We know that people have been a little more vigilant about what’s in their meat products after the whole horse/beef debacle.
But either Aldi are covering something up, or someone made a little boo-boo on the packaging.
(We suspect the latter, of course.)
Ladies and gentlemen, come one, come all, for your ham which contains 110 per cent pork.
Yep, you read that right. 110 per cent pork.
Rest assured, this Aldi ham is 110% pork… https://t.co/QIBssR6m91 pic.twitter.com/hlmgORgQto
— Metro (@MetroUK) January 22, 2016
According to The Metro, IT engineer Della Farzad picked up the ham in a West Yorkshire store, which has “Pork (110 %)” listed under its ingredients.
She told the site:
“I checked the label because I don’t eat meat, and I wondered how much was in it.
“When I saw it I burst out laughing, even though I was on my own. I wonder if nobody else has ever noticed this. Maybe the marketing people are taking the micky.”
An Aldi spokesperson confirmed to the site that the figures are indeed correct, but they refer to grams, not percentages – a simple typo.
Before any of you eagle-eyed mathematicians pipe up, it does indeed take 110g pork to produce 100g of finished product, after the moisture has evaporated.
Good work, detectives.
