A Chinese feast
A literally tasty snippet from 7Days, as vegetarianism flourishes among construction labourers:
"Workers avoid labour camp over false rumours of Chinese cannibal.
"Workers at a Jebel Ali labour camp have given up eating meat amid claims one of their colleagues was a cannibal who snacked on a body kept in a freezer.
"Though there is no evidence the claims are true, the Chinese men are sticking to a strict vegetarian diet because they say they’re worried they could end up dining on one of their colleagues in the camp’s canteen."
The trouble started after a fight broke out between two groups of labourers:
"Police were called to the scene, and wild stories soon began to spread that officers had discovered the half-eaten body of a Filipino man in the freezer of one of the men involved in the fight."
Who could blame this innovative chef? Anyone who has mistakenly bought the cheap "Indian mutton" at Spinneys would swap it for human flesh in an instant.
"Workers avoid labour camp over false rumours of Chinese cannibal.
"Workers at a Jebel Ali labour camp have given up eating meat amid claims one of their colleagues was a cannibal who snacked on a body kept in a freezer.
"Though there is no evidence the claims are true, the Chinese men are sticking to a strict vegetarian diet because they say they’re worried they could end up dining on one of their colleagues in the camp’s canteen."
The trouble started after a fight broke out between two groups of labourers:
"Police were called to the scene, and wild stories soon began to spread that officers had discovered the half-eaten body of a Filipino man in the freezer of one of the men involved in the fight."
Who could blame this innovative chef? Anyone who has mistakenly bought the cheap "Indian mutton" at Spinneys would swap it for human flesh in an instant.
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21 Comments:
wayne shawarma?
chayneese good!
what a weird post, what happened to the glory days of dissing etisalat and the dubai government....back with the sarcasmic michael moorish blog reporting! down with just weirdness!
You cannot really expect good Indian mutton or other Indian goods at Spinneys..thats like hoping for tasty fried rice from Satwas' Ravi Restaurant(famous for Paki food)..
Spinneys might have everything, but to be sure you get the best in Indian stuff, hit Choithrams or the Al Maya outlets..even Carrefour is better than Spinneys for the subcon stuff!
Crap! You dont get very good any meat at Spinneys.In AbuDhabi at least. Their FISH counter is laughable. However their service is worth it. Otherwise theyr'e just a bunch of overpriced tossers.
Must be kinda hard to pick up a leg or an arm with a chopstick.
Agree with anon@10:54. Spinneys is hardly the ideal vendor for Eastern fare. I bought some Australian beef from Spinneys once. Not only did it smell bad, but tasted equally horrid. To prove to myself that it was just a bad batch, I went back the next week for another.
Yuck times two.
Two things I've learned from this experience:
1. I'm a sucker for punishment
2. Australian beef smells (and probably tastes) like cow poo.
SD - as always, apologies for digressing.
I don't anything from India that comes from a cow. I had Indian beef one time and thought I was going to die. It's local or New Zealander beef for me!
wagyu beef rocks your socks.
Spinneys sucks- They are way over-rated and over-priced and their "fresh foods" are rarely fresh.
Not only the meat is a no no in Spinneys, they also provide inedibles named TESCO or something.
The country that this comes from must be under UN food programme to avoid nationwide starvation.
Not a good idea sourcing foodstuff from India anyway. What's gained in terms of cheaper prices is lost in terms of quality and hygiene. I would think they would get much better quality from South America or New Zealand. Indian meat is probably donkey meat dressed as mutton.
sd, i miss the old you.
grapeshisha is alive. she must be imprisoned in abu dhabi.
dodgey shwarma, dodgey meat, bird flu, human flu, er, spinneys mutton.
keep to the veg like the chinese blokes. thats how they do karate.
So, can anyone recommend a decent source of meat in Dubai? I'm mightily fed up with Spinney's too.
Try Park and Shop, they have a UK trained butcher - good for meat, horrendous for fish - go to either Karama fish market, or Co-Op on Al Wasl Road. Both excellent!
I wonder who got served the Peni s!!!
Typical Balushi to think of that
based on experience (just a mere three years in dubai):
Carrefour is not a bad source for australian or new zealand beef. I like the way their fish counter smells - fresh and fishy! It feels great to leave carrefour with my "catch" all cut and cleaned.
So far, the hubby's not complaining yet..... :-)
http://www.goveg.org
Best food is served by spinneys.
Trust me
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