Gross & Rotten

It was a Friday and I wanted to dish up a good load of high carbo and high fat meal in anticipation of Con's home-coming after leaving for a very last min trip to Bkk. 

After starving myself off carbo for almost 2 weeks, I was literally smacking my lips dreaming up the most carbo-ladden meal I could whip up. 

Unfortunately, as it was a last minute meal and I had very little hope for getting sufficiently fresh ingredients at my nearby supermarket so I decided upon a simple but yummy dish of Aglio Olio. All I needed was a good dose of Bacon & green beans. Bacon as you know is preserved so high chance i should be able to get them decently "fresh" right? Green beans are hardy veg and have long shelf life so it should be easy preasy. 

So off I headed to Colds Storage.

Here's what I found:

The white stuff you see on the green beans is not light reflection but a serious case of  white fungus like mold growing on it. The bacon was a gross greyish brown color. I couldn't resist snapping the pork ribs, which was again that gross sickly brownish color of rotting meat!

While I know Singapore's food stuff are all mostly imported so one cannot expect "fresh-off-the-farm" quality but is it TOO much to expect at least not being sold ROTTEN food? 

This is not the first time I've had such a appalling & disappointing experience with Colds Storage. Just a few weeks back, we were unfortunate to have bought a completely rotten watermelon. Have you ever smelt a rotten watermelon before? OMG, I still feel nauseous recalling that godawful scent. The irony of it was, we were really cheesed off so called Colds Storage to complain. They got their staff to hand deliver another watermelon to us. That watermelon when cut open was equally rotten! We thought this was their idea of a sick joke and called them to thank for sending us another rotten fruit. In response, they were kind enough to apologise and sent us ANOTHER rotten watermelon! 

Suffice to say, I've not had watermelon since then.

Anyway back to my carbo-ladden aglio olio, I did still manage to whip it up but had to gingerly pick thru a packet of green beans for edible ones and had to buy a imported pack of bacon. 

The dish was yummy enough to put me back into a good mood. 

As for COlds Storage, I've written in to NEA. NEA apparently has recently set up a "hotline" for you to call if you encounter less than fresh foods being sold. For them to have a dedicated hotline, there must be alot of unhappy & equally grossed out customers out there.