. I thought I had got past the “Painting with Faeces” stage of my life.
Why can’t they just use tongs?
@JuliaM – Are we talking about the chicken or the bowel screening test?
Ace question, John. 🙂
😀
That reminds me, I need to rod the drains later today.
Perhaps a new firm of drain-clearers called Snowflake and Son (or even better, Daughter), could work wonders with the turd-removal business!
It must come as a tremendous shock to millennial drain clearers when they turn up, launch a twitter storm against the drain blackage but the drain remains stubbornly blocked despite the entitled moaning.
To be fair there has been a lot of fear-monging by the media about not washing chicken as the salmonella bacteria on its surface may get splashed around the kitchen.
It follows that if you pick up the chicken and put it in a pan and then wash your hands you will ‘splash salmonella around the kitchen’ and if you don’t wash your hands you WILL die.
Treat people like snowflakes and they will become snowflakes.
I’m only surprised I’ve lived this long.
Well if you’re sloppy about kitchen hygiene you probably won’t die, but a serious dose of the shits from Salmonella or Campylobacter (or both) is no fun. But if ‘millennials’ are ‘scared of touching meat’ then maybe they should learn how to keep a moderately clean kitchen instead. Vegetables can carry bacteria too.
Yep. As I posted on JuliaM’s blog last December:
She didn’t reply 🙁
Too busy vomiting! 😉
@Julia
Gone off eating vegetables? What do chickens, pigs, fish and cows eat?
What about you?
1. Eyebrows
2. BBC Eyebrows
Weird, as there is no coverage of the pork industry. When the public realise how mice in pig farms carry salmonella amongst animals, and the high percentage of sows carrying it (>80%) it’ll be a whole new media-fest for The Sun to report on.
I’m happy for sainsburys to take their money while the rest of us cook tasty cheap meals and use money elsewhere….they can then complain just how tough it is to get on housing mkt by texting on their £1k phones.
Dear Mr Longrider
Generation Y? That leaves only one more.
Does whoever started this labelling know something we don’t?
At the rate we are devolving, it certainly looks like we’ll become extinct from stupidity.
DP
When generation Z does finally arrive no-one will notice because of the level of continued moaning by generation Y. You just won’t be able to hear them.
Snowflake is almost too tough a word for some of these folks. I’m trying to think of something more brittle and vulnerable than snowflake, but with a better ring to it than “butterfly wings”
Sh!ts ?
What exactly are they wrapping the meat in to avoid cross contamination? Do they not understand how bacteria act in a sessile environment e.g. a packaged meat product? By the time they’ve carried it home in their ethically sourced ‘bag for life’s, the receptacles in which it’s stored will be rife with bacteria they were trying to avoid.
How about the good old fashioned idea of washing your hands after touching raw meat and cooking it properly?
Will only be interested in this story when Sainsburys introduce ‘pay free’ packaged meats. Meanwhile, I shall continue to buy direct from local farmers. All that blood oozing into the paper wrapping. Lovely!