DON'T BUY THIS! TOUGH, WOODY, NO TASTE, & MEXICAN
DO NOT BUY THIS! At the height of our asparagus season I cannot believe that Tesco is selling this woody, flavourless, OLD asparagus that's come all the way from Mexico. When I opened it I could see that it was stale. The stalks [no way could they be called 'spears'] were dry & shrivelled. Before cooking I trimmed off the bottom third as it was so tough & woody, but when it came to eating it the bottom half of what remained was still tough, woody & had no flavour. That means that only one third of this aspapagus was edible. And that means that the true price of this allegedly 'Class 1', 'packed for freshness' etc, etc, isn't £8 per kilo as advertised, but £24 per kilo! Tesco's habit of saying that goods come from numerous different places is a disgrace & of no earthly use to anyone - apart from Tesco. Might come from Mexico, might come from Peru, who knows it might even come from the UK in our peak asparagus growing season. What good is that? In this day & age we deserve to be told where goods are grown. The only way round it that I can think of is to order all available versions of an item, then inspect them on our doorsteps & refuse to accept most or all of them. Tesco won't improve its practises unless we hit them in their wallet.
The tips of the product had become wet possibly du
The tips of the product had become wet possibly during delivery and had rotted. Not edible. I also noted that there was no visible sell by date. There is no way this item would have lasted 5 days as advertised.
Stork very woody and stringy.
I found that only the tips (top half) of the asparagus was edible....the remainder of the stork was very stringy and inedible and had to be thrown away. It is a shame as they were grown in the UK. I cannot recommend this product.
NOT ENGLISH.......ITS FROM PERU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TESCO How Could You ? This is the Height of the English Asparagus growing season And THIS is From PERU !!!!!!!!!!!! So So Disappointed..........I put it in the BIN.
UK Only of this product!
Ordered UK grown Asparagus. Received item grown in Peru. My asparagus eating expert was disgusted.
Tough and stringy, had to trim 50% off
Very poor quality. I had to trim around half of the length from these as they were so tough, stringy and inedible. That makes them very poor value too so sadly I can't recommend these at all.
Disgusting use of air miles.
I am really furious about my asparagus that was delivered today. This item is in season here in the uk and last week it was British. Todays offering came from PERU!!
As a home delivery customer, not possible to check
As a home delivery customer, not possible to check the exact origin before buying, don't if has been flown half way round the world. As this is peak asparagus harvest time in the UK and listed as a possible origin I decided to order the two bunch offer. Very disappointed to find it came from MEXICO! At least the quality was OK but come on Tesco, you can do better than this.
Despite being thin, they were terrible
Stringy and chewy - had to throw away.
Awful quality and not suitable for eating.
Very poor quality. All squishy and heads dark and mushy