'Gressingham' famous for its Suffolk-bred birds imports some from south-east Asia

The world-famous identify is understood for high-quality Suffolk-bred geese, which proudly bear the Crimson Tractor mark of high quality.

However a number of the duck offered beneath the Gressingham brand is being shipped in from farms in Thailand, the Every day Mail can reveal.

This meat is being offered beneath precisely the identical branding as Gressingham's Suffolk-bred birds.

Among the duck offered beneath the Gressingham brand is being shipped in from farms in Thailand, the Every day Mail can reveal

And a few clients have been left livid after ordering the merchandise – marketed on-line as originating within the UK – solely to search out within the small print that the duck has truly come from south-east Asia.

On the web site of on-line grocer Ocado, it states that the duck in Gressingham merchandise has been 'grown and packed' on Gressingham's 'Crimson Tractor-assured farms in East Anglia'. 

However some clients mentioned the packaging – which isn't seen on-line – described the duck as coming from Thailand.

One Ocado buyer complained of 'false promoting', writing: 'The duck is "grown on farms in East Anglia" in line with the outline. 

Nation of origin – Thailand in line with the packaging. I cannot be shopping for this merchandise once more.' 

One other wrote: 'Very upset to search out the duck is imported from Thailand.'

A 3rd mentioned: 'Very upset and won't purchase once more, as within the small print it makes it clear it's a Thailand duck, not as one would assume British.' 

Gressingham is promoting its Thai duck merchandise beneath the identical branding because the Suffolk-reared duck.

However in some merchandise it's sourcing dearer cuts – reminiscent of duck breast – from Thailand.

In Sainsbury's – regardless of the packaging being practically an identical –we discovered that the Gressingham Duck Legs in a plum sauce had been from the UK. 

Some clients mentioned the packaging – which isn't seen on-line – described the duck as coming from Thailand

However the Gressingham Duck Breasts in a plum sauce – from the identical vary – had been from Thailand.

Gressingham can also be promoting totally different variations of its Crispy Half Fragrant Duck. Whereas the packets offered in Waitrose include duck from Suffolk, these offered in Tesco include duck from Thailand. Confusingly, in Tesco the Crispy Half Fragrant Duck is £7.50 and incorporates duck from Thailand.

However in Waitrose the Half Fragrant Crispy Duck is £6.99 and incorporates duck from the UK. The product appears nearly precisely the identical in each supermarkets, with the entrance of the packet an identical apart from the wording being ordered barely in another way. Gressingham duck was first bred within the Lancashire village of that identify when the wild mallard was crossed with the Pekin duck. East Anglia-based Gressingham Meals has the unique proper to breed the succulent birds.

Its web site boasts of rearing the duck in East Anglia. Nevertheless, Gressingham admitted that the geese it sources from Thailand are Pekin geese.

Regardless of this the merchandise made with Thai duck meat state 'Gressingham' in big letters throughout the entrance of the packets.

Gressingham mentioned lower than 5 per cent of its vary used the Thai duck meat, and that the use was 'particularly for Asian-themed recipes'. A spokesman added: 'The nation of origin is said clearly on all packaging in all cases. 

'Thai breast meat is commonly cheaper than UK produced breast meat. The packaging additionally states that these geese are Pekin breed geese.

'We are going to instantly evaluation the knowledge on the web sites of our retail clients.'

Because the Mail contacted Ocado the Thai duck labelled from East Anglia has been faraway from sale on the web site. A supply mentioned the mislabelling had been unintended.

Tesco and Sainsbury's mentioned a few of their Gressingham merchandise contained Thai duck however had been clearly labelled as such.

Waitrose mentioned it didn't promote any of the Gressingham merchandise containing duck from Thailand. 

Tweet