Tesco customers furious after discovering their Christmas Day turkey was GREEN in the middle
Shoppers were left hungry after being put off their Christmas dinners by the green birds
DISGUSTED Brits have hit out at Tesco after tucking into their Christmas turkeys to discover they were bright green.
Shoppers forked out as much as £30 for the frozen birds, but when they went to carve the meat they found it had a weird tinge to it.
They posted photos of their ruined Christmas dinners on social media after being forced to go hungry.
Mum-of-four Rachael James, 33, picked up a frozen turkey from her local Tesco store in Whitchurch, Shropshire, and was mortified to find green flesh when carving it on Christmas Day.
She said: "It was our Christmas lunch with our four young children and grandparents watching me carve.
"When I got it out of the packaging it seemed to be okay but once I had cooked it and started to carve it in front of everyone I noticed that there was something wrong with the centre of the turkey.
"It put everyone off their meal and ruined the meal, none of us felt like we could eat any of the turkey and ended up having the whole meal with no turkey.
"It ruined the meal completely, this was a meal that we had all been looking forward to for months as we have a had a stressful year.
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"Tesco have offered a refund of the price of the turkey which I am unhappy about and have told them this due to the stress of the whole thing.
"We just ate everything else that I had prepared and cooked as it was all ready before I realised about the turkey.
"I will never by my turkey from Tesco again and will now consider going else where for my weekly shop. I think I paid about £23.
"After everyone had gone home I investigated the green mass and discovered that it went from one side of the breast meat to the other. It was disgusting."
Steve Parsons, 26, and his partner Emma, 28, were enjoying Christmas Day lunch with ten other family members including four children at their home in Lyme Regis, Dorset.
He fumed: "It put a downer on the whole day.
"Luckily one of friends kindly had a joint of beef that we could use which meant the day wasn't completely ruined.
"My mother-in-law was basting the turkey all night.
"The reaction of everyone around the dinner table was quite simply, yuck. It didn't smell but it was really rubbery.
"We'd cooked the pigs and blankets in its juices so we had to throw all of those out as well."
The off-colour meat is thought to be caused by a degenerative muscle condition in turkeys commonly referred to as Green Muscle Disease, although it is not harmful.
It occurs after the inner breast muscle of the bird develops in a way that prevents blood supply from circulating, resulting in the green discolouration.
Tesco has offered to refund those affected.
A Tesco spokesperson said: "There's nothing more important than the quality of the food we sell so we were concerned to hear this has happened.
"We've offered a refund to the customers affected and will inform our supplier."
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