This happened a little while back (Easter time to be precise) but it caused so much laughter that I wanted to record it forever so as to never forget it (not that I think I would forget this easily!). Well here goes... I went home for a few days over the Easter weekend as although I've been living away for four years, I have never failed to go home for Christmas or Easter. My brother and his wife and children were also coming to dinner on Easter Sunday so my mam bought a large chicken in Tesco. I think we've had turkey every other year so I don't know why she opted for chicken this time. Then again, if she had stuck with turkey, this wouldn't have happened and we would not have had such a laugh ha ha.
Anyway, mam cooked the chicken late the night before (chicken had stated on the packaging - "no giblets") and to be fair, it was smelling delicious. However, when she retrieved the chicken from the oven and looked inside she was nearly sick. Called for me to come look and I was nearly sick. Called for my dad to look but I don't think he wanted to ha ha. Yes, there were giblets inside and no, they weren't the nicely washed giblets in a bag that some people eat. This was the entire inside of the chicken left in... and now cooked. Seriously, it was as if they had just cut the head off and sealed up in a bag, as is. Eww it was revolting, you could see everything.
Well you can probably imagine the conversation from there on:
Mam: There is NO way I'm eating that or serving it to anyone else.
Me: Eww that's so gross! *Peers right into the chicken*
Dad: Well you'll have to eat it! It's half past eleven! What else are we going to do?
Me: Eww I'm going to be sick. *But still inspects the insides very closely*
Mam: I don't know what to do, but I am definitely NOT eating that.
Me: Urgh, look at that bit, it looks curly like lungs.
Mam: No thanks I don't want to look.
Me: Phone Tesco then.
Mam: At this time of night?
Me: Umm yeah.
So that's what we did. And after a rather frantic phonecall later with cries of "We won't have anything to eat or give our guests on Easter Sunday!", the woman on the phone told us to go to Tesco and she'll see what they can do. Tesco was shut but we were advised to go around to the security gate at the back and the guy would let us in.
When we got there, the lady was ever so kind and told us that unfortunately they didn't have any more chickens in the shop but they did have a turkey and asked would we like it. With no other option other than to go without dinner the next day, we agreed. Then, she came out with an absolutely HUGE turkey, about four times the size of the chicken we had previously bought! It was priced at £21.64 and we could have it for free! Haha. As we walked out, somewhat struggling under the weight of the turkey, all we could do was giggle to ourselves. My mam whispered to me "We'll be eating this for a month", and that cracked us up and sent us into fits of laughter. I replied "Don't laugh so much until we're out of sight of the security cameras, they could be watching us!" Which caused another bout of hysteria.
So, it was well worth having a really minging chicken in the end, because we all enjoyed a nice big juicy turkey on Easter Sunday... Thankyou Tesco!!!