Selling substandard meat insult to Trinis

The seasoning down of the germs is the answer.

Out there in foreign, corned beef is eaten straight from the tin. Cold. No heating up, no set of garlic, no thyme or chadon beni, no black pepper and hot peppers, no onion, no nothing. Can you imagine eating corned beef without the seasoning? But what is wrong is the principle of the thing. We should not be fooled into eating rotten meat because we can season it enough not to kill ourselves.

A right thing is a right thing. Selling substandard meat is wrong.

It smacks of the unspoken insult that poor people will eat anything to stay alive and that we do not need to know the fine print.

But it is not only substandard food that is sold to the unwary.

We also get dumped with drugs that are outdated or no longer used in the First World.

The corned beef problem is the tip of the iceberg.

You cannot beat a good corned beef and rice with lettuce and tomatoes. When we can identify which brands are decreed edible, we will go back to seasoning down the thing and eating it. We eat anything. I do not let what shrimp and shark really eat worry me. Anything, well seasoned, is a TT dish that can be eaten.

My advice to the Supermarkets Association is, once cleared by the Ministry of Agriculture, we want to buy the corned beef stocked in the warehouses back to the longago price of $8 a tin.

The TT consumers must learn when to apply price-bargaining skills like thumb screws.

Lynette Joseph Diego Martin