So you think there is duck in your duck liver paté?

I just got back from one of the very upscale food markets in Munich where you can shop fantastic and high-quality foods, Galeria Kaufhof at Marienplatz.

I recently watched Gordon Ramsay's 'the f word' where they featured the force-feeding of geese in order to produce fois gras which is shocking! However, there is a Spanish, organic producer of fois gras and I wanted to see whether Kaufhof had it, or any other prganic, non-force fed version of it in stock.

They did not have any fois gras per se but I found tiny little boxes with different patés. As an aware buyer, I picked the 'poultry paté' from the shelf to check its ingredients and I was shocked: the very first item on the 'poultry paté' was PORK. That's not all, it was not only in there but also the main ingredients with whopping 30%, followed by bacon (in case you are getting as confused now as I was, I'm still talking about the poultry paté!), lots of stabilizers and taste enhancers (possibly to cover up the smell of pork in the poutlry paté) and then 17% chicken.
Wow. Let that sit a little. I grab a box from a shelf that shows a chicken on the cover and that is labelled as poultry paté which in the end has more pork and bacon in it than chicken?

But hold your breath, it gets worse.
Then I checked th other patés, such as duck, vanisson and veal.
The lucky winner amongst them with the same basic ingredients as mentioned for the poultry paté and with 17% of the meat it proclaimed to be was vanisson.
Both, the duck and the veal each had only 3% of duck or veal in it, besides tons of pork, bacon and taste enhancers.

How can this be? How can you label something as poultry ad then put more than 30% of pork meat and bacon in it?

Surprisingly enough, there was no pork paté to find anywhere on the shelf, but how would they be able to produce it anyways if all the pork and the bacon already go in other patés?

Bottom line: Read the list of ingredients, even, or maybe even more so, in posh supermarkets.