Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Nothing 10 pints of Strongbow wont wash away eh TANK :O)

Sometings never change!

The great supermarket fish scam: Shoppers 'are being duped into buying mislabelled species'

Shoppers are being duped by major supermarkets into buying portions of fish that contain other, much cheaper species, it has been claimed.

A total of 400 fish dishes bought from Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Waitrose and Lidl were DNA tested as part of a new study.
And the analysis of the tests revealed that 23 portions – six per cent - contained species of fish not even mentioned on the label.

Some don't have such a superior, or sophisticated palate, as Cynic suggests he himself has.

I suppose that is the reason that it makes it difficult to swallow many of his claims.

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Fred - Your a Prick deal with it!

POPE to resign

may the fish bones stick in your throat fred ..... nothing whatsoever to do with sophisticated palate ..... i make no secret that i dislike supermarkets for all sorts of reasons, and unquestionably, really fresh fish is in a different league from the supermarket stuff as is properly hung and butchered lamb and beef ..... and the same applies to our locally reared pork ......

your argument is akin to claiming that a macdonald's burger is as tasty as one made properly from fresh mince at home

MARKS AN SPENCERS ON SALMON PACKAGE IS TOTALY LIES the place does not exist fact . but the salmon is nice

Who can understand a Tanker post?

TANK - You get what you pay for fact, would sooner take my chances with MKS than any of the rest. cynic nothing wrong with the occassional slob out at mickey d's :O) not good for you I agree, but what is? Only here once don't you know.

CC i agree mks food is top class i buy a lot of it . never had a problem

hay it says on the package lockmur salmon it does not exist

Tanker - if you mean Lochmuir™, it's a brand name - hence the ™.

We should all really be dead! It's bad enough reading "Smoking Kills", "Drink Responsibly" , but now we don't even know what we are eating and if we end up in a A&E unit in a hospital according to some press reports we've got no chance.

Cynic.

A bit like a Fish Tale Soup.

Although the "quality" of the unprepared ingredients is important, the quality and skills and preparation of the "chefs" and cooks are also important.

The skill of the latter can turn the mediocre into the superb, while the "failings" of the "chefs" can turn food into a disaster.

The nutritional difference between food from Morrison's, or other Supermarkets and your personal butcher is minimal if anything.

Also, unfortunately, the small trader often has more advantage from selling a low “quality” product off to the gullible than the supermarket.

Evaluation of the said "quality" of a product is often difficult for a "layman".

My fishing partner for many years had an “upmarket” butchers and I spent quite a time in the preparation room, looking at how he presented them.

A very interesting skill and as he said "they pay their money and I take my cut".

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Again, with fish it depend on what you are doing with the fish and whether you "spicing" is heavy, or light.

The more simply cooked the fish, the fresher is better, but for over recipes frozen will do equally well for those with unsophisticated palates.

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Don't drown in your drink of choice. Pity to spoil it for others.

God knows what we were all eating in the 1950's 60's, god forbid I can still remember my grandmother cooking tripe for my grandad, yeuk were talking sheeps lungs here, mind you the poor sheeps lungs were in better shape than my grandads on 40 Capstans full strength a day :O) Horse meat? you were posh!

"Lochmuir is a brand name for salmon created by UK retailer Marks & Spencer to help market Scottish salmon. The name was chosen by a panel of consumers as it represented and reinforced the concept that the salmon was from Scotland."

fred - your post is almost entirely composed of inaccuracies and worse, so that i shan't even bother to correct it ..... at school, it would have had a red line straight through it with a comment that you should go away and re-do

chris - sorry, but i think McD's burgers are vile, as are the milkshakes ..... fortunately i can nearly always avoid, but unfortunately on penultimate trip to m/e it was not possible as my "driver" needed some breakfast ...... KFC spare-ribs are even nastier, but have managed to avoid those since the last century

Tripe is still eaten extensively in the UK and France. You often see it on menus in France.

cynic - I agree re KFC , sadly for me I do enjoy McDonalds cheeseburgers and fries it's a weakness I can live with now and again :O)

i'll pray for your soul :-)